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British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842-1927: Consuls, Courts and Colonial Subjects

British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842-1927:...

Author: Alexander Thompson
ISBN: 9781041176442
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Through a focus both on the creation of law and institutions, and on the management of British ‘problem populations’...  Read More >>

Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime: Regulating the Irregular

Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime: Regulating...

Author: Franziska Plümmer
ISBN: 9781041185444
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Governments increasingly become aware of irregular immigration and are forced to re-negotiate the dilemma of open...  Read More >>

The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook

The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook

Author: Colin Jones
ISBN: 9781041187202
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book provides the first comprehensive English access to Japan's entire constitution. It begins with historical...  Read More >>

Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective

Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective

Author: Eric Thompson ,  Jamie Gillen
ISBN: 9781041175933
Format: Paperback
$111.24

The book is the first study detailing the character, evolution, functioning and future of the smallholder and smallholdings...  Read More >>

Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self

Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia...

Author: Gregory Bracken
ISBN: 9781041175568
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute...  Read More >>

Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories

Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict:...

Author: Orli Fridman
ISBN: 9781041182757
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political...  Read More >>

The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London

The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity...

Author: Mara Ferreri
ISBN: 9781041188674
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book offers a critical exploration of the emergence and establishment of temporary urbanism, as a seductive...  Read More >>

Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914

Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry,...

Author: Anne Raffin
ISBN: 9781041185376
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This work of historical sociology explores the nature of this colonial citizenship and enables comparisons with...  Read More >>

Rhythms, Rites and Rituals: My Life in Japan in Two-step and Waltz-time

Rhythms, Rites and Rituals: My Life in Japan in Two-step...

Author: Dorothy Britton
ISBN: 9781041185536
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Including her survival of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake, an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton’s life, loves...  Read More >>

Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus Saxonum: A Modern Framework and its Problems

Ethnic Identity and the Archaeology of the aduentus...

Author: James M. Harland
ISBN: 9781041178927
Format: Paperback
$111.24

For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past....  Read More >>

The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore

The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore

Author: Simone Shu-Yeng Chung ,  Mike Douglass
ISBN: 9781041188117
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book examines Singapore through its imaginative representations, revealing a vital perceptual layer beyond...  Read More >>

Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation

Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation...

Author: Lena Scheen
ISBN: 9781041186007
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Explores the literary imaginings of Shanghai, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects...  Read More >>

Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s: A Decade of Splendour

Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s: A Decade of Splendour...

Author: Yiu-Wai Chu
ISBN: 9781041180999
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book deals with the 1980s – the “golden decade” of Hong Kong pop culture – in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle...  Read More >>

Future Challenges of Cities in Asia

Future Challenges of Cities in Asia

Author: Gregory Bracken ,  Paul Rabé
ISBN: 9781041179924
Format: Paperback
$111.24

The ten essays in this book engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia....  Read More >>

The State of the Japanese State: Contested Identity, Direction and Role

The State of the Japanese State: Contested Identity,...

Author: Gavan McCormack
ISBN: 9781041189152
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Gavan McCormack’s latest work argues that Abe Shinzo’s efforts to re-engineer the Japanese state may fail, but his...  Read More >>

Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe,...

Author: Victoria Hudson ,  Lucian N. Leustean (Aston University, UK)
ISBN: 9781041185093
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which religious communities tackle humanitarian crises in contemporary...  Read More >>

Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition

Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition...

Author: Forum Mithani ,  Griseldis Kirsch
ISBN: 9781041180685
Format: Paperback
$111.24

The Handbook of Japanese Media and Popular Culture in Transition brings together new research and perspectives on...  Read More >>

Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity: Localized Politics of European Memories

Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity: Localized Politics...

Author: Kirsti Salmi-Niklander ,  Sofia Laine
ISBN: 9781041179788
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This collection focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related to conflicts and localized politics...  Read More >>

Showcasing Science: A History of Teylers Museum in the Nineteenth Century

Showcasing Science: A History of Teylers Museum in the...

Author: Martin P. Weiss
ISBN: 9781041186090
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book charts the history of Teylers Museum from its inception until Lorentz' tenure. From the vantage point...  Read More >>

Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War

Richard Sorge, the GRU and the Pacific War

Author: John Chapman
ISBN: 9781041185543
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Sorge’s activities between 1930 and 1942 have tended to be lauded as those of a superlative human intelligence operator...  Read More >>

Narrating Democracy in Myanmar: The Struggle Between Activists, Democratic Leaders and Aid Workers

Narrating Democracy in Myanmar: The Struggle Between...

Author: Tamas Wells
ISBN: 9781041183334
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book analyses what Myanmar’s struggle for democracy has signified to Burmese activists and democratic leaders,...  Read More >>

Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927

Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927...

Author: Andrew Hillier
ISBN: 9781041182658
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This study examines Britain’s presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Critical Autoethnography and Education: The Vulnerable Researcher

An Introduction to Critical Autoethnography and Education:...

Author: Gresilda Tilley-Lubbs
ISBN: 9781975503161
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Examines the practice of critical autoethnography, which combines critical pedagogy, autoethnography, and often,...  Read More >>

AI Ink.: Writing, Publishing, and Misinformation at the Dawn of the AI Age

AI Ink.: Writing, Publishing, and Misinformation at...

Author: Jason Van Tatenhove
ISBN: 9781510783188
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Learn how to use and leverage AI as a writer, editor, literary agent, or publisher. AI Ink: Writing, Publishing,...  Read More >>

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