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  • Lost Tongues of the Red River

    Annamese Middle Chinese & the Origins of the Vietnamese Language

    by John D. Phan ...
    Series Book 476 - Harvard East Asian Monographs
    Among the world’s languages, Vietnamese provides unique insight into the cosmopolitan dynamism of premodern Asia. Modern notions of language history are often constrained by nationalist narratives, focused on bolstering a particular nation’s social, cultural, or political identities. A closer look at the Vietnamese language reveals a rich record of interaction and transformation that does not fit ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • All under Heaven

    The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order

    by Tingyang Zhao ...
    Series Book 3 - Great Transformations
    In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question W**here did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    by 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 ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

    by Yuehping Yen ...
    Series series 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. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Not Like a Native Speaker

    On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

    by Rey Chow ...
    Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Adopted Territory

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

    by 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 ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Chinese

    by Jerry Norman ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Surveys
    This general introduction to the study of the Chinese language traces its history from its beginings in the second millennium BC to the present day and provides a clear picture of the contemporary language and its sociolinguistic status. Chinese in its numerous dialect forms, has more speakers than any language in the modern world, and this vast extension in time and space brings to its study an ... Read more

    $75.49 USD

  • Ancient China and the Yue

    Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE–50 CE

    by Erica Fox Brindley ...
    In this innovative study, Erica Fox Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE–50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along its southern frontier. Brindley provides an overview of current theories in archaeology and linguistics concerning the peoples of the ancient southern frontier of China, the closest relations on the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Neo-Confucianism

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald ...
    Neo-Confucianism is a philosophically sophisticated tradition weaving classical Confucianism together with themes from Buddhism and Daoism. It began in China around the eleventh century CE, played a leading role in East Asian cultures over the last millennium, and has had a profound influence on modern Chinese society.Based on the latest scholarship but presented in accessible language, Neo ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Obscene Things

    Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei

    by Naifei Ding ...
    In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China’s best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Understanding the Chinese City

    by Li Shiqiao ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This bookteaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by:exploring the rise of stories of labour, finance and their hierarchiesexamining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing systemanalyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against ... Read more

    $82.79 USD