Natural Resources and Cosmology in Changing Kalasha Society
Author: Mytte Fentz
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9788787062565
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The State and the Iron Industry in Han China
Author: Donald B. Wagner
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9788787062770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings both literary and archaeological evidence to bear in an investigation of the history of the Han state's iron monopoly, and considers the reasons for its establishment and the intense opposition it provoked.
From Monobank to Commercial Banking
Author: Jens Kovsted
Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date descriptive analysis of financial sector reforms in Vietnam since 1998 critically analyses key problems and obstacles facing the efforts to transform the Vietnamese economy, particularly the financial sector, from one subordinate to government objectives and goals to an autonomous sector guided by market forces and competitive pressures. Here, the history of financial sector liberalization is traced and close attention paid to the activities and autonomy of the State Bank of Vietnam, the institution responsible for the supervision and regulation of the financial sector in Vietnam. Overall, the authors argue that ensuring a timely, fair and transparent supervision and regulation of the financial sector is of central importance to financial sector development and stability. Liberalizing financial markets is not solely a question of limiting and/or restricting government influence but may in fact involve the opposite, the influence and power of supervisory and regulatory institutions in many cases needing to be strengthened.
Santalia
Author: Paul Olaf Bodding
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9788787062732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reverend P.O. Bodding lived as a missionary amongst the Santals in Santal Parganas in India for more than 30 years. During that period he helped the Santals to collate their folklore, which he transcribed into the documents which are presented in this catalogue.
Redesigning the Cosmos
Author: Ruth Thomas McVey
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9788787062510
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Author: David D. Wang
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9788787062626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1940s saw the outbreak of the so-called Yili rebellion which led to the collapse of Chinese state authority over a wide area of Xinjiang in the chaotic years of the later 1940s. Much of the story has been told before but what is especially interesting here is Wang's demonstration that the rebellion was not an internal Chinese matter but very much an international affair. Here he looks not just at the ethnic and religious dimensions which of course had many international ramifications. But what is not generally recognized is that, politically, there were three external actors in the affair: the Guomingdan government, Chinese communists and (especially) the Soviets. The dynamics between these actors, as World War II came to an end and the Chinese civil war gathered pace, had a major impact on the course of events in Xinjiang between 1944 and 1949. The scant details of the Uighur unrest emerging from Xinjiang in 1997 suggest that the ethnic, religious and political dynamics behind the events of the 1940s are similar to those behind today's events.
Democratising Indonesia
Author: Mikaela Nyman
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 8791114829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The fall from power of Indonesia's President Suharto in 1998 has drawn much media and academic attention but the focus has been on the elite perspective, the role of the regime and military; little has been published on civil society, let alone gender issues." "This study, which covers the period from Suharto's fall up until the latest democratic elections in 2004, analyses the role of civil society in Indonesia's transition towards democracy. Here, the author argues that social movements are civil society's primary catalysts for change."--BOOK JACKET.
Nationalism as Political Paranoia in Burma
Author: Mikael Gravers
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780700709809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines the complex relationship between nationalism, violence and Buddhism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Burma, bringing us to present-day Burma and the struggle by Aung San Suu Kyi for a new Burmese identity.
State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet
Author: Andrew Martin Fischer
Publisher: NIAS Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788791114632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most pressing economic challenges facing the Tibetan areas of western China relate to the marginalization of the majority of Tibetans from rapid state-led growth. The urban-rural divide plays an important role in this polarized dynamic but alone only partially explains differences with other Chinese regions, all of which generally exhibit strong spatial inequalities. This book therefore focuses on several further factors that determine the ethnically exclusionary character of current peripheral growth in the Tibetan areas. These include processes of urbanization, immigration, employment, and education as key factors underlying structural economic change.
The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and Its Modern Fate
Author: Donald B. Wagner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1136804641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the interactions among technological, economic and geographic factors. The traditional technology of iron production is described together with the ways in which it changed and developed in response to upheavals wrought by foreign competition, war and revolution and by the growth in China of a modern iron industry. Many of the book's findings are counter-intuitive, and will provide food for thought in the study of Third World industrial development. The author has written widely on the history of science and technology in China, and is currently engaged in writing the volume on ferrous metallurgy for Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China.
