East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
Paperback. An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408886366
- ISBN
- 9781408886366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.37
€ 23.99
€ 16.37
Paperback. Written by the author who was raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, this book tells the story of how he came to be Mao's last dancer. Num Pages: 448 pages, Black and white inset. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPL; ASD; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141040226
- ISBN
- 9780141040226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.80
€ 14.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other. Num Pages: 752 pages, 57 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 948.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 752
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674027480
- ISBN
- 9780674027480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.26
€ 35.99
€ 29.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 66. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801449345
- ISBN
- 9780801449345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.11
€ 139.11
Paperback. Observers have been predicting the demise of China's Communist state since Mao's death. Yet policymakers have managed the fastest sustained economic expansion in world history. This book shows that many contemporary techniques of governance have their roots in experimental policy generation and implementation dating to the revolution and early PRC. Editor(s): Heilmann, Sebastian; Perry, Elizabeth J. Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPA; JPFC; JPHC; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060630
- ISBN
- 9780674060630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
€ 33.99
€ 28.71
Hardback. Series Editor(s): Keyes, Charles F.; Sears, Laurie J.; Rafael, Vicente. Series: Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, 3 maps, 27 b&w illus., 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMB; 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295996677
- ISBN
- 9780295996677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.40
€ 117.40
Hardback. This work considers several texts, cultural practices and intellectual processes to chart the emergence of a new geographical conciousness in early modern Japan. The study shows how spatial and geographical knowledge confined to elites in early Japan became more widespread in the Tokugawa period. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 249 pages, 22 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232693
- ISBN
- 9780520232693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.70€ 64.67
€ 83.70
€ 64.67
Hardcover. In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila - a place that previously had existed only in fiction - had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. This book advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, resistance, and examining how they are reshaping cultural economies. Editor(s): Yeh, Emily T.; Coggins, Chris. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 348 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JJP; 3JM; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993577
- ISBN
- 9780295993577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.85
€ 133.85
Paperback. In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila - a place that previously had existed only in fiction - had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. This book advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, resistance, and examining how they are reshaping cultural economies. Editor(s): Yeh, Emily T.; Coggins, Chris. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 3JJP; 3JM; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993584
- ISBN
- 9780295993584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.03
€ 34.03
Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJPR; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231171342
- ISBN
- 9780231171342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.05€ 42.15
€ 53.05
€ 42.15
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295989310
- ISBN
- 9780295989310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.17
€ 34.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Xiang, Jianhai. Num Pages: 182 pages, 30 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; KJMV6; PSAF; RBKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 282 x 208 x 8. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642053450
- ISBN
- 9783642053450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.51
€ 118.51
Hardback. Today's China presents a unique setting for organizations. Through an examination of current Chinese business, this book addresses its business culture and environment. In particular, it considers how firms build distinctive capabilities of organizational learning and strategic flexibility to achieve superior customer-focused performance. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230013506
- ISBN
- 9780230013506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.08€ 38.61
€ 106.08
€ 38.61
Hardback. This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1; JHBL; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776486
- ISBN
- 9780804776486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.43
€ 118.43
Paperback. This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1; JHBL; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 458. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804776493
- ISBN
- 9780804776493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.48
€ 29.99
€ 27.48
Hardback. David M. Robinson explores how grand displays like the royal hunt, archery contests, and the imperial menagerie were presented in literature and art in the early Ming dynasty. He argues these spectacles were highly contested sites where emperors and court ministers staked competing claims about rulership and the role of the military in the polity. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 7 color photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; 3J; HBJF; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073371
- ISBN
- 9780674073371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 49.02
€ 52.99
€ 49.02
Paperback. These poems -- more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi -- are arranged chronologically within each genre, revealing the development of Masaoka Shiki's (1867-1902) art and the seamless way in which he wove his life and illness into his poetry. Watson's introduction deftly explores the course of Shiki's life and places him in relation to Japanese history, literature and thought. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DCF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110914
- ISBN
- 9780231110914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.74
€ 33.99
€ 24.74
Hardcover. P J Ivanhoe is one of the English-speaking world's foremost translators and interpreters of classical Chinese philosophical texts. His translation of the "Sunzi Bingfa" reads beautifully, adorned only by sobering photographic plates of the famed terracotta army of the first Qin emperor that turn one back to the text in a properly reflective mood. Translator(s): Ivanhoe, Philip J. Num Pages: 144 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 114
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603844673
- ISBN
- 9781603844673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.09
€ 41.99
€ 30.09
Paperback. P J Ivanhoe is one of the English-speaking world's foremost translators and interpreters of classical Chinese philosophical texts. His translation of the "Sunzi Bingfa" reads beautifully, adorned only by sobering photographic plates of the famed terracotta army of the first Qin emperor that turn one back to the text in a properly reflective mood. Translator(s): Ivanhoe, Philip J. Num Pages: 144 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 213 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 114
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603844666
- ISBN
- 9781603844666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.55
€ 16.99
€ 13.55
Paperback. Designed to meet the ACTFL proficiency guidelines, Mastering Chinese through Global Debate uses level-specific scaffolded language exercises, rhetorical strategies, and topic-specific texts to develop sophisticated Chinese language skills with the goal of achieving Superior-level proficiency. Series: Mastering Languages Through Global Debate. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1/15/2017. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CJB; HBJF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Georgetown University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781626163058
- ISBN
- 9781626163058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.25
€ 51.25
Hardback. "The revered Iron Chef shows how to make flavorful, exciting traditional Japanese meals at home in this beautiful cookbook that is sure to become a classic, featuring a carefully curated selection of fantastic recipes and more than 150 color photos."--Publisher marketing. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 263 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1138.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062344380
- ISBN
- 9780062344380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 25.52
€ 40.99
€ 25.52
Hardcover. Through an exploration of contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, Wei-Ping Lin paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. Analyzing these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework, she traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. Num Pages: 217 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRA; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504363
- ISBN
- 9780674504363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.79
€ 45.99
€ 37.79
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442205864
- ISBN
- 9781442205864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.10
€ 132.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; 3JD; HRCC7; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624664328
- ISBN
- 9781624664328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.75
€ 25.99
€ 19.75