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Consumer Nationalism in China
Examining its Critical Impact on Multinational Businesses
Maggie Ying Jiang
This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982859
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment.
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Living across connectivity
Intimacy, Entrepreneurship And Activism Of East Asian Migrants online and offline
Edited by Beatrice Zani, Isabelle Cockel
This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migrants, advocating the necessity of understanding how they live their lives both online and offline.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988868
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migrants, advocating the necessity of understanding how they live their lives both online and offline.
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Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings
A Re-Analysis of Societal Dynamics from 1964 to 2000
Jia Gao
Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China from 1964 to 2000.
Anthem Press
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9781839982880
August 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China from 1964 to 2000.
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Chinese TV in the Netflix Era
Edited by Xu Xiaying (Richard Xu), Liu Hui
This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
Anthem Press
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9781839987052
April 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
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Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science
Huaiyu Chen
This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China.
Anthem Press
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9781839985010
March 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China.
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The Dao of Civilization
A Letter to China
Freya Mathews
The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
Anthem Press
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9781839984853
February 2023
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£24.95 / $24.95The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
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The World of Wu Zhao
Annotated Selections from Zhang Zhuo’s Court and Country
N. Harry Rothschild
The World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.
Anthem Press
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9781839983528
February 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.
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A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China
Wu Xing Fights the 'Jiao'
Hugh R. Clark
Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
Anthem Press
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9781839984136
September 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
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Chindian Myth of Mulian Rescuing His Mother – On Indic Origins of the Yulanpen Sūtra
Debate and Discussion
Xiaohuan Zhao
The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
Anthem Press
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9781839986963
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
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The New Motivation and Dilemma of China’s Soft Power in the Age of Noopolitik
Zheng Li
The monograph investigates whether China is mindful of exporting its political ideas and whether it considers its governance model to be the pillar of its soft power portfolio. Through framing analysis of media coverage and in-depth interviews with Australian public diplomacy experts, the monograph presents how Australia, a western country with close economic ties with China, interprets China's intended narrative regarding its governance model and development.
Anthem Press
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9781785279577
May 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The monograph investigates whether China is mindful of exporting its political ideas and whether it considers its governance model to be the pillar of its soft power portfolio. Through framing analysis of media coverage and in-depth interviews with Australian public diplomacy experts, the monograph presents how Australia, a western country with close economic ties with China, interprets China’s intended narrative regarding its governance model and development.
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Taiwan Straits Standoff
70 Years of PRC–Taiwan Cross-Strait Tensions
Bruce A. Elleman
Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954–55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises. Today, relations between the ROC and PRC depend on quelling tensions over the Taiwan Strait. This work provides a short, but highly relevant, history of the Taiwan Strait, and its significance today.
Anthem Press
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9781839980909
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu). Twice in the 1950s tensions peaked, during the first (1954–55) and second (1958) Taiwan Strait crises. Today, relations between the ROC and PRC depend on quelling tensions over the Taiwan Strait. This work provides a short, but highly relevant, history of the Taiwan Strait, and its significance today.
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A Social History of Literacy in Japan
£125.00 / $125.00Edited and translated by Richard Rubinger
Anthem Press
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9781785277016
March 2021
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Japan’s Budget Black Hole
Deregulation of the Workforce and Shortfalls in Government Revenue
Keiko Shimono
This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potential for a national default.
Anthem Press
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9781785276477
January 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book describes the astonishing policy failures of populist politicians in Japan. Focussing on popular tax cuts in Japan as a salutary case study the book details their serious side effects: government debt, cuts to social security expenditure, inadequate public services and even the potential for a national default.
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China’s Digital Presence in the Asia-Pacific
Culture, Technology and Platforms
Michael Keane, Haiqing Yu, Elaine J. Zhao, Susan Leong
This book examines China’s digital economy and its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the political economy of the media, industry analysis, platform studies and cultural policy studies, the book shows that China's commercial digital platforms are increasingly recognized outside China and can disseminate Chinese culture more effectively than government-supported media.
Anthem Press
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9781785276224
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines China’s digital economy and its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Drawing on the political economy of the media, industry analysis, platform studies and cultural policy studies, the book shows that China’s commercial digital platforms are increasingly recognized outside China and can disseminate Chinese culture more effectively than government-supported media.
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Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures
Ryan Johnson
Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
Anthem Press
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9781785274343
December 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Drawing on the latest work in comparative philosophy and comparative literature, this book presents an innovative model of transnational literary exchanges.
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Re-balancing China
Essays on the Global Financial Crisis, Industrial Policy and International Relations
Peter Nolan
‘Re-balancing China’ addresses three key sets of issues in China’s political economy: the impact of the global financial crisis, the challenge of globalization for the nation’s industrial policy, and the potential conflict that might arise from the West’s fears of China’s growing economic and military power.
Anthem Press
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9781783081264
February 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Re-balancing China’ addresses three key sets of issues in China’s political economy: the impact of the global financial crisis, the challenge of globalization for the nation’s industrial policy, and the potential conflict that might arise from the West’s fears of China’s growing economic and military power.
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Overseas Chinese Christian Entrepreneurs in Modern China
A Case Study of the Influence of Christian Ethics on Business Life
Joy Kooi-Chin Tong
Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule.
Anthem Press
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9780857283535
February 2012
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£115.00 / $115.00Inspired by Max Weber’s thesis on the Protestant ethic, this volume examines the influence of Christianity on overseas Chinese entrepreneurs working in China during its transition from a centrally-planned economy toward a market economy under Communist rule.
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Taiwan Today
Edited by Anita Sharma, Sreemati Chakrabarti
Inspired by a conference titled 'Taiwan Today' organized by the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, this collection analyses contemporary India-Taiwan economic relations.
Anthem Press India
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9780857289667
August 2010
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£99.00 / $99.00Inspired by a conference titled ‘Taiwan Today’ organized by the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, this collection analyses contemporary India-Taiwan economic relations.
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Fat China
How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation
Paul French, Matthew Crabbe
'Fat China' provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation's changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system.
Anthem Press
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9780857289780
July 2010
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Fat China’ provides an in-depth analysis of the growing problem of obesity in China and its relationship to the nation’s changing diet, lifestyle trends and healthcare system.
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Friends and Enemies
The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China
Kerry Brown
foreword by Will Hutton‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
Anthem Press
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9781843317814
July 2009
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£24.95 / $24.95‘Friends and Enemies’ delivers a thorough account of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), explaining its origins and evolution, looking at options for its future, and laying bare its inner workings.
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Integrating China
Towards the Coordinated Market Economy
Peter Nolan
This timely collection of essays from Peter Nolan offers deep insight into the challenges faced in integrating China with the global political economy.
Anthem Press
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9781843312376
November 2007
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£115.00 / $115.00This timely collection of essays from Peter Nolan offers deep insight into the challenges faced in integrating China with the global political economy.
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Struggling Giant
China in the 21st Century
Kerry Brown
foreword by Jonathan FenbyThis book offers a thematic discussion of the key issues surrounding the rise of China and what that will mean to people outside China in the years ahead.
Anthem Press
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9781843312789
June 2007
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£22.95 / $22.95This book offers a thematic discussion of the key issues surrounding the rise of China and what that will mean to people outside China in the years ahead.