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This book examines key events in modern Chinese history to question the notion of historical inevitability and stresses the role of contingent circumstances. The constant change and diversity of Chinese society contrasts the persistence of a unitary autocratic state and sugges...

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Will China's economic reforms allow it to join the information revolution, or will its unique political structure keep it insulated from the main currents of global economic development

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Will China's economic reforms allow it to join the information revolution, or will its unique political structure keep it insulated from the main currents of global economic development

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China in the World Bank, IMF, and WIPO draws on neoclassical realist explanations to provide an in-depth exploration of 40 years of Chinas participation in these organizations. Through its rational behavior approach (RBA) it offers explanations into how interests, institutional structures, and power dynamics affect variation of Chinas behavior.

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Glassman analyzes the social and political changes that are occurring in China, and examines the country's difficult movement from state-run economics to free enterprise, and from Communist Party dictatorship to electoral democracy. He focuses on the emergence of a modern middle class.

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Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier.

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China Joins Global Governance: Cooperation and Contentions, edited by Mingjiang Li, provides a comprehensive and insightful examination of Chinas role in global governance. The contributors make a significant contribution to the scholarly debate on the impacts of Chinas rise on the stability and future evolution of the international system.

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In this book an international group of scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and other realms.

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In this book an international group of scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and other realms.

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This bookis a comprehensive study of Chinese figures and motifs in medieval Japanese noh theater. It explores the images of China and their implications constructed in the so-called "karagoto-mono"(Chinese plays) that reflect the artistic preferences, as well as the cultural and sociopolitical sentiments towards China held by Muromachi noh artists and audiences.

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Contrary to lurid forecasts in the West that China is on track to wrest global hegemony from the United States by 2025, China is in fact positioning itself to resume its historic role as the "Middle Kingdom"-a senior mentor with benign aspirations for guiding Asia into the mid-21st century.

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Contrary to lurid forecasts in the West that China is on track to wrest global hegemony from the United States by 2025, China is in fact positioning itself to resume its historic role as the "Middle Kingdom"-a senior mentor with benign aspirations for guiding Asia into the mid-21st century.

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A history of Chinas geopolitical evolution from 1840 to the present, tracing its rise from the Opium Wars to an emerging world power.

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The latest edition in the China Statistics Series, China Rural Statistics 1988 offers essential basic information on China's rural economic and social development and the outcome of rural reform.

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This book is an English language edition of the official social statistics compiled by the State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China (SSB).

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This book is an English language edition of the official China Statistical Abstract compiled by the State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China (SSB).

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The latest edition in the China Statistics Series, China Statistical Abstract 1989 offers essential basic information on China's economic and social development in 1988.

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Some figures in this survey are provisional, and the final ones will appear in the Statistical Yearbook of China.

This book is a revised English language edition of the official China Statistical Abstract published by the State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China (SSB).

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The volumes so far published are China Statistical Abstract 1988, China Social Statistics 1988, China Trade and Prices Statistics 1988, China Rural Statistics 1988, China Statistical Abstract 1989, and China Urban Statistics 1988.

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The volumes so far published are China Statistical Abstracts 1988 and 1989, China Social Statistics 1988, China Trade and Prices Statistics 1988, China Rural Statistics 1988, China Statistical Abstract 1989, and China Urban Statistics 1988.

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China Trade and Price Statistics 1988 is compiled to give a comprehensive and systematic reflection of China's development and achievements in the field of domestic trade, prices, foreign economic relations, trade and tourism since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

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Some figures in this survey are provisional, and the final ones will appear in the Statistical Yearbook of China.

This book is a revised English language edition of the official China Statistical Abstract published by the State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China (SSB).

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The volumes so far published are China Statistical Abstract 1988, China Social Statistics 1986, China Trade and Prices Statistics 1988, China Rural Statistics 1988 and China Statistical Abstract 1989.

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This empirical case study of the current transformation of Chinese agriculture explores the role of property institutions, peasant differentiation, and rural politics in the formation of a market for agricultural landa crucial step in the transition from smallholder farming to large commercial enterprises.