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  • China's Urban Space

    Development under market socialism

    by Terry McGee, George C.S. Lin, Mark Wang, Andrew Marton, Jiaping Wu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s, arguing that to study the Chinese urbanization process one must recognize the distinctive political ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Red Dust

    A Path Through China

    by Ma Jian ...
    In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Dream of the Red Chamber Hung Lou Meng - Book I

    by eBooksLib ...
    This translation was suggested not by any pretensions to range myself among the ranks of the body of sinologues, but by the perplexities and difficulties experienced by me as a student in Peking, when, at the completion of the Tzu Erh Chi, I had to plunge in the maze of the Hung Lou Meng. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Aerotropolis

    The Way We'll Live Next

    by John D. Kasarda, Greg Lindsay ...
    An exploration of near-future urban planning as airports become the center of cities, changing the way we live and conduct business.Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the city in the center, the airport on the periphery—shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • China's New Confucianism

    Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Nature of a Crime

    by Joseph Conrad, Ford Maddox Ford ...
    “The worst that Death can do to me is to deliver me up for ever to unsatisfied longings for you. Well, that is all that Life has done, that is all that Life can do, for me.”  After gambling with, and losing, money from his employer’s estate and fearing that discovery and a prison sentence is around the corner, the narrator decides to end his life rather than face up to the disgrace.  His last ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Shanghai Gone

    Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

    by Qin Shao ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide—the eradication of a home against the will of its dwellers—to the sweeping destruction of neighborhoods, families, and life ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Shanghai in Transition

    Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

    by Jos Gamble ...
    In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city's economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching economic reforms implemented to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and trade centre. This book focuses on the lives of local residents and their perceptions of their ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Sounds of Latinidad

    Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City

    by Samuel K. Byrd ...
    Series Book 4 - Social Transformations in American Anthropology
    The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants’ access to the American dream and ... Read more

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  • China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

    Edited by Yannan Ding, Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this book connects the past with the present, and provides much-needed literature on city growth and how ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Confronting Urban Legacy

    Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

    by James R. Gomes, Ezra Moser, Michael Sacks, Jack Dougherty, Lyle Wray, Louise Simmons, Tom Condon, John Shemo, Andrew Walsh, Janet Bauer, Clyde McKee, Llana Barber, Jason Rojas ...
    Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very ... Read more

    $55.99 USD