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Transforming Rural China

How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China

by Chih-Jou Jay Chen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, finding that distinction between the public and the private...
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by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Do you have Chinese blood in you? Have you ever wondered what Ancient China was like, and what customs practiced then are still alive today? Take a glimpse into the past through this educational picture book for children. Learning about past origins will help you get a firmer grasp of the present. It will also lead to a deeper appreciation of your ancestors. Read this book today!
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by Judith Gautier, Pierre Loti, Ruth Helen Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Example in this ebook   Thoroughly to understand China, one must realize that it has for three hundred years cherished in its heart a deep and continually bleeding wound. When the country was conquered by the Manchus of Tartary, the ancient dynasty of the Mings was forced to yield...
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by George Birdsall
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014

Symbols of China is a personal reflection of 50 years of experiences with Chinese culture including, Feng Shui, Family business connections, acupuncture and a trip to Beijing, the Great Wall, Xian, Terracotta Warriors and Shanghai. It outlines how important symbols are to Chinese Culture as a way...
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by Pang-Mei Chang
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011

"In China, a woman is nothing." Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between...
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China's Economic Growth

A Miracle with Chinese Characteristics

by Yanrui Wu
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

The current growth of the Chinese economy is of immense importance for the global economy. This book outlines the main characteristics of Chinese economic growth over the last two decades, and investigates in detail the key determinants of growth, especially capital formation and productivity issues....
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by Richard Bangs
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014

An exciting adventure following several expeditions competing to be the first to descent China's longest river, from its headwaters in Tibet to the Three Gorges region, and eventually to the East China Sea. Among the players are a megalomaniac American fishing guide, patriotic members of China's...
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Power and Restraint

A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship

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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009

Over several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in a major research project, sponsored by the China–U.S. Exchange Foundation (USEF), to address the big bilateral and global issues the two countries face. Historically, the ascension of a great power has...
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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

The Art of Social Relationships in China

by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all...
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The China Questions

Critical Insights into a Rising Power

by Jennifer Rudolph
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

Many books offer information about the world’s most populous country, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. Thirty of the world’s leading China experts—affiliates of Harvard’s renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its people and their leaders tick.
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Red Lights

The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China

by Tiantian Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009

In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke...
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by Ralph D. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty--indeed, war was the...
Cover of Southeast China Travel Guide: Culture - Sightseeing - Activities - Hotels - Nightlife - Restaurants – Transportation
by Adam Bright
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013

(Approx 70 Pages) Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground. Finding Internet access...
Cover of Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates
by Peter Ward Fay
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century...
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