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China MiévillePraise for China Miéville: ‘Fiction of the new century’ Neil Gaiman, ‘Miéville’s work is thrillingly imaginative ... immensely witty & utterly unforgettable’ Scotland on Sunday, ‘One of the most imaginative young writers ...
Un Lun Dun
China MiévilleWinner of the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun is an extraordinary vivid creation;is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination.
Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law
China Miéville... used the Human Rights Act to force the British prison service to take responsibility for the sui- cide of her son Colin Williamson while he was in custody.34 The same language of human rights has also been used, however, by Madonna, in a ...
China Miéville: Critical Essays
Tony VeneziaSeries Editor: Sarah Dillon Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays presents a new approach to the academic study of living authors. The titles in this series are devoted to contemporary British, Irish and American authors whose work is ...
China 88: The Real China and How to Deal with It
Andrew DeliosChina 88 serves as a quick, handy guide for newcomers to China -- with a particular focus on travel and business culture.
China: Friend Or Foe?
More editionsChina is set to become the world's next superpower. Should America celebrate - or be afraid? China: Friend or Foe? deals with vital questions: Who are China's power-players?
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s ...
Preview... 20 Cultural Heritage Management in China Preserving the citiesofthe Pearl RiverDelta Edited by Hilarydu Cros and YokshiuF.Lee 21 Paying forProgress Public finance, human welfare and inequalityin china Edited byVivienne Shue and ...
Gender Policy and HIV in China: Catalyzing Policy Change
PreviewChapter3 China's Unbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth: How Many Surplus Boys Have Been Born in China Since the 1980s? Dudley L. Poston and Li Zhang Introduction In recent decades China has experienced an extremely rapid fertility reduction ...
To get rich is glorious: China in the eighties
Orville SchellEssays describe the contradictions of life in modern China, looks at the changes since Mao''s death, and suggests what directions China will take in the future
China’s Many Dreams: Comparative Perspectives on China’s ...
More editionsChina's new leader Xi Jinping has announced that the China Dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is now closer than ever. This book discusses the meaning and progress of Chinese national rejuvenation from multiple perspectives.
Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in ...
PreviewIn Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China.
An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
James Stuart OlsonEast and Southeast Asia, 1991; Ma Yin, ed., China's National Minorities: A Survey, 1989; S. Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China, 1987; Xie Jun, " Celebrating with the Yi Nationality," China Today 42 (April 1993), 10-12, and " Costumes Fit ...
The Rise of China
Douglas LovelaceThe documents in this volume include several reports and studies prepared by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission, examining such topics as: the evolving state of the overall military relationship between the U.S. and China; the ...
The China Model and Global Political Economy: Comparison, ...
Ming WanUsing an analytical framework which links China’s domestic political economy order and the global system, this book helps us to understand China’s rise and the China model more clearly.
Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the ...
Wayne FlyntFox Butterfield, China: Alive in the Bitter Sea (New York: Times Books, 1982), 7-8, 202, 422-26; New York Times, February 7, 1993, loY; South China Morning Post, October 17, 1992; Britt Towery, "Toward an Understanding of China Christians ...
Animals in China: Law and Society
Deborah CaoAnimals in China examines animal protection in China in its legal, social and cultural contexts.
The Languages of China
S. Robert RamseyThe description for this book, The Languages of China, will be forthcoming. The picture of China presented here is a study not just of one language but of many.
China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence - How China ...
Henry SandersonThis is a must-read for all those who take an interest in China's rising influence in the world—and its increasingly vulnerable financial system." —Victor Shih, Associate Professor, Northwestern University "In China's Superbank Henry ...
China
Gary BettinsonDirectory of World Cinema: China presents an accessible overview of the definitive films of Hong Kong and mainland China, with particular attention to the achievements of prolific industry figures, the burgeoning independent sector, and the ...
Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar
PreviewPrivatizing China gives readers a grounded, fine-grained intimacy with the variety and complexity of everyday conduct in China's turbulent transformation.
Biology and Revolution in Twentieth-Century China
Laurence SchneiderUsing the field of genetics as a case study, this book follows the troubled development of modern natural science in China from the 1920s, through Mao's China, to the present post-socialist era.
Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and ...
Fan YangFaked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.
The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation
Prasenjit DuaraPart III is a comparative section, examining how global processes become unique developments in China. The Global and Regional in China’s Nation-Formation is an ideal resource for anyone studying China’s history, society and culture.
National Museums: New Studies from Around the World
PreviewEXHIBITING. CHINA. IN. LONDON. Amy Jane Barnes. F. OR CENTURIES THE WEST has been fascinated with China or, at least, an image of China mediated through exoticised cultural imaginings and fuelled by fantastical semi-mythical ...
The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel ...
Julia LovellChina's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature Julia Lovell. Goldman, Merle. Literary Dissent in Communist China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. . Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng ...
Report to Congress of the United States-China Economic and ...
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review CommissionU.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Hearing on China's Proliferation to North Korea and Iran, and Its Role in Addressing the Nuclear and Missile Situations in Both Nations, testimony of Aaron Friedberg, September 14, ...
China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists: A Study
Hugo de Burgh"A new specialism has appeared in China in recent years, that of environment correspondent.
Mr. China
Tim ClissoldThis is the true story of a tough Wall Street banker who came to China looking for glory. He teamed up with an ex-Red Guard and a Mandarin-speaking Englishman. Together, they raised over $400,000,000 and bought up factories all over China.
Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security ...
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review CommissionU.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Hearing on China's Proliferation to North Korea and Iran, and Its Role in Addressing the Nuclear and Missile Situations in Both Nations, testimony of Aaron Friedberg, September 14, ...
Sport and Nationalism in China
Zhouxiang Lu65. Fan and Lu, The Politicisation ofSport in Modern China: Communists and Champions. 66. Ibid. 67. Guoqi Xu, “Sports, Nationalism, and Global Politics: Why China Wanted the Olympics,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed May 6, 2013, ...
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