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  • The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China

    Edición de Lisa M. Hoffman, Jennifer Hubbert, Zhilin Liu ...
    Series series Sage Handbooks of Modern China
    The Sage Handbook of Urbanization in China is a pioneering handbook that reframes our understanding of China′s extraordinary urban transformation—a demographic shift of unprecedented scale and speed that has seen two-thirds of its population becoming urban dwellers. Moving beyond conventional narratives, editors Hoffman, Hubbert, and Liu develop an innovative conceptual approach that emphasizes ... Leer más

    $99.99 USD

  • Becoming Nisei

    Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma

    de Lisa M. Hoffman, Mary L. Hanneman ...
    A vital account of everyday Nisei life and identity formation in an early twentieth-century communityTacoma’s vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city’s ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China

    Fostering Talent

    de Lisa M. Hoffman ...
    Series series Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
    In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital” is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She examines these new ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Fate

    de Lisa M. Hoffman ...
    The island of Sanzu is in unknown turmoil. When humans begin forgetting how to respect nature, the spirits of the land begin to wither and die. From the sorrow and suffering of the spirits a deep hatred is born, seeking to destroy everything in its path. Only the birth of a special being spoken of by the ancient keepers can restore balance. But what happens when that one has no recollection of who ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Spaces of Danger

    Culture and Power in the Everyday

    de Katharyne Mitchell, Richard Walker, Gunnar Olsson, Damani Partridge, Nancy Postero, Shiloh Krupar, Gillian Hart, Michael J. Watts, Derek Gregory0, Cindi Katz1, Michele Pred2, Trevor Paglen3, Paul Rabinow5 ...
    Series series
    These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    de Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Leer más

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  • The Great Regression

    Edición de Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Leer más

    $14.00 USD

  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    de Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edición de Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
    Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new ... Leer más

    $280.99 USD

  • Contemporary China

    Society and Social Change

    de Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Andrew B. Kipnis ...
    China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. Contemporary China provides a fascinating portrayal of society and social change in the contemporary People's Republic of China. This book introduces readers to key sociological perspectives, themes and debates about Chinese society. It explores topics such as family life, citizenship, gender, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • A Little Magic

    de Nora Roberts ...
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents three of her favorite Irish stories—together in one volume for the first time.SPELLBOUNDA bewitchingly beautiful lady casts a thousand-year love spell on the man of her dreams—and unleashes a nightmare that only true love can conquer...EVER AFTERAn ancient star pendant sends an enchanting woman to an otherwordly land—where she introduces a ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Demanding the Impossible

    de Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD