Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about th...
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The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India....
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Japanese Culture / Edition 4
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. ...
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban,...
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An Introduction to Japanese Society
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimo...
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Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo to Thae Yong-ho
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Originally compiled and written by North Korean defector and author Lim Il, this English-language edition, thoroughly annotated by Dr. Adam Zulaw...
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Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia
HardcoverOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central...
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Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants f...
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Mao's China and Post-Mao China: Revolution, Recovery and Rejuvenation
PaperbackOriginal price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /If the history of modern China was written as a book, its author would be accused of losing touch with reality. During the twentieth century, China...
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Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgot...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the c...
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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges t...
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City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897-1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges t...
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The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul displays how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul--the...
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Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China: Changing State-Society Relations
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China examines the key mechanisms operating at the grassroots level in China that contribute to urban development ...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan
HardcoverOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state i...
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From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Illuminating the complex processes of China's uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this bo...
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Visions of Marriage: Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new...
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Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized...
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Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How race continues to shape the citizenship and everyday lives of later-generation JapaneseAmericans Japanese Americans are seen as the "model mino...
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A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Environmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and...
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Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters Between Germany and Korea
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Cross-Border Interactions and Encounters between Germany and Korea undertakes an interdisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted d...
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