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Modernism in Late-Mao China: Architecture for Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and Overseas, 1969–1976
ISBN: 9780367771454 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. It highlights the new architecture of this period, exemplified by three clusters of buildings for foreign affairs, namely buildings for foreign diplomacy in Beijing, buildings for foreign trade in Guangzhou and China’s foreign aid projects overseas.
The emergence of new architecture in the early 1970s is closely associated with China’s political and diplomatic shift of the time, from a radical... This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949–1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of t...
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710,17 |
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The China Record: An Assessment of the People\'s Republic
ISBN: 9781438492278 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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373,78 |
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Mrs Amy Wilkinson and The Chinese Blind Boys Band
ISBN: 9781471034299 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,48 |
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Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture
ISBN: 9781621966456 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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517,87 |
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The Logical Deduction of Chinese Traditional Political Philosophy
ISBN: 9789811643781 / Angielski / Miękka / 623 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a panoramic and extensive exploration of Chinese political philosophy, examining key political problems of the past, and the thinkers who addressed them. As the reader will discover, China’s traditional political philosophy is one with distinctive national characteristics and ideals. Therefore, the book helps to clarify the evolution of Chinese political thought, while also investigating fundamental political issues throughout the country’s history. The book offers a unique resource for researchers and graduate students in the fields of political science, philosophy,...
This book presents a panoramic and extensive exploration of Chinese political philosophy, examining key political problems of the past, and the thinke...
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483,04 |
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A History of Un-fractured Chinese Civilization in Archaeological Interpretation
ISBN: 9789811939457 / Angielski / Twarda / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an archeological interpretation of the history of Chinese civilization. Tracing back from recent history to the distant past, it explores the breadth of Chinese civilization. Using archeological remains and cultural relics as starting points and approaching the cultural dimension from material perspectives, it presents a panoramic view of China’s civilizational continuity, together with its ideological and cultural characteristics. Featuring a wealth of illustrations (including photos of cultural relics and sites, archeological surveys, etc.) and texts written in...
This book presents an archeological interpretation of the history of Chinese civilization. Tracing back from recent history to the distant past, it ex...
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523,30 |
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East-West Dialogue
ISBN: 9789811980596 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Open access book is a collection of interviews published by China News Service, a Beijing-based news agency, in its “West-East Talk” column. It has been divided into five sections: “Mutual Learning Among Civilizations,” “Hot Issues,” “About China,” “Sino-U.S. Relations” and “Cultural Collision”. The interviews are with more than 50 eminent scholars, scientists, politicians, authors, etc., from different parts of the world as well as China, who have an association with China and see the real China beyond the stereotypes. Besides current global issues, the book also...
This Open access book is a collection of interviews published by China News Service, a Beijing-based news agency, in its “West-East Talk” column. ...
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160,99 |
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The Reconstruction of Chinese Sociology: An Oral History of 40 Sociologists (1979–2019)
ISBN: 9789811981975 / Angielski / Twarda / 870 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path of reconstruction, localization, change, and reform of Chinese Sociology through interviews with 40 Chinese top sociologists such as Su Guoxun, Zhou Xiaohong, Bian Yanjie, Zhao Dingxin, Zhou Xueguang et al. Divided into three sections, this insightful book is the best proof of the rapid development and overall improvement of the discipline since the reform and opening-up in China. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the restoration and reconstruction of Chinese Sociology,...
Tracing the evolution of Chinese Sociology from the late 1970s to the present day, the book aims to record the path of reconstruction, localization, c...
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201,24 |
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2016
ISBN: 9783110799729 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State Language Commission has been publishing annual reports on what is called "language life" in China. These reports cover language policy and planning invitatives at the national, provincial and local levels, new trends in language use in a variety of social domains, and major events concerning languages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now for the first time, these reports are available in English for anyone interested in Chinese...
China, with the world's largest population, numerous ethnic groups and vast geographical space, is also rich in languages. Since 2006, China's State L...
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658,43 |
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History of Chinese Folk Literature
ISBN: 9789811654473 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book mainly addresses the position, function, influence, and values of folk oral literature in the history of Chinese literature. Divided into 14 chapters, it systematically covers central aspects of folklore literature such as ballads, folk songs, Bianwen, Zajuci, Guzici, Zhugongdiao, Sanqu, Baojuan, Tanci, Zidishu, and so on from the Pre-Qin to the late Qing Dynasties, filling several gaps in literary history studies. It is a comprehensive literary work, and many of the materials cited here are rare and difficult to find. In addition, the book proposes some important...
This book mainly addresses the position, function, influence, and values of folk oral literature in the history of Chinese literature. Divided in...
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523,30 |
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet\'s Memoir of China\'s Genocide
ISBN: 9780593491799 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,99 |
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Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage
ISBN: 9781032269894 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultural heritage – those objects, texts, and intangible practices concerned with China’s past.
Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultur...
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661,20 |
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The History of the Shanghai Jews: New Pathways of Research
ISBN: 9783031137600 / Angielski / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hitherto understudied topic of Shanghai Jewish refugees. Few among the general public know that during the Second World War, approximately 16,000 to 20,000 Jews fled the Nazis, found unexpected refuge in Shanghai, and established a vibrant community there. Though most of them left Shanghai soon after the conclusion of the war in 1945, years of sojourning among the Chinese and surviving under the Japanese occupation generated unique memories about the...
This volume provides a historical narrative, historiographical reviews, and scholarly analyses by leading scholars throughout the world on the hithert...
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603,81 |
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Regional Policy in China: Development and Strategic Challenges
ISBN: 9783847115236 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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242,26 |
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Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy
ISBN: 9789811984808 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist scholars, and prominent Neo-Confucian thinkers. It reveals the fundamental problems of each philosopher, clarifies the connotation of the concept as well as the specific reference of the problem, and presents the inherent context and structure of each philosopher’s thoughts. Further, the author analyzes a selection of these ancient philosophers’ main propositions and demonstrates the argumentation and proof processes behind the basic...
This book introduces fifteen representative philosophers in ancient China, including Confucius, Laozi, Mencius, Zhuangzi, influential Neo-Taoist schol...
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483,04 |
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A Hundred Stories: Industrial Heritage Changes China
ISBN: 9789811986130 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book summarizes and classifies 100 wonderful Chinese industrial heritage cases, starting from the path of cultural tourism industry's involvement in the transformation and renewal of industrial heritage. With the development of industrialization for more than 100 years, China, which has been a major industrial heritage country, is often ignored in the field of industrial heritage research. This is the first book in the world to systematically explore the cultural and tourism industry's involvement in the transformation and renewal of Chinese industrial heritage. It fully contributed the...
This book summarizes and classifies 100 wonderful Chinese industrial heritage cases, starting from the path of cultural tourism industry's involvement...
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644,07 |
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Imperialism and the Development Myth: How Rich Countries Dominate in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781526171917 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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128,89 |
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Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan
ISBN: 9780824894283 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1973 twenty-five young women drowned in a ferry accident on their way to work in factories in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone. Their remains were recovered and interred collectively in what came to be called the Twenty-five Maiden Ladies Tomb. Without a husband’s ancestral hall where they would have been laid to rest, the spirits of these unmarried women were considered homeless and possibly vengeful, and so the Maiden Ladies Tomb was viewed as a place to be avoided—especially by young men traveling alone, fearful of encountering a female ghost searching for a husband. Over...
In 1973 twenty-five young women drowned in a ferry accident on their way to work in factories in Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone. Their re...
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284,07 |
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China, Faits Accomplis and the Contest for East Asia: The Shadow of Shifting Power
ISBN: 9781032329413 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores China’s use of faits accomplis in its periphery, and offers the first formal model for the use of faits accomplis by rising powers.
This book explores China’s use of faits accomplis in its periphery, and offers the first formal model for the use of faits accomplis by rising power...
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710,17 |
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Tibet as I Knew It: The Memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba
ISBN: 9781666908565 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India in 2017, this memoir of Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba provides an intricate portrayal of early twentieth-century Tibet. With his finger on the pulse of the Tibetan ethos, Pemba offers glimpses into the traditional sociology of Tibet and occasionally its snail-paced reforms, as well as the British Raj in India, while recollecting his young days in his native country. Pemba also draws information from prized sources like his father´s diaries and his...
Written in the 1990s after retirement from his services as a doctor and discovered by his daughter in the loft of their house in Darjeeling in India i...
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377,13 |