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Corporate Governance and Financial Reform in China’s Transition Economy (Hong Kong University Press Law Series)

March 22, 2015

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date review and critique of corporate governance reforms and related financial reforms in China during the country’s transition to a market economy, involving its enterprise, banking and capital markets sectors. Sale Price:$20.85 9622099319
Discovering Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage: Hong Kong island and Kowloon

March 22, 2015

This companion to Discovering Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage: The New Territories takes the armchair traveler on an exploration of Hong Kong Islan and the Kowloon peninsula, where generations of urban Hong Kong culture have been preservedin the religious beliefs, festivals, social customs, and folk superstitions of its people as well as in its specialist shops, […]
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines

March 22, 2015

Colonial Pathologies is a groundbreaking history of the role of science and medicine in the American colonization of the Philippines from 1898 through the 1930s. Warwick Anderson describes how American colonizers sought to maintain their own health and stamina in a foreign environment while exerting control over and “civilizing” a population of seven million people […]
Worshipping the Great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class

March 22, 2015

Contemporary Thailand has seen the rise of an immense cult focused on King Chulalongkorn the Great (r. 1868-1910). In Worshipping the Great Moderniser, Irene Stengs explores the continuing appeal of King Chulalongkorn and considers what this ruler’s unprecedented popularity says about modern Thai society.Arguing that the exalted expectations of kingship are a product of the […]
Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos

March 22, 2015

They flew low and slow, at treetop level, at night, in monsoons, and in point-blank range of enemy guns and missiles. They were missions no one else wanted, but the ones all other pilots prayed for when shot down. Flying the World War II-vintage Douglas A-1 Skyraider, a single-engine, propeller-driven relic in a war of […]
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

March 22, 2015

2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book AwardIn Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society under the siege of increasingly authoritarian politics as the occupation of the Palestinians deepens.Beginning with the national elections carried […]
The Scorpion’s Tail: The Relentless Rise of Islamic Militants in Pakistan-And How It Threatens America

March 22, 2015

The war in Afghanistan has raged on longer than any war in U.S. history, and far from suppressing the insurgency being waged by radical Islamic militants, it has led to stronger alliances among al Qaeda, the Taliban, and a host of once-autonomous militant groups and has inspired a flood of new recruits. In addition to […]
The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Vol. 1: Theory

March 22, 2015

For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of yin-yang and the zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in […]
Bounding the Mekong: The Asian Development Bank, China, and Thailand

March 22, 2015

Transnational economic integration has been described by globalization boosters as a rising tide that will lift all boats, an opportunity for all participants to achieve greater prosperity through a combination of political cooperation and capitalist economic competition. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has championed such rhetoric in promoting the integration of China, Southeast Asia’s formerly […]
East Asian Civilizations: A Dialogue in Five Stages (Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

March 22, 2015

The doyen of Confucian studies in America here constructs a magisterial overview of 3,000 years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major systems of thought that have dominated the Asian world’s historical development. Sale Price:$28.96 0674224051

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