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Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement

March 22, 2015

The Venerable Cheng-yen is an unassuming Taiwanese Buddhist nun who leads a worldwide social welfare movement with five million devotees in over thirty countries—with its largest branch in the United States. Tzu-Chi (Compassion Relief) began as a tiny, grassroots women’s charitable group; today in Taiwan it runs three state-of-the-art hospitals, a television channel, and a […]
Two Societies in Opposition: The Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China After Forty Years (Hoover Institution Press Publication)

March 22, 2015

The essays in this book employ a multidisciplinary approach to systematically compare the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan. Sale Price:$16.50 0817990917
Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis

March 22, 2015

Today the most dangerous place on earth is arguably the Taiwan Strait, where a war between the United States and China could erupt out of miscalculation, misunderstanding, or accident. How and to what degree Taiwan pursues its own national identity will have profound ramifications in its relationship with China as well as in relations between […]
EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR FREEDOM IN HONG KONG; AND REQUESTING DOCUMENTS RELATING TO IRAQ’S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

March 22, 2015

The Committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:10 a.m., in Room2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Henry J. Hyde (Chairmanof the Committee) presiding. Sale Price:buy at discount B008M9TFTS
Doctors within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan

March 22, 2015

This book explores Japan’s “scientific colonialism” through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths the points of convergence for medicine and politics in colonial Taiwan. Sale Price:$39.95 0520229460
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, […]
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
Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas

March 22, 2015

Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rarefilms, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and their complex interconnections. The years 1935-50 were a period of ceaseless violence in China, of war, occupation, civil war, and colonialism, leading […]
Playing in Isolation: A History of Baseball in Taiwan

March 22, 2015

Despite the political instability characterizing twentieth-century Taiwan, the value of baseball in the lives of Taiwanese has been a constant since the game was introduced in 1895. The game first gained popularity on the island under the Japanese occupation, and that popularity continued after World War II despite the withdrawal of the Japanese and an […]
Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular

March 22, 2015

This book examines this development in the broader context of diglossia, and also of the patterns by which spoken vernaculars have developed written forms in other societies. Sale Price:$199.46 962209709X

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