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East Asia, Far East
Paperback. Analyses and compares what it means to be Hakka. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 294 pages, Maps, tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295984872
- ISBN
- 9780295984872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou revolutionized Chinese cinema with Red Sorghum, Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other international successes. This title tells the story of this class of 1982, China's famous "Fifth Generation" of filmmakers. Translator(s): Berry, Chris. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 88 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329701
- ISBN
- 9780822329701
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Bryan, Tony. Series: New Vanguard. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBG; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 184 x 5. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846032806
- ISBN
- 9781846032806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.50
€ 16.99
€ 12.50
Paperback. Contrary to popular belief, the Japanese Army widely employed tanks within the Pacific theater of war. This title details their key role in the conquests of Singapore and Malaya, as well as their later use in Burma, Saipan, and the Philippines, including in the amphibious assault of Corregidor. Illustrator(s): Bryan, Tony. Series: New Vanguard. Num Pages: 48 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ; JWMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 187 x 4. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846030918
- ISBN
- 9781846030918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.50
€ 16.99
€ 12.50
Paperback. Taking disability theory out of a Western context, Eunjung Kim questions the assumptions that treating disabilities with cure represents a universal good by examining the manifestations of violence that accompany medical and nonmedical cures in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Korea. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; HBJF; JFFE; JFFG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362883
- ISBN
- 9780822362883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Paperback. This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan--including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses, soldiers, soccer players, beauty queens, and educators--who have been intimately involved in the practices and professions of modernity. Editor(s): Freedman, Alisa; Miller, Laura; Yano, Christine Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804781145
- ISBN
- 9780804781145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Explores the Daoist encounter with modernity through the activities of Chen Yingning (1880-1969), a famous lay Daoist master, and his group in early twentieth-century Shanghai. This study tells a story of Daoist resilience, reinvigoration and revival. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HRKN5. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 33. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674033092
- ISBN
- 9780674033092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.73
€ 54.99
€ 46.73
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811713085
- ISBN
- 9780811713085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 23.62
€ 29.99
€ 23.62
Hardcover. The rapid urban development of China is a topic that has grabbed the attention of the world. This book shows how some thirty contemporary Chinese art photographers have used it as a springboard for their practice. It is suitable for photography aficionados and anyone with an interest in China or contemporary culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 132 illustrations, 115 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1032.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500544433
- ISBN
- 9780500544433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 6.75
€ 34.99
€ 6.75
Hardback. Account of the terrible experiences of members of this Scottish Regiment at the hands of the Japanese. Includes many personal accounts of brutal slave labour on the Railway of Death and in the mines. Num Pages: 208 pages, 16pp B & W plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKSB; 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBWQ; JWTR; JWTY; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781591697
- ISBN
- 9781781591697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 5.99
€ 35.99
€ 5.99
Paperback. Tells the story of innocence betrayed, of passion and curiosity about the world of machines turned nightmarish and punished by the cruelty of which only humans are capable. Series: Vintage War. Num Pages: 336 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; BGH; HBG; HBW; HBWQ; JWLF; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 111 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099597551
- ISBN
- 9780099597551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 4.99
€ 7.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Tells the story of China through 96 short biographies. This book includes a colourful array of very different men and women: emperors and empresses, concubines, officials and political figures, rebels, exiles, philosophers, writers and poets, artists, musicians, scientists, military leaders and committed pacifists. Num Pages: 232 pages, 83 illustrations, 52 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 25. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780500251928
- ISBN
- 9780500251928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 4.99
€ 24.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the Chinese state of Lu from 722 to 481 BCE, annotated so as to highlight the moral philosophy of its supposed writer, Confucius. Editor(s): Miller, Harrison; Miller, Harry. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497635
- ISBN
- 9781137497635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.41
€ 183.41
Paperback. In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu demonstrates how queer Marxist critics in China use queer theory as a non-liberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation, and in doing so, he revises current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360049
- ISBN
- 9780822360049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBWS1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5436 x 3506 x 17. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804706292
- ISBN
- 9780804706292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardcover. Discussing the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China, this text argues that there is a semi-civil society in China, and that this plays dual roles in the initial stage of democratization in China. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFS; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333673676
- ISBN
- 9780333673676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 214.02€ 203.83
€ 214.02
€ 203.83
Paperback. For fans of A Streetcat Named Bob comes Finding Gobi, the heart-warming true story of a dog who captured the hearts of the world. Younger readers' edition. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 col plates (4pp). BIC Classification: 1FPC; 5AH; YFP; YFY. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270. For fans of A Streetcat Named Bob comes Finding Gobi, the heart-warming true story of a dog who captured the hearts of the world. Younger readers' edition. Num Pages: 240 pages, 16 col plates (4pp). BIC Classification: 1FPC; 5AH; YFP; YFY. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0017951
- ISBN
- 9780008244521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A raucously funny memoir of one scrawny American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. Num Pages: 384 pages, 8pp of b/w. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WSTM; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KNW0008778
- ISBN
- 9780349120157
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
paperback. Captain Arthur Hart-Synnot, a conservative officer, fell for Masa Suzuki, a Japanese girl, when he was posted to Tokyo. He was recalled to London. Though separated for years by time and huge distances, they remained devoted to each other. Based on over 800 letters found in Tokyo, this book presents the true story of an extraordinary love affair. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BG; HBJF; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KLN0018064
- ISBN
- 9780099481652
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 46. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476822
- ISBN
- 9780801476822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36