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East Asia, Far East

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East Asia, Far East

Paperback. The book is a personal account of the challenges faced by one family without Chinese consumer goods. In an accessible way, the book will shed light on China's reach into the daily lives of ordinary people. The author's reporting (based in part on her experience as a business writer) will offer insights into the "business". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; BM; JFFS; JFFT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wiley
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470379202
ISBN
9780470379202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.44

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Wiley
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471986775
ISBN
9780471986775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.72

Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
417
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234246
ISBN
9780520234246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781556437656
ISBN
9781556437656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.00
€ 26.04

Paperback. A renowned expert in Chinese sports medicine and martial arts reveals ancient Eastern secrets for healing common injuries including sprains, bruises, deep cuts, and much more. Num Pages: 384 pages, 158 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; MMZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Touchstone
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780743245517
ISBN
9780743245517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.42

Paperback. By revealing the ways in which the state and communities dealt with the Great Depression in Japan, this study brings us closer to a comparative, grassroots perspective on how average men and women addressed some of modernity's fundamental questions. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 512 pages, 3 maps, 9 line drawings, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674012776
ISBN
9780674012776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.69

Paperback. An as-told-to political autobiography of Phuntso Wangye (Phunwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. It illuminates one of the world's most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet. Num Pages: 400 pages, 25 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 264 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520249929
ISBN
9780520249929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.87

Paperback. A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. Num Pages: 378 pages, 47 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804757546
ISBN
9780804757546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Hardcover. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 652.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226286389
ISBN
9780226286389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.35

Paperback. An anthology of Chinese philosophy that covers its entire historical development. It provides selections from various thinkers and schools in every period - ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary - and includes in their entirety some of the important classical texts. It deals with the fundamental, and technical aspects of Chinese thought. Translator(s): Chang, Wing-tsit. Num Pages: 888 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 139 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
874
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Impression
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019642
ISBN
9780691019642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. A fascinating account of the Na society, which functions without the institution of marriage. Translator(s): Hustvedt, Asti. Num Pages: 512 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHMC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 37. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
505
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951139
ISBN
9781890951139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. Engaging with topics central to scholarly debates on modern China, this book shows that China's early twentieth-century school system, a product of negotiation and compromise, was more successful than previous scholarship has allowed. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, , black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JNB; JNF; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780774821773
ISBN
9780774821773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Hardback. Engaging with topics central to scholarly debates on modern China, this book shows that China's early twentieth-century school system, a product of negotiation and compromise, was more successful than previous scholarship has allowed. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774821766
ISBN
9780774821766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.08

Hardback. Translator(s): Wang, Yi-T'ung. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HBJF; HBLC; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691640655
ISBN
9780691640655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.95

Paperback. This culture-based primer provides lessons organized around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature, folktales and mythlogy, customs and cuisine. The focus is on reading strategies and the teaching of "discourse grammar", a more authentic approach to the study of languages. Editor(s): Liu, Irene; Hailong, Wang. Series: Asian Studies Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, numerous spot illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CJBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125550
ISBN
9780231125550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

Hardback. Addresses how gender became a defining category in the political and social modernization of Japan. This book shows how 'a woman's place' in late-nineteenth-century Japan was characterized by contradictions and unexpected consequences, by new opportunities and new constraints. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056053
ISBN
9780674056053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 37.79

Hardback. In focusing on China's social survey movement, this title analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices - census, sociological investigation, and ethnography - was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267862
ISBN
9780520267862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.15
€ 64.45

Hardback. In this first systematic study in English of the highly influential yet overlooked thinker Xue Xuan (1389--1464), author Khee Heong Koh seeks to redress Xue's marginalization while showing how a study interested mainly in "ideas" can integrate social and intellectual history to offer a broader picture of history. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 370 pages, 2 maps, 24 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HPDF; HRKN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062443
ISBN
9780674062443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.03

Hardback. In this new book, one of the world's leading writers in the field looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Bays unfolds a bold reinterpretation which reveals a process that was closely bound up with national and local politics. Series: Wiley Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity. Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405159548
ISBN
9781405159548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.51

Paperback. In this new book, one of the world's leading writers in the field looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Bays unfolds a bold reinterpretation which reveals a process that was closely bound up with national and local politics. Series: Wiley Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405159555
ISBN
9781405159555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.78

Paperback. Written from the perspective of a foreign student who has just arrived in China, this title provides the lessons and learning materials about the changing face of China. It includes lessons on daily life, such as doing laundry and getting a haircut, as well as visiting the zoo, night markets, and the Great Wall. Series: The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CJBR; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 277 x 219 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1236.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Revised, Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148366
ISBN
9780691148366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.60
€ 62.02

Paperback. High quality photographs from the region's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation, opportunities for naturalists and the main sites for viewing the listed species. Num Pages: 176 pages, 250 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
John Beaufoy Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909612235
ISBN
9781909612235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.79

Paperback. This is the first historically comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a modern nation-state and find its place in the modern world. Num Pages: 376 pages, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750011
ISBN
9780804750011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. This title argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868-1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 340 pages, 16 color maps, 20 b/w maps, 5 line drawings, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520272767
ISBN
9780520272767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.81

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