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Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination

Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination

Wanning Sun

This fascinating book offers fresh insight into contemporary China and the Chinese diaspora experience and consciousness through a lively and innovative examination of media old and new.
Sun Up, Sun Down

Sun Up, Sun Down

Gail Gibbons

Describes the characteristics of the sun and the ways in which it regulates life on earth. The sun wakes me up. It rises in the east and shines through my window. It is night now. The sun is down. The sky is dark. It is time to sleep.
Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora

Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora

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—(2006) “Gossip about stars: newspapers and pop culture China,” in Wanning Sun (ed.) Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Communication, Commerce and Community, London: Routledge, pp. 75—90. Cui, Guiqiang (2002) Dongnanya ...
Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination

Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination

Wanning Sun

For an account of the sixth-generation filmmakers, see Stephanie Donald, Public Secrets; and for independent filmmaking, see Dai Jinhua, Wu Zhong Feng jing ( Scener— ies in the Fog: Chinese Cinema 1978—1998) (Beijing: Beijing ...
Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking ...

Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora: Rethinking ...

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Rethinking Transnationalism Wanning Sun, John Sinclair. First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the  ...
Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices

Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices

Wanning Sun

... Third Edition by Ezra F. Vogel with a chapter by Suzanne Hall Vogel, foreword by William W. Kelly The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice by Suzanne Hall Vogel with Steven K .
Maid In China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of ...

Maid In China: Media, Morality, and the Cultural Politics of ...

Wanning Sun

Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media.
Chinese Strategists: Beyond Sun Zi’s Art of War

Chinese Strategists: Beyond Sun Zi’s Art of War

Ooi Kee Beng

(The famous classic by Sun Zi that today bears the title ofSun Zi Bingfa—Sun Zi's Art of War—was called Sun Zi Shisanpian, The Thirteen Chapters of Sun Zi.) I have therefore decided to return to what was probably the original name of the ...
Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications ...

Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications ...

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Community, Communications and Commerce Wanning Sun. First published 2006 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New ...
Unequal China: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics ...

Unequal China: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics ...

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List of tables ix Notes on contributors x Preface xiii List ofabbreviations xv Introduction 1 Wanning Sun and Yingjie Guo 1 Political power and social inequality: the impact of the state 12 Yingjie Guo 2 Inequality and culture: a new pathway to ...
Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia

Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia

Tania Lewis

In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented popular factual television illuminates key aspects of late modernities in South and East Asia, offering insights not only into early twenty ...
The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods

The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods

Victor H. Mair

Authors hip Every chapter of the Sun Zi begins with the incipit, “Master Sun said.” This mechanical invocation of “Master Sun” implies nothing more or less than a vague persona who supposedly uttered all of the wise sayings in the book that ...
The Complete Art Of War: Sun Tzu/sun Pin

The Complete Art Of War: Sun Tzu/sun Pin

Tzu Sun

Sun Tzu’s Art of War is the most famous, and the most thought-provoking, work of strategy ever written. The profound insights of this book have endured for over two thousand years, and they continue to reward careful study.
West of the Sun

West of the Sun

Edgar Pangborn

Several light-years west of the Earth's Sun lay the planet, Lucifer, circling a sun of its own, circled by its own two moons.
The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

Sun Ra

Sun Ra's poetry leaves everything behind what's called contemporary, and flings out pictures of infinity into the outer space. These poems are for tomorrow. This is the only edition of Sun Ra's complete poetry and prose in one volume.
Kittens in the Sun

Kittens in the Sun

Hans Silvester

Now best-selling feline shutterbug Hans Silvester is back with Kittens in the Sun. The subjects here are as playful, adventurous, and cute as they come, captured against the stunning backdrop of the sun-drenched Greek Isles.
Java: Practical Guide for Programmers

Java: Practical Guide for Programmers

Zbigniew M. Sikora

Web resources: Source code from the book http://www.zm.sikora.btinternet.co.uk/source.html Sun J2SE download page http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html Sun J2SE API documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/index.html For ...
The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods

The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods

Sunzi

Sun Zi's Military Methods Sunzi. FOREWORD Arthur Waldron Sun Zi was an extraordinary thinker, still very influential. As a strategist he shares supremacy with just one other writer: Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), author of On War ( 1832).
While The Sun Is Above Us

While The Sun Is Above Us

Melanie Schnell

While The Sun Is Above Us explores the immense power of the imagination, the human desire for connection, and the endurance of hope.
百年來中日關係論文集

百年來中日關係論文集

Ke Sun

Ke Sun 中日關係與中日合作策進委員會二二蔣總統耱承中山先生的遺志,貫徹對日 基本國策,不遺餘力。民國十五年八月誓策。,爲亞洲各民族圃結的原動力。由此可以 證明中山先生畢生是以親善合作爲其對日政外交政策。一九二四年在他逝世之前,又 親 ...
Flood Country: An Environmental History of the ...

Flood Country: An Environmental History of the ...

Emily O'Gorman

South Australian Register (Adelaide) (1860–1862) Sun (Brisbane) (1990) The Sun-Herald (Sydney) (1993) Sunday Sun (Brisbane) (1990) Sunraysia Daily ( Mildura) (1955–1957) Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Queensland) (1990 ) ...
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE Study Guide

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE Study Guide

Mark Cade

This book delivers complete, focused review for Sun’s new Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) for Java EE certification exam—straight from two of the exam’s creators!
Somewhere Over the Sun

Somewhere Over the Sun

Adi Alsaid

Somewhere Over the Sun is his debut novel and was written in Monterey, CA. He was born and raised in Mexico City to Israeli parents whose love and support made this book possible.
Gamble with the Sun

Gamble with the Sun

Phil Ford

Gamble with the Sun is a collection of short stories and stage and screen plays.
Mask of the Sun

Mask of the Sun

John Dvorak

"Both entertaining and authoritative, Mask of the Sun reveals the humanism behind the science of both lunar and solar eclipses.
Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire

Wade Davis

" Shadows in the Sun considers those possibilities, and explores their implications for our world.
Our Sun

Our Sun

Kristine Carlson Asselin

"Describes the Sun, including its place in the galaxy, solar weather, and its affect on Earth"--Provided by publisher.
Phoenix

Phoenix

Clark Ashton Smith

They had come up to watch the rising of the sun: that sun which they had never seen except as an orb of blackness, occluding the zodiacal stars in its course from horizon to horizon.ExcerptRodis and Hilar had climbed from their natal ...
Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development ...

Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development ...

David R. Morrison

See articles by Dan Proudfoot, Toronto Sun, April 3-7, 1977; a letter by Paul Doucet, CIDA's Director General of Communications in The Toronto Sun, May 3, 1977; and Dan Proudfoot, “Proudfoot Answers CIDA!” The Toronto Sun, May 5, 1977.

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