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Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 416 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QFH; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; JPS; KCLT1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231173742
- ISBN
- 9780231173742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.24
€ 83.24
Hardback. Series: Studies in East Asian law. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2AB; DNF; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691648194
- ISBN
- 9780691648194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.88
€ 120.88
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
Paperback. This work argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. Editor(s): Faure, Bernard. Series: Asian Religions & Culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 46. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739405
- ISBN
- 9780804739405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.36
€ 40.99
€ 36.36
Hardback. This text argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession and bad luck. Editor(s): Faure, Bernard. Series: Asian Religions & Culture. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14ill. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734493
- ISBN
- 9780804734493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.99
€ 172.99
Paperback. Correlating traditional Qigong therapies with outcomes of new scientific research, this is the authoritative introduction to the knowledge system and content of Qigong study. Revised and updated to reflect the new Chinese edition, it has new information on key concepts and practice, and on the application of Qigong for a range of conditions. Editor(s): Qiang, Xiao Mei. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: HPDF; VXHT1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848190962
- ISBN
- 9781848190962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.79
€ 46.99
€ 46.79
Paperback. Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, this text argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can be best understood by taking into account their links to one another and China through a transnational perspective. Num Pages: 362 pages, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings, 4 maps, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBBNC; 1KLSR; 1MKPH; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226560250
- ISBN
- 9780226560250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.53
€ 42.99
€ 33.53
Hardback. Series: Critical Issues in World and International History. Num Pages: 254 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742567634
- ISBN
- 9780742567634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.39
€ 144.39
Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of modernism, Chinese literature and history, film studies, and cultural studies, this book offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 778.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318460
- ISBN
- 9780822318460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Hardback. This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-19th and early-20th-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally and an alternative line of peasant resistance and development. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729321
- ISBN
- 9780804729321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.38
€ 91.38
paperback. Series: Simple Guides S. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 110 x 12. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Kuperard United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781857334890
- ISBN
- 9781857334890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
Paperback. A concise alphabetic guide to the main concepts, figures, topics and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years. Editor(s): Leaman, Oliver. Series: Philosophy A-Z. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GBC; HPDF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748622412
- ISBN
- 9780748622412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Includes sixteen collected essays that examine Chinese Philosophy around 4 major topics. This book deepens the fundamental inquiries, including: What is philosophy? Is there more than one origin of philosophy? Have we embraced other traditions as well as integrated others into our own? Series: Journal of Chinese Philosophy Supplement. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPD; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 9. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781119036593
- ISBN
- 9781119036593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.89
€ 40.99
€ 40.89
Paperback. The nine papers of this Supplement on these significant issues and important ideas are closely accentuated and critically discussed by well-established specialists, philosophers and historians, from various relevant disciplines of study. Series: Journal of Chinese Philosophy Supplement. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 179 x 255 x 6. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444349894
- ISBN
- 9781444349894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.34
€ 37.34
Paperback. Series: Library of Modern Religion. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784532628
- ISBN
- 9781784532628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.01
€ 38.01
Paperback. Chinese Philosophy: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives presents the distinctive insights of Chinese philosophy and their relevance to contemporary issues in a range of areas: moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, environmental ethics, medicine, and psychological health. Series: Journal of Chinese Philosophy Supplement. Num Pages: 164 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 6. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405185516
- ISBN
- 9781405185516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.82
€ 37.82
Hardback. Focusing on oracular texts, this text examines the role of divination in Chinese culture, particularly in religious practice. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, the author establishes the oracular sequence of important but obscure works. Editor(s): Faure, Bernard. Series: Asian Religions & Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 40 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743341
- ISBN
- 9780804743341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.36
€ 149.36
Paperback. Presents an introduction to the religions of China, and places it in the wider context of Chinese history and philosophy. This book brings together the studies of Jeaneane Fowler in Taoism, Chinese popular religion and the broader canvas of Chinese cosmogony, and those of Merv Fowler in Confucianism, Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRE; HRKN1; HRKN5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191726
- ISBN
- 9781845191726
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
paperback. Editor(s): Palmer, David A; Shive, Glenn; Wickeri, Philip L. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRAM2; HRAX; HRLM; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199731381
- ISBN
- 9780199731381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.46
€ 57.46
Hardback. Mathematicians and historians of mathematics and science will find in The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra new ways to conceptualize the intellectual development of linear algebra. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5, 5 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJH; PBF; PBX; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801897559
- ISBN
- 9780801897559
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.11
€ 82.11