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Chen Village Under Mao and Deng

Chen Village Under Mao and Deng

Anita Chan

Chen Village Under Mao and Deng includes not only the bulk of the original text of Chen Village, but also three new chapters on village life under Deng: gripping descriptions of the village leader's purge, the rapid industrialization of the ...
Warrior's Dishonour: Barbarity, Morality and Torture in ...

Warrior's Dishonour: Barbarity, Morality and Torture in ...

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16 See Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng and Benjamin Ajak, They Poured Fire on us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan (New York, 2005); Richard Maclure and Myriam Denov, '“I Didn't Want to Die So I ...
Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping

Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping

Richard Baum

As a result of Deng Xiaoping's reform initiatives, the austere and colorless collectivism of the Maoist era was supplanted by an upscale entrepreneurial ethos labeled "socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Reading Group Choices 2008: Selections for Lively Book ...

Reading Group Choices 2008: Selections for Lively Book ...

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The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Authors: Alephonsion Deng, Benson Deng, and Benjamin Ajak, with Judy A. Bernstein Publisher: Public Affairs, June 2006 Website: www.publicaffairsbooks.com Available in: Paperback , 311 ...
China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and ...

China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and ...

Kent G Deng

Changes and Economic Consequences, 1800-2000 Kent G Deng. Part I 1 Introduction Changes in modern China and their causes Overview Part I.
Rezeptionsgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur in ...

Rezeptionsgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Literatur in ...

Yi Zhang

... Günther 79, 143, 259 Dehmel, Richard 70, 96 Deng Shuangqin 275 Deng Xiaoping 207, 225 Denkler, Horst 232 Denton, KirkA. 83 Dethlefsen, Dirk 229, 274, 275 Diao Chengjun 275 Dickens 93, 239, 257 Dietrich, Marlene 134 Ding Na 25, ...
China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming ...

China in the 1980s: Centre-Province Relations in a Reforming ...

S. Breslin

1 Competing ideas and policies in post-Mao China Author Groupings Hamrin Chen Yun Hu Yaobang Deng Xiaoping Peng Zhen Zhao Ziyang Bachman Chen Yun Zhao Ziyang Deng Xiaoping Solinger Adjusters Reformers Conservers Chen  ...
Mapping China's Growth and Development in the Long Run, 221 ...

Mapping China's Growth and Development in the Long Run, 221 ...

Kent G Deng

The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based.
The Tao Priest of the Mao Mountain

The Tao Priest of the Mao Mountain

Deng Long Xin

怪物似乎感受到危险,立刻就收回了手,白芸一个往前,直接跌入白南风怀里。白南风单 手搂着她,另一手立刻换成一张符篆,念了一声咒后,迅速贴到那怪物的额头上。怪物 嘶吼了一声,立刻不动。白南风双指并拢,念唱起咒语来。片刻后,随着众救护人员的赶 来 ...
China in the 1990s

China in the 1990s

Robert Benewick

Now updated with a chapter-length afterword by the editors on the end of the Deng era and its aftermath, China in the 1990s provides a comprehensive survey of a nation in transition.
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Sorakara Hinotamaga (cover Blue)

Benson Deng

This true story is about three Lost Boys from Sudan who fled their village because of a sudden attack. It is the Japanese translation of "They poured Fire on Us From The Sky" published in 2005.
Pemikiran strategis Cina: dari Mao Zedong ke Deng Xiaoping

Pemikiran strategis Cina: dari Mao Zedong ke Deng Xiaoping

Rizal Sukma

Analysis on Chinese strategies for defence and security in Asia Pacific region, from Mao Tse-tung to Teng Hsiao-ping.
Speech Processing: A Dynamic and Optimization-Oriented Approach

Speech Processing: A Dynamic and Optimization-Oriented Approach

Li Deng

Based on years of instruction and field expertise, this volume offers the necessary tools to understand all scientific, computational, and technological aspects of speech processing.
Dynamic Speech Models

Dynamic Speech Models

Li Deng

They cover various aspects of theory, algorithms, and applications of dynamic speech models, and provide a comprehensive survey of the research work in this area spanning over past 20~years.
The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500-1914

The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500-1914

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Kent G. Deng In the Old World, China was among the first to establish a fiscal state. It was also one of the first societies that undertook the task of empire— building. What is most remarkable, however, is that a fiscal state in conjunction with an ...
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and ...

Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects and ...

Frank Dikötter

Since Deng Xiaoping's accession to power in 1978, human genetics has come to occupy centre stage in China, as a growing number of socially undesirable traits are attributed to so-called bad genes, which the state seeks to regulate.
The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton ...

The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton ...

Frederic Delano Grant, Jr.

... American Sociological Review, Vol. 50, pp. 181–195 (1985), p. 192. © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 4 | doi . 63/9789004 76567_ 3 Kent G . Deng, “Development and Its Deadlock in Imperial chapter 1 Chapter 1 Introduction.
Arbitrage, Credit and Informational Risks

Arbitrage, Credit and Informational Risks

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Choulli, Jun Deng and Monique Jeanblanc give conditions so that NUPBR is satisfied in the enlarged filtration, whereas NFLVR fails to hold. The second part contains four papers devoted to Credit Risk: Sébastien Hitier and Ying Zhu study the ...
China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and ...

China's Political Economy in Modern Times: Changes and ...

Kent G Deng

Hong Kong in Transition One country,two systems Editedby Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook and Robin Porter 12.Japan's Postwar ... The AngloJapanese Alliance, 1902–1922 PhillipsPaysonO'Brien 18. The United States and ...
Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass

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... Studies An SSLI Honor Book The Bronte Family: Passionate Literary Geniuses by Karen Smith Kenyon Deng Xiaoping: Leader in a Changing China by Whitney Stewart Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song by Katherine Krohn Emily Dickinson: ...
China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy

China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy

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Yong Deng and Fei-Ling Wang Mainstream theories of great power politics posit that under international anarchy, states are motivated by securing relative power advantage and are thus locked in the security dilemma from which they cannot ...
The New Asian Power Dynamic

The New Asian Power Dynamic

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'Terrorism and Chinese Foreign Policy', in Yong Deng and Fei-ling Wang, 2005, pp. 305–23. Segal, Gerald. 'Does China Matter?' Foreign Affairs, September– October, 78(5), 1999, pp. 2–36. Shambaugh, David. Beautiful Imperialist: China ...
Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

Fundamentals of Liquid Crystal Devices

Deng-Ke Yang

... Lueder OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications Takatoshi Tsujimura Illumination, Colour and Imaging: Evaluation and Optimization of Visual Displays Tran Quoc Khanh and Peter Bodrogi Interactive Displays: Natural Human- Interface ...
In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World

In the Eyes of the Dragon: China Views the World

Yong Deng

As Fei-Ling Wang suggests, this new nationalistic trend, particularly among Chinese youth, is partially a backlash against Western pressure on human rights and other criticisms of China's political system. As both Ming Zhang's and Fei- Ling ...
The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: ...

The Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka: ...

Nikolaos Biziouras

At Annapolis, Rebecca Bill Chavez,Gale Mattox, Ellie Malone, Yong Deng, Mike Kellermann, Linda Hull, George Nakos, Tassos Liakos, Alexis Alevras, and R. J. Goodman made sure thatI finished this book. Finally,I would like to thanka ...
This is China: The First 5,000 Years

This is China: The First 5,000 Years

Haiwang Yuan

... Rice University; Shiwei Chen, Lake Forest College; Stephanie Po-Yin Chung, Hong Kong Baptist University; Yingcong Dai, William Paterson University; Nirmal Dass, Ryerson University; Kent G. Deng, London School of Economics; Peter M.
Thomas Edison: Inventor of the Age of Electricity

Thomas Edison: Inventor of the Age of Electricity

Linda Tagliaferro

... MCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies An SSLI Honor Book THE BRONTE FAMILY: Passionate Literary Geniuses by Karen Smith Kenyon DENG XIAOPING: Leader in a Changing China by Whitney Stewart ...
Information Security Practice and Experience: Second ...

Information Security Practice and Experience: Second ...

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Second International Conference, ISPEC 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 11-14, 2006, Proceedings Kefei Chen, Robert Deng, Xuejia Lai, Jianying Zhou. Identity Based Key Insulated Signature Yuan Zhou, Zhenfu Cao⋆, and Zhenchuan Chai ...

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