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“david wu”

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  • Future Proof

    Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration

    by Diana Wu David ...
    For too many of us, work has become an inescapable treadmill of personal sacrifice. But having the career we want shouldn't require us to lose ourselves. We all deserve a humanistic and sustainable job environment—and now we can have it. In Future Proof, Diana Wu David tells how her own career-focused existence shifted after the suicide of a friend, prompting her to realize there was a better way ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cloud Foundry for Developers

    Deploy, manage, and orchestrate cloud-native applications with ease

    by Rick Farmer, David Wu, Rahul Kumar Jain ...
    Deploy and scale applications on Cloud FoundryKey Features?Gain hands-on experience using Cloud Foundry?Implement deployment, management and scaling of applications on Cloud Foundry?Learn best practices and troubleshooting tips for running applications on Cloud FoundryBook DescriptionCloud Foundry is the open source platform to deploy, run, and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is growing rapidly ... Read more

    $34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Beijing to Port Moresby

    The Politics of National Identity in Cultural Policies

    Edited by Virginia Domingues, David Wu ...
    Essays in this volume focus on Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and the People's Republic of China as sites rife with discursive complexity. From small to large, young to old, former colony to former colonial power, these six examples do well to represent situated voices and cultural values meted out in a larger "global" space. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    From China's most influential foreign policy thinker, a vision for a "Beijing Consensus" for international relationsThe rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy ... Read more

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  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    by Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Asian Anthropology

    Edited by Jan Van Bremen, Eyal Ben-Ari, Syed Farid Alatas ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed ... Read more

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  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Edited by Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Dance That Makes You Vanish

    Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

    by Rachmi Diyah Larasati ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, artists, and dancers—were killed, arrested, or disappeared ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Confucian Constitutional Order

    How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future

    by Jiang Qing ...
    Translated by Edmund Ryden ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political futureAs China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing—China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Gender Pluralism

    Southeast Asia Since Early Modern Times

    by Michael G. Peletz ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009!This book examines three big ideas: difference, legitimacy, and pluralism. Of chief concern is how people construe and deal with variation among fellow human beings. Why under certain circumstances do people embrace even sanctify differences, or at least begrudgingly tolerate them, and why in other contexts are people less receptive to difference, sometimes ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Demystifying China

    New Understandings of Chinese History

    Edited by Naomi Standen ...
    For westerners, China’s history is often reduced to a choice between timeless Confucian ideals or incomprehensible barbarisms such as footbinding or mass slaughter, fueled by generalizations such as “China has five thousand years of history,” “China was a Confucian society,” “Chinese women were victims,” “China is a communist country,” and many more. But China is now too globally important to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia

    Comparative and Historical Colonialism

    by Jan van Bremen, Akitoshi Shimizu ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the theoretical claims of anthropology and its fieldwork achievements. What this collection demonstrates is that colonialism was not only a Western phenomenon, but 'Eastern' as well. And that Japanese or ... Read more

    $65.99 USD