Chinese Culture: Its Humanity and Modernity (Qian Suoqiao)(Paperback)

Chinese Culture: Its Humanity and Modernity (Qian Suoqiao)(Paperback)

Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influence, there has been significant interest in learning the Chinese language around the world. While we constantly hear about China in political and

Chineasy Everyday: Learning Chinese Through Its Culture (Shaolan)(Pevná vazba)

A unique and highly entertaining introduction to the richness of Chinese language, culture, and civilization, built on the groundbreaking and hugely popular Chineasy visual learning method.To educate the world about the richness and character of China's people, customs, and heritage, entrepreneur

Introduction to Classical Chinese (Vogelsang Kai)(Paperback)

This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years ago. Although it was used as a living

Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed (Ebrey Patricia Buckley)(Paperback)

This updated version of a fantastic account of Chinese culture and civilization provides analysis of notable historical documents, social records, and laws. Setting the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses, the newly expanded edition of Chinese Sourcebook includes coverage of

Chinese Martial Arts and Media Culture: Global Perspectives (Trausch Tim)(Pevná vazba)

Signs and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restricted to what is considered one medium, one region, or one (sub)genre, the essays in this collection are looking across and beyond these alleged borders. From 1920s

Italy - Culture Smart!, 107: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)(Paperback)

Italy delights and stimulates with its magnificent cities and monuments, stunningly beautiful landscapes, glorious art and architecture, rich food, elegant design and fashion, and charming people. Italian style and culture have been exported all over the world. At home, however, Italian society and

The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture (Bataille Georges)(Paperback)

A radically interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins of human consciousness, community, and potential.The Cradle of Humanity: Prehistoric Art and Culture collects essays and lectures by Georges Bataille spanning 30 years of research in anthropology, comparative religion, aesthetics, and

Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture (Wu Shengqing)(Paperback)

Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What happened when the Chinese poetic tradition encountered photography, a transformative technology and

Dictionary of 1000 Chinese Idioms, Revised Edition (Lin Marjorie)(Paperback)

Four-character idioms, also known as chengyu, are key components of the Chinese language and culture, many conveying important lessons and social values that stretch back over 3,000 years of Chinese history. New features in this edition include: entries that employ both traditional and simplified

Images of Women in Chinese Thought & Culture (Wang Robin)(Paperback / softback)

Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance (Bejaoui Azza)(Paperback)

Investigates the influence of corporate leadership on the organisational culture and performance of a company and ways in which this understanding can improve firm effectiveness, nurture entrepreneurial behaviour and practices, and establish innovative

Chinese Myths and Folk Tales(Pevná vazba)

Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository.It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Here are legends of ancient demons,

Thailand - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture (Culture Smart!)(Paperback)

To many outsiders Thailand represents 'the East' at its most mysterious and enchanting. Never conquered by foreigners, this proud and ancient land has been shaped by Buddhism, the monarchy, and the military. Today it is a manufacturing powerhouse and a tourist paradise that welcomes more than 30

Yinyang (Wang Robin)(Paperback)

The concept of yinyang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. The relationship between these two opposing, yet mutually dependent, forces is symbolized in the familiar black and white symbol that has become an icon in popular culture across the world. The real significance of yinyang is,

A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture (Zou Hui)(Paperback)

In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian

What is Zen? (Watts Alan)(Paperback)

What Is Zen? examines Zen's religious roots, its influence on Eastern and Western culture, its transcendent moments, and the methods of Zen meditation that are currently

Chinese Soft Power and Its Implications for the United States: Competition and Cooperation in the Developing World (McGiffert Carola)(Paperback)

Chinese New Year (Amstutz Lisa J.)(Paperback)

Out with the old and in with the new It's time to celebrate Chinese New Year Clean the house. Have a feast with relatives. Watch fireworks and dragon dances. Make paper lanterns. Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is a celebration of new

Empire of Humanity (Barnett Michael)(Paperback)

Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnett ties the past to

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts (Bauman Zygmunt)(Paperback)

The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity

Oec My First Chinese Culture Book (Oxford)(Paperback / softback)

A four-level series designed especially for young learners to learn Chinese as a foreign language. Using a communicative approach based on engaging stories and activities, the Oxford Elementary Chinese (OEC) series enables learners to build strong listening and speaking skills. It also helps them

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Professionalization and Integration in Hong Kong (Chan Kara)(Paperback)

Chinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with 'Western' biomedicine. Legitimization of Chinese medicine in biomedicine-dominated health systems, such as that in Hong Kong, has posed significant issues. This anthology of articles explores relevant

Chinese New Year (Amstutz Lisa J.)(Paperback / softback)

Out with the old and in with the new! It's time to celebrate Chinese New Year! Clean the house. Have a feast with relatives. Watch fireworks and dragon dances. Make paper lanterns. Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is a celebration of new

Screening American Nostalgia: Essays on Pop Culture Constructions of Past Times (Flynn Susan)(Paperback)

This book examines American screen culture and its power to create and sustain values. Looking specifically at the ways in which nostalgia colors the visions of American life, essays explore contemporary American ideology as it is created and sustained by the screen. Nostalgia is omnipresent,