China and Inner Asia – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

The People’s Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby. The gender of memory : rural women and China’s collective past / Gail Hershatter. China maritime customs and China’s trade statistics, 1859-1948 / Thomas P. Lyons. Dancing for the dead [videorecording] : funeral strippers in Taiwan / a Marc L. Moskowitz film. A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture /

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China and Inner Asia – November and December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 11, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

欧洲语言共同参考框架 : 学习, 教学, 评估 / 欧洲理事会文化合作教育委员会编 ; 主译: 刘骏, 傅荣 ; 翻译: 李婷妲 … [et al.]. 中國近代文學史 / 袁進 元朝与高丽关系研究 / 乌云高娃 从中亚到长安 /罗宏才 平等与启蒙 : 从明清之际到五四运动 / 魏义霞著 傳媒翻譯 / 鄭寶璇 中國改革年代的政治鬥爭 / 楊繼繩著 中文傳意 / 香港城市大學語文學部編著 後九七香港粤語流行歌詞研究 / [朱耀偉, 梁偉詩著] 影像中的「文革」農村 / 周浙平編撰 ; 高恒如攝影 台灣問題 : 政治解決策論 / 蕭元愷著 語言, 語音與技術 / 王士元, 彭剛 語言學與華語二語教學 / 吳偉平, 李兆麟編著 The comparative catalogue of Chinese Āgamas & Pāli

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China and Inner Asia – October 2012.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 16, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 14, Old Tibetan studies / edited by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. Revisiting rituals in a changing Tibetan context / edited by Katia Buffetrille. Change in democratic Mongolia : social relations, health, mobile pastoralism, and mining / edited by Julian Dierkes. Truths and half truths : China’s socio-economic reforms (1978-2010) / Ferdinand A. Gul and Haitian Lu. Migration, prostitution, and human trafficking :

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China and Inner Asia – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 3, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Database updates China Academic Journals (CAJ) 中国期刊全文数据库 now includes masters theses and doctoral dissertations The popular Chinese language database now includes access to masters theses (1999-2012) and doctoral dissertations (2000-2012). These can be searched or browsed individually or cross searched with all of our other CAJ packages. A small percentage of the articles are images which can be converted to text-based articles by using the OCR button. http://oversea.cnki.net/ [On-campus] http://bit.ly/CAJTheses

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China – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 9, 2012|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Books Tibet : hitting the high roads / by Jia Lin Quick access to the People’s Republic of China : the first sixty years (1949-2009) / [Zhang Haixing, Qi Pengfei bian zhu]. Chinese literature : great tradition since the Book of songs / Yao Dan … [et al.] ; translated [from the Chinese] by Li Ziliang … [et al.]. Chinese food / Liu Junru ; [translated from the original Chinese

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Linguistics – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Linguistics|0 comments

Meaning and relevance / Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber. Middle Arabic and mixed Arabic : diachrony and synchrony / edited by Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers.  Linguistic universals and language variation / edited by Peter Siemund. Language : the cultural tool / Daniel Everett.  [a.k.a “Cognitive fire” possibly US title] Minority languages in the linguistic landscape / ed. by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel. Reciprocals and

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Korea – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid. IT development in Korea : a broadband nirvana? / Kwang-Suk Lee. The quest for statehood : Korean immigrant nationalism and U.S. sovereignty, 1905-1945 / Richard S. Kim. Militants or partisans : labor unions and democratic politics in Korea and Taiwan / Yoonkyung Lee. Korean unification and the positions and roles of the

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