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  • Taming Tibet

    Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

    by Emily Yeh ...
    The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Geoeconomics and Geopolitics of Chinese Development and Investment in Asia

    Edited by Emily T. Yeh ...
    The recent launching of China’s high profile Belt and Road Initiative and its founding of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have underscored China’s rapidly growing importance as a global player in development, diplomacy, and economic governance. To date, scholarship on "China abroad" has focused primarily on Africa and Latin America. In comparison, China’s investment and development ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Mapping Shangrila

    Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

    by Ralph A. Litzinger ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism ... Read more

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  • Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China

    Kaleidoscopic Histories

    Edited by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh ...
    This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Rural Politics in Contemporary China

    Edited by Emily T. Yeh, Jingzhong Ye, Kevin O'Brien ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    This collection provides an overview of China’s rural politics, bringing scholarship on agrarian politics from various social science disciplines together in one place. The twelve contributions, spanning history, anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, political science, and geography, address enduring questions in peasant studies, including the relationship between states and peasants, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Tibetan Environmentalists in China

    The King of Dzi

    by Liu Jianqiang ...
    Translated by Ian Rowen, Cyrus K. Hui, Emily T. Yeh ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
    This book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection (as well as a host of secondary characters): Tashi Dorje, a well-known and celebrated environmentalist; Karma Samdrup, a philanthropist, businessman, and environmentalist; Rinchen Samdrup, Karma’s brother, another extraordinary environmentalist; Gendun, a painter, historian, ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • East Asian Screen Industries

    by Darrell Davis, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh ...
    Series series International Screen Industries
    East Asian Screen Industries is a guide to the film industries of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the PRC. The authors examine how local production has responded to global trends and explore the effects of widespread de-regulation and China's accession to the World Trade Organisation. ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • Taiwan Film Directors

    A Treasure Island

    by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers—Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang—the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Colonial Screen

    Early Cinema in Hong Kong

    by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh ...
    Hong Kong is known as an entrepôt in its colonial history, but its place in early cinema has not received the same scholarly attention. The Colonial Screen: Early Cinema in Hong Kong explores the exhibition, regulation, circulation, reception, and social place of motion pictures, from the time the cinematograph, an early mechanism for motion pictures, first arrived in the territory in 1897 through ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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  • China Today, China Tomorrow

    Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society

    Edited by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of reform and opening as an occasion to reflect on the course of development over the past three decades, the contributors consider where the country may be going in the future. Just as China has had enormous success in ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Farewell My Concubine

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Helen Hok-Sze Leung ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Helen Hok-Sze Leung: Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008). ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD