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  • Creative Practice as a Way of Life

    After Barthes

    by Eddie Tay ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research. Drawing on an innovative combination of different forms of knowledge, creative writing and street photographs are presented as means to reflect on the development of knowledge and self-knowledge through a thought-provoking dialogue with Roland ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • Hong Kong as Creative Practice

    by Eddie Tay ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    In this book, Hong Kong is seen as a labyrinth, a postmodern site of capitalist desires, and a panoptic space both homely and unhomely. The author maps out various specific locations of the city through the intertwined disciplines of street photography, autoethnography and psychogeography. By meandering through the urban landscape and taking street photographs, this form of practice is open to the ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • The Value of the Humanities in Higher Education

    Perspectives from Hong Kong

    by Evelyn Tsz Yan Chan, Flora Ka Yu Mak, Thomas Siu Ho Yau, Yutong Hu, Michael O'Sullivan, Eddie Tay ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents an extensive analysis of the multifaceted benefits that higher education in the humanities offers individuals and society, as explored in the context of Hong Kong. Using both quantitative graduate employment survey data and qualitative data from interviews with past humanities graduates and with leading humanities scholars, the study provides an objective picture of the “value” ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Understanding the Chinese City

    by Li Shiqiao ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This bookteaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by:exploring the rise of stories of labour, finance and their hierarchiesexamining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing systemanalyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against ... Read more

    $103.19 CAD

  • Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

    by Nicholas Jewell ...
    China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp ... Read more

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  • Taipei

    City of Displacements

    by Joseph R. Allen ...
    Series series McLellan Endowed Series
    Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book PrizeThis cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

    Edited by Jenny Hughes, Helen Nicholson ...
    As the twenty-first century moves towards its third decade, applied theatre is being shaped by contemporary economic and environmental concerns and is contributing to new conceptual paradigms that influence the ways in which socially engaged art is produced and understood. This collection offers fresh perspectives on the aesthetics, politics and histories of applied theatre. With contributions ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art)

    by Jiang Jiehong ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
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    $22.69 CAD

  • A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture

    Past, Present, Future

    by David Wang ...
    A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism, which links current trends in computational design with long-standing Chinese philosophical themes ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Being There

    New Perspectives on Phenomenology and the Analysis of Culture

    Edited by Jonas Frykman, Nils Gilje ...
    In this anthology a group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. A detailed overview of how perspectives like being and life-world can be applied to studies of everyday life as well as a historical background of phenomenology are presented, showing how culture can be understood more from how it happens than what it is. ... Read more

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  • Cities Surround The Countryside

    Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

    by Robin Visser ...
    Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD