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  • Martial Arts in the Arts

    An Appreciation of Artifacts

    par Michael DeMarco, Anne Manyak, Jim Silvan, Joel Stein, Joseph Svinth, Richard Pegg, Manouchehr Khorasani, Nicolae Bialokur, Suien Wada, Ruel Macaraeg, Anthony DiCristofano ...
    Combative forms of movement meet all the criteria required to be called “arts”. Additionally, items associated with martial art theory and practice can be shown in a variety media and appreciated as objets d’art in their own right. This anthology presents the aesthetic side of the martial arts as they are found in numerous examples of material culture and items of fine art.An often neglected but ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

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  • Street of Eternal Happiness

    Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road

    par Rob Schmitz ...
    'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sleek skyline. ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • CEO, China

    The Rise of Xi Jinping

    par Professor Kerry Brown ...
    China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Deception in War

    The Art of the Bluff, the Value of Deceit, and the Most Thrilling Episodes of Cunning in Military History from the Trojan Horse to the Gulf War

    par Jon Latimer ...
    From the Trojan Horse to Gulf War subterfuge, this far-reaching military history examines the importance and ingenuity of wartime deception campaigns.The art of military deception is as old as the art of war. This fascinating account of the practice draws on conflicts from around the world and across millennia. The examples stretch from the very beginnings of recorded military history—Pharaoh ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    par David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Collections series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

    An Autobiographical Novel

    Traduit par Stephen Epstein, Young-nan Yu ...
    par Wan-suh Park ...
    Collections series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability.Park Wan-suh was born in 1931 in a small ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Samurai Warrior

    The Golden Age of Japan’s Elite Warriors 1560–1615

    par Ben Hubbard ...
    Collections series Warriors
    During Japan’s Warring States period, centuries of strife had left the country divided and leaderless. Those who filled the power vacuum were the daimyo, warlords who ruled over the clans and provinces of Japan. Serving their daimyo, the samurai were the ultimate warriors at a time when military prowess won out over hereditary power and position. The nature of warfare itself changed—romantic ideas ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Academic Approaches to Martial Arts Research, Vol. 1

    par John Donohue, Kimberly Taylor, David Lowry, Willy Pieter, Sally Harrison-Pepper, Douglas Laurent ...
    This two-volume anthology conveniently contains useful academic tools for studying the combative arts. Each chapter will prove special to all interested in the intellectual side to the martial arts. Some chapters provide fine details for categorizing the variety of what we commonly refer to as "martial arts." Other chapters focus on the martial arts as living culture and social implications. The ... En savoir plus

    $13.73 CAD

  • China

    How the Empire Fell

    Modifié par C.X. George Wei, Joseph Esherick ...
    Collections series Asia's Transformations
    The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia of imperial rule and established the Republic of China, but dissatisfaction with the early republic ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • The A to Z of Vietnam

    par Bruce M. Lockhart, William J. Duiker ...
    Collections series The A to Z Guide Series
    Vietnam became part of French Indochina in 1887 and did not regain its independence again until after the Vietnam War. However, despite a relatively peaceful two decades the country experienced little economic growth because of conservative leadership policies. In an effort to change this stagnation, Vietnamese authorities have committed to economic liberalization and enacted structural reforms ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Sokaiya

    Extortion, Protection and the Japanese Corporation

    par Kenneth Szymkowiak ...
    Sokaiya are extortionists who target Japanese corporations for payoffs. They threaten to reveal corporate secrets and scandals, usually at shareholder meetings. This book explores the curious but not unusual relationship that grows between executives and sokaiya, who also offer their services to protect the corporation from other sokaiya, thus becoming a necessary evil in the world of Japanese ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776–1923

    par David S. Katz ...
    This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon’s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience. It is a great sweep of a story: from Gibbon as standard textbook, through Lord ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD