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  • China's Urban Space

    Development under market socialism

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

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  • Red Dust

    A Path Through China

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The dream of the red chamber

    de Xueqin Cao ...
    As the author details in the first chapter, it is intended to be a memorial to the damsels he knew in his youth: friends, relatives and servants. The novel is remarkable not only for its huge cast of characters and psychological scope, but also for its precise and detailed observation of the life and social structures typical of 18th-century Chinese society. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Aerotropolis

    The Way We'll Live Next

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • China's New Confucianism

    Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD

  • The Nature of a Crime

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Shanghai Gone

    Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

    de Qin Shao ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    "One of the best accounts of the reality of gentrification and urban development in China . . . grounded with solid historical, ethnographic and legal evidence" ( Urban Studies).In recent decades, the centuries-old city of Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity. With its world famous skyscrapers, it now ranks with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Shanghai in Transition

    Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Sounds of Latinidad

    Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City

    de Samuel K. Byrd ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

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  • China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Confronting Urban Legacy

    Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD