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  • Sinophone Studies

    A Critical Reader

    Serier serie Global Chinese Culture
    This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concerning the nature of Chineseness while introducing readers to essential readings in Tibetan, Malaysian, Taiwanese, French, Caribbean, and ... Læs mere

    Før 349,74 kr. Nu 259,89 kr.

  • Lydbog

    Megalodon In Paradise [Dramatized Adaptation]

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    6 timer 43 min

    Island life can be deadly.For Ollie Arias, owning an island in Micronesia is beyond his wildest dreams. Moving his best friends from college to share his dream…priceless. A little urban exploration of the abandoned military lab unearths strange, dark secrets. And awakens a slumbering beast that has gone decades without food. Ollie and his pals have unwittingly unleashed a deadly infection above, ... Læs mere

    182,23 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Lydbog

    Fury Of The Orcas [Dramatized Adaptation]

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    4 timer 11 min

    They call them the wolves of the sea.From marine parks to the deepest oceans, the world’s killer whale population has turned against man and beast alike. Orca show trainers are ripped to pieces before stunned audiences. Ships are capsized. Oil rigs are bashed without mercy. What has driven the apex predators stark raving mad?Chet Clarke has dedicated his life to preserving the health and dignity ... Læs mere

    126,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Læs mere

    201,86 kr.

  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    af Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Læs mere

    150,21 kr.

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Redigeret af Kam Louie ...
    Serier serie Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Læs mere

    324,98 kr.

  • Dangerous Women

    Gender and Korean Nationalism

    Redigeret af Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi ...
    Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated ... Læs mere

    545,64 kr.

  • Asian Translation Traditions

    Translation Studies, one of the fastest developing fields in the humanities since the early 1980s, has so far been Euro-centric both in its theoretical explorations and in its historical grounding. One of the major reasons for this is the unavailability of reliable data and systematic analysis of translation activities in non-Eurpean cultures. While a number of scholars in the Western tradition of ... Læs mere

    470,73 kr.

  • The Cultural Revolution on Trial

    Mao and the Gang of Four

    The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to create the China that we know today. This spectacular show trial was a curious example of transitional justice, marking a break from the trauma of the past, a shift to the ... Læs mere

    293,28 kr.

  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    af David Moser ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    71,26 kr.

  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Redigeret af Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... Læs mere

    425,22 kr.

  • Chinese Philosophy

    An Introduction

    The philosophical traditions of China have arguably influenced more human beings than any other. China has been the home not only of its indigenous philosophical traditions of Confucianism and Daoism, but also of uniquely modified forms of Buddhism. As Ronnie L Littlejohn shows, these traditions have for thousands of years formed the bedrock of the longest continuing civilization on the planet; ... Læs mere

    223,36 kr.