Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, Paperback - Bret Hinsch

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

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Bret HinschIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black ...

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...

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

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

Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other "Masters" of the Warring States ...

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

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...

An introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic...

Senior New Testament scholar F. Scott Spencer focuses on a neglected area in the study of Jesus and the Gospels: the emotional life of Jesus. This ...

Reducere. Statecraft and Society in China. Chinese grassroots politics中国社会政经方略Edition 2021 - Frans VandenboschThe title of this book Statecraft and Society i...

Reducere. The dramatic practice of ch d, in which the yogin visualizes giving his or her own sacrificed body to the gods and demons as a way to cut the attac...

For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic wri...

"China is changing faster than any other nation on earth today. Written by a Chinese language teacher and a travel professional who works with stud...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Guosong (Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China) ShaoNumber of pages: 316Collection:...

Publisher: ACA Publishing LimitedIllustration(s): Illustrations (chiefly col.)Number of pages: 312Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 193 x 141 x 17C...

Reducere. Drawing on over three decades of study and practice, Chuan Zhi, an ordained monk in the Chinese Linji tradition, takes us on a fascinating journey ...

Reducere. Previously available only as a limited editon, Henri Michaux's Ideograms in China is now available as a New Directions paperback. Peerlessly transl...

Reducere. Leading business schools routinely offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in operations and supply chain management. Yet 200, 000 U.S. jobs i...

This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, iv...

This book analyses the behaviour of ethnic minority groups in China, using the first comprehensive national dataset dedicated to capturing the soci...

Bret Gustafson examines the centrality of natural gas and oil to the making of modern Bolivia and the contradictory convergence of fossil-fueled ca...

Hitman will stand the test of time as one of the definitive wrestling biographies' Publishers Weekly'Bret Hart still makes me believe that wrestlin...

Reducere. This guide brings Chinese astrology back to its ancient roots, providing all the information you need for understanding one of the world's oldest s...

Celebrating yet another uneventful year, Viz deliver a memorable selection of comic masterpieces straight out of The Wizard's Sleeve.

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 ...

The vivid historical story of Robert Fortune, engaged by the East India Company in 1848, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China to s...

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 ...

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 ...

Provides an overview of the current state-of-affairs in the financing of private innovations in China. While country-level innovation can take many...

This book documents the impact of the Chinese culture on the development of city types in China in the past four decades.Publisher: Oro EditionsAut...

This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic develop...

John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens....

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(...

Reducere. One calm autumn night, in a house surrounded by farm land in rural Southern Illinois, a young five year old boy wakes to see a bright light shining...

Contributor(s): Author: Luke Newman2 comprehensive manuscripts in 1 book: Gastric Sleeve Cookbook: 100 Bariatric-Friendly and Healthy Recipes for t...

Reducere. How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

This is the fully-researched account of the historical and contemporary development of the traditional martial arts genre in the Chinese cinema kno...

Reducere. In this five-volume opus-now available in its entirety in paperback-Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to ...

Drawing on over three decades of study and practice, Chuan Zhi, an ordained monk in the Chinese Linji tradition, takes us on a fascinating journey ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe world is changing for two girls in China in the 1970s. Da Qin--Big Piano--and her younger sister, Xiao Qin--Little Piano--live in th...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between bo...

Change, tradition and therapeutic governance. The first English-language overview of mental health and psychological counselling in contemporary Ch...