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  • Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics

    Creativity and Transformation

    Série série Interventions
    This book develops an approach to both method and the socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces our embeddedness in the world that we study. It seeks to enact the transformative potentials inherent in this relationship in how it engages readers. It presents a creative survey of some of the newest developments in critical research methods and critical pedagogy that together ... Přečtěte si více

    1 316,14 Kč

  • Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics

    Problems and alternatives

    podle Shine Choi ...
    Série série Interventions
    The global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms is that North Korea is a problem: its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to international security, its levels of poverty indicate a humanitarian crisis and its political repression signals a failed state.This book examines the cultural dimensions of the international problem of North Korea through contemporary South Korean and Western ... Přečtěte si více

    1 568,22 Kč

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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    podle David Moser ...
    Série série Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Přečtěte si více

    187,58 Kč

  • Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

    podle Yuehping Yen ...
    Série série Anthropology of Asia
    This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing. ... Přečtěte si více

    1 736,27 Kč

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    podle Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Přečtěte si více

    995,29 Kč

  • Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time

    Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study.This book presents the nature and significance of Ashes of ... Přečtěte si více

    375,59 Kč

  • Postmodernism and China

    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Přečtěte si více

    600,19 Kč

  • Dangerous Women

    Gender and Korean Nationalism

    Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated ... Přečtěte si více

    1 428,17 Kč

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    Série série Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Přečtěte si více

    600,19 Kč

  • Ayn Rand

    An Introduction

    podle Eamonn Butler ...
    Few 20th century intellectuals have been as influential – and controversial – as the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. Her thinking still has a profound impact, particularly on those who come to it through her novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead – with their core messages of individualism, self-worth, and the right to live without the impositions of others. Even though ignored or scorned ... Přečtěte si více

    136,04 Kč

  • Adopted Territory

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

    podle Eleana J. Kim ...
    Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea ... Přečtěte si více

    449,99 Kč

  • Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

    Série série Asia's Transformations
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Přečtěte si více

    1 428,17 Kč