Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today, Paperback - Paul Willis

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading et...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values -- KOPublisher: Pluto PressNumber of...

This study examines the changing role of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It analyzes how Tibetan B...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in th...

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

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Reducere. According to ancient legends, thousands of years ago a mysterious being known as the Nine Tail Fox taught her devotees the secrets of witchcraft an...

"Information" has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital ...

Reducere. A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that ...

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This book explores the concept of spaces in relation to translation, to construct a conceptual framework for research to better understand and solv...

Brian R. Dott explores how the non-native chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language,...

In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can be traced back to the 21t...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Anna QuNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 209 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Educational institutions have been a crucial state apparatus in shaping the cultural identity and ideology of ethnic Chinese in Singapore and Malay...

Wayne Soon tells the global health story of Overseas Chinese who transformed medicine in China and Taiwan through the practices of military medicin...

Chronicling the traditions of Chinese life and culture, The Art of Chinese Living is a visual cornucopia and an epic cultural immersion into everyt...

Reducere. The first detailed treatment of the Chinese homosexual tradition in any Western language, Passions of the Cut Sleeve shatters preconceptions and st...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Emily SunNumber of pages: 176Collection: Lit ZPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 235 x 18Cover t...

An exclusive and unprecedented insight into the inner workings of a multinational Chinese business, for every western business leader who wants to ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Fei-Hsien WangIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 368Collection: Studies of th...

Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...

Reducere. China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better ac...

Explores contemporary Chinese urban youth culture through analyses of three Chinese Internet subcultural artifacts - A Bloody Case of a Steamed Bun...

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A collection of essays delineating the centuries-long dialogue of Jews and Jewish culture with China, all under the overarching theme of cultural t...

Reducere. Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through...

Reducere. Trei turnee, efectuate de Ansamblul „Doina” al Armatei intr-un interval de 11 ani, sunt consemnate, pas cu pas, de unul dintre membrii corului, Ghe...

Reducere. The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China's Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social...