Living in Asia: China

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DescriptionThis major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate ...

Reducere. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai...

DescriptionFrom a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed. A rapid rise in living standards in China has hel...

Veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan opens the world of Hakka cooking to Western audiences in this fascinating chronicle that traces the rust...

Reducere. Notable literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books.Justin Chin's fea...

The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standard...

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explore...

Reducere. The story of Cinderella is possibly the world's most popular folk tale. The earliest known version is from Greece around two thousand years ago, an...

Reducere. The Arowana is the world's most costly aquarium fish. It is a tropical freshwater fish from the brackish swamps of Asia, the river basins of South ...

DescriptionAndr Gide praised The Asiatics as "an authentic masterpiece"; Thomas Mann called it "brilliant." First published in 1935 and virtually u...

Reducere. Peaceful parenting is hard enough for the average parent. Imagine trying to do it when you have the instincts of a tiger mother. In Untigering, Iri...

DescriptionThe nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other...

Peacocks for Kids Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Fascinating Peacocks Chapter 2 Peacock's Features Chapter 3 A Peacock's Life Conclusion ...

Reducere. Dynasties of the Sea is the first book to examine one of the most powerful forces in global trade and economic development: world shipping and the ...