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East Asia, Far East

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East Asia, Far East

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
€ 26.81

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

€ 131.57

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

€ 81.45
€ 62.24

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
€ 30.65

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

€ 85.49

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

€ 43.99
€ 37.06

Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 240 x 17. Weight in Grams: 996.
Publisher
Kodansha America, Inc United States
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568364445
ISBN
9781568364445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.31

Hardcover. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 238 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1054.
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Number of pages
104
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568364438
ISBN
9781568364438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804741866
ISBN
9780804741866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.65

Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JPS; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165082
ISBN
9780231165082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.10
€ 49.62

Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801474903
ISBN
9780801474903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.33

hardcover. This analysis of secured lending in China and Hong Kong highlights the differences between the two systems. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPCH; LNC; LNPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 834.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
450
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521519342
ISBN
9780521519342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.38
€ 131.81

Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 line drawings, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; JFD; JHMC; LAM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226894089
ISBN
9780226894089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.36
€ 48.55

Hardcover. This samurai strategy books is the first widely available English translation of Yamamoto Kansuke's classic treatise on strategy and tactic Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBW; JWA; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 206 x 20. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Annotated,Hardcover with Jacket
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804847834
ISBN
9780804847834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 12.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780877280668
ISBN
9780877280668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.93

Paperback. "The paradise of adventurers", Shanghai during World War II was suffused with dangerous glamour. Racketeers, cutthroats and con-men jostled for advantage as secret agents of the great powers waged a complex and sinister struggle for power. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784537647
ISBN
9781784537647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.28

Paperback. Featuring practices and meditations, this book reveals techniques for achieving spiritual immortality through an in-depth exploration of Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching. Num Pages: 256 pages, 83 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892811915
ISBN
9780892811915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. .
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Number of pages
220
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568364940
ISBN
9781568364940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFF; JKS; JNK; JNLC; JNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772882192
ISBN
9788772882192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; VX; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Ibis Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892542208
ISBN
9780892542208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.10

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