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Postmodern Presidency - Bill Clinton'S Legacy In U.S. Politics

by Steven Schier

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 Including the conflict in Kosovo, the WTO meeting in Seattle, and new developments in the 2000 presidential campaign, The Postmodern Presidency is the most comprehensive and current assessment of Bill Clinton's presidency available in print.
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Minimal Old Chinese And Later Han Chinese - A Companion To Grammata Serica Recensa

by Axel Schuessler

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 Offers a reconstruction of Old Chinese, limiting it, as far as possible, to those post-Karlgrenian phonological features of Old Chinese that enjoy some consensus among today's investigators.
Abc Etymological Dictionary Of Old Chinese

by Axel Schuessler

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 Based on investigation in primary and secondary sources, this dictionary places Old Chinese squarely within the Sino-Tibetan language family, while paying due regard to other language families such as Austroasiatic, Miao-Yao (Hmong-Mien), and Kam-Tai. It is designed for use by nonspecialists and specialists.
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Abc Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary

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 An expansion of the ""ABC Chinese-English Dictionary"", this alphabetically ordered dictionary of Chinese contains over 196,000 entries.
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Abc Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary

by Robert S. Bauer

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 Cantonese is spoken by an estimated 73 million people worldwide. It remains a source of great pride for its speakers in Hong Kong. The ABC Cantonese-English Comprehensive Dictionary comprises about 15,000 lexical entries that are unique to the colloquial Cantonese language as it is spoken and written in Hong Kong today.
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Efficacious Underworld - The Evolution Of Ten Kings Paintings In Medieval China And Korea

by Cheeyun Lilian Kwon

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 The Ten Kings hanging scrolls are among the most resplendent renderings of the Buddhist purgatory extant, but their origin has yet to be fully explored. Cheeyun Kwon unfurls the scrolls within the existing Ten Kings painting tradition while investigating textual, scriptural, archaeological, and visual materials to shed light on its provenance.
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Abc Dictionary Of Sino-Japanese Readings

by Victor H. Mair

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 The significance of Japanese-language scholarship on China cannot be overstated. The purpose of this volume is to enable Sinologists and others involved in Chinese studies to access entries in Japanese reference works dealing with China. The Dictionary includes more than 13,072 entries not only in Chinese characters and their Sino-Japanese readings, but also the Japanese readings.
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Abc Dictionary Of Chinese Proverbs (Yanyu) - Abc Dict Chinese Prov Pa

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 This Chinese-English dictionary of proverbs (yanyu) consists of approximately 4,000 Chinese proverbs alphabetically arranged by the first word(s) (ci) of the proverb according to the Hanyu Pinyin transcription and Chinese characters (standard simplified), followed by a literal (and when necessary also a figurative) English translation.
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The Lives Of Hawaiâ€˜I'S Dolphins And Whales - Natural History And Conservation

by Robin W. Baird

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 Ocean currents, winds, and rainfall all work together to create a marine oasis around the Hawaiian Islands, providing a home for many species of dolphins and whales normally found in the deep oceans of the world. This title provides a window into the world of these mysterious creatures with stories and observations from the authorâ€™s work with Hawaiian whales and dolphins.
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Abc Dictionary Of Ancient Japanese Phonograms

by John Bentley

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 For the first time in English, this dictionary lists all 1,215 Chinese characters used as phonograms (ongana) or vernacular characters (kungana) in Old Japanese texts. It brings together a vast amount of data in relation to Chinese phonology. The entries contain examples from more than twenty Old Japanese texts showing how each character was used and in what context.
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Turning Pages - Reading And Writing Women'S Magazines In Interwar Japan

by Sarah Frederick

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 Offers an analysis of major interwar women's magazines, especially the literary journal "Ladies' Review", the popular domestic periodical "Housewife's Friend", and the politically radical magazine "Women's Arts". This book considers the central place of representations of women for women in the culture of interwar-era Japan.
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From The Land Of Hibiscus - Koreans In Hawai'I, 1903-1950

by Mahn-Yol Yi

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 Traces the story of Koreans in Hawai'i from their first arrival to the eve of Korea's liberation in 1945. This work also examines their political background, the role of Christian churches in immigration, the image of Koreans as depicted in the media, and, above all, nationalist activities.
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Waikiki - A History Of Forgetting And Remembering

by Andrea Feeser

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 Presents a cultural and environmental history of Waikiki, exploring its place not only in the popular imagination, but also through the experiences of those who lived there. This work reveals how rich agricultural sites and sacred places were transformed into one of the world's most famous vacation destinations.
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Trees On A Slope

by Hwang Sun-Won

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 Hwang Sun-won (1915-2000) is one of modern Korea's masters of narrative prose. "Trees on a Slope" (1960) is one of the few Korean novels to describe in detail the physical and psychological horrors of the Korean War. It is an assured, forceful depiction of three young soldiers in the South Korean army during the latter stages of the war.
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Fighting For Breath - Living Morally And Dying Of Cancer In A Chinese Village

by Anna Lora-Wainwright

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 This book explores how people experience and understand cancer in a place where there is no agreement on its cause. It examines how villagers cope with the onset of cancer and who or what they hold to blame. Based on fieldwork in rural northeast Sichuan
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Boundary Writing - An Exploration Of Race, Culture, And Gender Binaries In Contemporary Australia

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 Have globalization and the emergence of virtual cultures reduced cultural diversity? Will the world become homogenized or Americanized? This work demonstrates that this oversimplification denies the reality that there is greater space for cultural diversity. It explores the desire to categorize individuals and collectivities into categories.
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A Handbook Of 'Phags-Pa Chinese

by W.South Coblin

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 Provides a practical introduction to 'Phags-pa Chinese studies and a guide for reading and interpreting the script. This work is of interest to Chinese historical phonologists and scholars concerned with the history and culture of China and Central Asia, during the Yuan period (1279-1368 AD).

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