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  • The Everyday Lives of Gay Men in Hainan

    Sociality, Space and Time

    by James Cummings ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    “This book explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an island province of the People’s Republic of China. Taking an ethnographic and phenomenological approach, it asks how these men construct and experience ways of ‘sexual being’ – as gay, homosexual, tongzhi and/or in the scene – and what these mean for the ways of living they see as possible within a socio-cultural, political and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Higher Recursion Theory and Set Theory

    by James Cummings, Andrew Marks, Yue Yang ...
    Series Book 44 - Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore
    This volume celebrates the research contributions of Professors Theodore A Slaman and W Hugh Woodin, marking their distinguished careers in higher recursion theory and set theory as they approached the milestone of their 65th birthdays in 2019. It originates from the Institute for Mathematical Sciences program, Higher Recursion Theory and Set Theory, held at the National University of Singapore ... Read more

    $106.19 USD

  • Appalachian Set Theory

    2006–2012

    Edited by James Cummings, Ernest Schimmerling ...
    Series Book 406 - London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series
    This volume takes its name from a popular series of intensive mathematics workshops hosted at institutions in Appalachia and surrounding areas. At these meetings, internationally prominent set theorists give one-day lectures that focus on important new directions, methods, tools and results so that non-experts can begin to master these and incorporate them into their own research. Each chapter in ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

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    Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

    by Lisa Rofel, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
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    $25.19 USD

  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Adopted Territory

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

    by Eleana J. Kim ...
    Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into white families in North America, Europe, and Australia. While these transnational adoptions were initiated as an emergency measure to find homes for mixed-race children born in the aftermath of the war, the practice grew exponentially from the 1960s through the 1980s. At the height of South Korea ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

    Edited by Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson, Paul Tremlett ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • English Language Education Across Greater China

    Edited by Dr. Anwei Feng ...
    Series Book 80 - Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
    This volume is the first to offer a comprehensive and, at the same time, in-depth examination of the spread of English and English language education across Greater China. It consists of two parts. Part 1 presents rich sociolinguistic data for easy comparisons between mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, while Part 2 explores in depth the phenomena inside mainland China to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Kongish

    Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect

    by Tong King Lee ...
    Series series Elements in Applied Linguistics
    This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging and linguistic commodification, and using the popular Facebook page Kongish Daily as a case in point, the study outlines the semiotic profile of Kongish. It examines how Kongish communications draw on a full range of ... Read more

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  • Multicultural Education in South Korea

    Language, ideology, and culture in Korean language arts education

    by Mi Ok Kang ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
    This book examines the political, ideological, and socio-cultural politics underlying the 2009 National Multicultural Curriculum Reform and recent multicultural education policies in South Korea. Unlike the conservative groups in Western countries who argue that supporting cultural diversity and the cultural rights of minority groups balkanizes ethnic differences and divides the community, the New ... Read more

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  • The Han

    China's Diverse Majority

    by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity. Based on research she conducted among native and migrant ... Read more

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  • Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Examining the deployments of gender and sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan, this book chronicles a queer historiography that illuminates the production of sexual identities and the formation of sexual modernity. Through primary research and historical investigation, Hans Tao-Ming Huang offers a contextualised study of Pai Hsien-yung’s Crystal Boys, one of Taiwan’s first recognized gay ... Read more

    $17.99 USD