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Human Families by Stevan Harrell
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14This detailed study maps the variations in family systems throughout the world, focusing on the ways families interact with their societies. Tracing the developmental cycle of families in a wide... -
Chinese Historical Microdemography by Stevan Harrell 9780520083066
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £46.34Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are... -
Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan by Stevan Harrell
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book combines perspectives from literature, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, history, philosophy, and art to explore the culture of a fully industrialized society with a... -
An Ecological History of Modern China by Stevan Harrell
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.08Is environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once government officials and the public are committed to doing so? These questions are at the... -
Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China by Stevan Harrell 9780520219892
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four... -
An Ecological History of Modern China by Stevan Harrell 9780295751696
Booksplease Price: £112.12How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilienceIs environmental degradation an inevitable result of economic development? Can ecosystems be restored once... -
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China by Stevan Harrell 9780295995977
Booksplease Price: £112.42Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804071Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in the 1980s and 1990s in southern Sichuan, this pathbreaking study examines the nature of ethnic consciousness... -
Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan by Stevan Harrell 9780295994192
Booksplease Price: £32.89This anthropological study of a workers' village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork... -
Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers by Stevan Harrell 9780295975283
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.89Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804088China's exploitation by Western imperialism is well known, but the imperialist treatment within China of ethnic minorities has been little explored... -
Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China: Buyi and the Paradox of Difference Yu Luo 9780295753645
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorYu Luo is Suzanne Wilson Barnett Chair in Contemporary China Studies and associate professor of... -
Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China: Buyi and the Paradox of Difference Yu Luo 9780295753638
Booksplease Price: £112.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorYu Luo is Suzanne Wilson Barnett Chair in Contemporary China Studies and associate professor of... -
Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era by Deborah Davis 9780520082229
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.59How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited... -
The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History by Ian M. Miller
Booksplease Price: £32.89Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near presentForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia... -
Affirmative Action in China and the U.S.: A Dialogue on Inequality and Minority Education by Minglang Zhou 9780230613348
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.64This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in... -
Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950 by Denise M. Glover 9780295991177
RRP: £107.95Booksplease Price: £102.85The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries... -
Communist Multiculturalism: Ethnic Revival in Southwest China by Susan McCarthy 9780295989099
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.27Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295800417The communist Chinese state promotes the distinctiveness of the many minorities within its borders. At the same time, it is vigilant in suppressing... -
Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands, 1880-1950 by Denise M. Glover
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23The scientists and explorers profiled in this engaging study of pioneering Euro-American exploration of late imperial and Republican China range from botanists to ethnographers to missionaries... -
The Cultivated Forest: People and Woodlands in Asian History by Ian M. Miller 9780295751320
Booksplease Price: £112.12Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near presentForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia... -
The Han: China's Diverse Majority by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi 9780295994673
Booksplease Price: £102.77Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of "Han-ness," revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the... -
The Han: China's Diverse Majority by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.51Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of "Han-ness," revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the... -
Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China by Emily Chao
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23Lijiang, a once-sleepy market town in southwest China, has become a magnet for tourism since the mid-1990s. Drawing on stories about taxi drivers, reluctant brides, dogmeat, and shamanism, Emily Chao... -
Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State by Ashley Esarey
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.78A timely collection examining a diverse region's environmental shiftsEast Asia hosts a fifth of the world's population and consumes over half the world's coal, a quarter of its petroleum products,... -
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950 by G. William Skinner
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.38In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi,... -
Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century by Goncalo Santos
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.82Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China-political, cultural, and economic-has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands... -
Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century by Goncalo Santos 9780295998978
Booksplease Price: £113.38Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China-political, cultural, and economic-has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands... -
Rural China on the Eve of Revolution: Sichuan Fieldnotes, 1949-1950 by G. William Skinner 9780295999418
RRP: £107.95Booksplease Price: £102.57In 1949, G. William Skinner, a Cornell University graduate student, set off for southwest China to conduct field research on rural social structure. He settled near the market town of Gaodianzi,... -
Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands by Sarah Turner 9780295994666
RRP: £107.95Booksplease Price: £100.41Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as... -
Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands by Sarah Turner
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.69Do ethnic minorities have the power to alter the course of their fortune when living within a socialist state? In Frontier Livelihoods, the authors focus their study on the Hmong - known in China as... -
Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-Centering China by Elena Barabantseva 9780415855044
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The... -
China's Porcelain Capital: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen by Maris Boyd Gillette
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.83Maris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day. Gillette explores how... -
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region by Pal Nyiri
Booksplease Price: £113.38This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China's rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists,... -
Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region by Pal Nyiri 9780295999302
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.11This is the first book to focus explicitly on how China's rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists,... -
Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America by Bamo Ayi
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.34Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century... -
The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool by Jing Xu
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren-self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation-as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral... -
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom: The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border by Tenzin Jinba
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient "queendom" on the Sichuan-Tibet... -
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies: Beyond Han Patriarchy by Shanshan Du 9780739145807
Booksplease Price: £103.11Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China... -
Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon by E. Elena Songster 9780199393671
Booksplease Price: £70.76A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds... -
Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon by E. Elena Songster
Booksplease Price: £28.50A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds...