Download or read book China Readies for Its Close Up written by Linn Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of China's 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the country is now fast-tracking its preparations for an expected 10,500 athletes and two million visitors. But global headlines cite China's unsafe product exports, regional corruption, and an eco-crisis from coal-fired plants and rising carbon-dioxide levels. Beijing's pollution in spring 2007 was the worst in seven years. Can the city clean up quickly for the gathering of the world's best athletes in summer 2008? On a more mundane but vital point will Beijing's notorious squat-toilets be replaced in time with spiffed-up public restrooms? More generally, what will foreign visitors find in China this summer? Where will they go? Stay? Dine? How will foreign visitors handle the large crowds? The Mandarin-only signage? And if they venture to Tibet, what about the high-altitude sickness that can accompany visits there? For nearly a month in 2007, author Linn Weiss visited Tibet, China's classic cities (Beijing, Chengdu, Guilin, Shanghai, Suzhou and Xi'an), and Hong Kong/Macao all favored destinations for the 2008 tourist assault. His travel commentator's aim: To observe " China on the eve" of its playing Olympics host then compile day-to-day personal surprises and challenges and, most usefully, key tips for travelers venturing there. What follows in this lively, humorous traveler's memoir is part-insider reportage (the author's daughter recently attended Beijing Film Academy on a scholarship grant, with interesting Chinese-film-industry contacts and insights). It's also regular visitor reportage (the author's small group crisscrossed China several times on an exciting journey involving various "special access" permissions). "All of China is one massive construction site right now," Amanda Weiss repeatedly warned her author/father as he made final trip preparations. "When you visit, be careful where you step!" Heading to China, author Linn Weiss wanted to see exactly how the Beijing Olympics were being wrought, and what foreign visitors will likely encounter when they arrive. Through their 5,000 years of history, the Chinese have been noted for their massive feats of engineering. But the full glare of global media scrutiny is less than a half-year away. Challenges and obstacles remain. Will China be ready at the Summer Games to face the cameras? The 2008 Olympics are soon approaching. Under the klieg lights of world attention, China is readying for its close-up. The whole world is watching. More than anything, the Olympics spirit extols human dignity in sports competition. Will China take this opportunity to prove that it truly has advanced as far as it claims? China Readies For Its Close-Up provides page-after-page of provocative daily insights, intriguing travel tips and evocative landscapes for would-be visitors with more than 100 beautiful color photo images of a vibrant China and its indomitable people now undergoing major transition.
Download or read book China Readies for Its Close up written by Linn Weiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of China's 2008 Summer Olympic Games, the country is now fast-tracking its preparations for an expected 10,500 athletes and two million visitors. But global headlines cite China's unsafe product exports, regional corruption, and an eco-crisis from coal-fired plants and rising carbon-dioxide levels. Beijing's pollution in spring 2007 was the worst in seven years. Can the city clean up quickly for the gathering of the world's best athletes in summer 2008? On a more mundane but vital point will Beijing's notorious squat-toilets be replaced in time with spiffed-up public restrooms? More generally, what will foreign visitors find in China this summer? Where will they go? Stay? Dine? How will foreign visitors handle the large crowds? The Mandarin-only signage? And if they venture to Tibet, what about the high-altitude sickness that can accompany visits there? For nearly a month in 2007, author Linn Weiss visited Tibet, China's classic cities (Beijing, Chengdu, Guilin, Shanghai, Suzhou and Xi'an), and Hong Kong/Macao all favored destinations for the 2008 tourist assault. His travel commentator's aim: To observe " China on the eve" of its playing Olympics host then compile day-to-day personal surprises and challenges and, most usefully, key tips for travelers venturing there. What follows in this lively, humorous traveler's memoir is part-insider reportage (the author's daughter recently attended Beijing Film Academy on a scholarship grant, with interesting Chinese-film-industry contacts and insights). It's also regular visitor reportage (the author's small group crisscrossed China several times on an exciting journey involving various "special access" permissions). "All of China is one massive construction site right now," Amanda Weiss repeatedly warned her author/father as he made final trip preparations. "When you visit, be careful where you step!" Heading to China, author Linn Weiss wanted to see exactly how the Beijing Olympics were being wrought, and what foreign visitors will likely encounter when they arrive. Through their 5,000 years of history, the Chinese have been noted for their massive feats of engineering. But the full glare of global media scrutiny is less than a half-year away. Challenges and obstacles remain. Will China be ready at the Summer Games to face the cameras? The 2008 Olympics are soon approaching. Under the klieg lights of world attention, China is readying for its close-up. The whole world is watching. More than anything, the Olympics spirit extols human dignity in sports competition. Will China take this opportunity to prove that it truly has advanced as far as it claims? China Readies For Its Close-Up provides page-after-page of provocative daily insights, intriguing travel tips and evocative landscapes for would-be visitors with more than 100 beautiful color photo images of a vibrant China and its indomitable people now undergoing major transition.
Download or read book The China Ready Company written by Steven H. Ganster and published by Tompkins Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps businesses determine what motivations are complling them to go to China and explores the major driving factors in that decision.
Download or read book China US Trade War and Trade Talk written by Miaojie Yu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the current tension between China and the US on trade imbalance and discusses China’s opening-up strategy in the context of this trade conflict. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the author presents a detailed analysis of the current state of the China-US trade relationship and describes the potential impacts of China-US trade conflicts. The topics covered in this section include the re-estimate of US trade deficit with China, China’s non-market economy status, the impact of China-US bilateral investment treaties on China’s manufacturing sectors, and the estimated welfare losses and gains resulting from the China-US trade war. Part II explores China’s possible response and development strategy in the context of de-globalization. Based on an overview of China’s three stages of economic reform and opening-up policy in the past four decades, the author discusses the future tasks that would move the country into a new stage of all-round opening up. Lastly, the book comprehensively reviews the role of processing trade, trade liberalization, and firm performance in promoting China’s miraculous economic growth so as to foster a better understanding of China’s experience of opening up over the past 4 decades.
Download or read book Trickle Down Censorship written by JFK Miller and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Westerner's inside look into the workings of Chinese society. For six years, from 2005 to 2011, Australian JFK Miller worked in Shanghai for English-language publications censored by state publishers under the aegis of the Chinese Communist Party. In this wry memoir, he offers a view of that regime, as he saw it, as an outsider from the bottom up. Trickle-Down Censorship explores how censorship affected him, a Westerner who took free speech for granted. It is about how he learned censorship in a system where the rules are kept secret; it is about how he became his own Thought Police through self-censorship; it is about the peculiar relationship he developed with his censors, and the moral choices he made as a result of censorship and how, having made those choices, he viewed others. This is also the story of a re-emerging colossus - China, the world's most populous nation and one of its oldest civilizations - and how the Chinese relate to foreigners and the outside world. The so-called "clash of civilizations" is played out in the microcosm of JFK Miller's experience working under Chinese state censorship.
Download or read book U S Trade with China written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China Ready written by Catherine Hua Xiang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Ready! prepares students and independent learners to work in the hospitality and tourism industry for high-value tourism business coming from China to English-speaking countries. The book focuses on listening and speaking skills – essential skills for learners. This book’s features include the following: • Important cultural and social awareness factors for interacting with clients from China • Vocabulary • Real-life scenarios • Situational role playing and interactive listening • Experiential exercises to encourage learning outside the classroom The book is aimed at students who have attained the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) A2 level and will bring them up to the CEFR B2/C1 level or 汉语水平 考试 (HSK) 4/5.
Download or read book Stan Lynn A Boy s Adventures in China written by George Manville Fenn and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China" by George Manville Fenn. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Close ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas written by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the most stylized shots in cinema—the close-up and the long shot—embody distinct attractions. The iconicity of the close-up magnifies the affective power of faces and elevates film to the discourse of art. The depth of the long shot, in contrast, indexes the facts of life and reinforces our faith in reality. Each configures the relation between image and distance that expands the viewer’s power to see, feel, and conceive. To understand why a director prefers one type of shot over the other then is to explore more than aesthetics: It uncovers significant assumptions about film as an art of intervention or organic representation. Close-ups and Long Shots in Modern Chinese Cinemas is the first book to compare these two shots within the cultural, historical, and cinematic traditions that produced them. In particular, the global revival of Confucian studies and the transnational appeal of feminism in the 1980s marked a new turn in the composite cultural education of Chinese directors whose shot selections can be seen as not only stylistic expressions, but ethical choices responding to established norms about self-restraint, ritualism, propriety, and female agency. Each of the films discussed—Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin, Jia Zhangke’s I Wish I Knew, and Wei Desheng’s Cape No. 7— represents a watershed in Chinese cinemas that redefines the evolving relations among film, politics, and ethics. Together these works provide a comprehensive picture of how directors contextualize close-ups and long shots in ways that make them interpretable across many films as bellwethers of social change.
Download or read book Executive sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 101 Great Ready to Use Book Lists for Teens written by Nancy J. Keane and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the author's work in The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists, this book provides 101 new and revised reading lists created in consultation with teachers and public librariansan invaluable resource for any educator who plans activities for children that involve using literature. Nancy J. Keane is the author of the award-winning website BooktalksQuick and Simple (nancykeane.com/booktalks), as well as the creator of the open collaboration wiki ATN Book Lists. With her latest book, 101 Great, Ready-to-Use Book Lists for Teens, she provides another indispensable resource for librarians and teachers. The lists in this book are the result of careful consultation with teachers and public librarians, and from discussions on professional email lists. These indispensable lists can be utilized in many waysfor example, as handouts to teachers as suggested reading, to create book displays, or as display posters in the library. This collection will facilitate the creation of valuable reading lists to support the extended reading demands of today's teens.
Download or read book Ready Willing written by Elizabeth Bevarly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the USA Today bestselling author of Fast and Loose. When widow Audrey Magill stumbles onto a portrait of a nineteenth century riverboat captain, she thinks it will add just the right touch to her new hat shop. What it really adds is the ghost of Silas Summerfield, who insists he needs Audrey to help save the soul of his great-great-however-many-greats grandson Nathaniel. Now in addition to scrambling to open her shop in time for the Kentucky Derby, she has to try to convince a complete stranger that he’s in danger of losing his soul. Wildly successful businessman Nathaniel Summerfield knows a nut job when he sees one, and Audrey Magill, attractive as she is, certainly qualifies. Does she really think his latest business deal could jeopardize his soul? He’s worked too hard to let paranormal mumbo-jumbo get in his way. But then strange things begin to happen to him, not the least of which is his inability to get Audrey the nut job out of his mind. Talk about being haunted. Between men, millinery, and mortal souls, Audrey’s got her work cut out for her. Especially when it becomes clear that what’s at stake isn’t just Nathaniel’s ever-after, but a chance for both of them to find everlasting love.
Download or read book Whenever You re Ready written by Jeeyoon Kim and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeeyoon Kim is a professional concert pianist who has performed in venues like Carnegie Hall, the Chamber Music Society in San Francisco, and the Stradivari Society in Chicago. As an accomplished performing artist and award-winning music educator, she credits her success to key disciplines, practices, and mindsets that she lives out every day. In Whenever You’re Ready, she gives readers a personal glimpse into her life, shares wisdom and insights she’s gained from her experiences, and shows people how to achieve their own personal and professional success. Structured like one of the concerts she performs, this self-help book starts with a prelude and contains five movements, each focused on a different theme, such as forming habits and boosting creativity. Each movement is followed by a quick intermission that takes readers through a mini master class to help them gain an appreciation of classical music. Before every performance, Jeeyoon prepares herself mentally, emotionally, and physically in the green room. She knows she’ll soon step onto the stage, where people have come to see what she has to offer the world. In the final moment when she’s backstage and about to meet her audience, she notes that someone, with their hand on the stage door, always waits for her cue. “Whenever you’re ready . . .” they tell her. She nods, they open the door, and it’s time for her to perform. This book is about helping readers prepare themselves mentally, emotionally, and physically for their own performances. Whether they are hoping to land a job, practicing for a speech, training for a marathon, or trying to accomplish a goal, Jeeyoon’s book will offer them advice, encouragement, and practical exercises they can use to help them perform at their best and achieve their dreams. With warmth, honesty, and compassion, Jeeyoon speaks to readers who are in their own green rooms and invites them to live the life they hope for.
Download or read book The Coming Collapse of China written by Gordon G. Chang and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state-owned enterprises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment continues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society. Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so-distant future.
Download or read book One World Ready Or Not written by William Greider and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02-10 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting the viewpoints of politicians, workers, and others, the author assesses the global economy, points to problems of unregulated capital and labor, and proposes solutions the U.S. must take to lead the world economy onwards.
Download or read book The Long Game written by Rush Doshi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does China want, does it have a grand strategy to achieve it, and what should the United States do about it? In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War. Taking readers behind the Party's closed doors, he uncovers Beijing's long, methodical game to displace America from its hegemonic position in both the East Asia regional and global orders through three sequential "strategies of displacement." Beginning in the 1980s, China focused for two decades on "hiding capabilities and biding time." After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, it became more assertive regionally, following a policy of "actively accomplishing something." Finally, in the aftermath populist elections of 2016, China shifted to an even more aggressive strategy for undermining US hegemony, adopting the phrase "great changes unseen in century." After charting how China's long game has evolved, Doshi offers a comprehensive yet asymmetric plan for an effective US response. Ironically, his proposed approach takes a page from Beijing's own strategic playbook to undermine China's ambitions and strengthen American order without competing dollar-for-dollar, ship-for-ship, or loan-for-loan.
