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Village Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories
ISBN: 9789629961008 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of revised articles based on the authors'fieldwork on two villages in Yuen Long, a rural district of Hong Kong. It presents the authors'observations and their interpretation of life in a southern Chinese village under the process of urbanization.
This book is a collection of revised articles based on the authors'fieldwork on two villages in Yuen Long, a rural district of Hong Kong. It presents ...
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225,30 |
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Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9789629961053 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While modern Chinese fiction does not necessarily constitute a reliable portrait of Chinese life, it can reveal fascinating insights into Chinese writers and their audiences. This book examines poetry, drama, film, and the visual arts, revealing their political and social context. Surveying the major trends in fiction at the end of the century, the book shows how some writers reinvented themselves as hooligans or pop stars while others reaffirmed their old alliance with the remnants of the cultural establishment.
While modern Chinese fiction does not necessarily constitute a reliable portrait of Chinese life, it can reveal fascinating insights into Chinese writ...
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88,11 |
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Guangdong: Preparing for the Wto Challenge
ISBN: 9789629961473 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume aims to study preparations for China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the part of the Guangdong provincial government, local governments, enterprises and individuals; examine the opportunities available for Guangdong and its comparative advantage relative to other provinces, as perceived by different segments of the population; analyse anticipated problems due to China's entry into the WTO; and critically assess Guangdong's preparations to meet the challenges and to make adjustments in its development strategy. Given the spectacular economic growth of...
This volume aims to study preparations for China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the part of the Guangdong provincial government, l...
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161,63 |
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Changing Schools for Changing Times: New Directions for the School Curriculum in Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789629962319 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, a statement of genuine concern on the state of the school curriculum in Hong Kong by a veteran educator, forms a comprehensive account of current curriculum development, implementation and interpretation. Kennedy invites the reader to critically examine how local and global issues influence the way the Hong Kong curriculum has been constructed. Against this theoretical background, he maintains a clear, practical focus on present policies of the educational authority and suggests a new curriculum in various fields. This book sheds light on recent pressure for curriculum change...
This book, a statement of genuine concern on the state of the school curriculum in Hong Kong by a veteran educator, forms a comprehensive account of c...
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112,60 |
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Zhou Enlai: A Political Life
ISBN: 9789629962807 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zhou Enlai is one of the most controversial political figures in the Chinese Communist Party. Drawing on official documents and the testimony of people who knew Zhou, Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen provide an in-depth analysis of Zhou's complex personality, both as a person and a leader of the CCP, and his controversial actions. Their biography thoroughly and sensitively explains his political behavior, especially how such behavior shaped modern Chinese history.
Zhou Enlai is one of the most controversial political figures in the Chinese Communist Party. Drawing on official documents and the testimony of peopl...
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97,90 |
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Opium to Java: Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910
ISBN: 9789793780498 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system of revenue "farms". These monopoly franchises were regulated by the government and operated by members of Javas Chinese elite, who were frequently also local officials appointed by the Dutch. The farms thus helped support large Chinese patronage networks that vied for...
Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implica...
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167,87 |
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Indonesian Political Thinking 1945-1965
ISBN: 9789793780528 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of more than one hundred excerpts from speeches, lectures, articles, and pamphlets, most of the not previously available in English, is regarded as the principal source book on Indonesian politics for the post-revolution period of 1945-1965.Chosen to define and illuminate the country's complex issues, the selections provide a balanced, comprehensive, and well-ordered survey of Indonesian political thinking from just before independence to the fall of Sukarno. After an introduction by Herbert Feith in which he discusses the Indonesian intellectual and his place in politics, the...
This collection of more than one hundred excerpts from speeches, lectures, articles, and pamphlets, most of the not previously available in English, i...
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221,82 |
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Culture and Politics in Indonesia
ISBN: 9789793780573 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these studies, scholars from the United States and Indonesia identify some of the cultural roots of Indonesian political behavior. The authors, representing the fields of anthropology, history, and political science, explore the ways in which traditional institutions, beliefs, values, and ethnic origins affect notions of power and rebellion, influence political party affiliations, and create new modes of cultural expression.
Using two different but contemporary approaches, the authors show what can be learned about Indonesia through use of the Western concepts of "culture" and "politics."... In these studies, scholars from the United States and Indonesia identify some of the cultural roots of Indonesian political behavior. The authors, rep...
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167,87 |
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Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community
ISBN: 9789812303899 / Angielski / Twarda / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not just another book on ASEAN, this volume reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the "ASEAN Way", the accession of the new members, including Myanmar, the principle of "non-interference", regional security, regional economic integration, the haze and SARS, and ASEAN's future. Written by a key player, the former ASEAN Secretary-General, this book will illuminate the inner workings of the key Southeast Asian regional institution. It is a must-read for journalists, policy-makers, political scientists and others who need an insiders'...
Not just another book on ASEAN, this volume reappraises the organization from the inside, through controversial or perplexing issues such as the "ASEA...
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225,30 |
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Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia
ISBN: 9789812568335 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Initially stimulated by a scholarly workshop convened in Singapore in late 2004, and written over the subsequent 18 months, this volume considers the potentially lethal pattern of infectious disease emergence in Asia. It studies linkages to changes in patterns of human activity, including but not limited to shifts in the distribution and concentration of human settlements and the patterns of movement within and between them. It explores the causes and consequences of infectious agents in the region historically and examines such newly emergent natural biological threats as SARS and avian...
Initially stimulated by a scholarly workshop convened in Singapore in late 2004, and written over the subsequent 18 months, this volume considers the ...
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710,17 |
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History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia III - The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asian Science (1552-1773)
ISBN: 9789812771254 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One significant outcome of the missionary efforts of the Society of Jesus was the transmission of mathematical sciences from early modern Europe to East Asia. This book brings together important data and analyses on the extent to and ways in which the Jesuits' scientific culture as well as the Portuguese policies shaped the Western learning.
One significant outcome of the missionary efforts of the Society of Jesus was the transmission of mathematical sciences from early modern Europe to Ea...
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729,76 |
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The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: Comparative Institutional Analysis
ISBN: 9780198292135 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of papers stems from a recent World Bank project focused upon the contentious issue of whether government has played any positive role in the success of the so-called "high-performing" Asian economies. It goes beyond the influential World Bank volume The East Asian Miracle to chart a middle ground that recognizes diversity among the different East Asian economies, as well as the evolutionary nature of government intervention.
This collection of papers stems from a recent World Bank project focused upon the contentious issue of whether government has played any positive role...
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1038,69 |
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Captains Blog - The Chronicles of My Afghan Vacation
ISBN: 9780615169095 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of entries from an online journal created by a U.S. Soldier stationed in Afghanistan. He was assigned as an embedded trainer with the Afghan National Army. It tells the story of the deployment starting from the training station, the experiences in Afghanistan, the journey home, and everything else in between.
This is a collection of entries from an online journal created by a U.S. Soldier stationed in Afghanistan. He was assigned as an embedded trainer with...
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72,00 |
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Asian Pacific Americans and Baseball: A History
ISBN: 9780786432912 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Japan. Less widely known is that baseball has long been played on other Pacific islands, in pre-statehood Hawaii, for instance, and in Guam, Samoa and the Philippines. For the multiethnic peoples of these U.S. possessions, the learning of baseball was actively encouraged, some would argue as a means to an unabashedly colonialist end.As early as the deadball era, Pacific Islanders competed against each other and against mainlanders on the diamond,...
With the rise of stars such as Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, and now Daisuke Matsuzaka, fans today can easily name players from the island country of Jap...
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![Contemporaries of Marco Polo: Consisting of the Travel Records to the Eastern Parts of the World of William Rubruck [1253-1255]; The Journey of John Komroff, Manuel 9780871401885 Liveright Publishing Corporation](/9780871401885_contemporaries_of_marco_polo_consisting_of_the_travel_records_to_the_eastern_parts_of_the_world_of_william_rubruck_1253_1255_the_journey_of_john.jpg "Contemporaries of Marco Polo: Consisting of the Travel Records to the Eastern Parts of the World of William Rubruck [1253-1255]; The Journey of John") |
Contemporaries of Marco Polo: Consisting of the Travel Records to the Eastern Parts of the World of William Rubruck [1253-1255]; The Journey of John
ISBN: 9780871401885 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The accounts left by these travelers are important, not only for their corroboration of Marco Polo s tales of wonder, but because they throw light upon the early history, customs and religion of one of the great peoples of the modern world the Chinese. In these account we see the roots of Chinese pride, patience, endurance and heroism. Through them we learn to understand that the greatness of the Chinese people today is not an accident, but the result, the fruit of an anciently founded and mature culture, a culture that could live side-by-side with the ravishing, destructive, brutal culture...
The accounts left by these travelers are important, not only for their corroboration of Marco Polo s tales of wonder, but because they throw light upo...
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100,00 |
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Leaving Afghanistan
ISBN: 9781425763145 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
ISBN: 9780231142960 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance. In this collection's title work, There a Petal Silently Falls, Ch'oe explores both the genesis and the aftershocks of historical outrages such as the Kwangju Massacre of 1980, in which a reported 2,000 civilians were killed for protesting government military rule. The novella follows the wanderings of a girl...
Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrat...
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189,72 |
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Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival
ISBN: 9789004161900 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume deals with the experience and the position of non-tribal Jewish subjects and their relationships with their tribal chieftains (aghas) in urban centers and villages in Kurdistan. It is based on new oral sources, diligently collected and carefully analyzed.
This volume deals with the experience and the position of non-tribal Jewish subjects and their relationships with their tribal chieftains (aghas) in u...
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743,64 |
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Sufism in an Age of Transition: ʿumar Al-Suhrawardī And the Rise of the Islamic Mystical Brotherhoods
ISBN: 9789004163553 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the early thirteenth century was a critical period in the development of Sufism, it has received little scholarly attention. Based on heretofore unexplored sources, this book examines a pivotal figure from this period: the scholar, mystic, statesman, and eponym of one of the earliest ṭarīqa lineages, ʿUmar al-Suhrawardī. In situating Suhrawardī's life work in its social, political, and religious contexts, this book suggests that his universalizing Sufi system was not only enmeshed within a broader economy of Muslim religious learning, but also...
Although the early thirteenth century was a critical period in the development of Sufism, it has received little scholarly attention. Based on heretof...
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701,15 |
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Christian Theology in Asia
ISBN: 9780521681834 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The majority of the world's Christians now live outside Europe and North America, and global Christianity is becoming increasingly diverse. Interest in the history and theology of churches in non-Western contexts is growing rapidly as 'old world' churches face this new reality. This book focuses on how Asian Christian theologies have been shaped by the interaction of Christian communities with the societies around them and how they relate to the specific historical contexts from which they have emerged. The distinctiveness of Asian Christianity is shown to be the outcome of dealing with...
The majority of the world's Christians now live outside Europe and North America, and global Christianity is becoming increasingly diverse. Interest i...
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168,70 |
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