Political selection in china

Political Selection in China

This Element critically reviews the literature on political selection in China to better structure our understanding of how much the preferences of th

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Political Selection in China

This Element critically reviews the literature on political selection in China to better structure our understanding of how much the preferences of th

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China’s Political System

Updated in its eleventh edition, ChinaÂ’s Political System continues to engage readers in the pursuit of greater understanding of Chinese politics pas

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China’s Political System

The 10th edition of ChinaÂ’s Political System continues to provide all of the tools professors need to introduce their students to Chinese politics in

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Political Economy of News in China

Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and ChomskyÂ’s propaganda model to the PeopleÂ’s Republic of China, examining the effects

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Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China

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Made in China

After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner

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Educating China

An in-depth analysis of how Chinese school textbooks published between 1902 and 1937 shaped new social, cultural, and political trends. Peter Zarrow e

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State and Capitalism in China

China's contemporary political economy features an emboldened role for the state as owner and regulator, and with markets expected to act in the servi

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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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China's International Socialization of Political Elites in the Belt and Road Initiative

This book argues that ChinaÂ’s international socialization of the political elites of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner states is an exceptionall

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China's Political Economy In The Xi Jinping Epoch: Domestic And Global Dimensions

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Political Order in Modern East Asian States

This undergraduate textbook explains political change and the shaping of political order in modern East Asian states: China, Japan, North Korea, South

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Oxford Progressive English Readers: Grade 3: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The New Oxford Progressive English Readers offer a great selection of classic novels and plays at six levels from renowned authors that have been abridged in the form of easy-to-read stories for children to enjoy.The readers contain:Adaptation of popular classics and modern fiction by well-known writersWide range of titles within each grade allows students to read widely,...

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Art and Artists in China since 1949

A lavishly illustrated study of the development of art and artists in China since 1949. The art of this period is of historical, political and cultura

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Politics of Everyday China

Providing both an overview of the political situation and context in China with ethnographic insights, The Politics of Everyday China aims to give bot

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Everyday Life in Early Imperial China

Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and social s

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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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The Evolution of China’s Political Economy Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book presents the reader with a clear picture of China’s economy and how it compares to other advanced economies, mainly the United States. The book unwraps the key features and structures of China’s economy. Moreover, it examines and shows the similarities and differences in comparison with other like economies. In that effort, it underscores the differences by eval...

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Political Passions and Jungian Psychology

In this book, a multidisciplinary and international selection of Jungian clinicians and academics discuss some of the most compelling issues in contem

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Bruno Barbey: China 1973 - 2013

The author first discovered China when he accompanied President Pompidou of France on an official visit there in 1973. This book comprises a selection

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Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960-1279 CE

Charles Hartman presents a groundbreaking revisionist history of the political culture of Imperial China as dominated by a struggle between 'technocra

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Patents and Innovation in Mainland China and Hong Kong

This is the first book to offer a detailed account of the relationship between patents and innovation in the unique political context of mainland Chin

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Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021

By examining the changing political economy in China through detailed studies of the peasantry, workers, middle classes, and the dominant class, this

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Beijing Rules: China´s Quest for Global Influence - Allen Bethany

Anotace: `Allen has shown remarkable courage in writing this . . . A disturbing, insightful book about China`s hidden, multitiered war-and how the West can fight back` Kirkus Reviews The remarkable story of China`s two-decade quest for global dominance.For several decades China`s ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of quie...

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Beijing Rules: China´s Quest for Global Influence - Bethany Allen

<p>'Allen has shown remarkable courage in writing this . . . A disturbing, insightful book about China's hidden, multitiered war-and how the West can fight back' Kirkus Reviews The remarkable story of China's two-decade quest for global dominance.For several decades China's ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of quiet...

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Sponsored Editorial Content in Digital Journalism Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is an investigation into the practices, possibilities and problems of sponsored editorial content across various national and regional contexts. The chapters range across countries and regions from China and Israel to Europe and North America. Following a general introduction, authors address political and commercial sponsorship across production, content and au...

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Prototype Nation

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production.

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Never Turn Back

The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Commun

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Golden Horde

As China flexes its political and economic might, one man at the highest levels in the Chinese government turns Mao's dictum - Power comes from the ba

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Communist Manifesto

Provides the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions. This book continues to

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Global Sourcing

The political and economic opening up of India, China, Turkey and the eastern European states have led to a change in competition on the world's marke

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Greek City States

Presents in translation a selection of the evidence for the cities and other states of ancient Greece, focusing primarily on political institutions an

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Gramsci Reader

A selection of Gramsci's writings in one volume including his most important political, cultural and historical work. The collection focuses on key co

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Pathways to Power

A cross-national analysis of political recruitment and candidate selection in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico

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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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Maoism : A Global History - Lovellová Julia

Anotace: Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao`s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People`s Republic. With disagreements between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.A crucial motor of the Cold War: Maoism sha...

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The Scarlet Alchemist - Kylie Lee Baker

<p>You cannot create good without also creating evil.'DAZZLING' Chloe GongZilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. But for now, she's trapped in her impoverished village in southern China, practicing an illegal form of alchemy to keep food on the ...

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Writing Manchuria: The Lives and Literature of Zhu Ti and Li Zhengzhong Taylor & Francis Ltd

Writing Manchuria details the lives and translates a selection of fiction from one of the mid-twentieth century’s four famous husband-wife writers of China’s Northeast, who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo: Li Zhengzhong (1921-2020) and Zhu Ti (1923-2012). Writing Manchuria is the first English-language translation of their writings, and it will appeal to t...

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien

Anotace: ONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen...

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien

<p>ONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016. In Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen ...

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Private Label - Yang Kelly

Anotace: The Devil Wears Prada meets Far from the Tree in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang`s powerful love story about two teens searching for their place in the world.Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom`s, but for now she`s an intern at her mom`s fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic canc...

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Changing World Order : Why Nations Succeed or Fail - Dalio Ray

Anotace: From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history`s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we`ve experienced in our lifetimes.A few years ago, re...

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Hold Up the Sky - Cch´-Sin Liou

Anotace: A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines ...

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Hold Up the Sky - Liou Cch´-Sin

<p>A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories - a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction. In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mine...

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Positions - Frédéric Edelmann,Françoise Ged

Anotace: Kniha představí více než 40 staveb čínských architektů, které vznikly v letech 2003 až 2008. Výběr reprezentuje novou generaci architektů tvořící v zemi, jejíž stavební tempo je v posledním desetiletí nezastavitelné. Obsahuje např. China Architecture Design & Research Group (podíleli se na Ptačím hnízdě), Jiakun Architects, Atelier Deshaus, Mada s.p.a.m (sp...

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Positions - Portrait of a New Generation of Chinese Architects - Frédéric Edelmann

<p>Kniha představí více než 40 staveb čínských architektů, které vznikly v letech 2003 až 2008. Výběr reprezentuje novou generaci architektů tvořící v zemi, jejíž stavební tempo je v posledním desetiletí nezastavitelné. Obsahuje např. China Architecture Design &amp; Research Group (podíleli se na Ptačím hnízdě), Jiakun Architects, Atelier Deshaus, Mada s.p.a.m (...

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Selected Poems (1847498671)

Kniha - 288 stran, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná, anglicky - 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose works, as well as many essays in which he propounded his philosophical views and radical political ideas. These, together with his highl...

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Selected Poems - W. B. Yeats

<p>The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a reflection of his lifelong fascination with the occult. It contains some of his best-known pieces, including th...

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Ai Weiwei (limited edition) - Ai Weiwei

<p>Today Ai Weiwei enjoys a reputation far beyond the art world. While his vast social or performance-based interventions and appropriated object-based artworks have secured his place as one of the world’s leading conceptual artists, Ai is equally known as a social media phenomenon, a political activist, and an outspoken champion of free expression in his native Chi...

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The Island Of Doctor Moreau - Wells Herbert George

Anotace: Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a tropical island, he is surprised to find he has company in the form of Dr Moreau.Driven out of Britain in disgrace, Dr Moreau has decided to explore his science in peace and isolation.It isn`t long before Prendick discovers the horrors it ...

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Nikki Giovanni: Poems 1968-2020 - Nikki Giovanniová

Anotace: A major new career-spanning selection from one of the world's foremost poets, an international treasure, from 1968 to the present day Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately became one of the most celebrated and controvers...

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Nikki Giovanni: Poems 1968-2020 - Nikki Giovanni

<p>A major new career-spanning selection from one of the world’s foremost poets, an international treasure, from 1968 to the present day Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s, she immediately became one of the most celebrated and controversial poets of...

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Stars We Wrecked

A beguiling story of espionage and its relationship with the entertainment industry. Penned in Slovakian, translated to English by Anna Jurisova. This is an extremely interesting glimpse into intrigue and its far-reaching initiatives, such as Elvis. "The Stars We Wrecked," takes readers on a journey through the would-be lens of an undercover operative performing clandesti...

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Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962. Cuban Missile Crisis offers an alternative interpretation of the events that followed the infamous nuclear stand off between the United States and Cuba. As th...

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Cuban Missile Crisis (PC)

Cuban Missile Crisis&nbsp;is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.Cuban Missile Crisis offers an alternative interpretation of the events that followed the infamous nuclear stand off between the United States and Cuba. As...

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Peter Blume

Russian American artist Peter Blume was one of the earliest practitioners of surrealist painting in the United States, and his elaborately detailed and dreamlike compositions helped define American Modernist art. Blume worked out the themes of his ambitious large-scale paintings through dozens of drafts in different media, slowly developing layers of allegory and imagery ...

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Rule the Waves 3

Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers! Rule the Waves 3 is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970 and will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age. Rule the Waves 3 will let...

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Rule the Waves 3 (PC)

Build Your Navy, from pre-Dreadnoughts to Aircraft Carriers and Missile Cruisers!Rule the Waves 3 is a simulation of naval ship design and construction, fleet management and naval warfare from 1890 to 1970 and will place you in the role of 'Grand Admiral' of a navy from the time when steam and iron dominated warship design up to the missile age. Rule the Waves 3...

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The Eternal Tao Te Ching : The Philosophical Masterwork of Taoism and - Hoff Benjamin

Anotace: From the bestselling author of The Tao of Pooh, a uniquely authentic translation of the enduring Tao Te Ching based on the meanings of the ancient Chinese characters in use when the Taoist classic was writtenFrom Benjamin Hoff, the author of The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet, which have sold millions of copies, comes a new translation of the Tao Te Ching. The...

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