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  • Learning Data Science

    Data Wrangling, Exploration, Visualization, and Modeling with Python

    by Sam Lau, Joseph Gonzalez, Deborah Nolan ...
    As an aspiring data scientist, you appreciate why organizations rely on data for important decisions--whether it's for companies designing websites, cities deciding how to improve services, or scientists discovering how to stop the spread of disease. And you want the skills required to distill a messy pile of data into actionable insights. We call this the data science lifecycle: the process of ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Evolving Genders

    The Dynamics of Narrative Benchmarking in Asian Literature

    Edited by Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Chi Sum Garfield Lau ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the origins and evolutions of gender benchmarking in Asian literature. It examines how various agents such as ritualistic practices, family expectations, cultural orientations and even dogmatic factors contribute to the benchmarking of gender as presented in Asian literature and its adaptations. This allows exploration of relevant notions in demonstrating the rooted causes, ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines

    Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries in Asia

    Edited by Julian Patrick Ward, Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Chi Sum Garfield Lau ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives in the context of Asia. Exploring notions in the topics of mythologies, folktales, literature, theatre performance and any other art forms, the volume collates discussions on the pragmatic and aesthetic representation of men and ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • Conjugal Relationships in Chinese Culture

    Sino-Western Discourses and Aesthetics on Marriage

    Edited by Chi Sum Garfield Lau, Kelly Kar Yue Chan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West. It explores the ways in which the act of marriage is represented/misrepresented in different literary genres, as well as in cultural adaptations. It looks at the gendered characteristics at play that affect conjugal relationships in Chinese societal practices more widely. It also ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD

  • Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China

    Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality

    Edited by Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Chi Sum Garfield Lau ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book presents an essential contribution to approaches in the studies of film, literature, performance, translation, and other art forms within the Chinese cultural tradition, examining East-West cultural exchange and providing related intertextual dialogue. The assessment of cultural exchange in the East-West context involves the original source, the adapted text, and other enigmatic extras ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

    Edited by Chi Sum Garfield Lau, Kelly Kar Yue Chan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East–West exchanges and cultural dialogues. It explores the topic in the dimensions of individual behaviors under specific social norms and cultural products such as literature, film and any other forms of arts/genres, etc.In his 1917 work Mourning and ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Chinese Culture in the 21st Century and its Global Dimensions

    Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Chi Sum Garfield Lau ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It covers a variety of topics concerning the contemporary significance of Chinese culture in its philosophical, literary and artistic manifestations, including literature, film, performing arts, creative media, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Andrea Bachner ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • Mastery of Words and Swords

    Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s1930s

    by Jun Lei ...
    Series series Transnational Asian Masculinities
    The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Chinese Ecocinema

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    This anthology is the first book-length study of China’s ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Proposing “ecocinema” as a new critical framework, the volume collectively investigates a wide range of urgent topics in today’s world: Chinese and Western epistemes of nature and humanity; the dialect of socialist modernization amid capitalist globalization; shifting configurations of space, locale, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Lies That Bind

    Chinese Truth, Other Truths

    by Susan D. Blum ...
    This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum offers an authoritative examination of rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty in society. Blum points to a propensity for deception in Chinese public ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemporary Chinese citizens understand themselves and their nation. Where history fails to address the consequences of man-made and natural atrocities, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD