East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
Hardcover. This collection of papers highlights the research achievements in the field of Chinese Anthropology, particularly those of Mainland scholars. The authors examine the reproduction of traditions in post-Mao southern Fujian, surveying lineages, religion, status of women, and other aspects of the cultural life. Editor(s): Tan, Chee-Beng. Num Pages: 300 pages, With a number of pictures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629962333
- ISBN
- 9789629962333
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.75
€ 46.99
€ 46.75
Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719858
- ISBN
- 9780804719858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.24
€ 86.24
Hardback. Editor(s): Sorensen, Clark W.; Arai, Andrea Gevurtz. Series: Center for Korea Studies Publications. Num Pages: 376 pages, 73 colour illustrations, 73 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; HPS; JHB; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1021.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295998411
- ISBN
- 9780295998411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.52
€ 144.52
Paperback. Editor(s): Sorensen, Clark W.; Arai, Andrea Gevurtz. Series: Center for Korea Studies Publications. Num Pages: 376 pages, 73 colour illustrations, 73 color illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1FPK; HPS; JHB; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295998428
- ISBN
- 9780295998428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.51
€ 46.99
€ 41.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First edition
- SKU
- V9780816631469
- ISBN
- 9780816631469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.28
€ 27.99
€ 26.28
Hardcover. Series: Emerging Asia. Num Pages: 412 pages, 0 black and white; 7 full color. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1FMP; 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JB; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089648334
- ISBN
- 9789089648334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.93€ 194.97
€ 197.93
€ 194.97
Paperback. Offers a collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and international cinema. This book includes discussions with such directors as Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger", "Hidden Dragon"), Zhang Yimou ("Hero"), Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine"), Stanley Kwan ("Lan Yu"), and Tsai Ming-Liang ("Vive l'Amour"). Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 568 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 782.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133319
- ISBN
- 9780231133319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.12
€ 40.99
€ 29.12
Hardback. Offers a collection of interviews with the directors who have changed the face of Chinese and international cinema. This book includes discussions with such directors as Ang Lee ("Crouching Tiger", "Hidden Dragon"), Zhang Yimou ("Hero"), Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine"), Stanley Kwan ("Lan Yu"), and Tsai Ming-Liang ("Vive l'Amour"). Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 568 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133302
- ISBN
- 9780231133302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.81€ 90.52
€ 117.81
€ 90.52
Hardback. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. This title discusses the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 15 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; HRKN; HRLF; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674033047
- ISBN
- 9780674033047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.97
€ 54.99
€ 45.97
Paperback. China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified citysca Editor(s): Kloet, Jeroen de; Scheen, Lena. Series: Cities and Cultures. Num Pages: 278 pages, 28 colour 30 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089644459
- ISBN
- 9789089644459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Paperback. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 310 pages, photographs (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; BM; HBJF; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434. A Memoir. 310 pages, illustrations. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. This title tells her story. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; BM; HBJF; WQY. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition, 15th Anniversary Edition with a New
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520276024
- ISBN
- 9780520276024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.80
€ 33.99
€ 24.80
Hardcover. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed to gather more information, but had few ways of achieving this. This text chronicles the effort to plant a sensing device on a Himalayan peak in order to listen in on China. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 28 photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSH; JWMN; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700612239
- ISBN
- 9780700612239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.50
€ 56.50
Hardback. Telling the story of the introduction of Christianity to a provincial region in China where European missionaries shared the poverty and isolation of their Chinese flocks, this text shows the influence that the missionaries had in Shandong in matters of spirit and flesh. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HRCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511637
- ISBN
- 9780742511637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.60
€ 183.60
Paperback. The Spirit Moves West examines the phenomena of Korean missionaries in America. It delves into why and how Korean missionaries pursued missions in the United States and evangelized Americans and illuminates how a non-western mission movement evolves over time in the West. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; 1KBB; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199942121
- ISBN
- 9780199942121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.50
€ 50.50
Paperback. This is the study of a small group of Tibetan Buddhists called the Nyishangba who have maintained an egalitarian culture, where women own land and have equal rights, including in social and religious institutions, and where the usual subordination of women does not appear to occur. Num Pages: 408 pages, 28 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; 1FKN; 1FPCT; HRE; JFSJ1; JHM; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102155
- ISBN
- 9780231102155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.70
€ 42.99
€ 30.70
paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; AFKV; APF; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816691340
- ISBN
- 9780816691340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67
paperback. This book explores the casting of China s earliest female Olympians as celebrities within the context of a national crisis, born of internal conflicts and external attack by Japan. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 348 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFSJ1; WSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824828
- ISBN
- 9780774824828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.81
€ 36.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Explores the rise of female athletes in China in the early twentieth century. It shows how female athletes coped with the conflicting demands of nationalist causes, unwanted male attention, and modern fame, arguing that the athletic female form helped to create a new ideal of modern womanhood in China. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFSJ1; WSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824811
- ISBN
- 9780774824811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.16
€ 106.16
Hardback. Editor(s): Wu, Jiang; Chia, Lucille. Series: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 30 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231171601
- ISBN
- 9780231171601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.47€ 63.74
€ 82.47
€ 63.74
Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099448471
- ISBN
- 9780099448471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09