East Asia, Far East
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East Asia, Far East
paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white tables, 24 black & white halftones, 1 bla. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FPC; HRA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415546690
- ISBN
- 9780415546690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.07
€ 58.07
Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: Regimes of Production and Industrial Relati...
Luthje, Boy; Luo, Siqi; Zhang, Hao
paperback. Analyzing the regimes of production and their segmentations in the context of global and national production networks, this title discusses Chinese and international industrial relations theory and labor sociology and explore the perspectives of collective bargaining, trade union reform, and democratic workplace representation in China. Series: Labour Studies. Num Pages: 420 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KCF; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Campus Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9783593398907
- ISBN
- 9783593398907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.19
€ 47.99
€ 37.19
Hardcover. From its humble "straw mat" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, "p'ansori" has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. Chan Park celebrates "p'ansori" as a living tradition, adapting to an ever-shifting context. Series: Hawaii Studies on Korea. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 2GK; AVGE; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824825119
- ISBN
- 9780824825119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.77
€ 74.77
Hardcover. Written by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, Protectors and Predators examines the nature and roles of deities in the religious world of medieval Japan and beyond. Bernard Faure introduces readers to medieval Japanese religiosity and shows the centrality of the gods in religious discourse and ritual. Num Pages: 584 pages, 172 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRAC; HRE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 204 x 261 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824839314
- ISBN
- 9780824839314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.50
€ 78.50
Paperback. Horner offers a new interpretation of how China's changed view of its modern historical experience has also changed China's understanding of its long intellectual and cultural tradition. Spirited reevaluations of history, strategy, commerce, and literature are cooperating and competing to define the future." Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820338781
- ISBN
- 9780820338781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.24
€ 36.24
Hardcover. At the close of the nineteenth century, American women missionaries traveled far afield to spread Christianity across the globe. Their presence abroad played a significant role in shaping foreign perceptions of America. This work tells the history of women's foreign missions in Japan. Series: Women in Religion. Num Pages: 232 pages, 3 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JH; HRCX7; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631811
- ISBN
- 9780815631811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.64
€ 33.64
paperback. In a re-evaluation of Mao Zedong's leadership, Feigon seeks a more informed perspective on one of the most important political leaders of our time. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9781566635226
- ISBN
- 9781566635226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.33
€ 17.33
paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPFC; JPQB; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Hong Kong University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9789888208944
- ISBN
- 9789888208944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.01
€ 19.99
€ 18.01
Paperback. Using the declassified Japanese documents, memoirs, and diaries, this book presents a comprehensive overview of Japan's international relations from the end of the Pacific War to the present day. Editor(s): Iokibe, Makoto. Translator(s): Eldridge, Robert D. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415498487
- ISBN
- 9780415498487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.65
€ 63.65
paperback. In 1638, the ruler of Japan ordered a crusade against his own subjects, a holocaust upon the men, women and children of a doomsday cult. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Robinson
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781472137418
- ISBN
- 9781472137418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.82
€ 19.99
€ 14.82
Paperback. The first survey of medieval Chinese military History to be published in English, this gripping book shows how China's history has been shaped by war. Series: Warfare and History. Num Pages: 298 pages, 21 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HBJF; HBLC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415239554
- ISBN
- 9780415239554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.30
€ 52.30
paperback. Editor(s): Chen, Xiangming. Series: Globalization & Community Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 27 b&w photos, 2 maps, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780816654888
- ISBN
- 9780816654888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.21
€ 30.99
€ 27.21
paperback. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity. This book focuses on this incident. Num Pages: 480 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141031453
- ISBN
- 9780141031453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.91
€ 16.99
€ 13.91
paperback. Talks about love, about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. This work features women who are strong, strikingly resourceful characters and who offer unforgettable insights into Chinese women's lives. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099440789
- ISBN
- 9780099440789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.14
€ 12.99
€ 11.14
paperback. Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, and, Westernization. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations (some col.), map, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099501480
- ISBN
- 9780099501480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.29
€ 19.99
€ 15.29
paperback. The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese "economic miracle" failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this miracle, the Japanese had turned their country into a concrete shambles. This book describes the dazzling nature of Japanese culture and its ruination. Num Pages: 448 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141010007
- ISBN
- 9780141010007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.29
€ 20.99
€ 15.29
hardcover. In 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan-the murder and emasculation of her lover. This detailed account of Sada's personal history, the events leading up to the crime, and its aftermath steps beyond the simplistic view of Abe Sada as a sexual deviate or hysterical woman to reveal a survivor. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130523
- ISBN
- 9780231130523
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.24
€ 46.99
€ 33.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, B/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1FP; 1M; 2AB; DSB; JFSL9; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Aboriginal Studies Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780855755447
- ISBN
- 9780855755447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.64
€ 33.99
€ 24.64
paperback. Shows how female cosmopolitanism re-contextualises the well-known Western male romance with the Orient: Japanese women are now the agents, narrating their own desires for the "modern" West in ways that seem to defy Japanese nationalism as well as long-standing relations of power not only between men and women but between Japan and the West. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 b&w photos, 9 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5588 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822328162
- ISBN
- 9780822328162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.33
€ 38.33
hardcover. By exploring the "aesthetics of shadow" in Japanese cinema in the first half of the twentieth century and treating cinematographers and lighting designers as essential collaborators in moviemaking, Daisuke Miyao reinterprets Japanese film history. Num Pages: 400 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AJRD; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822354079
- ISBN
- 9780822354079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.98
€ 123.98
Paperback. Japanese Horror Cinema is a much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years and provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes. Editor(s): McRoy, Jay. Series: Traditions in World Cinema. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748619955
- ISBN
- 9780748619955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.62
€ 38.99
€ 32.62
paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781629144795
- ISBN
- 9781629144795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.44
€ 20.99
€ 18.44
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125086
- ISBN
- 9780231125086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.43
€ 98.43
The stunning beauty of 44 of Korea's traditional crafts - sorted into ceramics, fibre arts, paper, inlay, metal, wood, and painting - is presented in detail with over 400 pictures. This is the first English-language guide that brings these diverse genres together in a single volume. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; AFT; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seoul Selection United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624120268
- ISBN
- 9781624120268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.98
€ 57.98