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To Hell and Back
The Last Train from Hiroshima
Häftad, 2019
270 kr
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Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever.To Hell and Back offers readers a stunning, “you are …
Island of World Peace
The Jeju Massacre and State Building in South Korea
Av Gwisook Gwon
Inbunden, 2023
958 kr
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This book explores the history of the Jeju massacre (1947-1954), the deadest recognized civilian massacre in modern South Korean history, through the lens of state building in South Korea. Jeju-based sociologist Gwisook Gwon examines the massacre on Jeju Island in relation to the birth of …
Wife or Worker?
Asian Women and Migration
E-bok, 2004
655 kr
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This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women''s transition from brides to workers and …
Contentious Kwangju
The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present
Av Gi-Wook Shin, Kyung Moon Hwang
E-bok, 2003
503 kr
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One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination …
Woman, Man, Bangkok
Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand
Av Scot Barmé
Häftad, 2002
738 kr
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During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand's capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character-a development fueled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications. The 1920s were a particularly dynamic period of social and cultural …
Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China
The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945
Inbunden, 2000
2055 kr
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This history provides the first book-length study and the first county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan, which was instrumental in the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. David Goodman explores …
Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China
The Taihang Base Area in the War of Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945
Häftad, 2000
885 kr
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This history provides the first book-length study and the first county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan, which was instrumental in the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. David Goodman explores …
Mongols at China's Edge
History and the Politics of National Unity
Häftad, 2002
812 kr
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This important study explores the multifaceted Mongol experience in China, past and present. Combining insights from anthropology, history, and postcolonial criticism, Uradyn Bulag avoids romanticizing Mongols either as pacified primitive Other or as gallant resistance fighters. Rather, he portrays …
Islands of Discontent
Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power
Häftad, 2003
738 kr
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Exploring contemporary Okinawan culture, politics, and historical memory, this book argues that the long Japanese tradition of defining Okinawa as a subordinate and peripheral part of Japan means that all claims of Okinawan distinctiveness necessarily become part of the larger debate over …
Contentious Kwangju
The May 18th Uprising in Korea's Past and Present
Av Gi-Wook Shin, Kyung Moon Hwang
Häftad, 2003
475 kr
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One of the largest political protests in contemporary Korean history, the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound, often contested, influence in Korean society. Through a deft combination of personal reflections and academic analysis, Contentious Kwangju offers a comprehensive examination …
Wife or Worker?
Asian Women and Migration
Häftad, 2003
603 kr
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This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and …
Nationalisms of Japan
Managing and Mystifying Identity
Häftad, 2003
859 kr
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In this fresh and original analysis, Brian J. McVeigh confronts both the demonizers and apologists of Japan. He argues persuasively that far from being unique, Japanese nationalism becomes demystified once 'management' and 'mysticism'—the same processes and practices that operate in other national …
Little Friends
Children's Film and Media Culture in China
Häftad, 2005
595 kr
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Contributing to the growing debates on children and media worldwide, Little Friends explores the pervasive presence of film culture in the lives of children in China. The book also introduces the work of the little-known Children's Film Studio and the Film Course, a reform-period attempt by Chinese …
Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China
Inbunden, 2003
1909 kr
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In this first comprehensive analysis of biological science in modern China, Laurence Schneider traces its troubled development from the 1920s, across the 1949 boundary, and into contemporary post-socialist China. Schneider uses his detailed portrayals of influential scientists and key education and …
Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China
Av Børge Bakken
Inbunden, 2005
1616 kr
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Crime long has been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, leading the regime to make law and order as central a priority as economic growth and the promise of prosperity. This groundbreaking study offers the first comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Chinese crime, policing, and …
Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China
Av Børge Bakken
Häftad, 2007
738 kr
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Crime long has been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, leading the regime to make law and order as central a priority as economic growth and the promise of prosperity. This groundbreaking study offers the first comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Chinese crime, policing, and …
Gender in Motion
Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
Av Bryna Goodman, Wendy Larson
Häftad, 2005
621 kr
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Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies …
Indonesian Presidency
The Shift from Personal toward Constitutional Rule
Häftad, 2005
885 kr
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This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. Angus McIntyre blends political biography with constitutional history to locate Indonesian leaders within both Indonesian cultural frameworks and the …
Social Movements in India
Poverty, Power, and Politics
Av Raka Ray, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Häftad, 2005
859 kr
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Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from Independence to Nehru's death in 1964, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims …
Marketing Dictatorship
Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China
Inbunden, 2007
1616 kr
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Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China"China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it is understood in Western terms. After a period of …
Marketing Dictatorship
Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China
Häftad, 2009
738 kr
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Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China"China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it is understood in Western terms. After a period of …
Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China
Häftad, 2005
738 kr
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In this first comprehensive analysis of biological science in modern China, Laurence Schneider traces its troubled development from the 1920s, across the 1949 boundary, and into contemporary post-socialist China. Schneider uses his detailed portrayals of influential scientists and key education and …
From Underground to Independent
Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China
Av Paul G. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang
Inbunden, 2006
1817 kr
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This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence …
From Underground to Independent
Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China
Av Paul G. Pickowicz, Yingjin Zhang
Häftad, 2006
656 kr
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This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence …
Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry
Making Silicon Valley in Beijing
Av Yu Zhou
Inbunden, 2007
1616 kr
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In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of …
Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry
Making Silicon Valley in Beijing
Av Yu Zhou
Häftad, 2007
651 kr
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In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of …
From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen
Global Production and Work in the IT Industry
Av Boy Lüthje, Stefanie Hürtgen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1177 kr
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This seminal study explores the significant changes in the global IT industry as production has shifted from the developed world to massive sites in the developing world that house hundreds of thousands of workers in appalling low-wage conditions to minimize labor costs. Yet little is known about …
North Korea
Beyond Charismatic Politics
Av Heonik Kwon, Byung-Ho Chung
Inbunden, 2012
788 kr
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This timely, pathbreaking study of North Korea’s political history and culture sheds invaluable light on the country’s unique leadership continuity and succession. Leading scholars Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung begin by tracing Kim Il Sung’s rise to power during the Cold War. They show how his …
Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present
Inbunden, 2009
1324 kr
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The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been …
Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present
Häftad, 2012
812 kr
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The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Huang shows how, at the level of ideology and theory, traditional Chinese law has been …
