China on Film - A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy
von Paul G. Pickowicz
2013 Kartoniert, 376 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and discusses its course of development from the early days to the present. Moving decade by decade, he explores such key themes as the ever-shift…
93,46 EUR
Lies That Bind - Chinese Truth, Other Truths
von Susan D. Blum
2006 Gebunden, 242 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 19mm, Sprache(n): eng This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum offers an aut…
186,80 EUR
Lies That Bind - Chinese Truth, Other Truths
von Susan D. Blum
2007 Kartoniert, 242 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 14mm, Sprache(n): eng This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum offers an a…
84,80 EUR
Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War - Was Defeat Inevitable?
von James B. Wood
2007 Gebunden, 152 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 13mm, Sprache(n): eng In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its origi…
178,53 EUR
The Subject of Gender - Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
von Harriet Evans
2007 Kartoniert, 248 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 15mm, Sprache(n): eng Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationshi…
86,40 EUR
I'm Married to Your Company! - Everyday Voices of Japanese Women
von Masako Itoh
2007 Gebunden, 234 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 18mm, Sprache(n): eng This approachable and absorbing book offers a unique window into Japanese culture and language. Highlighting the overlooked world of the "silent majority, " the housewives and mothers who are the mainstay of Japanese society, this…
192,93 EUR
I'm Married to Your Company! - Everyday Voices of Japanese Women
von Masako Itoh
2007 Kartoniert, 234 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 14mm, Sprache(n): eng This approachable and absorbing book offers a unique window into Japanese culture and language. Highlighting the overlooked world of the "silent majority, " the housewives and mothers who are the mainstay of Japanese society, thi…
74,00 EUR
Subaltern China - Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices
von Wanning Sun
2014 Gebunden, 320 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 23mm, Sprache(n): eng Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embod…
172,13 EUR
Herdsman to Statesman - The Autobiography of Jamsrangiin Sambuu of Mongolia
2010 Gebunden, 170 Seiten, 235mm x 157mm x 14mm, Sprache(n): eng This compelling autobiography encapsulates the profound changes that transformed the underdeveloped world in the twentieth century. Jamsrangiin Sambuu, born in 1895 to a herder family in a remote region of Mongolia, rose to become…
187,87 EUR
Dialectical Practice in Tibetan Philosophical Culture - An Ethnomethodological Inquiry into Formal…
von Kenneth Liberman
2007 Kartoniert, 338 Seiten, 229mm x 152mm x 20mm, Sprache(n): eng Tibetan Buddhist scholar-monks have long engaged in face-to-face public philosophical debates. This original study challenges Orientalist text-based scholarship, which has overlooked these lived practices of Tibetan dialectics. K…