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  • China's Urban Space

    Development under market socialism

    par Terry McGee, George C.S. Lin, Mark Wang, Andrew Marton, Jiaping Wu ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s, arguing that to study the Chinese urbanization process one must recognize the distinctive political ... En savoir plus

    $92.06 CAD

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  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    par Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Dream of the Red Chamber

    par Cao Xueqin ...
    Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the four Chinese classics. The novel is semi-autobiographical and it gives an incredibly detailed insight into 18th-century life in China, particularly that of the aristocracy. The plot is grand in scale, peopled with a complex array of characters. ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • China's New Confucianism

    Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

    par Daniel A. Bell ...
    What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an ... En savoir plus

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Nature of a Crime

    par Joseph Conrad, Ford Maddox Ford ...
    “The worst that Death can do to me is to deliver me up for ever to unsatisfied longings for you. Well, that is all that Life has done, that is all that Life can do, for me.”After gambling with, and losing, money from his employer’s estate and fearing that discovery and a prison sentence is around the corner, the narrator decides to end his life rather than face up to the disgrace.His last act on ... En savoir plus

    $0.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Shanghai Gone

    Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

    par Qin Shao ...
    Collections series State & Society in East Asia
    "One of the best accounts of the reality of gentrification and urban development in China . . . grounded with solid historical, ethnographic and legal evidence" ( Urban Studies).In recent decades, the centuries-old city of Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity. With its world famous skyscrapers, it now ranks with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Shanghai in Transition

    Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

    par Jos Gamble ...
    In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city's economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching economic reforms implemented to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and trade centre. This book focuses on the lives of local residents and their perceptions of their ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Sounds of Latinidad

    Immigrants Making Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City

    par Samuel K. Byrd ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Social Transformations in American Anthropology
    The Sounds of Latinidad explores the Latino music scene as a lens through which to understand changing ideas about latinidad in the New South. Focusing on Latino immigrant musicians and their fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, the volume shows how limited economic mobility, social marginalization, and restrictive immigration policies have stymied immigrants’ access to the American dream and ... En savoir plus

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  • China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

    Modifié par Yannan Ding, Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this book connects the past with the present, and provides much-needed literature on city growth and how ... En savoir plus

    $128.99 CAD

  • Confronting Urban Legacy

    Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

    par James R. Gomes, Ezra Moser, Michael Sacks, Jack Dougherty, Lyle Wray, Louise Simmons, Tom Condon, John Shemo, Andrew Walsh, Janet Bauer, Clyde McKee, Llana Barber, Jason Rojas ...
    Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world’s population, are either critically misunderstood or unexamined in their entirety. This neglect not only biases scholars’ understanding of social and spatial dynamics toward very ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of a New Urban China

    Insiders' Perspectives

    Modifié par Zai Liang, Steven Messner, Cheng Chen, Youqin Huang ...
    This book provides first-hand, insiders’ perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with the latter based on extensive and in-depth fieldwork. The authors, most of them being native ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Restructuring the Chinese City

    Changing Society, Economy and Space

    par Laurence J.C. Ma, Fulong Wu ...
    A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD