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New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times
Göran Aijmer
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• Author(s): Göran Aijmer • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsThis study, which has been conducted in the spirit of a symbologically inclin...
View full detailsWong Kar-Wai's Ashes of Time
Wimal Dissanayake
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• Author(s): Wimal Dissanayake • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAshes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been consider...
View full detailsPerspectives on Marine Environmental Change in Hong Kong, 1977-2001
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Animals - Marine LifeMalacological, wetland and marine international workshops have been convened in Hong Kong at approxima...
View full detailsAt Home with Density [With CDROM]
Nuala Rooney
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• Author(s): Nuala Rooney • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralHong Kong has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and is one of the most prosperous societies , but...
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Nuala Rooney
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• Author(s): Nuala Rooney • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralHong Kong has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and is one of the most prosperous societies , but...
View full detailsThe Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel
Alain Dieckhoff
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• Author(s): Alain Dieckhoff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralFor two centuries, according to Alain Dieckhoff, the Jews were remarkable experimenters. Rea...
View full detailsThe Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing
William Kasdorf
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• Author(s): William Kasdorf • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Publishers & Publishing IndustryThe first comprehensive guide to all aspects of digital publishing, from rights to eBo...
View full detailsModern Construction Project Management, Second Edition
Siu Lam Tang
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• Author(s): Siu Lam Tang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementFrom the Back CoverConstruction / Real Estate
Generalist Practice: A Task-Centered Approach
Eleanor Reardon Tolson
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• Author(s): Eleanor Reardon Tolson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis essential text presents a "task-centered" methodology―a structured, short-term problem-solving appr...
View full detailsSome Did It for Civilisation; Some Did It for Their Country: A Revised View of the Boxer War
Jane Elliott
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• Author(s): Jane Elliott • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book marks a total departure from previous studies of the Boxer War. It evaluates th...
View full detailsPost-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era
Roy A. Medvedev
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• Author(s): Roy A. Medvedev • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentRoy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to ...
View full detailsMobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
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• Author(s): Carrie Rosefsky Wickham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)The book explains how Islamist groups captured the hearts and minds ...
View full detailsMobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
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• Author(s): Carrie Rosefsky Wickham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)The book explains how Islamist groups captured the hearts and minds ...
View full detailsMasculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film
Robert Lang
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• Author(s): Robert Lang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis title considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification...
View full detailsReal Choices / New Voices: How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy
Douglas Amy
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• Author(s): Douglas Amy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsDouglas J. Amy argues that plurality rules are unfair, outmoded and undemocratic ...
View full detailsWintry Night
Qiao Li
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• Author(s): Qiao Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: SagasSpanning over half a century, this historical novel traces the fortunes of the Peng family, Hakka Chinese pioneers whose stor...
View full detailsGirls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory
Catherine Driscoll
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• Author(s): Catherine Driscoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Stages - AdolescenceThe Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things ...
View full detailsGirls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory
Catherine Driscoll
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• Author(s): Catherine Driscoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Stages - AdolescenceIs there such a thing as "girl culture"? This text argues that both "girls" and "culture" as i...
View full detailsInternational Social Work: Global Opportunities and Challenges
M. C. Hockenstad
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• Author(s): M. C. Hockenstad • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Methodology
Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919
Andre Schmid
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• Author(s): Andre Schmid • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralKorea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuse...
View full detailsTorn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
Michael Staub
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• Author(s): Michael Staub • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryWhen Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdo...
View full detailsKorea Between Empires, 1895-1919
Andre Schmid
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• Author(s): Andre Schmid • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaTurning from more traditional modes of historical inquiry, Korea Between Empires explores the formative influence...
View full detailsEarly Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
Haruo Shirane
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• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis unique anthology is the first representative collection of Japanese literature from one of the most crea...
View full detailsConversations with Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism
M Gorbachev
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• Author(s): M Gorbachev • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Personal MemoirsThis title invites us to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation between one of the major political figures of t...
View full detailsTrekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Laura Rival
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• Author(s): Laura Rival • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaThe Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of...
View full detailsSpecial Effects: Still in Search of Wonder
Michele Pierson
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• Author(s): Michele Pierson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMoving from an exploration of 19th century popular science and magic to Hollywood science fi...
View full detailsAntigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
Judith Butler
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• Author(s): Judith Butler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAntigone, the insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. This bo...
View full detailsSpatial Optimization in Ecological Applications
John Hof
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• Author(s): John Hof • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyWhether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or black-tailed prairie dog or strategie...
View full detailsIntegrated Public Lands Management: Principles and Applications to National Forests, Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and Blm Lands
John Loomis
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• Author(s): John Loomis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Real Estate - General"Integrated Public Lands Management" deals with the management procedures of all the primary public land ...
View full detailsSaracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
John Tolan
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• Author(s): John Tolan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryMedieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of...
View full detailsSaracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination
John Tolan
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• Author(s): John Tolan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryIn the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brough...
View full detailsThe Eastern Question and the Voices of Reason: Austria-Hungary, Russia, and the Balkan States, 1875-1908
Jelena Milojkovic´-Djuric´
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• Author(s): Jelena Milojkovic´-Djuric´ • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThis book is designed to discern the interdependence of political and cultural Russia and the Bal...
View full detailsAn All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
Gary Cross
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• Author(s): Gary Cross • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: United States - 21st CenturyThe unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States ...
View full detailsHistory's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life
Harry Harootunian
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• Author(s): Harry Harootunian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralAcclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoret...
View full detailsThe Two Cities: A Chronicle of Universal History to the Year 1146
Bishop Of Otto Otto
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• Author(s): Bishop Of Otto Otto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities...
View full detailsTime and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Johannes Fabian
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• Author(s): Johannes Fabian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the way anthropologists relate t...
View full detailsInvisible Caregivers: Older Adults Raising Children in the Wake of Hiv/AIDS
Daphne Joslin
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• Author(s): Daphne Joslin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThis collection covers a variety of issues facing elder caregivers: community health, aging, HIV services,...
View full detailsInvisible Caregivers: Older Adults Raising Children in the Wake of Hiv/AIDS
Daphne Joslin
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• Author(s): Daphne Joslin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryThis collection covers a variety of issues facing elder caregivers: community health, aging, HIV service...
View full detailsCommon Careers, Different Experiences: Women Managers in Hong Kong and Britain
Katharine Venter
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• Author(s): Katharine Venter • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Careers - GeneralWhile there is extensive data on the experiences of women working in managerial positions in Britain, ...
View full detailsCommon Careers, Different Experiences: Women Managers in Hong Kong and Britain
Katharine Venter
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• Author(s): Katharine Venter • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Careers - GeneralWhile there is extensive data on the experiences of women working in managerial positions in Britain, ...
View full detailsState-Owned Enterprise Reform in China
Justin Yifu Lin
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• Author(s): Justin Yifu Lin • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis work is a continuation of the authors' earlier publication, ""The Chi...
View full detailsBuilding in China: Henry K. Murphy's Adaptive Architecture, 1914-1935
Jeffrey Cody
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Cody • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralCentring on the dynamic period of post-imperial and pre-Co...
View full detailsWhere Are All the Young Men and Women of Color?: Capacity Enhancement Practice in the Criminal Justice System
Melvin Delgado
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• Author(s): Melvin Delgado • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesMany urban residents, especially persons of colour, are or have been involved in the juvenile and/or crimin...
View full detailsHungary: Governments and Politics
Mária Tuttle
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• Author(s): Mária Tuttle • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsProvides a detailed historical account of the evolution of Hungarian politics and governmental structures a...
View full detailsEducation in China and Abroad: Perspectives from a Lifetime in Comparative Education
Mingyuan Gu
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• Author(s): Mingyuan Gu • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralGu Mingyuan is one of China's most distinguished specialists in the field of comparative education. He is a long-serv...
View full detailsIbsen and Ibsenism in China 1908-1997: A Critical-Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Translation and Performance
Kwok-Kan Tam
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• Author(s): Kwok-Kan Tam • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralIbsen has often been considered as the most important source, ...
View full detailsEducation and Political Transition: Themes and Experiences in East Asia, Second Edition
Mark Bray
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• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Administration - GeneralThis book is the second edition of a volume published in 1997. Substantially revised and expanded, it ...
View full detailsDemocracy in Europe
Larry Siedentop
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• Author(s): Larry Siedentop • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyFrom the Inside FlapBEHIND INTERVENTION in Kosovo and corruption in Brussels, behind the b...
View full detailsGuillaume D'Orange: Four Twelfth-Century Epics
Guillaume D`Orange
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• Author(s): Guillaume D`Orange • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MedievalGuillaume d'Orange is the most extensive epic cycle of the Middle Ages. Set in the ninth century, the poems on ...
View full detailsWintry Night
Qiao Li
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• Author(s): Qiao Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: SagasBilled as "a Taiwanese 'Gone With the Wind'", this story spans more than half a century of Taiwan's history, tracing the fort...
View full detailsThe Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake: How the U.S. Bungled Its National Priorities from the New Deal to the Present
Bruce Jansson
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• Author(s): Bruce Jansson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapCHOICES ABOUT NATIONAL priorities are arguably the most important made by ...
View full detailsThe Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China V
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralFrom 6-25 April 1998, the Tenth International Workshop on the Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and South China wa...
View full detailsPost-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era
Roy A. Medvedev
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• Author(s): Roy A. Medvedev • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentFrom the Inside FlapROY MEDVEDEV, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a f...
View full detailsThe Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse
Ryuichi Abé
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• Author(s): Ryuichi Abé • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternFrom the Back CoverThe great Buddhist priest Kukai (774-835) introduced and established tantric -- or esoteric -- Buddh...
View full detailsGlobalization: The Human Consequences
Zygmunt Bauman
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• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThe word "globalization" is used to convey the hope and determination of order-making on a worldwide scale. It...
View full detailsFloods of Fortune: Ecology and Economy Along the Amazon
Michael Goulding
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• Author(s): Michael Goulding • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverAs the depredation of the planet's greatest storehouse of biodiversity -- the A...
View full detailsThe Rise and Fall of Class in Britain
David Cannadine
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• Author(s): David Cannadine • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom the Back CoverHas "class" -- once considered the master narrative of British history ...
View full detailsEducation and the Politics of Language: Hegemony and Pragmatism in Cambodia, 1979-1989
Thomas Clayton
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• Author(s): Thomas Clayton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: HistoryLanguage policies and practices are controversial in many parts of the world, and are an important focus for compa...
View full detailsLessons in Being Chinese: Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China
Mette Hansen
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• Author(s): Mette Hansen • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis study finds that standardized, homogenizing state education is in itself incapable of instilling in students an...
View full detailsThe Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change
Gerald Curtis
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• Author(s): Gerald Curtis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsCurtis surveys the current state of Japanese politics and predicts what events are likely to transpire i...
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