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SB08-516 Contemporary China: A New Superpower?
  Kristina Kironska/ 9781032395081/ Price:GBP 34.99
 
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SB08-514 China's Non-State Soft Power Actors: Tai Chi, Traditional Culture, and the Practice of Public Diplomacy
  Xiaoling Zhang/ 9780367279806/ Price:GBP 130.00
 
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SB08-518 Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution, 2-Vols/Set.
  Chih-yu Shih/ 9789811273605/ Price:US$ 148.00
 
   
SB08-514 Crafting an Asian Future in the Post-COVID-19 Asia
  Tai Wei Lim/ 9789811253720/ Price:US$ 78.00
 
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SB08-514 When East Asia Meets Southeast Asia: Presence and Connectedness in Transformation Revisited
  Yumi Kitamura/ 9789811250651/ Price:US$ 148.00
 
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SB08-514 China Change and Confucian "Benevolence": Human Values, Truth and Policy
  Ronald Colin Keith/ 9789811259319/ Price:US$ 178.00
 
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SB08-507 Creating Confucian Authority: The Field of Ritual Learning in Early China to 9 CE
  Robert L. Chard/ 9789004461918/ Price:EUR 39.00
 
Book Cover Ritual Learning is a key driver in the cultural dominance of Confucianism. In early China, Confucian officials derive political influence from the sub-discipline of ritual. Imperial regimes establish legitimacy through their state religion, headed by sacrifices to ancestors and to deities of Heaven and Earth. Ritual Learning allows Confucian-educated officials to assert control over these cults, and reshape dynastic legitimacy according to their own design, claimed to derive from the sage kings of antiquity. Confucianism is not just a philosophical and intellectual tradition. Through its ritual expertise, it has cultural and political power, like that of a religion, allowing it to perpetuate itself successfully over time, even in contemporary China.
   
SB08-507 European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative
  Stephen Rowley/ 9789004469839/ Price:EUR 138.00
 
Book Cover European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative is a collection of fourteen essays on the way China is perceived in Europe today. These perceptions – and they are multiple – are particularly important to the People’s Republic of China as the country grapples with its increasingly prominent role on the international stage, and equally important to Europe as it attempts to come to terms with the technological, social and economic advances of the Belt and Road Initiative. The authors are, on the whole, senior academics specializing in such topics as International Relations and Security, Public Diplomacy, Media and Cultural Studies, and Philosophy and Religion from more than a dozen different European countries and are involved in various international projects focussed on Europe-China relations.
   
SB08-480 Current Issues: Asia
  / 9781984623010/ Price:US$ 100.00
 
Book Cover This comprehensive introduction to Asia offers readers a clear overview of the continent from ancient times to the present. This book provides an introduction to the contemporary issues that are occurring in Asia today; examines the current political and economic situations in nations across Asia, particularly focusing on economic developments.
   
SB08-480 Current Issues: Europe
  / 9781984623027/ Price:US$ 100.00
 
Book Cover Contributes to our understanding of recent developments in the pertinent theoretical and policy issues in Europe. This book will be of key interest to students dealing with EU Politics, European Politics, European Governance, and more broadly European law, history and the wider social sciences.
   
SB08-480 Current Issues: North America
  / 9781984623034/ Price:US$ 100.00
 
Book Cover An introduction to North America including climate, landforms, plants, animals, and people. Providing an overview of new and emerging issues in North American, this book explores several neglected aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the United States.
   
SB08-480 Current Issues: Africa
  / 9781984623003/ Price:US$ 100.00
 
Book Cover This new book presents and discusses the current economic, political and social issues of Africa. Deforestation has become one of the major factors, which is affecting the ecological balance of not only Africa, but of the entire world. This book attempt, in simple, unambiguous terms, to discuss the most important issues in African agriculture that have an ethical thread.
   
Yearbook of China City Competitiveness 2012.
  / 9789814298872/ Price:US$ 178.00
 
Records the scientific research and analysis on the competitiveness among cities of China Includes the first large-scale and comprehensive research on the strengths and differences of various cities undertaken over 10 years Evaluates the competitiveness of Chinese cities with a focus on the financial, business, industrial, cultural, and environmental aspects
   
SB08-379 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture.
  Buckley, Sandra/ 9780415481526/ Price:GBP 66.99
 
   
SB08-379 Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations.
  Falola, Toyin/ 9780415803168/ Price:GBP 145.00
 
   
SB08-373 Bhutan: Ways of Knowing.
  Rennie, Frank/ 9781593117344/ Price:US$ 45.99
 
   
SB08-367 The Others Within US: Constructing Jewish-Israeli Identity.
  Bar-On, Dan/ 9780521881876/ Price:GBP 49.99
 
   
SB08-361 Expatriates in Asia: Breaking Free from the Colonial Paradigm.
  Hipsher, Scott A./ 9781843344223/ Price:GBP 82.50
 
The Asia-Pacific region is recognized as the fastest growing economic region in the world as well as one of the most difficult places for expatriates to work. Classical literature, modern popular entertainment, as well as academic studies often create an impression of Asia in the West which can encourage the formation of a set of expectations about working in Asia that hinder the expatriate adjustment process. This book provides conceptual frameworks as well as practical advice on working in the exciting and challenging environments found in the dynamic and diverse continent of Asia. Readership: Primary: current and potential individual expatriates, HR managers, expatriate scholars. Secondary: international business students.
   
SB08-357 The Role of China in Global Dirty Industry Migration.
  Haitian, Lu/ 9781843344636/ Price:GBP 82.50
 
The first book to comprehensively analyze the regulation of dirty industry migration - a global issue that has complex economic, environmental and social implications. The book examines the mechanisms of regulation of dirty industry migration under internal trade, investment, environment and human rights laws. Other than international law, the host and home country regulation of dirty industry migration in the context of domestic laws and policies are examined. Finally, this book critically evaluates the voluntary codes relating to corporate environmental citizenship and social responsibility which bear implications on the regulation of dirty industry migration.
   
Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History.
  Pettid, Michael J./ 9781861893482/ Price:GBP 22.50
 
The spicy tang of kimchi, the richness of Korean barbecue, the hearty flavours of bibimbap: Korean cuisine is savoured the world over for its diversity of ingredients and flavours. Michael J. Pettid offers here an illustrated historical account of Korean food and its intricate relationship with the nation’s culture. Over the last twelve centuries, Korean food dishes and their complex preparations have evolved along with the larger cultural and political upheaval experienced by the nation. Pettid charts this historical development of the cuisine, exploring the ways that regional distinctions and historical transformations played out in the Korean diet – including the effects of wartime food shortages and preparation techniques. Underlying all these dishes are complicated philosophical and aesthetic considerations, and Pettid delves into their impact on everything from the rituals associated with group meals or drinks with friends to the strict rules governing combinations of dishes and ingredients according to temperature, texture, spices, colour and consistency.
   
WA181 軍事倫理學: 軍事專業倫理的理念與培塑(增訂版)
  詹哲裕/ 9789579489300/ Price:NT$ 450
 
第一部分從第一章至第三章,著重軍事專業倫理理念的形成,首先,概述科技與倫理的關係,指出當代軍事倫理的概念。其次,從社會的面向,探討不同意識型態下對軍事倫理學的研究課題的著重,及其軍事倫理的研究範疇與核心問題。 第二部分從第四章到第七章,著重在國軍軍事專業領域倫理的建構,首先,將探討軍事倫理價值與道德基礎的關係,再從個人倫理價值系統的形成,省察國軍軍事專業的倫理體系,試圖從傳統、現代與後現代的彼此激盪間的連續與斷裂,解構與重購,繼承與創新中,建構國軍軍事倫理的行為基準與調適知道。
   
SB08-350 Environmental Performance Reviews: Republic of Montenegro - Second Review.
  Economic Commission for Europe/ 9789211169669/ Price:US$ 38.00
 
   
SB08-349 Fiscal Policy in China.
  Renqing, Jin/ 9789812659675/ Price:US$ 24.95
 
   
Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea.(POD)
  Pratt, Keith/ 9781861893352/ Price:GBP 19.95
 
South Korea – a democratic high-tech Asian Tiger and flamboyant host of the 2002 World Cup; North Korea – a secretive dictatorship on Bush’s notorious ‘axis of evil’, with a controversial nuclear program and a poverty-stricken population. These two Koreas seem worlds apart, separated along the 38th parallel by the last active ‘cold war’ frontier. But North and South Korea share a common history and culture of which both are deeply proud; the poignant scenes of reunited families when the borders were opened in 2000 show that, even though frustrated, the links between the two populations remain strong. Keith Pratt tells the story of this common heritage from the ancient states of Old Choson and Wiman Choson to the present relics of Cold War politics. He describes the physical and cultural landscape in which this history unfolds, dealing with religious identities and social aspects like food and drink, as well as more controversial issues such as punishment and torture, and the ‘comfort women’ of the Japanese occupation. In a series of short picture essays he introduces particular aspects of Korea’s past, including the world’s oldest observatory and the country’s famous turtle boats. Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea reveals a country which, although sandwiched between the more familiar worlds of China and Japan, has a distinct and rich cultural identity of its own.
   
Karaoke: The Global Phenomenon.
  Zhou, Xun/ 9781861893000/ Price:GBP 14.95
 
In Japanese the term Karaoke means, literally, ‘empty orchestra’. One definition disparagingly describes it as the ‘social sensation from Japan where sufficiently inebriated people embarrass themselves in public by singing along to a music track with the lyrics displayed on a TV screen’. In recent years the world has been witnessing a massive worldwide karaoke explosion. In Karaoke, Zhou Xun and Francesca Tarocco address the complexity of this social craze, exploring its emergence in post-war Japan, its development and spread across the world to become a phenomenon that constantly evolved to keep pace with changes in technology and culture. Drawing on extensive research and travels around the world, the authors chart the varied manifestations of karaoke, from karaoke taxis in Bangkok to nude karaoke in Toronto, to the role of karaoke in prostitution. Extensive personal anecdotes reveal the dramatic range of social experiences made possible by karaoke and how the obsession with performance and song has touched politics, history and pop culture throughout global society.
   
Everlasting Flower : A History of Korea.
  Pratt, Keith/ 9781861892737/ Price:GBP 19.95
 
Keith Pratt tells the story of this common heritage from the ancient states of Old Choson and Wiman Choson to the present relics of Cold War politics. He describes the physical and cultural landscape in which this history unfolds, dealing with religious identities and social aspects like food and drink, as well as more controversial issues such as punishment and torture, and the ‘comfort women’ of the Japanese occupation. In a series of short picture essays he introduces particular aspects of Korea’s past, including the world’s oldest observatory and the country’s famous turtle boats. Everlasting Flower: A History of Korea reveals a country which, although sandwiched between the more familiar worlds of China and Japan, has a distinct and rich cultural identity of its own.
   
SB08-327 Revolution Unending: Afghanistan 1979 to the Present.
  Gilles Dorronsoro/ 9781850656838/ Price:GBP 50.00
 
This is a history of Afghanistan's longrunning and continuing civil war, which erupted in 1979, a conflictthat seems set to continue, notwithstanding Western intervention.
   
SB08-326 Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime.
  Pettifer, James/ 9781850657446/ Price:GBP 35.00
 
In this unique eyewitness record, James Pettifer gives a startling and evocative portrayal of the grim and fearful world of Kosova from the imposition of martial law in 1990 till March 1999.
   
SB08-326 Kosova Express: A Journey in Wartime.
  Pettifer, James/ 9781850657491/ Price:GBP 25.00
 
In this unique eyewitness record, James Pettifer gives a startling and evocative portrayal of the grim and fearful world of Kosova from the imposition of martial law in 1990 till March 1999. As a writer for The Times and Wall Street Journal Europe, he witnessed most key events, from the emergence of the Kosova Liberation Army in May 1996 to the massive refugee movements of 1998 and 1999, the ground war between the KLA and the Serbs and the NATO bombing campaign and subsequent liberation of Kosovo. Many of the drama's key personalities, such as the Serb war criminal Arkan (who at one time was a Kosova MP), American diplomats (including Richard Holbrooke) and key Albanian leaders (Ibrahim Rugova and Thacim Haci) feature in this account. Kosova Express also offers new insights into the efforts of the British government to manipulate press coverage of Kosova for its own ends, and the hitherto undisclosed links between several European governments and the Milosevic regime. The colour and humour of Kosova daily life, the region's bleakly harsh yet beautiful landscapes, and the subterranean, nightmare world of Prishtina are graphically described, as is the horrifying nature of the war around.
   
SB08-326 The Lone Wolf and the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule.
  Gammer, Moshe/ 9781850657439/ Price:GBP 45.00
 
The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage. This book takes a different approach from most studies published on Chechnya, arguing that fully to grasp the significance and meaning of recent events one has to study them from a long historical perspective. Since Chechen nationalists regard the wars of the 1990s onwards as part of a 'three hundred year long war' between them and Russia, The Lone Wolf and the Bear takes the Russo-Chechen confrontation back to Moscow's first attempts to expand into the Caucasus in the sixteenth century. While concentrating on the Chechen struggle, its evolution and many causes, the book also tracks change within Chechen society following contact with Russia, the various and unexpected forms of modernisation, Russification and Sovietisation, the way these moulded Chechen self-perceptions and the nature of their struggle and its contribution to Chechen defiance of Russian power.
   
SB08-326 A Dirty War in West Africa: The Revolutionary United Front and the Destruction of Sierra Leone.
  Gberie, Lansana/ 9781850657477/ Price:GBP 45.00
 
Sierra Leone; Destruction and Resurgence charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), claimed to be freeing the country from corruption and the brutalities of its political class and their foreign allies, but their insurgency killed more than 75,000 people, displaced half the population and destroyed one third of the country's already feeble infrastructure. The RUF also became notorious for appalling acts of brutality, including rape and the widespread use of mutilation: those deemed supporters of the government or any of its agencies had their limbs hacked off. The RUF is today a spent force, politically, although some claim it has retained its arms in the hope of one day relaunching a military campaign. But where did it spring from? Was it a movement driven by criminal acquisitiveness that adopted the rhetoric of politics? Was it another example of Sierra Leone's tradition of subaltern uprisings by disaffected youths, often manipulated by wily political operators? Or was the RUF an inchoate uprising of the people.
   
SB08-326 A Dirty War in West Africa: The Revolutionary United Front and the Destruction of Sierra Leone.
  Lansana Gberie/ 9781850657422/ Price:GBP 30.00
 
Sierra Leone; Destruction and Resurgence charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), claimed to be freeing the country from corruption and the brutalities of its political class and their foreign allies, but their insurgency killed more than 75,000 people, displaced half the population and destroyed one third of the country's already feeble infrastructure. The RUF also became notorious for appalling acts of brutality, including rape and the widespread use of mutilation: those deemed supporters of the government or any of its agencies had their limbs hacked off. The RUF is today a spent force, politically, although some claim it has retained its arms in the hope of one day relaunching a military campaign. But where did it spring from? Was it a movement driven by criminal acquisitiveness that adopted the rhetoric of politics? Was it another example of Sierra Leone's tradition of subaltern uprisings by disaffected youths, often manipulated by wily political operators? Or was the RUF an inchoate uprising of the people.
   
Remaking Beeijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space.
  Hung, Wu/ 9781861892355/ Price:GBP 19.95
 
Remaking Beijing traces China’s modern and contemporary experience, focusing on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, still the most exalted space in China today. Wu Hung describes the square’s transformation from a proscribed imperial space to a public arena of political expression, and from a monumental Communist complex to a holy relic of the Maoist era. For over half a century, since the square became the symbolic centre of the new socialist capital, it has determined the city’s development; in examining the square, the author examines the city as a whole.
   
Region in Turmoil, A: South Asian Conflicts since 1947.
  Johnson, Rob/ 9781861892577/ Price:US$ 14.95
 
The subject is vitally important, not least because the two leading states, India and Pakistan, are both nuclear powers who have resorted to war with each other on a number of occasions since independence. In addition, the insurgencies of the last fifty years continue to destabilize the states of the region, and now the rest of the world. The global context of these campaigns are analyzed from the end of empire, through the Cold War, to the global effort against terrorism today. Highly topical, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars, but to a wide general audience as well.
   
VB02-69 Japan and North America: RoutledgeCurzon Library of Modern Japan, 2-Vols/Set.
  Krauss, Ellis/ 9780415275149/ Price:GBP 660.00
 
This collection makes available key articles on the Japan-North American relationship from the Meiji era to the present. Volume one focuses on the necessity of Japanese modernization post-1868 and examines the build-up to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour. Volume two looks at the post-war period, in which US forces occupied Japan and were instrumental in its rebuilding as an economic superpower. In the years following this Japan and North America enjoyed a close yet occasionally fraught relationship, as competitors and allies. Volume two also examines the cultural ramifications of the influence of North America on Japan, and vice versa. Volume I: First Contacts to the Pacific War Volume II: The Postwar
   
SB08-316 The Muslim World After 9/11.
  Rabasa, Angel/ 9780833035349/ Price:US$ 40.00
 
   
VC01-38 Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, The. 3-Vols/Set.
  Takekoshi, Yosaburo/ 9780415323789/ Price:GBP 300.00
 
Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 1930 this 3-volume collection brings together writings on the economic aspects of Japan's history. Covering the period from the 1600s until the 1920s this work offers the reader, not only an economic history of the Japanese, but also a social and political history. By explaining the realities of daily life during the periods covered, this collection allows the economic aspects to be fully appreciated.
   
VA05-40 Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 4-Vols/Set.
  Turner, Bryan/ 9780415123471/ Price:GBP 300.00
 
This collection is a study of Islamic thought and institutions that represents a critical introduction to the system of Islamic belief and practice from a social science perspective, emphasizing the global nature of Islam in the twentieth century. With a new introduction and index, the collection will prove an invaluable reference tool and teaching aid. Volume 1: Islam as Religion and Law Volume II: Islam, State and Politics Volume III: Islam, Gender and the Family Volume IV: Islam and Social Movement
   
SB08-329 China's New Order: Society, Politics and Economy in Transition.
  Hui, Wang / 9780674009325/ Price:US$ 22.95
 
   
SA03-301 Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in the Sudan Since the Mahdiyya.
  Warburg, Gabriel R./ 9781850655886/ Price:GBP 45.00
 
Why another book on Islam and politics in Sudan? The unique history of Sudan's Islamic politics suggests the answer. The revolt in 1881 was led by a Mahdi who came to renew and purify Islam. It was in effect an uprising against a corrupt Islamic regime, the largely alien Turco-Egyptian ruling Elite. The Mahdiyya was therefore an anti-colonial movement, seeking to liberate Sudan from alien rule and to unify the Muslim Umma, and it later evolved into the first expression of Sudanese nationalism and statehood. Post-Independence Islamic radicalism, in turn, can be viewed against the background of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, (1899-1956). It also thrived as a result of the resurgence of Islam since the mid-1960s, when Nasserism and other popular ideologies were swept aside. Finally, Sudan has emerged as the centre of militancy in Sunni Islam since June 1989, when a group of radical Islamic officers, under the guidance of Dr Hassan al-Turabi and the NIF, assumed power. In Warburg's view, the determination to enforce an Islamic state and an Islamic constitution on a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society has led to prolonged civil war, endless military coups and political, social and economic bankruptcy.
   
Anarchism.
  Sheehan, Sean M./ 9781861891693/ Price:GBP 12.95
 
Anarchist thinking and influences emerge in many different aspects of contemporary culture and history, and the author looks at instances in areas of political thought, history of ideas, philosophy, theories of education and ecology, as well as film and literary criticism. Systems of thought such as Buddhism and Taoism, art movements such as Dada and Surrealism, literary treatments of anarchist ideas in the work of Blake, Wilde, Whitman, Kafka and Eugene O’Neill, anarchism in relation to sex and psychology in the work of Reich and Fromm, as well as aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy as expressions of anarchist individualism – all these and other topics are also tackled. This combination of history, anecdote and cultural analysis is an informative and lively study that is guaranteed to provoke debate.
   
Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film.
  Dwyer, Rachel/ 9781861891242/ Price:GBP 24.95
 
   
Activism! : Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of Society.
  Jordan, Tim/ 9781861891228/ Price:GBP 12.95
 
Many schools of thought assert that Western culture has never been more politically apathetic. Tim Jordan's Activism! refutes this claim. In his powerful polemic, Jordan shows how acts of civil disobedience have come to dominate the political landscape. Because we inhabit such a quickly changing, high-tech and fragmented culture, the single-issue political movements and stable, conservative authorities of the past are continually being questioned. Traditional political battles have been replaced by the popular, collective practices of a new political activism. From Europe to the USA, from Australia to South America, from the Left to the Right, Jordan introduces us to the citizens who make up d-i-y culture: eco-activists, animal liberators, neo-fascists, ravers, anti-abortionists, squatters, hunt saboteurs and hacktivists. In his view, activism comprises a new ethics of living for the 21st century.
   
 

 

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