The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906 9781478013051

Mediating Empire: An English Family in China, 1817-1927 9781912961030

This study examines Britain’s presence in China through the lens of one family, arguing that, as the physical embodiment

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The Elixir and the Stone 9781448183401, 9780099490029

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The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions in Early and Medieval China [Hardcover ed.] 0295987286, 9780295987286

Winner of the Levenson Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Shortlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book Award S

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China and the Wireless Undertow: Media as Wave Philosophy 9781399519731, 9781399519755, 9781399519762

Explores the increasingly intimate relationship between China and wireless technology, taking the wave as a central conc

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Bronze and Stone: The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China 029574457X, 9780295744575

Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse o

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The Stone Road 9781493741717

Magic and Martial Arts meet head on in a war that will change the world."This is fantasy in a very different settin

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Abjection Incorporated: Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence 9781478003410

Examining abjection in a range of visual and material culture, the contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond cr

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The Last Stone 0802147305, 9780802147301

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyon, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washingto

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Tales From the Stone Road

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Carved in Stone: The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries 9781407358093, 9781407358086

The study of marks left by humans on stone outcrops is an interdisciplinary endeavour that entails geology, history of t

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