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
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
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
Albany. SUNY Press. 1993. xiv + 366pp, index, references, notes, appendix, insect damage half-title, paperback covers a touch lightened and creased on upper and lower extremity corners, still a good paperback copy. "This book presents a survey of rural and urban Chinese people examining the dramatic changes in traditional culture..... 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, slight creased paperback covers, good copy. "Eleven sociologists and anthropologists combine their work in this path-breaking volume. Each essay concerns a different community, ranging from major cities to rural villages. The authors ask..... 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
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. "Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the..... 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
Princeton. Princeton University Press. 1990. xxiv + 401pp, index, covers a little faded, good copy in paperback This book is a unique collection of political and personal documents, and it is also a dramatic presentation of the movement. The lucid commentary, the arrangement of selections in approximate chronological order, and..... More
Denmark. NIAS Press. 2010. xx + 275pp, index, paperback in very good condition. In spite of intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit view has also coloured the study of..... 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
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
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
Hong Kong. P A Professional Consultants Ltd., 1995. x + 478pp, notes, light foxing upper edge, hardback cover extremities little worn, a good copy. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 158350). More
New York. Alfred. A. Knopf. 1990. viii + 246pp, chronology, notes, price clipped dustjacket glued in protective cover to upper and lower pastedown by previous owner, prior owner's neat stamp on front free endpaper, small stain on edge, otherwise very good hardback copy. Bette Lord tells "the story of China..... 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
United States: Duke University Press, 2010. 290pp, list of Chinese characters, filmography, bibliography, index, as new paperback copy. "Backward Glances" reveals that the passionate love of one woman for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese mass cultures. By examining representations of erotic and romantic love between..... More
