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A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng
$90.00A revisionist history of the Chinese zheng that the complex origins of a single instrument. As the Chinese plucked zither known as the zheng was popularized in the twentieth and…
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Chiang Yee and His Circle
$77.00Tells the story of a Chinese intellectual community in London in the 1930s and ‘40s.Chiang Yee and His Circle celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese…
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Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific
$83.00New directions for comparative research into “difficult heritage” as a concept.Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to…
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Grounded at Kai Tak
$54.00The tale of a legal saga surrounding seventy-one airplanes in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War. Set against the backdrop of regional and international post–Second World War tensions, Grounded…
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Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar
$46.00A new edition of the authoritative economic history exploring why Hong Kong decided to peg its currency to the US dollar.Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar covers the origins…
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Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium
$83.00A pioneering and comprehensive study of recent Malaysian cinema.Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analyzing how a new…
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More than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment
$63.00A diary of life at the Stanley Internment Camp in Hong Kong in the 1940s.More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir…
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On Saving Face
$64.00An examination of the Western colloquial appropriation of the Chinese concept of “face.” The colloquial concept of “losing face” and “saving face” has become so normalized in modern Western speech…
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Painting Architecture
$90.00Comprehensive research on a unique painting genre from fourteenth-century China In Painting Architecture, Leqi Yu conducts comprehensive research on jiehua, or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China….
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Queer TV China
$77.00An examination of the rise and influence of the internationally popular queer TV China genre. Since the 2010s, Chinese television has seen an explosion in popularity in dramas featuring same-sex…
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Rebel Men
$64.00A discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature. Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than…
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Searching for Sweetness
$64.00An ethnography linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Traversing the rapidly urbanizing county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa,…