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  • Burnout Market Feminism

    Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age

    by Ling Tang ...
    Series series Labor and Technology
    Why elite Chinese women find themselves caught in a cycle of burnout.Burnout Market Feminism explores the lives of elite urban businesswomen in the Internet Age. Burnout market feminism combines Han Byung-Chul's concept of the Burnout Society and feminist Li Xiaojiang's market feminism theory. To unravel the puzzle of how women in China have thrived in business despite state crackdowns on feminism ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Socializing Medicine

    Health Humanities and East Asian Media

    Edited by Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, Ling Zhang ...
    Series Book 8 - Crossings: Asian Cinema and Media Culture
    In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways in which the mass media—from photography and film to television and live streaming—has been deployed ... Read more

    $59.39 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia

    Edited by Siân M. Griffiths, Jin Ling Tang, Eng Kiong Yeoh ...
    Global public health is of growing concern to most governments and populations, nowhere more so than in Asia, the world’s largest and most populous continent. Whilst major advances have been made in controlling infectious diseases through public health measures as well as clinical medical treatments, the world now faces other challenges including ageing populations and the epidemic crisis of ... Read more

    $87.93 CAD

  • STEM Inquiry and Its Practice in K-12 Classrooms

    Activities, Characteristics, and Enactment

    by Aik-Ling Tan, Tang Wee Teo, Jina Chang, Ban Heng Choy ...
    Series series Routledge Research in STEM Education
    Through examining the theoretical ideas of disciplinarity and disciplinary practices, the book presents instructional aspects for teachers to explore when engaged with integrated STEM inquiry.Are you interested to understand the difference between science inquiry and STEM inquiry? Do you want to introduce integrated STEM problem solving to your students but need help with the key features of STEM ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

  • Encountering Development in the Age of Global Capitalism

    A Case Study

    by Kin-Ling Tang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes an alternative approach to understanding development and discusses the possibilities of alternative development in the age of global capitalism from a socio-cultural perspective. Tracing the development of Mui Wo, a rural town on the outskirts of Hong Kong, for more than a decade, it explores the factors that have allowed it to stand apart from the metropolis and follow a path ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management

    Edited by Dan Ling Tang, Guangjun Sui ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Major natural hazards have sparked growing public concern worldwide. This book provides new information on Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management using satellite remote sensing technology, linking the natural sciences and social sciences in typhoon studies. It examines remote sensing observations of typhoons (hurricanes), typhoon impacts on the environment, typhoon impacts on marine ecosystems, ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Mobile Networks and Management

    10th EAI International Conference, MONAMI 2020, Chiba, Japan, November 10–12, 2020, Proceedings

    Edited by Seng W. Loke, Zhi Liu, Kien Nguyen, Guoming Tang, Zhen Ling ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2020, held in Chiba, Japan, in November 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 19 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are divided into groups of content as follows: Application of ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times

    Edited by Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai, Hai Ren ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific
    The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory. What does it mean to be living in post-miracle times? For the youth of China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, the opportunities and challenges of the neoliberal age, deeply shaped by global forces in labor markets, powerfully frame their life prospects in ways that are barely recognizable to their parents.Global Futures ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Anxious Wealth

    Money and Morality Among China's New Rich

    by John Osburg ...
    Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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  • The Power of the Internet in China

    Citizen Activism Online

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Shanghai Lalas

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    This is the first ethnographic study of lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) communities and politics in China, focusing on the city of Shanghai. Based on several years of in-depth interviews, the volume concentrates on lalas’ everyday struggle to reconcile same-sex desire with a dominant rhetoric of family harmony and compulsory marriage, all within a culture denying women’s active and ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD