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Focusing on the domestic appliance industry, this book examines the formation and evolution of industrial policies in China, at both the local and the national level.
The Beijing Olympiad examines what value the 2008 Games will be to the people of China, will they serve the purposes of the dominant political, economic and cultural groups at and between the local, regional and global levels of modern social life?
This volume addresses the question of how interdisciplinary feminist thought and contemporary practice can inform architectural debate on the use and meaning of space.
This book is a study of the circumstances leading to British intervention in Vietnam in 1945, and the course and consequences of this intervention.
The medieval period of Japanese religious history is commonly known as one in which there was a radical transformation of the religious culture. This book examines how the discourse of medieval Japanese Buddhism both motivates and reflects changes in religious ideology.
Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, history, Buddhist studies and Pali explore the dilemmas that Buddhism faces in relation to the continuing ethnic conflict and violence in modern Sri Lanka.
This book examines the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist agenda was affected by the constraints of being a dominant member of a coalition government.
First published in 1957. This volume provides a broad survey of economic progress in China from 1949 to 1952.
First published in 1967. Based on original Chinese sources, including the press and government documents, this book describes the operation of the Chinese economy in the twentieth century.
Chuang Tzu was to Lao Tzu, the author of Tao Tê Ching, as Hui-neng, the sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, was to Bodhidharma, and in some respects St.Paul to Jesus; he expanded the original teaching into a system and was thus the founder of Tao-ism.
This book considers two major aspect of China's economic reform: the 'open policy' towards the West, aimed at attracting technology and skills into the country and the emphasis on 'regionalization' which established market-orientated rather than
Beginning with ancient times, this volume shows how some of the early superstitions became purified through the influence of the Confucianist philosophy.