Download or read book A Study Guide to the Chinese Adapting the Past Facing the Future written by Thomas M. Buoye and published by U of M Center for Chinese Studies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textbook The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future is a massive book that collects diverse materials and often differing opinions, presenting a challenge to students accustomed to more conventional texts. This Study Guide has been designed to help two kinds of students meet this challenge. For those who use The Chinese as a stand-alone classroom text, the Study Guide will help them integrate and assimilate the diverse materials and opinions they encounter in its pages. For other, nontraditional, students, this guide performs the additional service of coordinating the readings with the twenty-six half-hour video segments of The Chinese telecourse package. Students of both kinds will find the Study Guide helpful as they seek to consolidate their understanding of the many complex issues they encounter. [v]
Download or read book A Study Guide to the Chinese Adapting the Past Facing the Future written by Thomas M. Buoye and published by U of M Center for Chinese Studies. This book was released on 1992 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textbook The Chinese: Adapting the Past, Facing the Future is a massive book that collects diverse materials and often differing opinions, presenting a challenge to students accustomed to more conventional texts. This Study Guide has been designed to help two kinds of students meet this challenge. For those who use The Chinese as a stand-alone classroom text, the Study Guide will help them integrate and assimilate the diverse materials and opinions they encounter in its pages. For other, nontraditional, students, this guide performs the additional service of coordinating the readings with the twenty-six half-hour video segments of The Chinese telecourse package. Students of both kinds will find the Study Guide helpful as they seek to consolidate their understanding of the many complex issues they encounter. [v]
Download or read book Manslaughter Markets and Moral Economy written by Thomas M. Buoye and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Thomas Buoye examines the impact of large-scale economic change on social conflict in eighteenth-century China. He draws upon a large body of actual, documented homicide cases originating in property disputes to recreate the social tensions of rural China during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795). The development of property rights, a process that had begun in the Ming dynasty, was accompanied by other changes that fostered disruption and conflict, including an explosion in the population growth and the increasing strain on land and resources, and increasing commercialization in agriculture. Buoye challenges the 'markets' and 'moral economy' theories of economic behaviour. Applying the theories of Douglass North for the first time to this subject, he uses an institutional framework to explain seemingly irrational economic choices. Buoye examines demographic and technological factors, ideology, and political and economic institutions in rural China to understand the link between economic and social change.
Download or read book Study Guide to China written by Thomas M. Buoye and published by U of M Center for Chinese Studies. This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future combines original essays by leading experts with excerpts from primary sources, the latest scholarship, Chinese literature, and Western media reports to provide a comprehensive textbook on contemporary China. Completely updated, China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future is the latest in a series of classroom units on China from the Center of Chinese Studies at The University of Michigan. It is not only ideal for courses on contemporary China but also an excellent supplement for courses in area studies, international affairs and economics, and women's studies. Each section, in addition to essay and excerpts, also includes a bibliography of additional topical works as well as suggestions for complementary video and internet teaching resources.
Download or read book Contract and Property in Early Modern China written by Madeleine Zelin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly on contract and property, in Qing and Republican history, this volume provides case studies to explicate how these institutions worked, while situating them firmly in their broader social context.
Download or read book AccessAsia written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Institutional Variety in East Asia written by Werner Pascha and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating book broadly addresses the emerging field of 'diversity of Capitalism' from a comparative institutional approach. It explores the varied patterns for achieving coordination in different economic systems, applying them specifically to China, Japan and South Korea. These countries are of particular interest due to the fact that they are often considered to have developed their own peculiar blend of models of capitalism. The expert contributors take a common institutional approach, focusing on institutions at the macro level. They present case studies to demonstrate the diversity of institutional patterns at the advent of the 21st century, both within the East Asian region and elsewhere. Examples of stability within existing institutions are illustrated alongside examples of comprehensive institutional change. Underpinning the case studies are a set of theoretical and empirical challenges for researchers concerned with national institutional settings, path dependence and endogenous dynamics.
Download or read book China s Future written by David Shambaugh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at a critical juncture in the development of its economy, society, polity, national security, and international relations. The direction the nation takes at this turning point will determine whether it stalls or continues to develop and prosper. Will China be successful in implementing a new wave of transformational reforms that could last decades and make it the world's leading superpower? Or will its leaders shy away from the drastic changes required because the regime's power is at risk? If so, will that lead to prolonged stagnation or even regime collapse? Might China move down a more liberal or even democratic path? Or will China instead emerge as a hard, authoritarian and aggressive superstate? In this new book, David Shambaugh argues that these potential pathways are all possibilities - but they depend on key decisions yet to be made by China's leaders, different pressures from within Chinese society, as well as actions taken by other nations. Assessing these scenarios and their implications, he offers a thoughtful and clear study of China's future for all those seeking to understand the country's likely trajectory over the coming decade and beyond.
Download or read book A Study Guide to The Chinese written by Thomas M. Buoye and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Robert C. Provine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 2195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores not only the close ties that link the cultures and musics of East and Northeast Asia, but also the distinctive features that separate them.
Download or read book The Chinese written by Robert F. Dernberger and published by U of M Center for Chinese Studies. This book was released on 1991 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help frontline clinicians feel comfortable with the medical, social, and legal basis for intervention in cases of maltreatment or family violence. Emphasizes diagnosis, but also includes references to legal cases and to articles in law journals. Published by the Center for Chinese Studies at the U. of Michigan, prefer a chronological approach), and an index. Lane Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, and published in its first edition as The Chinese: adapting the past, building the future (1986). The second edition was prepared to accompany a telecourse linked to the PBS television series focus on various aspects of China's history and geography, politics, society, economy, culture, and future, including discussion of recent events. New to this edition are the citation of original sources for interested readers, a table grouping readings by period (for those who Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book A Protestant Church in Communist China written by John Craig William Keating and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of religious belief is guaranteed under the constitution of the People’s Republic of China, but the degree to which this freedom is able to be exercised remains a highly controversial issue. Much scholarly attention has been given to persecuted underground groups such as Falungong, but one area that remains largely unexplored is the relationship between officially registered churches and the communist government. This study investigates the history of one such official church, Moore Memorial Church in Shanghai. This church was founded by American Methodist missionaries. By the time of the 1949 revolution, it was the largest Protestant church in East Asia, running seven day a week programs. As a case study of one individual church, operating from an historical (rather than theological) perspective, this study examines the experience of people at this church against the backdrop of the turbulent politics of the Mao and Deng eras. It asks and seeks to answer questions such as: were the people at the church pleased to see the foreign missionaries leave? Were people forced to sign the so-called “Christian manifesto”"? Once the church doors were closed in 1966, did worshippers go underground? Why was this particular church especially chosen to be the first re-opened in Shanghai in 1979? What explanations are there for its phenomenal growth since then? A considerable proportion of the data for this study is drawn from Chinese language sources, including interviews, personal correspondence, statistics, internal church documents and archives, many of which have never previously been published or accessed by foreign researchers. The main focus of this study is on the period from 1949 to 1989, a period in which the church experienced many ups and downs, restrictions and limitations. The Mao era, in particular, remains one of the least understood and seldom written about periods in the history of Christianity in China. This study therefore makes a significant contribution to our evolving understanding of the delicate balancing act between compromise, co-operation and compliance that categorises church-state relations in modern China.
Download or read book Student Study Guide to The Ancient Chinese World written by Terry Kleeman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Student Study Guides are important and unique components that are available for each of the books in The World in Ancient Times series. Each of the Student Study Guides is designed to be used with the main text at school or sent home for homework assignments. The activities in the Student Study guide will help students get the most out of their history books. Each student study guide includes a chapter-by-chapter two-page lesson that uses a variety of interesting activities to help a student master history and develop important reading and study skills.
Download or read book Evolution of Power written by Xiaobing Li and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution of Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China’s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civil-military relations, intersection of politics and law, and democratization, this volume situates current legitimacy and constitutional debates in the context of both the country’s ideology and traditions and the wider global community. The contributors to this volume clarify key Chinese conceptual frameworks to explain previous subjects that have been confusing or neglected, offering case studies and policy analyses connected with power struggles and political crises in China. A general pattern is introduced and developed to illuminate contemporary problems with government accountability, public opposition, and political transparency. Evolution of Power provides essential scholarship on China’s political development and growth.
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Download or read book Global Leadership and Wisdoms of the World written by Eric H. Kessler and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book excavates hidden wisdoms from 17 diverse language cultures around the world, from Arabic and British-English to Russian and Swahili. Further, it explores their critical insights for global leadership, extrapolating important lessons on group dynamics, decision-making, conflict management, motivation, ethics, communication, diversity, strategy, and organizational effectiveness.
Download or read book Stronger written by Serhiy Zhadan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing advantages “This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how the United States can renew its advantages in its competition with China.”—Ambassador Susan E. Rice, former U.S. National Security Advisor “Ryan Hass has provided an indispensable and timely contribution to understanding our critical path forward with China.”—Jon M. Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to China and Russia Ryan Hass charts a path forward in America’s relationship and rivalry with China, a path rooted in the relative advantages America already possesses. Hass argues that while competition will remain the defining trait of the relationship, both countries will continue to be impacted—for good or ill—by their capacity to coordinate on common challenges that neither can solve on its own, such as pandemic disease, global economic development, climate change, and nuclear nonproliferation. Hass makes the case that the United States will have greater success in outpacing China economically and outshining it in questions of governance if it focuses more on improving its condition at home than on trying to impede Chinese initiatives. He argues that the task at hand is not to stand in China’s way and, in the process, turn a rising power into an enemy but to renew America’s advantages in its competition with China.
