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Desiring Hong Kong, consuming South China transborder cultural politics, 1970-2010 / by Ma, Jiewei

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Desirable leadership behaviours of multi-cultural managers in China

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Conditional spaces Hong Kong lesbian desires and everyday life /

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Affect, narratives and politics of Southeast Asian migration / by Piocos, Carlos M., III

Table of Contents: “…Emotions on the move -- At home and unhomeliness -- Shame and desire -- Vulnerability and resistance -- Sacrifice and social heroism -- Mourning and movement -- Affect and activism.…”
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Celluloid comrades representations of male homosexuality in contemporary Chinese cinemas / by Lim, Song Hwee, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Screening homosexuality -- The burden of representation : Ang Lee's The wedding banquet -- The uses of femininity : Chen Kaige's Farewell my concubine and Zhang Yuan's East palace, west palace -- Travelling sexualities : Wong Kar-wai's Happy together -- Confessing desire : the poetics of Tsai Ming-liang's queer cinema -- Fragments of darkness : Stanley Kwan as gay director.…”
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Rural women in urban China gender, migration, and social change / by Jacka, Tamara, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center" -- The subject -- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity" -- Assembling working sisters -- Place -- In and out of place -- The place of desire -- People -- Relationships -- Identifications -- Time -- Narrative, time, and agency -- Appendix 1. …”
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Aching for beauty footbinding in China / by Wang, Ping, 1957-

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Hygienic modernity meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China / by Rogaski, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…"Conquering the one hundred diseases": weisheng before the twentieth century -- Health and disease in Heaven's Ford -- Medical encounters and divergences -- Translating weisheng in treaty-port China -- Transforming eisei in Meiji Japan -- Deficiency and sovereignty: hygienic modernity in the occupation of Tianjin, 1900-1902 -- Seen and unseen: the urban landscape and boundaries of weisheng -- Weisheng and the desire for modernity -- Japanese management of germs in Tianjin -- Germ warfare and patriotic weisheng.…”
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Constructing China's Jerusalem Christians, power, and place in contemporary Wenzhou / by Cao, Nanlai

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : putting Christianity and capitalism in their place -- The rise of "boss Christians" and their engagements with state power -- Of manners, morals and modernity : cosmopolitan desires and the remaking of Christian identity -- The business of religion in the "Wenzhou model" of Christian revival -- Gendered agency, gender hierarchy and religious identity making -- Conversion to urban citizenship : rural migrant workers' participation in Wenzhou Christianity -- Conclusion : religious revivalism as a moral discourse of modernity.…”
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As normal as possible negotiating sexuality and gender in mainland China and Hong Kong /

Table of Contents: “…Outcast bodies : money, sex and desire of money boys in mainland China / Travis S.K. …”
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A Landscape of Travel : The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China / by Chio, Jenny

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A Landscape of Travel : The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China / by Chio, Jenny

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