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This book sets out to rationalize the meaning of Korean intonation, especially the boundary tones, illustrating a three-way relationship i.e., a specific meaning delivered by a certain type of boundary tone and a certain type of morphological marker in natural conversation data.
€115.00$160.00
This is the eighth and largest volume in the series Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits published on behalf of The Japan Society, London. It contains essays from forty contributors relating to fifty-two portraits of personalities who have been influential in political, official and ...
€120.00$171.00
Designed primarily as a key to an understanding of the terms and terminology employed in Anglo-Chinese society at the turn of the twentieth century. Subjects as diverse as the origin of words (such as Amok and Chop), practices such as footbinding, consideration of the thoughts of Confucius, and ...
€90.00$125.00
Brian Burke-Gaffney provides a detailed account of the activities of Holme, Ringer & Co., the leading foreign enterprise in western Japan prior to the Second World War, and describes the remarkable achievements and tragedies of the Ringer family.
€96.00$133.00
In Search of Nature by Kenneth G. Henshall provides a biography of Tayama Katai, leader of Japan's naturalist movement. This book discusses Katai's prose fiction and perceptions of nature, and also corrects widely held but erroneous assumptions about Japanese naturalism.
€86.00$120.00
In International Education Policy in Japan in an Age of Globalisation and Risk, Robert Aspinall analyses the ways in which Japanese government policies on English language education and the promotion of Study Abroad have been implemented in schools and universities.
€115.00$160.00
This study contains a detailed record of the history and development of Kurokawa nō, the processes of its transmission over the generations and its impact on the wider cultural life of Japan. Kurokawa Nō also offers an invaluable, authentic case study in the wider context of notions of Japanese ...
€85.00$118.00
In The Periodical Press in Treaty-Port Japan, Munson offers an analytical survey of English- and Japanese-language print media published in the ‘treaty port’ of Yokohama during the tumultuous final decade of the Tokugawa shogunate.
€1,499.00$2,085.00
Western Journalists on Japan, China and Greater East Asia, 1897-1956, Series 1: Japan 1897-1942, offers a representative selection of Western and Asian journalism and memoir with a focus on Japan as a nation and on Japan's agenda in East and South-east Asia.