Geography of contemporary china

Geography of Contemporary China

This book will appeal to undergraduate students of geography and related disciplines with a regional focus on China and to the general reader who want

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Contemporary China

This textbook introduces the complexity and diversity of ChinaÂ’s society, politics, economics, and international affairs. It will be particularly use

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Art of Contemporary China

A redefinition of contemporary Chinese art of the last forty years in the context of unprecedented cultural, political and urban transformation.

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Contemporary Human Geography

These are all skills that can then be applied in a wide range of academic and professional areas. With chapters organised into 5 different themes, y

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Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China

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Disability in Contemporary China

Through innovative analysis of sources from film to literature and life writing, media and state documents, Dauncey explores disability and citizenshi

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Digital Architecture in Contemporary China

Comprising a detailed study of more than 30 projects, Digital Architecture in China provides a comprehensive overview of how digital architecture is u

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Corporate Women in Contemporary China

Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in todayÂ’s urban China, and how it has permeated beyo

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Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China

This study examines the culture of leadership—within the government, the Communist Party, and business—in contemporary China. The author analyzes th

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Political Geography

The updated edition explores the corporatization of politics, challenges to globalization, and the increasingly influential role of China. New materia

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Abolition Geography

First collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration.

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Abolition Geography

First collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration.

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American Geography

A powerful, compelling monograph that reveals the reality of the unseen and forgotten contemporary America.

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Urban Geography

This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.

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Urban Geography

Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urba

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Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative inter

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Facing China

An exploration of the portrait arts in China, from the dynastic to the contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video.

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Introduction to Political Geography

Exploring the full breadth of contemporary political geography, this title covers traditional concerns and political geography research. It includes c

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Citizenship and Education in Contemporary China Taylor & Francis Ltd

The essays in this book offer various perspectives on and understandings of Chinese citizenship and education by a group of scholars of Chinese heritage situated inside and outside of China. They offer compelling evidence and rich theoretical discussions about the practice of teaching citizenship in the state education, the interplay between citizenship and Chinaarsquo,s ...

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Contemporary China in Anglo-American and Chinese Perspectives

This book identifies differing approaches to the issues of conceptualising hegemony, hegemony-building processes and the relationship between a hegemo

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Emerging Industrial Relations of China

A study of the tumultuous changes in the contemporary labour relations of China. It is a comprehensive study for scholars and graduate students workin

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The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art) - Jiang Jiehong (EN)

Předefinování současného čínského umění posledních čtyřiceti let v kontextu bezprecedentní kulturní, politické a městské transformace

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The Future of Geography - Marshall Tim

Anotace: Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries` GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn`t science fiction. It`s astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we`re taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers and seas have on Earth. It`s no ...

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China's Guaranteed Bubble

Analysis of how credit systems in contemporary China threaten the country's economic stability

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China's Contained Resource Curse

This is the first monograph on the socioeconomic and political impacts of minerals on contemporary China, examining the distinctive effects of mineral

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China's Relations with Africa

This book examines the full scope of contemporary political and security relations between China and Africa. Drawing on two decades of systematic data

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Congress and China Policy

This book compares bipartisan Congressional majorities resolutely defending America from serious contemporary Chinese challenges with past episodes of

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China in Ten Words

A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 125th annivers

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Contemporary Chinese Art

Contemporary Chinese Art examines China's thriving present-day cultural scene, from the country's issues of state control to its booming artistic mark

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Routledge Handbook of Sport in China

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China. I

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Irishman in China

It was a long journey--in more ways than mere geography--from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life of Robert Hart, whose career in China spanned more than half a century during the turbulent last decades of the Qing dynasty. As the Qing government's Inspector General of the...

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Social Governance and Political Order in Contemporary China Taylor & Francis Ltd

Focusing on the conflict and coordination between social development and political order in social governance, this book investigates the causes, evolution and manifestations of such tensions in contemporary China, combining both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The title is essential reading for scholars and students studying sociology and political science, especi...

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Reading China Against the Grain

Through an analysis of a wide array of contemporary Chinese literature from inside and outside of China, this volume considers some of the ways in whi

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Bai: The New Language of Porcelain in China

One of the most famous contemporary ceramic artists from China, Bai Ming has contributed to the revival of contemporary Chinese ceramics. In this book

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Routledge Handbook of Sport in China Taylor & Francis Ltd

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China. It opens different perspectives on Chinese sport and addresses a wide range of issues central to the development of sport in the context of Chinese culture, politics, economy and society. It explores a diverse set of topics i...

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Rediscovery of Cultural Landscapes in Southern China Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book investigates the concept of Human Landscape in rural settlements in Southern China, where communities and their cultural landscapes are facing contemporary challenges following a period of rapid urbanization in the last fifty years. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical framework, the book presents six unique cases including: Tai O, Yim Tin Tsai, Lai Ch...

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In China When It All Began

The first international volume and the very first English release on Xiao Quan, one of the most acclaimed contemporary photographers in China.

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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know - Tim Marshall

<p>DISCOVER THE TEN MAPS THAT REVEAL THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD IN THE POWER OF GEOGRAPHY - THE SEQUEL TO PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY - OUT ON 22/04/2021 - PREORDER NOW! THE MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERGeography shapes not only our history, but where we're headed...All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and co...

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An Irishman in China - Changtian Zhao

Anotace: It was a long journey--in more ways than mere geography--from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life of Robert Hart, whose career in China spanned more than half a century during the turbulent last decades of the Qing dynasty. As the Qing government`s Inspector Gene...

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Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know - Marshall Tim

Anotace: THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements...but if you don`t know geography, you`ll never have the full picture.; To understand Putin`s actions, for example, it is ess...

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The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World - THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Tim Marshall

<p>THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023 Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This ...

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The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World - THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Marshall Tim

Anotace: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy international bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and The Power of GeographySpy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes.This isn`t sc...

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Life After Death Today in the United States, Japan, and China

This book is about contemporary senses of life after death in the United States, Japan, and China.

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Routledge Companion to China and the Middle East and North Africa Taylor & Francis Ltd

Focusing on China’s relations with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this Companion provides essential analysis of a complex region which threatens to become the battleground for rival powers in the future. Combining contemporary analysis with accessible prose, the book will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers active in international relations, s...

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Seeking a Future for the Past

Examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork

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Communities of Complicity

Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. This ethnographic study of the vi

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The Socialist Transformation of Memory Taylor & Francis Ltd

Through discourse analysis and historical comparison of Pernicious Vestiges narrative in the news text of People’s Daily, this book is devoted to revealing its primary metaphors and political functions in China. Pernicious Vestiges is one of the most frequently used words in contemporary Chinese historical narration, as well as a constantly changing rhetorical direction i...

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World Atlas of Wine, 7th Edition

"Immense and beautiful - almost drinkable" -- Midweek, BBC Radio 4 "Simply superb work...buy it if you like wine at all." -- Victoria Moore, The Telegraph "If I owned only one wine book, it would be this one. And this edition, please." -- Andrew Jefford, Decanter Few wine books can be called classic but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history...

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Post-Western Histories of Architecture Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India and Japan, where particular movements of architecture have developed as active ‘political acts’....

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The Art of War - Tzu Sun

Anotace: For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu`s The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in relationships. Now, i...

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Oxford History of the Twentieth Century

Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel was yet to come. Before antibiotics and effective vaccines against many common diseases, death rates were high. Over the c...

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Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia Taylor & Francis Ltd

This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the 19th to the 21st century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today. Addressing collective traumas from across East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam) this book is a valuable res...

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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (1846684307)

Kniha - autor Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The bestselling book which explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. The authors argue that a nation's failure is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions, and draw on a range of contemporary and historical...

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The Art of War, 1. vydání - Sun Tzu

<p>For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in relationships. Now, in...

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The New Silk Roads : The Present and Future of the World - Peter Frankopan

<p>A brand new book from the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads `Masterly mapping out of a new world order' - Evening Standard Revised and updated edition The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today. The world is changing dramatically ...

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Inequality in the Developing World

An analysis of the elevated level of contemporary global economic inequality--its measurement, trends over time and geography, and the policy challeng

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Chinese Lifestyle

The research presented in this book explores the formation of the middle class in contemporary urban China.

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Beijing Rules

One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance.

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Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan

Explores religious identity and change in China, focusing on the activity of non-Chinese Christian missionaries in contemporary Yunnan.

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Jade Ladder

Comprehensive anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. Indispensable reading for anyone with an interest in the future not just of China, but of poet

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