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  • Winds of Asia

    by O. Hunt, Lam Ho ...
    Winds of Asia is a powerful and evocative anthology that captures the diverse voices, stories, and spirits of the Asian diaspora. Featuring poetry and prose from writers across the globe, this inaugural volume celebrates the beauty, resilience, and complexity of Asian identity in its many forms. From ancestral memory to modern migration, from quiet moments of introspection to bold declarations of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities

    Spaces of Depoliticisation

    Edited by Sonia Lam-Knott, Creighton Connolly, Kong Chong Ho ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines how the concept of ‘post-politics’ has manifested across a range of Asian cities, and the impact this has had on state-society relationships in processes of urban governance.This volume examines how the post-political framework—derived from the study of Western liberal democracies ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Service Research and Innovation

    7th Australian Symposium, ASSRI 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia, September 6, 2018, and Wollongong, NSW, Australia, December 14, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Ho-Pun Lam, Sajib Mistry ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Australasian Symposium on Service Research and Innovation, ASSRI 2018.The conference was held in two parts on September 6, 2018, in Sydney, Australia, and on December 14, 2018, in Wollongong, Australia.The 9 full and 2 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 26 submissions, covering a variety ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Marriage, Gender and Sex in a Contemporary Chinese Village

    by Sun-Pong Yuen, Pui-Lam Law, Yuk-Ying Ho, Fong-Ying Yu ...
    This book explores changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes toward sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five decades. The book is based on a study of an industrialized peasant village in Guangdong Province from 1994 to 1996 and subsequent visits from 2000 to 2002. According to the authors, the rural economic reforms of the 1980s in southern China have ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

    by Martin Jacques ...
    Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese powerSoon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western.Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years ... Read more

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  • Red Lights

    The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China

    by Tiantian Zheng ...
    In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke hostesses—a career whose name disguises the sex work and minimizes the surprising influence these ... Read more

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  • Lee Kuan Yew School Of Public Policy: Building A Global Policy School In Asia

    by Kishore Mahbubani, Stavros N Yiannouka, Astrid S Tuminez, Scott A Fritzen, Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of Singapore, is a remarkable story that deserves to be told. The five co-authors, all of whom were involved in guiding the School during its formative ... Read more

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  • Anxious Wealth

    Money and Morality Among China's New Rich

    by John Osburg ...
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  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    by Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... Read more

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  • The New Emperors

    Power and the Princelings in China

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
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  • Engaging China

    Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper

    by Paul Evans ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    For more than four decades, engagement has been the bedrock of Canada’s policy toward China, as Ottawa has attempted to assist China’s entry into the international system and advance a commercial agenda. More than just high policy, engagement has also been a recurrent narrative that sees changing China as a moral enterprise as important as trade and diplomacy.As global China’s economic and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Taiwan

    History, the United States and a Rising China

    by Kalley Wu Tzu Hui, Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States ... Read more

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