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Awakened China: The Country Americans Don't Know
ISBN: 9780837167732 / Angielski / Twarda / 425 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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371,91 zł |
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China Tripping: Encountering the Everyday in the People's Republic
ISBN: 9781538123690 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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382,54 zł |
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The River of Golden Sand: The Narrative of a Journey Through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah
ISBN: 9781108019538 / Angielski / Miękka / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Gill (1843 1883) was an explorer and commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers. After inheriting a fortune from a distant relative in 1871, Gill decided to remain in the Army and use his inheritance to finance explorations of remote countries, satisfying his love of travel and gathering intelligence for the British government. He was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 1879 for his scientific observations on his expeditions. This two volume work, first published in 1880, is Gill's account of his expedition from Chengdu, China through Sichuan, along the eastern...
William Gill (1843 1883) was an explorer and commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers. After inheriting a fortune from a distant relative in 1871, ...
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390,19 zł |
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From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma Through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan
ISBN: 9781108050494 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874 1938) was a colonial administrator and oriental scholar. He travelled extensively in the Far East and developed a deep interest in Chinese culture and religion. His fourteen-year posting to Weihaiwei, a quiet naval base, allowed him to travel to places not usually visited by Europeans, and to begin writing. In 1906 he spent six months travelling across China to Burma, publishing this illustrated account of his arduous journey in 1908. In it he comments on the economic and political state of China, but the book's main theme is the beauty of the country and...
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874 1938) was a colonial administrator and oriental scholar. He travelled extensively in the Far East and developed a ...
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390,19 zł |
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Psychosocial Aspects of the Asian-American Experience: Diversity Within Diversity
ISBN: 9780789010490 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover intervention strategies for issues affecting Asian Americans This important book examines the childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and aging stages of Asian Americans to help researchers and practitioners offer better services to this ethnic group. Psychosocial Aspects of the Asian-American Experience will help you understand the ethnic and cultural diversity within the Asian-American population and offers both quantitative and qualitative research that may impact social policies and social services for Asian Americans.Representing Chinese, Japanese,...
Discover intervention strategies for issues affecting Asian Americans This important book examines the childhood, adolescence, young adultho...
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393,65 zł |
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Self and Society in Ming Thought
ISBN: 9781597405935 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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399,17 zł |
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Yün-Nan: The Link Between India and the Yangtze
ISBN: 9781108010795 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. H. R. Davies (1865 1950) was an English army officer and member of the British intelligence service. Between 1894 and 1900 he was asked by the British government to lead survey expeditions into the modern Chinese province of Yunnan to discover possible routes for a railway connecting British-occupied Burma with the upper Yangtze river and through to Sichuan. This book contains an account of his travels though Yunnan province, written as a travelogue and first published in 1909. The region had been little explored by westerners before Davies' expeditions, and this is the first detailed...
H. R. Davies (1865 1950) was an English army officer and member of the British intelligence service. Between 1894 and 1900 he was asked by the British...
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424,13 zł |
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Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of a Voyage to and from That Country in the Years 1816 and 1817: Containing an Account of Lord Am
ISBN: 9781108045995 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clarke Abel (c.1780 1825) was Chief Medical Officer accompanying Lord Amherst's unsuccessful diplomatic embassy to China in 1816. Encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks, he acted as official naturalist to the expedition, which penetrated further into China than had been possible for previous western visitors. Although most of his large collection of botanical and mineralogical specimens was lost during the return voyage, survivals included several new species, some of which were named after him. This work, published in 1818, made Abel's reputation, and he was elected to the Royal Society the...
Clarke Abel (c.1780 1825) was Chief Medical Officer accompanying Lord Amherst's unsuccessful diplomatic embassy to China in 1816. Encouraged by Sir Jo...
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424,13 zł |
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Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys
ISBN: 9780226448565 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. "Hong Kong" is a tour of the city s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and i... |
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425,04 zł |
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France/China: Intercultural Imaginings
ISBN: 9781904350934 / Angielski / Twarda / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annEe de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived in L'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the People's Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel, Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, AndrE Malraux, Henri Cartier-Bresson,...
China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annEe de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the m...
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428,98 zł |
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Taipei: City of Displacements
ISBN: 9780295991252 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes and waves of displacement. In this thoughtful stroll through the city, we learn to look beyond surface ephemera, moving from the general to the... Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in ri... |
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459,31 zł |
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Höhen Der Örter Über Der Meeresfläche Im Europäischen Und Asiatischen Rußland Aus Barometer-Beobachtungen, Die Während Der Reise Mit Der Russischen Ge
ISBN: 9783111300320 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 23 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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461,74 zł |
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Yin-Yang: American Perspectives on Living in China
ISBN: 9781442212695 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspectives and locales for Westerners considering the leap. This unique collection of letters offers a rarely seen, intimate, and refreshingly honest view of living and working in China. Here, ordinary people--recent college graduates, teachers, professors, engineers, lawyers, computer whizzes, and parents--recount their experiences in venues ranging from classrooms to marketplaces to holy mountains. The writers are genuine participants in the daily...
China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspec...
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472,86 zł |
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Beijing Bittersweet: Foreign Exchange Student in Wushu at the Beijing Physical Culture Institute during the 1980s
ISBN: 9781989468289 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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480,00 zł |
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Looking for Chengdu
ISBN: 9780801436468 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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545,12 zł |
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Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949
ISBN: 9781501760624 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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545,12 zł |
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Men and Gods in Mongolia
ISBN: 9780367139520 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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580,45 zł |
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Self and Society in Ming Thought
ISBN: 9781597401999 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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589,68 zł |
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Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism
ISBN: 9780789000293 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism exposes researchers, tourism professionals, and students to the complexities of marketing issues in the most dynamic region in world tourism today. Dispelling commonly held Western assumptions, inviting new research, and stressing the importance of tourism development in this area to the economics of world tourism, this book shows you how and why this region has experienced such tremendous growth. Some of the larger countries you learn about include China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand. Since many of these countries...
Marketing Issues in Pacific Area Tourism exposes researchers, tourism professionals, and students to the complexities of marketing issues in the most ...
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630,92 zł |
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Urban Tourism in China
ISBN: 9780415623827 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past 30 years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010. This collection of research reports examines issues such as consumer behaviour, the social impact of tourism, and urban destination image.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research
China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past 30 years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympi...
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681,40 zł |