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Hardback. These selected speeches of Roh Tae Woo, the President of the Republic of Korea, cover the years 1990, 1991 and 1992. The President addresses the issues of reunification of South and North Korea, democracy and prosperity in the Republic, Korea's place in the world and other topics. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 2G; DNF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 172 x 32. Weight in Grams: 944.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819188519
ISBN
9780819188519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.60

Hardback. This book pays critical homage to the comparatist of Chinese and Western literature and religion, Anthony C. Yu of The University of Chicago. The volume consists of an introductory essay on Yu's scholarly career, and thirteen additional essays. Editor(s): Ziolkowski, Eric J. Num Pages: 295 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874138696
ISBN
9780874138696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.18

Paperback. Drawing on the perspective of language socialization and a theory of indexicality, this book examines dinnertime talk in a homestay context and explores ways in which learners of Japanese as a foreign language and their Japanese host families socialize their identities through speech style. Series: Second Language Acquisition. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; CFB; CFDC; CJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847691002
ISBN
9781847691002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.43

Hardback. The book is a collection of essays on translating various types of text (literary, religious, political, etc.) into and from Chinese. The focus is on how such translations have been produced and propagated from ancient to modern times, and their sociocultural impact on the evolution of Chinese history and Chinese translatology. Editor(s): Luo, Xuanmin; He, Yuanjian. Series: Topics in Translation. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847691873
ISBN
9781847691873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.61

Paperback. Provides an introduction to the basics of communication using Central Thai vocabulary and idioms. This book can be used in a variety of teaching and learning contexts. It is organized into seven units and thirty thematic lessons, designed to be used for a one-year study of Thai, taking a total of thirty weeks and 150 hours to complete. Num Pages: 268 pages, includes CD. BIC Classification: 2GRS; CJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9789749575970
ISBN
9789749575970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.29

paperback. The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker -- and formidable rival of the Confucianists -- are presented here in English translation. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 167 x 9. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780231086080
ISBN
9780231086080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 19.16

paperback. Chuang Tzu (369?-286? BC) was a leading Taoist philosopher. Using parable and anecdote, allegory and paradox, he set forth in this book the early ideas of what was to become the Taoist school. This collection includes the seven "inner chapters," three of the "outer chapters," and one of the "miscellaneous chapters." Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780231105958
ISBN
9780231105958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 19.16

Paperback. Brings together some of the best and most historically significant works of short fiction written in China in this century, including 44 stories by 20 authors. Editor(s): Lau, Joseph S. M.; Hsia, C. T.; Ou-Fan, Leo. Num Pages: 578 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1225.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
578
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231042031
ISBN
9780231042031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.85

paperback. Translator(s): Keene, Donald. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 485 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
485
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231074155
ISBN
9780231074155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.48

Hardback. This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays. Editor(s): Rimer, J. Thomas; Chaves, Jonathan. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 2GJ; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231107020
ISBN
9780231107020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.48

Paperback. Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from premodern China. With Hanan's introduction and notes, and containing Li Yu's emphasis marks, notes, and critiques, this volume will interest students of Chinese literature and general readers alike. Translator(s): Hanan, Patrick. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DNF; DSBD; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231113854
ISBN
9780231113854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.43

Paperback. One of our most acclaimed translators of Chinese drama and a specialist of Ming period literature translates one of the greatest Chinese tragedies of the first half of the seventeenth century, available for the first time in English. Translator(s): Birch, Cyril. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 180 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231121699
ISBN
9780231121699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99

Paperback. This culture-based primer provides lessons organized around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature, folktales and mythlogy, customs and cuisine. The focus is on reading strategies and the teaching of "discourse grammar", a more authentic approach to the study of languages. Editor(s): Liu, Irene; Hailong, Wang. Series: Asian Studies Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, numerous spot illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; CJBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125574
ISBN
9780231125574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.56

Hardback. One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution is a fictionalized portrait of the author's own experience as a young man. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2G; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127448
ISBN
9780231127448
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.17

Hardback. A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, this book offers the reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBH; DSC; DSK; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129800
ISBN
9780231129800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.63

Hardback. Editor(s): Haboush, JaHyun Kim. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 2GK; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148023
ISBN
9780231148023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.88

Hardcover. Examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. This book sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSC; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295993690
ISBN
9780295993690
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.84

Hardcover. A panoramic vision of the Chinese literary landscape across the twentieth century. Editor(s): Huang, Yunte. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393239485
ISBN
9780393239485
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.07

Paperback. "Translation of Kaojirao Yoshikawa, Gen Min shi gaisetsu (Ch\AO\ugoku shijin sensh\O\u, Series 2, Vol. 2) (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1963)."--Title page verso. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691605487
ISBN
9780691605487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.52

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691609539
ISBN
9780691609539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.84

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