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China Program Books Bogserier

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  • Chang'an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture

    af Shuishan Yu ...
    Serier serie China Program Books
    In this interdisciplinary narrative, the never-ending "completion" of China's most important street offers a broad view of the relationship between art and ideology in modern China. Chang'an Avenue, named after China's ancient capital (whose name means "Eternal Peace"), is supremely symbolic. Running east-west through the centuries-old heart of Beijing, it intersects the powerful north-south axis ... Læs mere

    481,06 kr.

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  • The Inheritance of Loss

    af Kiran Desai ...
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered ... Læs mere

    100,24 kr.

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  • Uses of Disorder

    af Richard Sennett ...
    The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order—and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth.Drawing on recent ideas in psychology, sociology, and urban history, Sennett shows how the excessively ... Læs mere

    114,74 kr.

  • Lijiang Stories

    Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China

    af Emily Chao ...
    Serier serie Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao illustrates how biopolitics and the essentialization of difference shape the ways in which Naxi residents represent and interpret their social world.The vignettes presented here are lively examples of ... Læs mere

    240,53 kr.

  • The "Other" Karen in Myanmar

    Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle without Arms

    af Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung ...
    Serier serie AsiaWorld
    The “Other” Karen in Myanmar looks at the “other” or “quiet” minorities, who are members of ethnic groups associated with well-known armed resistance organizations, but who pursued non-violent approaches to promote their individual and collective interests. This is the first in-depth study to uncover the existence and activities of the “other” Karen and analyze the nature of relationships with ... Læs mere

    323,46 kr.

  • Mobility Patterns and Urban Structure

    af Paulo Pinho, Cecília Silva ...
    Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of alternative urban structures on sustainable mobility. Bringing together two existing and complementary ... Læs mere

    581,08 kr.

  • My Fight for a New Taiwan

    One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power

    af Hsiu-lien Lu, Ashley Esarey ...
    Lu Hsiu-lien’s journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan’s evolution from dictatorship to democracy. The election in 2000 of Democratic Progressive Party leader Chen Shui-bian to the presidency, with Lu as his vice president, ... Læs mere

    280,62 kr.

  • The Habitable City in China

    Urban History in the Twentieth Century

    Redigeret af Toby Lincoln, Xu Tao ...
    Serier serie Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which ... Læs mere

    1.214,26 kr.

  • Remaking Cities

    An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting

    af Tony Fry ...
    Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed.In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a ... Læs mere

    273,81 kr.

  • Guest People

    Hakka Identity in China and Abroad

    Redigeret af Nicole Constable ...
    Serier serie Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805450The essays in this volume analyze and compare what it means to be Hakka in a variety of sociocultural, political, geographical, and historical contexts including Malaysia, Hong Kong, Calcutta, Taiwan, and contemporary China. ... Læs mere

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  • Faces of Béxar

    Early San Antonio and Texas

    af Jesús F. De la Teja ...
    Winner, 2019 Summerfield G. Robert Award, sponsored by The Sons of the Republic of TexasFaces of Béxar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author’s career over a quarter of a century. A new bibliographic essay on early San Antonio and Texas history rounds out the ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr.

  • Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II

    af Mirna Zakić ...
    This is an in-depth study of the ethnic German minority in the Serbian Banat (Southeast Europe) and its experiences under German occupation in World War II. Mirna Zakić argues that the Banat Germans exercised great agency within the constraints imposed on them by Nazi ideology, with its expectations that ethnic Germans would collaborate with the invading Nazis. The book examines the incentives ... Læs mere

    376,83 kr.