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Author: Florence Howe
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781558611429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKÂ Â Â This extra-large double issue of WSQ combines two themes, related but distinct: a report on the largest United Nations sponsored gatherings of women in history-at Beijing and Huairou-and a series of national reports on women's studies.
Author: Robert L. Suettinger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004-05-13
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780815782087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has been thirteen years since soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) raced into the center of Beijing, ordered to recover "at any cost" the city's most important landmark, Tiananmen Square, from student demonstrators. The U.S. and other Western countries recoiled in disgust after the horrific incident, and the relationship between the U.S. and China went from amity and strategic cooperation to hostility, distrust, and misunderstanding. Time has healed many of the wounds from those terrible days of June 1989, and bilateral strains have been eased in light of the countries' joint opposition to international terrorism. Yet China and U.S. remain locked in opposition, as strategic thinkers and military planners on both sides plot future conflict scenarios with the other side as principal enemy. Polls indicate that most Americans consider China an "unfriendly" country, and anti-American sentiment is growing in China. According to Robert Suettinger, the calamity in Tiananmen Square marked a critical turning point in U.S.-China affairs. In Beyond Tiananmen, Suettinger traces the turbulent bilateral relationship since that time, with a particular focus on the internal political factors that shaped it. Through a series of candid anecdotes and observations, Suettinger sheds light on the complex and confused decision-making process that affected relations between the U.S. and China between 1989 and the end of the Clinton presidency in 2000. By illuminating the way domestic political ideas, beliefs, and prejudices affect foreign policymaking, Suettinger reveals policy decisions as outcomes of complex processes, rather than the results of grand strategic trends. He also refutes the view that strategic confrontation between the superpowers is inevitable. Suettinger sees considerable opportunity for cooperation and improvement in what is likely to be the single most important bilateral relationship of the twenty-first century. He cautions, however
Author: Janice Auth
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0822971887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocuments 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Forty three essays by men and women who attended the conference tell of their experiences and how they've applied what they learned at home. The words of these college presidents, students, teachers, homemakers, retirees, writers, clergy, and entrepreneurs who participated in the UN Fourth World Conference on Women document the remarkable initiative, energy, and vision of those who began and continue to coordinate the activities of Pittsburgh/Beijing '95 and Beyond. Auth also offers background information on the three previous UN Women's Conferences, outlines the work that has been accomplished since the 1995 conference, and the plans for implementing the Beijing Platform for Action at the local level. Her remarks and the stories she has collected offer an intimate portrayal of an historical event that was largely under-reported by popular media. Essential reading for anyone who wants to know what really happened and what they can do now.
Author: Judith Farquhar
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012-04-17
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1935408186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
Author: S. Philip Hsu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-23
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1136852093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the development model that has driven China's economic success and looks at how it differs from the Washington Consensus. China’s Development Model (CDM) is examined with a view to answering a central question: given China’s peculiar matrix of a socialist party-state juxtaposed with economic internationalization and marketization, what are the underlying dynamics and the distinctive features of the economic and political/legal/social dimensions of the CDM, and how do we properly characterize their interrelations? The chapters further analyse to what extent and under what circumstances is China's development model sustainable, and to what degree is it readily applicable to other developing countries. Based on their findings in this volume, the authors conclude that the defining feature of the CDM’s economic dimension is "Janus-faced state-led growth," and the political/legal/social dimension of the CDM is best characterized as "adaptive post-totalitarianism." The contributors illustrate that the CDM’s parameters are shown to be much less sustainable than the CDM’s outcome in developmental performance and the extent to which the CDM can be applied to other late-developers is subject to more qualifications than its sustainability.
Author: Michael W. Hobson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-01-07
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0557216915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Your book is wonderful. You capture the eternal in the ephemeral, the larger picture in the small incident." -Barbara Hampton, co-author of Honey for a Teen's Heart. "Hobson has a knack for pulling you through the cultural gap and introducing you to people you're glad to have met. If you're traveling to China, I can imagine no better book for reading on the trip." âSoftware engineer, CA. "Informative, funny, full of adventures, even suspenseful! The writing tends to draw me into each situation and look at my own reactions, so that I actually learn a little about myself." âPsychology teacher, MD. "I've already got my book club ready to put it on the reading list. There are so many themes explored, and you don't leave any stone unturned." âMath teacher, MD. "After reading I felt like I'd gone to the places the author visited, seeing and hearing the same sights and sounds. His unique ability to bring his experiences in China to life makes this book a pleasure!" âChinese language teacher, MD.
Author: Cheng Li
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0815704054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDecades ago, there was no distinct middle class in the People's Republic of China. Any meaningful discussion of China's economy, politics, or society must take into account the rapid emergence and explosive growth of the Chinese middle class. This book details the origins and characteristics of this dramatic change.
Author: Andrew Scobell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-08
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521525855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this unique study of China s militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995 1996) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China s strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a Cult of Defense in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this Cult of Defense disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People s Liberation Army s doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China s twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.
Author: Scott Kennedy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-04-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0804777675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses. The great majority of research on China to date has consisted of single-country studies. This is the result of the methodological demands of studying China and a sense of the country's distinctiveness due to its grand size and long history. The moniker Middle Kingdom, a direct translation of the Chinese-language word for China, is one of the most prominent symbols of the country's supposed uniqueness. Composed of contributions from leading specialists on China's political economy, this volume demonstrates the benefits of systematically comparing China with other countries, including France, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Brazil, and South Africa. Doing so puts the People's Republic in a light not available through other approaches, and it provides a chance to consider political theories by including an important case too often left out of studies.
Author: David Aikman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1596986522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power.
