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  • The Spirit of Wang Yangming's Philosophy

    The Realms of Being and Non-Being

    by Chen Lai, Lai Chen ...
    Translated by Guoxing Chen ...
    The book provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of Wang’s philosophy at different stages throughout its maturation so as to sketch the essential character and grand picture of Wang’s philosophy. As a systematic study of Wang’s philosophy, this monograph boasts a broad perspective, profound analysis and substantial historical data. It is a perfect manifestation of the author’s academic ... Read more

    $67.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Modern Design Thinking

    Life, Enlightenment, Change

    by Cao Xiao'ou ...
    Translated by Chen Guoxing, Jin Kai ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book studies the development of modern and contemporary design art in China since 1978. Starting with the design enlightenment, and closely following the evolution of the visual and material forms in three levels of “individual”, “group”, and “country” since the reform and opening up, the book comprehensively and meticulously describes and analyzes the social particularity of the changes of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Elite China

    Luxury Consumer Behavior in China

    by Pierre Xiao Lu ...
    A ground-breaking exploration of the Chinese elite's consumption of luxury products and their attitudes toward luxury goods. Elite China identifies the Chinese luxury product consumers and the characteristics of their luxury consumption, explains the implications for luxury firms and marketers and most importantly, spells out strategies for international luxury brands and Chinese luxury brands to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market

    by Jiawen Han ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this phenomenon in detail. In particular, it highlights how changes in the social-political system, the ... Read more

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  • Governing Heritage Dissonance - Promises and Realities of Selected Cultural Policies

    by Višnja Kisić ...
    The European Cultural Foundation is delighted to announce the publication of Governing Heritage Dissonance: Promises and Realities of Selected Cultural Policies – a pioneering study by Višnja Kisić, winner of the 2013 Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA).Drawing on illuminating case studies from South East Europe, Kisić connects heritage studies and cultural policies with issues of difference, ... Read more

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  • Vernacular Industrialism in China

    Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940

    by Eugenia Lean ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published manufacturing tips in how-to columns. In a rapidly changing society, Chen copied foreign ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing

    by Anne-Marie Broudehoux ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Describes the changing life of the city and its inhabitants during the final decades of the twentieth century and examines the complex forces at play in the search for modernity. The author presents us with four case studies of how the city is marketing and selling itself (including its refurbishment for the 2008 Olympic bid) and concludes that Beijing's urban image construction may provide an ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 'City of the Future'

    Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

    by Mateusz Laszczkowski ...
    Series Book 14 - Integration and Conflict Studies
    Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity, religion, educational migration, social class and inequality, popular culture, digitalisation, diasporic ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Self as Method

    Thinking Through China and the World

    by Biao Xiang, Qi Wu ...
    Translated by David Ownby ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao ... Read more

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  • Globalizing Seoul

    The City's Cultural and Urban Change

    by Jieheerah Yun ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more evident than in the country’s capital, Seoul, where urban development has been central to making the city a global hub and not just the centre of the national economy. However, recent development projects differ from those of the past in that they no longer focus solely ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cities Surround The Countryside

    Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

    by Robin Visser ...
    Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD