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From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights ...

From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights ...

Merle Goldman

Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their ...
Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market

Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market

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Merle Goldman, Professor of History Emerita Boston University and Associate of the John K Fairbank Center for East Asian Research Harvard University Merle Goldman, Edward Gu. of History, Nankai University, Tianjin. He is the author of ...
The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms

The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms

Merle Goldman

The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O'Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin King Whyte, Thomas P. Bernstein, Dorothy J. Solinger, David S. G. Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle ...
China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent

China's Intellectuals: Advise and Dissent

Merle Goldman

Examines ideological conflict in China since 1960 and shows how purges resulted when dissent exceeded official political limits
Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth

Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth

Peter Glassgold

Goldman was imprisoned and ultimately deported to her native Russia. This new edition includes the transcripts from the trial and the summations of both Alexander Berkman and Goldman.
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia

Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia

Merle Goldman

In these original essays, distinguished scholars of modern East Asia distill from long years of research interpretive accounts of late nineteenth--and twentieth-century China, Japan, and Korea.
Memories of and from Robert "Shanghai Bob" Goldman: May 30, ...

Memories of and from Robert "Shanghai Bob" Goldman: May 30, ...

Robert Goldman

Reminiscences about the family and life of Robert Goldman written by Robert Goldman and members of his family.
Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance

Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance

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(Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1996); Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds), The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999); and Gardner Bovingdon (in press, 2010) The Uyghurs: Strangers in  ...
The Goldman Sachs Group

The Goldman Sachs Group

WetFeet (Firm)

Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success (Touchstone, 2000) was written by Lisa Endlich, a former vice president at Goldman, and gives the firm's history from an insider's perspective; critics suggest that the book isn't as critical as it could be.
Practical Guide to Project Planning

Practical Guide to Project Planning

Ricardo Viana Vargas

... Bob Goldman Project manager Bob Goldman Date 11/30/2010 Note: Figure 4.20e APPROVALS Bob Goldman Project manager Bob Goldman Date 11/30/ 2010 Figure 4.25 APPROVALS Bob Goldman Project manager Bob Goldman Date.
Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era

Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era

Merle Goldman

This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China's Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people.
Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China

Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China

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Merle Goldman, Elizabeth J Perry. state of citizenship in contemporary China. Commercialization and urbanization, Solinger cautions, do not lead inexorably to political liberalization or political inclusion. Instead she finds that "citizenship does ...
Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China

Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China

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Elizabeth J Perry, Merle Goldman. Village Elections, Transparency, and Anticorru ption: Henan and Guangdong Provinces Village self-government and, in particular, village elections, village-level transparency, and associated anticorruption ...
When Money Was In Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and ...

When Money Was In Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and ...

June Breton Fisher

5. died, reportedly of syphilis, at the age of fortyfive: Private family letters. 6. Jacob Schiff was fascinated: Birmingham,Our Crowd, p. 160. 7. “did not wish to tarnish the firm's good name”: Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs (New York: Knopf, 2005), ...
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

William D. Cohan

Or was there more at work than simply the magic of 'The Goldman Way'? In Money and Power William D Cohan peers behind the curtain to give us the inside story of why Goldman is so profitable, and so powerful.
Management

Management

Ricky W. Griffin

Case References Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999); Charles D. Ellis, The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs (New York: Penguin Press, 2008); Lisa Endlich, “Inside Goldman  ...
Kim: My Life Before, During, and After the Trial of the Century

Kim: My Life Before, During, and After the Trial of the Century

Kim Goldman

Remembered most vividly for her gut-wrenching sobs of despair in her father's arms when hearing "not guilty" in the Trial of the Century courtroom, Kim Goldman had lost her only sibling and best friend, Ron Goldman, to a brutal murder.
Can't Forgive: My 20-Year Battle with O. J. Simpson

Can't Forgive: My 20-Year Battle with O. J. Simpson

Kim Goldman

My 20-Year Battle with O. J. Simpson Kim Goldman. CAN'T FORGIVE My Twenty- Year Battle with O.J. Simpson KIM GOLDMAN BenBella Books, Inc. Dallas, TX Copyright © 2015 by Kim Goldman First E-book Edition: May.
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

Merle Miller

The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought ...
Famous Social Reformers & Revolutionaries 2: Emma Goldman

Famous Social Reformers & Revolutionaries 2: Emma Goldman

Teacher Forum

It is generally reported that Goldman got attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair.
The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel ...

The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel ...

Julia Lovell

China'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 ...
An Intellectual History of Modern China

An Intellectual History of Modern China

Merle Goldman

This book is the only comprehensive book on modern China's intellectual history.
From the hills of dream, mountain songs and island runes, by ...

From the hills of dream, mountain songs and island runes, by ...

William Sharp

The White Merle. JONG, long ago, a white merle flew out of Eden. Its song has been in the world ever since, but few there are who have seen the flash of its white wings through the green-gloom of the living wood — the sun-splashed, ...
Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich, and ...

Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich, and ...

Jeswald W. Salacuse

Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), p. vii. 8. For an excellent history of Goldman Sachs and its decision to go public, see Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success ( 2000).
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

Ted Kerasote

Using the latest in wolf research and exploring issues of animal consciousness and leadership and the origins of the human-dog relationship, Ted Kerasote takes us on the journey he and Merle shared.
Wealth vs. Work: How 1% Victimize 99%

Wealth vs. Work: How 1% Victimize 99%

Allan C. Ornstein

Bu 1,9. [23] Devin Leonard, “Bargains in the Boardroom?,” New York Times, April 4, 2010, pp. B1, B8. [24] In 2005, Goldman paid more than 50 employees more than $20 million each. See Graham Bowley, “3.4 Billion Profit at Goldman .
William Goldman

William Goldman

Richard Andersen

Critically examines the drama and fiction of William Goldman, the contemporary writer and teacher best known for Boys and Girls Together and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Making Objects and Events: A Hylomorphic Theory of ...

Making Objects and Events: A Hylomorphic Theory of ...

Simon J. Evnine

There are, however, aspects of the Kim/Goldman approach to events that suggest hylomorphism in a way that is independent of the goal of saying what kinds of events actions are. This will become evident in the next section. 7.3.3 Goldman ...

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