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  • Folklore Fieldwork

    by Xiaoping Dong ...
    Translated by Xinyi Wu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Folklore Fieldwork the first book to present systematic research based on the author’s more than 20 years of fieldwork in urban and rural areas throughout China. It addresses the theory and methodology of Chinese folkloristics, highlighting the unique characteristics of Chinese culture and society in the process, and explores the core process of modern Chinese folkloristics, making the field ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • A Billion Voices

    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

    by David Moser ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Mandarin, Guoyu or Putonghua? 'Chinese' is a language known by many names, and China is a country home to many languages. Since the turn of the twentieth century linguists and politicians have been on a mission to create a common language for China. From the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to push the ... Read more

    $8.99 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

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  • Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022)

    Edited by Yulia Pogrebnyak, Runan Hou ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book. International Science and Culture Center for Academic Contacts (ISCCAC) is pleased to announce The 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022).The conference was held on August 12-13, 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held in on-line format.ICLCCS 2022 covers a number of problems, such as: prospects for ... Read more

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  • Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2022)

    Edited by Olga Chistyakova, Iana Roumbal ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book.The aim of the Conference is to provide a shared platform for academics, scholars, PhD students, and graduate students with different cultural backgrounds to present and discuss research, developments and innovations in the fields of contemporary education, social sciences and humanities are referred with the understanding of the Human being.Papers concerning education, ... Read more

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  • Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

    The Art of Social Relationships in China

    by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang ...
    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Chinese Folklore Studies Today

    Discourse and Practice

    Edited by Lijun Zhang, Ziying You ...
    Chinese folklorists are well acquainted with the work of their English-language colleagues, but until recently the same could not be said about American scholars' knowledge of Chinese folkloristics. Chinese Folklore Studies Today aims to address this knowledge gap by illustrating the dynamics of contemporary folklore studies in China as seen through the eyes of the up-and-coming generation of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Reimagining Singapore

    Self and Society in Contemporary Art

    by Chee-Hoo Lum, Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray, Chor Leng Twardzik Ching ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book approaches the subject of contemporary art by exploring the social embeddedness and identities of Singaporean artists. Linking artistic processes and production to both personal worlds and wider issues, the book examines how artists negotiate their relationships between self and society and between artistic freedom and social responsibility. It is based on original research into the ... Read more

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  • Verse Going Viral

    China's New Media Scenes

    by Heather Inwood ...
    Series series Modern Language Initiative Books
    Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry: while poetry as a representation of high culture is widely assumed to be marginalized to the point of “death,” poetry ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • From Oracle Bones to Computers

    The Emergence of Writing Technologies in China

    by Baotong Gu ...
    From Oracle Bones to Computers not only provides a succinct yet in-depth account of the development of writing technologies in the five thousand years of China's history but also develops an operationalized model of rhetorical analysis that can be applied to the study of any writing technology development. ... Read more

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  • Visual Culture in Contemporary China I

    Edited by Zhou Xian ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    As the first volume of a two-volume set that examines the interaction between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book explores the visual construction of popular culture, avant-garde art, and grassroots media culture.Drawing on an approach of Marxist historic materialism and academic resources of sociology, communication, and art, this study of contemporary China ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Middle Class in Neoliberal China

    Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces

    by Hai Ren ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the development and the role of this new social group is crucial to understanding contemporary Chinese ... Read more

    $77.99 USD