East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
Hardback. Traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. This title explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFCA; JFSL3; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056107
- ISBN
- 9780674056107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.30
€ 44.99
€ 37.30
Hardback. This is the first book in either English or Chinese to study the group of students who came to the U.S. in the early 20th century to attend American universities and played pivotal roles in Chinese intellectual, economic, and diplomatic life upon their return to China. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736961
- ISBN
- 9780804736961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.06
€ 86.06
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814772584
- ISBN
- 9780814772584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.49
€ 36.99
€ 33.49
Hardback. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 282 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 534. Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. 282 pages, Illustrations. Traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, this title describes how the work of selling women transformed communities across the archipelago. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB; JFMX. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520270909
- ISBN
- 9780520270909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.76€ 63.14
€ 82.76
€ 63.14
Hardcover. Drawing on a variety of film semiotic theories, this book sheds light on works by mainland Chinese directors, Hong Kong New Wave directors, Taiwan New Cinema directors, and overseas Chinese directors. Zeng examines the cultural/historical implications of exile through the detailed analysis of film language and theoretical exploration. Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002396
- ISBN
- 9781137002396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.78
€ 63.78
Hardback. Series: China Academic Library. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBS; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 706.
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag, Singapore
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789811011412
- ISBN
- 9789811011412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.08
€ 124.08
Hardback. What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? This book explores these questions through contemporary Chinese directors. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133326
- ISBN
- 9780231133326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.14
€ 131.14
Paperback. What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? This book explores these questions through contemporary Chinese directors. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133333
- ISBN
- 9780231133333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; DSB; JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816651269
- ISBN
- 9780816651269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.31
€ 31.99
€ 29.31
Paperback. Explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create various cultural values and forms of inequality. This book examines changes to a particular set of jobs - service work, in this case salesclerk work - and the nature of the social interactions involved. It shows how change involves unequal relations between clerks and customers. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758376
- ISBN
- 9780804758376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.96
€ 29.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. This book shows how department stores and marketplaces in China have become important sites where Chinese people understand, and perform, unequal social relations. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 tables, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758369
- ISBN
- 9780804758369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.29
€ 120.29
Hardback. Settlements of Trade Disputes between China and Latin American Countries Editor(s): Wei, Dan. Series: Laws in Emerging Economies. Num Pages: 228 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, 25 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KL; LBBM; LNAC5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783662464243
- ISBN
- 9783662464243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Paperback. A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Translator(s): Graves, Richard. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; WSZG; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240. Good copy in original cloth covers. Light shelf wear. Light foxing. Spine lightly sunned. Title in gilt to spine, remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0017422
- ISBN
- 9780586087077
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 13.99€ 10.54
€ 13.99
€ 10.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, Over 50 colour photographs and illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 191 x 17. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- Collins & Brown
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909397408
- ISBN
- 9781909397408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.75
€ 26.99
€ 17.75
Paperback. This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 1KBB; HB; JFMX; JPA; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231106436
- ISBN
- 9780231106436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50
Paperback. Changes in Japanese law in the 1990s enabled erotic images to be published without fear of prosecution, and many shunga picture-books have since appeared. This book offers an assessment of the genre of Japanese paintings and prints known as shunga. It seeks to re-establish shunga in a proper historical frame of culture and creativity. Num Pages: 304 pages, 125 black & white illustrations, 46 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JF; 3JH; ACBP; AFC; AFH; AGHX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861894328
- ISBN
- 9781861894328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.40
€ 36.40
Hardcover. Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780745656137
- ISBN
- 9780745656137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.67
€ 68.67
Hardback. Series: Perspectives in Sexuality. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1090.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306438608
- ISBN
- 9780306438608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.24
€ 190.24
Paperback.
Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s. The book explores what it means to talk about sex in present-day China, where sex and sexuality are more and more visible in everyday life. Series: China Today. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 211 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Polity
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745656144
- ISBN
- 9780745656144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.94
€ 22.94
Paperback. An ethnographic study of Chinese urban life in the Mongolian city of Huhhot. The text is organized around specific elements of culture, moving from public domains to the private issues of sex and gender, family life and religion. Num Pages: 345 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231079617
- ISBN
- 9780231079617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.24
€ 56.24