United States. Duke University Press. 1997. 6 black and white photographic plates, viii + 231pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good paperback copy. In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays..... More
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 2008. xxxi + 240 pages, index, notes, appendices, some pencilling, very good hardback copy. "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..... More
New York. Public Affairs. 2006. xxv + 229pp, index, ex-library with labels and stamps, tape remnants covers, contents very good, hardback copy. 24 x 17.1cm. This is an expose of the inequality and injustice experienced by 900 million Chinese peasants, as told through a series of dramatic personal narratives that..... More
New York. Harper Business. 2005. Map, xiii + 252pp, a touch of sun on dustjacket spine, otherwise excellent hardback copy. The idea of China has always exerted a pull on the adventurous type. There is a kind of entrepreneurial Westerner who just can't resist it: red flags, a billion bicycles..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1993. 1st Edition. Black and white photographic plates, xiii+ 370pp, index, bibliography, bookseller's sticker on front cover, slightly creased paperback covers, otherwise a good copy. "Eleven sociologists and anthropologists combine their work in this path-breaking volume. Each essay concerns a different community, ranging from major..... More
UK. Norton. 2005. 332pp, notes, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, the author went to work in China, eventually becoming the star of a wildly successful soap opera. Living the culture clashes in real life while playing out a parallel..... More
London. Lawrence & Wishart. 2000. Black and white illustrations, 156pp, book notes, author written on sunned spine in marker, slightly soiled covers, good paperback copy. 24.5 x 17cm. New Formations, No. 40 Spring 2000. "This issue engages in diasporic negotiation with China, with Chineseness and with the politics of not..... More
United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. 1998. 4 Tables, 70 Halftones, 10 Line drawings, xi + 304pp, index, select bibliography, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. This imaginative and incisive collection of pieces about life in contemporary China reveals, like a series of snapshots, a picture of the lives of ordinary..... More
China. Foreign Languages Press. 2008. Full page colour illustrations, 80pp, touch of foxing on edge, some rubbing on extremities, otherwise very good paperback copy with French flaps. 24 x 18cm. This book records moving and inspiring moments of the May 12th 2009 Wenchuan earthquake. When referring to this item please..... More
Hong Kong. Hong Kong University. 2010. xi + 286 pages, index, references, notes, paperback. Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. This is the first book-length exploration of celebrity culture in the People's Republic of China and its interaction with international norms..... More
United States. Vintage Books. 2009. xxi + 262pp, paperback in very good condition. 13 x 20.5cm. " Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political transformation occurring in China. The ten essays collected here cover a...... More
London. Simon & Schuster. 1996. Maps, xi + 311pp, index, notes, bibliography, dustjacket trifle worn at extremities, small booksellers sticker front paste down, very good copy. "Travels through the heart of China, far away from Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, in search of the real issues facing the Chinese people." Publisher's..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 2004. 15 black and white photographs, ix + 224pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional..... More
New York. HarperCollins. 2006. Map, xi + 491pp, bibliography, index, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. A portrait of twenty-first century China. This work aims to excavate its long history and talks about the lives of young Chinese as they migrate from the traditional Chinese countryside to the booming ever-changing..... More
United States. Pegasus Books. 2008. Maps, illustrations, xxi + 454pp, notes, further reading, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. An intimate and human portrait of a society living in extraordinary times. Welcome to the new China, a nation in motion--whole streets are rebuilt in a week, car ownership is soaring..... More
United Kingdom. Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2010. Maps, 160pp, endnotes, glossary, very good paperback copy. "Emboldened by economic strength and growing military power, China is emerging as a challenger to US dominance in the Pacific. But its promised peaceful rise has done little to convince regional powers that it will..... More
Durham. Duke University Press. 2007. 225pp, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, paperback with slight rubbed extremities, very good condition. In the midst of China's post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? "In Creating Market Socialism", the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates..... More
United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. 2008. 9 Tables, xviii + 348pp, index, bibliography, notes, very good hardback copy with dustjacket. Presents a story of two Chinas - an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China..... More
United States. ABC-Clio. 2001. xv + 196pp, indices, references, slight creasing lower endpapers left-hand corner, slight rubbing extremities, otherwise very good hardback copy with slightly sunned covers. "Wenshan Jia demonstrates that a true liberation of Chinese civic discourse can start with a focus on indigenous cultural practices, such as face..... More
Kent. Wakefield Press. 1995. xi + 193pp + selected bibliography, paperback, slight browning along extremities, good copy. 20 x 13cm. "Chinese Whispers is a timely book of essays by one of Australia's best writers." - Publisher's description. When referring to this item please quote stockid 168824. More
United States. Rowman & Littlefield. 2004. xi + 247pp, index, very good paperback copy. Arguing that cultural reform is a key aspect of political reform, Richard Kraus shows here that China's economic transformation has dramatically liberated the production and consumption of culture. In this original and provocative study, Kraus offers..... More
London. Weidenfield & Nicolson. 2006. Export / Airport ed. xi + 244pp, bibliography, notes, index, touch of rubbing extremities, otherwise a very good paperback copy. "China, the nation that changed beyond all recognition, becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world. The author shows China's weaknesses - its environmental pollution, its..... More
London. Husrt & Company. 1996. First Edition. xvii + 278pp, index, paperback, a very good copy. In the view of Gregory Lee, approaches to the study of modem Chinese culture based on a mythical orientalist China constructed by its dominant "Other" (the West) have run their course, and it is..... More
United States. Rowman & Littlefield. 2002. ix + 316pp, index, Chinese glossary, sunned spine, slight rubbing along extremities, good copy. "Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum..... More
United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008. 8 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white halftones, 167pp, notes, bibliography, index, as new hardback copy. China's need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China's continuing high economic growth. Accordingly, Chinese..... More
