Literary Information in China. A History, Hardback - ***

"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 concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powersThe year is 1900, and Western empires a...

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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...

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...

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

Giving an introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this work introduces a number of import...

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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...

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 "Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator." --The New York Times Book Revie...

Exploring online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market, this book details the crucial and evolving role played by the Internet in pres...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Shaopeng (University of Southampton, UK) ChenIllustration(s): 50 bw illus8 bw charts3 bw tablesNumbe...

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

Outlines the sociocultural roots of education in the three countries, linking the tradition and philosophical orientations to each country's own hi...

"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political pris...

The seldom-considered origin story of the world's most popular drug, illuminating the natural and historical factors which have coloured its journey.

Publisher: Crucible BooksAuthor(s): John F. WilsonIllustration(s): 149 monochrome illustrations, 18 full colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 464Pu...

Tracing the history of the Hippie Trail and those who followed it, this book explores the motivations and experiences of these young travellers, ma...

Publisher: BenBella BooksAuthor(s): Jonathan A. KraneNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 29Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Reducere. Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Jing TsuNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated rel...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Christopher (Florida Atlantic University, USA) ElyIllustration(s): 14 bw illusNumber of pa...

A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century ChinaPub...

By examining the manufacturing, commercial, and cultural activities of the maverick industrialist Chen Diexian (1879-1940), Eugenia Lean illustrate...

What is the point of history? Why has the study of the past been so important for so long? Why History? A History contemplates two and a half thous...

The most comprehensive and best-illustrated history of watercolour painting ever published

This coursebook examines the material history of human communication, allowing students and teachers to examine how communication's production, for...

A vibrant history of the castle in England, from the early Middle Ages to the present dayPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): John GoodallIll...

The story of the evolution of the 'European project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through to Brexit, this is also the story of how, and why...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Markus FriedrichIllustration(s): 30 b/w illus.Translator: John Noel DillonNumber of pages: 872Publi...

In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colorised photographs from ...

Reducere. Two Tears on the Window, is Julia and Kevin Garratt's true story of their 775-day abduction and imprisonment in China as pawns in a political play ...