Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Editorial – Cultural Imagining of the Cold War: An Introduction CinemaScope’s Chinese Journey: The Technological Modernisation and the Logistics of Perception of the Cold War Bacterial Imagination: Seeing the Enemy in the People’s Republic..... More
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Contesting and Appropriating Chineseness in Sinophone Music Relocating the Functions of Chineseness in Chinese Popular Music after the China Wind Homoeroticising Archaic Wind Music: A Rhizomatic Return to Ancient China Navigating and Circumventing..... More
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes Foreword Edito – Legible and Thus Legitimate? Reading and Blurring Gender in China, Today and Yesterday What is Obscenity? Morality and Modernity in 1920s China Knowing Male..... More
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2020. Issue 123. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE Facets of Global China - Editorial – Global China Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative - Establishing the National Immigration Administration: Change and Continuity in China’s Immigration Reforms - The Aid-Contracting Nexus..... More
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2021. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Edito – Precarity, Platforms, and Agency: The Multiplication of Chinese Labour Bordering Work and Personal Life: Using “the Multiplication of Labour” to Understand Ethnic Performers’ Work in Southwest China Platform Labour and Contingent Agency..... More
Hong Kong: French Centre for Research of Contemporary China, 2021. Issue 125. Softcover. SPECIAL FEATURE: Editorial – Negotiating Agrarian Futures in China: Capital, Collectives, and Communities From Peasant to Elite: Reshaping Agriculture in Gansu Province Back to the Land “Peasant-entrepreneurs”: The New Actors of Chinese Peasant Agroecology..... More
Boulder, Colorado: Blue Poppy Press, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology. More
Paducah, Kentucky: Collector Books, 1997. Revised. Softcover. More
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Taipei: Government Information Office, 1993. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. A collection of interviews, addresses and administrative reports by the former premier of Taiwan, Hau Pei-Tsun (1919-2020). More
Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality and to rid his eternal suffering and lift the curse, he must slay one thousand enemies, and his quest begins with a young girl who seeks revenge on her parents'..... More
Hong Kong: Urban Council, Hong Kong, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Hong Kong Museum of Art from 22 July to 11 September, 1994. More
New Delhi: Vigyan Prasar/Sanctuary Magazine, 1981. Softcover. Part of NCSTC-HORNBILL National History series, jointly produced by The National Council for Science and Technology Communication and the Bombay Natural History Society. More
Hawthorn, Vic: Lonely Planet Publications, 1997. Sixth Edition. More
Amsterdam: FOCUS, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Text in English and Dutch. In this book, published in 1992, Banning investigates the Vietnamese “Doi Moi”, initiated in 1986, aiming at creating a socialist-oriented market economy. He finds that the after-effects of the war against the United States were still in evidence (at..... More
Vacation Work, 2006. Softcover. More
Bantam Press, 2007. Trade paperback. More
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1997. M. Kuwata (jacket design). First Edition. Thirty-fourth printing. Hardcover. The samurai sword: a symbol of the spirit of old Japan, it embodies the samurai's steel discipline, unswerving devotion and peerless skill. With its creation, a feat of craftsmanship passed down by generations of..... More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A report to the Ford Foundation, part of the Praeger Library of Chinese Affairs. General editor: Donald W. Klein (Columbia University). More
W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. Hardcover. More
Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2006. Third Printing. Softcover. Signed with a dedication by author Laurie Underwood. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Thinkers in Ming China turned to syncretism in their restlessness for new religious forms. A leader in this new trend was Lin Chao-en, a religious teacher of the sixteenth century, whose syncretic doctrine of the true Way was..... More
Singapore: The Design Society, 2012. Design by H55. First edition (stated). Softcover. Initiated by H55’s Creative Director, Hanson Ho, and produced in collaboration with researcher-writer Justin Zhuang, INDEPENDENCE is the first book documenting the history of graphic design in Singapore since the 1960s. The cover features a black flag..... More
Hong Kong: Pacific Century Publishers/Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, 2007. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Oversized, heavy item; please note additional handling cost. More
San Francisco: Viz Communications, 1994. Ryoichi Ikegami (art). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. More
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