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Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China
Frank DikötterChina was turned into a nation of opium addicts by the pernicious forces of imperialist trade.
The Discourse of Race in Modern China: Hong Kong Memoirs
Frank DikotterThis book is a study of a topic that is both extremely important and highly sensitive: how the Chinese have viewed other ethnic groups across time.
Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China
Frank DikötterThis book analyses how a very pragmatic attitude towards material goods prevailed, as most consumers bought the new and discarded theold without misgivings.
The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan: ...
Frank DikötterThis work argues that, far from being a negligible aspect of contemporary identity, racialized senses of belonging have often been the foundation of national identity in 20th-century East Asia.
Sex, Culture and Modernity in China: Her Tumultuous Life's ...
Frank DikotterWith the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order. the construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was ...
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and ...
Frank DikötterSince Deng Xiaoping's accession to power in 1978, human genetics has come to occupy centre stage in China, as a growing number of socially undesirable traits are attributed to so-called bad genes, which the state seeks to regulate.
Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China
Frank DikötterThis book is a richly textured social and cultural study exploring the profound effects and lasting repercussions of superimposing Western-derived models of repentance and rehabilitation on traditional categories of crime and punishment.
The Age of Openness: China Before Mao
Frank Dikötter61 David Strand, 'Historical perspectives' in Deborah Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton and Elizabeth Perry (eds.) ... 65 Elizabeth VanderVen, 'Village-state cooperation: Modern community schools and their funding, Haicheng County, ...
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese ...
Frank DikötterDenton, KirkA., The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and LuLing, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Diamant, Neil J., Embattled Glory: Veterans, Military Families,and the PoliticsofPatriotism inChina, 1949– ...
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
Frank DikötterFocusing on the discourse of race in modern China, this study looks at the emergence of racial stereotypes in the 19th century, the gradual formation of a racial discourse at the turn of the century and the emergence, institutionalization ...
The Frank Book:
Jim WoodringThe Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank’s biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola.
Totally Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Lampard
Frank LampardChelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team.
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech
Frank BeamerAfter 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech
Frank BeamerAfter 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Buxton, Hollis, and Limington
Frank H. SleeperFrank H. Sleeper. IMAGES of America Buxton, Hollis, AND LlMINGTON Frank H. Sleeper ARCADIA Copyright © 1997 by Frank H. Sleeper ISBN 0-7385-3886-8 Published.
Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland
Ewan MaccollFrank Purslow, The Constant Lovers (London, 1972). Frank Purslow, Marrowbones (London, 1965). Frank Purslow, The Wanton Seed (London, 1968). Frank Purslow, The Foggy Dew (London, 1974). Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany ...
Frank Miller's Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye 3rd Edition:
Frank MillerWith a new look generating more excitement than ever before, this third edition is the perfect way to attract a whole new generation of readers to Frank Miller's masterpiece! * Over a million Sin City books in print! * New cover by Frank ...
Frank Sherwin: independent and unrepentant
Frank SherwinA celebration of the life of Irish politician and supporter of Fianna Fail Frank Sherwin Senior, in his own words, from his witnessing of the Easter Rising through to the early 1970s.
Totally Frank: My Autobiography
Frank LampardChelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team.
Superheroes: Beans-N-Frank
Mark DavisSuperheroes, their first picture book, is a trip into Big Frank's imagination about how their songs are helping their friends do well in school. If you want an adventure, come on and ride with Beans-N-Frank.
Frank: Fighting Back
Frank BrunoAt the age of eleven Frank Bruno was sent to reform school. At thirty-three he was crowned heavyweight champion of the world. At forty-one he was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Now, he's back - with his real story...
Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Role of Traditional ...
Kevin NuteThe most detailed accounts of Wright's print-collecting activities are to be found inJulia Meech-Pekarik's “Frank Lloyd Wright ... For more on this topic, see Julia Meech-Pekarik, “Frank Lloyd Wright's Other Passion,“ The Nature of Frank Lloyd ...
South Western Reporter. Second Series: Cases Argued and ...
More editions172 S.W.2d 804 that Mrs. Carrie Tyler Frank was not included in the class "next of kin", and hence was not a beneficiary under the will of Joseph Frank, Sr.; that the one half interest under said will bequeathed to Lou Frank should be divided ...
The Baccarat Battle Book
Frank ScobleteFor the first time ever, Frank shows players how to 'push the house' to reduce the casino's commission on the Bank bet from five percent to four percent. Frank shows how manipulating the pace of the game can bring more comps for less risk.
Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
Matthew BernsteinA third witness, tellingly, is a black employee at the factory (Carl Gordon) who claims he never saw women in Frank's office or witnessed Jim Conley stand watch for Frank: “Most of the time he'd be asleep, drunk, out back.” When Rosser asks ...
The Short Stories of Frank Harris: A Selection
Frank HarrisNow largely out of print and inaccessible, and overshadowed since his death in 1931 by the Frank Harris legend and by his reputation as the author of the notorious My Life and Loves, the stories nevertheless bear witness to the ...
Hellstrom's Hive
Frank HerbertFrank Herbert's classic SF tale of an insect menace threatening the USA First published in 1973, Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction ...
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More editions... Co h Main nr Rogers av (M) Mangano Emily J cik Montgomery Ward & Co r Frank Mangano (S) — Frank (Anna) steelwkr h Listravia av nr Lincova (S) — John J hlpr Cowan Bkg Co r Frank Mangano (S) I MORGANTOWN MONUMENT CO.
Geheimakte Frank Mayer: Kriminalroman
Laura LabergeDeshalb er weiß auch, dass Mister Frank Mayer hat Bruder. Und Frank Mayer hatte erzählt von Mister De Haas. Mister Frank Mayer hatte kurz vor seiner Festnahme gesprochen, und vielleicht Sie ihm könnten helfen, vielleicht. Doch leider ist ...
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