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  • 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

  • Questioning Borders

    Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan

    by Robin Visser ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Questioning Borders

    Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan

    by Robin Visser ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel

    Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China

    by Pin Ho, Wenguang Huang ...
    The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family -- the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo's secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo's supporters ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Modern China: All That Matters

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series All That Matters
    In Modern China: All That Matters, Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see it. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform. Clements offers a Chinese perspective on such events as the Handover of Hong Kong, and chronicles the historical events that continue to resonate ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Chinese Warlord Armies 1911–30

    by Philip Jowett ...
    Series Book 463 - Men-at-Arms
    Defeated in the Sino-Japanese War 1894–95 and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Imperial China collapsed into revolution and a republic was proclaimed in 1912.From the death of the first president in 1916 to the rise of the Nationalist Kuomintang government in 1926, the differing regions of this vast country were ruled by endlessly forming, breaking and re-forming alliances of regional generals who ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • China Under Mao

    A Revolution Derailed

    by Andrew G. Walder ...
    China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.“Walder ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Teaching Confucianism

    Edited by Jeffrey L. Richey ...
    Series series AAR Teaching Religious Studies
    Even the most casual observer of Chinese society is aware of the tremendous significance of Confucianism as a linchpin of both ancient and modern Chinese identity. Furthermore, the Confucian tradition has exercised enormous influence over the values and institutions of the other cultures of East Asia, an influence that continues to be important in the global Asian diaspora. If forecasters are ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Making of Hong Kong

    From Vertical to Volumetric

    by Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become truly ‘volumetric’ with ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Creative Milieux

    How Urban Design Nurtures Creative Clusters

    Edited by Quentin Stevens ...
    The so-called ‘creative industries’ are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development. Until now, research on the clustering of such activities has been limited to economics, geography and urban policy. This book is the first to gather together emerging research in urban design and spatial planning that explores what characteristics of the built ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Space and Time Visualisation

    Edited by Maria Boştenaru Dan, Cerasella Crăciun ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores expertise relevant for two working groups of NeDiMAH, a European Science Foundation (ESF) funded Research Networking Programme. It examines mapping methods, procedures, tools, criticism, awareness, challenges and solutions around the concepts of “Space and Time” and “Information Visualization”. The chapters explore digital methods in the representation of natural disasters, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD