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  • Reconstructing Bodies

    Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945

    by John DiMoia ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medical infrastructure in the Republic of Korea (ROK) from 1945 to the present, arguing that the plastic ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Engineering Asia

    Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order

    Edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, John DiMoia ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
    Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic events of the 20th century. The book argues that what continued to operate throughout ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Planning Moment

    Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

    by Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Anindita Nag, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, Dagmar Schäfer1, Itty Abraham2, Benjamin Allen3, Lino Camprubi4, John DiMoia5, Mona Fawaz6, Lilly Irani7, Chihyung Jeon8, Robert Kett9, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach0, Karen McAllister1, Laura Mitchell2, Gregg Mitman3, Aaron Moore4, Nada Moumtaz5, Tahani Nadim6, Raul Necochea López7, Tamar Novick8, Juno Salazar Parreñas9, Benjamin Peters0, Ana Carolina Vimiero1, Alexandra Widmer2, Alden Young3 ...
    Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are frequently under-emphasized in the history of science and its corollary fields.The Planning Moment explores the myriad ways plans and planning practices pervade ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Crafting Everyday Food

    Technology, Tradition, and Transformation in Modern East Asia

    by Angela Ki Che Leung, Hallam Stevens, Dr. Victoria Lee, Tatsuya Mitsuda, Dr Shuenn-Der Yu, Jakob Klein, John P. DiMoia ...
    Series series Food in Asia and the Pacific
    Focusing on East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crafting Everyday Food highlights the role of technology in transforming traditional foods into modern ones and in reinventing industrialized foods as heritage foods. The seven expert researchers adopt a unique technological perspective to trace the transformation of traditional fermented foodstuffs typical of the region—kimchi, soy ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • An Introduction to the Chinese Economy

    The Driving Forces Behind Modern Day China

    by Rongxing Guo ...
    This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The book sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • China and the Environment

    The Green Revolution

    Edited by Sam Geall ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change. But how are Chinese people really coming to grips with environmental problems? This book ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Modern China

    by Xiaobing Li ...
    Series series Understanding Modern Nations
    Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China.In Modern China, author Xiaobing Li offers a resource far beyond a conventional encyclopedia, providing not ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Understanding China

    A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

    by John Bryan Starr ...
    "A clearheaded, multidimensional tour of China's political, economic, and social landscapes." — Current History"Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations. . . . An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country." — The New York Times Book ReviewFor more than a decade, John Bryan Starr's ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Edible Economics

    A Hungry Economist Explains the World

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    A creative and surprising exploration of economics through the lens of the food and global cuisine―from the bestselling author of Economics.For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • China Goes Global

    The Partial Power

    by David Shambaugh ...
    Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics--China's politics, its vast social changes, and its economic development--few have focused on how this increasingly powerful nation has become more active and assertive ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Burma/Myanmar

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David Steinberg ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Myth of Chinese Capitalism

    The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World

    by Dexter Roberts ...
    The "vivid, provocative" untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy (Evan Osnos).Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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