The Making of Barbarians. Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia, Hardback - Haun Saussy

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Haun SaussyIllustration(s): 4 b/w illus.Number of pages: 192Collection: Translation/TransnationPubl...

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Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

This book examines the complexity of Chineseness in China and the Chinese diaspora. Using critical sociolinguistic and discourse analytical approac...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

This book brings together studies conducted by researchers in East Asian countries who seek to better understand the impact of China's rise and the...

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Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800-1127 CE) was marked by a xenoph...

Structures of the Earth is the first study of the emergent genre of geographical writing and the metageographies that structured its spatial though...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

A comprehensive introduction to Chinese legal scholarship and the scholars who developed the new Communist legal system during the initial decades ...

Despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage with the history, meaning, and memory of the Tiananmen movement. Thomas Chen exami...

This book explores verbal and non-verbal communication from a social anthropological viewpoint, drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork in east...

Reducere. ``A great way to learn about China's vast history ``--Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional pe...

In The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction, William C. Hedberg investigates the reception of The Water Margin in a variety of early modern and mo...

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By shedding light on the ideas and practices of the Chinese Youth Party, Nagatomi Hirayama offers an indispensable lens through which to view the f...

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has originated theories which have had a profound effect on the education of multilingual learners across the w...

Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EUPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Nils RingeNumber of pages: 288Publication...

In Close Association is the first English-language study of the local networks of women and men who built modern Japan in the Meiji period (1868-19...

One Belt One Road argues that the largest global infrastructure development program in history is not the centralized and systematic project that m...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

Provides an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, s...

Chinese Asianism analyzes Chinese views of East Asian solidarity in light of Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations. Advocates of Asianism...

Drawing on a digital ethnography of Chinese international students' first semester languaging practices, this book examines how they use their mult...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Dominiek Dendooven's fascinating study reveals how the First World War turned west Flanders and north-eastern France into a global crossroads.Publi...

The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE-800 CE investigates what dreams meant in late classical and early medieval China. Mapping a common dreamscape that ...

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

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations fro...

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Reducere. Developing a framework to study "what makes a region, " Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and in...

This volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical ...

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Building for Oil records the rise of the "Petroleum Group" in the central government while revealing the everyday stories and struggles of the work...

This book opens readers' eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern Englis...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 392Collection: Modern South AsiaPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 162 x 28Cover type: ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of East Asia, then keep reading...Four captivating manuscripts in one book: History of China: A Cap...

DescriptionA discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent China's rise has upse...

A 20th anniversary edition of the classic work, which describes the battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the autumn of 1988. It was the largest...