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Condizione: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Paperback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Guangdong Paper-cut is a short introduction to the amazing paper-cutting workmanship by knife and paper, including those in Foshan, Chaoshan. It also introduces the inheritance and innovation after 1949 in China.

Paperback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Maolong Brush tells the origin, inventor, making, unique artistic characters and inheritance of this specialized grass brush in Lingnan region.

Paperback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Gambiered Canton Gauze outlines the birth, evolution, dyeing and finishing process, prospect of this ethereal silk fabric in South China.

Paperback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Cantonese Cuisine gives a brief introduction to the cuisine in Guangzhou, Teochew and Hakka region with spectacular illustrations together with regional folk customs and local specialties.

Paperback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Canton Enamel mainly focuses on the origin, history, evolution, technique and new look of Canton Enamel.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This set of poems is a well-crafted display of current children's poetry combining beautiful words, fantastic pictures and lovely sounds. It emphasises the world's beauty and opens the imagination of children appreciating the world and the stars beyond.This book provides a wonderful insight into poems for children that will appeal to parents, teachers and children from around the world.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The poems selected for this collection are dreams of childhood, stories of childhood, and fantasies of childhood. The scenes in the poems are memories of childhood. It emphasises the world's beauty and opens the imagination of children appreciating the world and the stars beyond.This book provides a wonderful insight into poems for children that will appeal to parents, teachers and children from around the world.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Pencil Tree is a selection of poems for Children written by Huaicun Zhang, featuring imaginative and creative writing styles and examining a broad range of topics. In addition, Pencil Tree also features a collection of illustrations, also by Zhang.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Cao Wenxuan, a literature professor at Peking University, is the first Chinese author to win the Hans Christian Anderson award for children's literature. Cao's best-known children's books include Bronze and Sunflower, Straw House, and The Eyes of Dragonfly. His works are recommended in Chinese schools for the use of language. His novels have been translated into English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Although Cao has tried many themes, morality, the appreciation of beauty and compassion have remained the three main areas of his writing. The Red Tiles is a collection of Cao's latest short stories. In these stories, he writes beautifully about the complex lives of children facing great challenges. It shows that children's perspectives are not shallow, and that they experience the same cruelty, fear and depth of life as adults. Cao's own childhood was filled with miseries and memories of hunger, so he hopes to provide young readers with an understanding of how to treat miseries. His signature language is peaceful, melancholy and beautiful.

Hardback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Cantonese Cuisine gives a brief introduction to the cuisine in Guangzhou, Teochew and Hakka region with spectacular illustrations together with regional folk customs and local specialties.

Hardback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Guangdong Paper-cut is a short introduction to the amazing paper-cutting workmanship by knife and paper, including those in Foshan, Chaoshan. It also introduces the inheritance and innovation after 1949 in China.

Hardback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Maolong Brush tells the origin, inventor, making, unique artistic characters and inheritance of this specialized grass brush in Lingnan region.

Hardback. Condizione: New. As an important part of Chinese culture, Lingnan culture, mainly those in Guangdong province, plays a key role in the world culture. Elegant Guangdong Series cover 5 subjects of the Lingnan cultural and traditional gems in South China. Each volume has used vivid and precious illustrations and portraits.Gambiered Canton Gauze outlines the birth, evolution, dyeing and finishing process, prospect of this ethereal silk fabric in South China.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Cao Wenxuan, a literature professor at Peking University, is the first Chinese author to win the Hans Christian Anderson award for children's literature. Cao's best-known children's books include Bronze and Sunflower, Straw House, and The Eyes of Dragonfly. His works are recommended in Chinese schools for the use of language. His novels have been translated into English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Although Cao has tried many themes, morality, the appreciation of beauty and compassion have remained the three main areas of his writing. The Red Tiles is a collection of Cao's latest short stories. In these stories, he writes beautifully about the complex lives of children facing great challenges. It shows that children's perspectives are not shallow, and that they experience the same cruelty, fear and depth of life as adults. Cao's own childhood was filled with miseries and memories of hunger, so he hopes to provide young readers with an understanding of how to treat miseries. His signature language is peaceful, melancholy and beautiful.

Hardback. Condizione: New. The poems selected for this collection are dreams of childhood, stories of childhood, and fantasies of childhood. The scenes in the poems are memories of childhood. It emphasises the world's beauty and opens the imagination of children appreciating the world and the stars beyond.This book provides a wonderful insight into poems for children that will appeal to parents, teachers and children from around the world.

Hardback. Condizione: New. This set of poems is a well-crafted display of current children's poetry combining beautiful words, fantastic pictures and lovely sounds. It emphasises the world's beauty and opens the imagination of children appreciating the world and the stars beyond.This book provides a wonderful insight into poems for children that will appeal to parents, teachers and children from around the world.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Pencil Tree is a selection of poems for Children written by Huaicun Zhang, featuring imaginative and creative writing styles and examining a broad range of topics. In addition, Pencil Tree also features a collection of illustrations, also by Zhang.

Condizione: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Condizione: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. This study is the result of years of teaching and research by Professor T.J. Cheng at the University of Macau. His knowledge of Macau, the world's gambling capital which is larger than Las Vegas in absolute money terms, has afforded him to the opportunity to analyse both the personal and social impact of gambling.This bold and far-sighted work attempts to analyze gambling behaviour in a systematic, all-round and multi-perspective manner. All facets of gambling are discussed including culture, history, economics, legality, human health and the Chinese experience. In putting forward the notion of a "Sociology of Gambling" Professor Cheng weaves many strands of a complex field and offers both an interesting and scientific understanding of the subject. This book will appeal to students of China, sociology and gambling as well as policy makers and industry professionals involved with the gambling industry.This in depth study based around the Macau experience offers a perspective on Chinese culture of gambling and its social and psychological impact. This multi-faceted analysis of gambling has wide ranging implications not only for China but many other cultures in Asia and the west. A sociological perspectives makes this a rigorous analysis rather than an anecdotal description of gambling in China.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Focuses on world openness, including the level of openness of 129 economies.This book discusses the latest World Openness Index that measures the level of 129 economies' openness. It also presents many currently hot-spot issues, such as the new changes in the world's openness in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the status-quo and prospects of global manufacturing and financial openness, new areas of digitalization, green development and world openness.The core part of this book is the World Openness Index. The World Openness Index measures the level of openness of 129 economies. This index is significantly different from other similar indices, it covers a wider range, and the measurement method is deeply improved. It also includes research by top Chinese scholars on recent hot issues of world openness, which will help readers to understand the current situation and trend of world openness, China's achievements in opening up and its attitude towards openness in the future.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Urban Poverty Reduction Among Migrants in China is the result of a large-scale research project conducted across China from 2002 to 2010. Packed full of original material, academic analysis, expert knowledge and practical policy suggestions, it paints a detailed picture of one of the consequences of China's startling economic transformation. Written by the experts at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) working in partnership with UNESCO.Since Reform and Opening up, China has witnessed increasingly large scale rural labor population mobility between town and country. According to statistics from the agricultural department and labour and social security department, in 2004 the number of rural peasant workers in urban areas reached about 120 million.Since the beginning of the 1990s, research circles have devoted much attention to this sociological group, Much of this research stresses the disadvantageous position of the migrant workers compared to the urban residents (Hukou). Very few of the articles point out that poverty exists among the urban peasant workers, and very few researchers regard this poverty as a specialized topic that deserves serious investigation, analysis and theorizing. Moreover, the Chinese government in its helping of the poor and in policy development, lacks emphasis on the problem of the impoverished urban peasant worker.This book, through the angle of poverty analysis, attempts to deal with China's problem of large-scale population mobility and its creation of an impoverished urban peasant worker population.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This book provides guidelines for introducing community-based gender analysis to practical development concerns through developing gender-sensitive training activities for practitioners and community members in the developing world in Asia, Africa and Latin America.Based on national and international training projects and best practices, and extensive experiences in the promotion of gender awareness and women's capacity building in China as well as internationally , this training manual provides a valuable blueprint for capacity building activities and training projects in developing countries in the promotion of social development and gender equality.This training handbook is guided by international human rights frameworks, focusing on analyzing structures of power and gender inequality across a variety of institutions and systems within countries. The training activities are participatory and emphasize on active participation of all trainees. Through conducting several pilot trainings, the manual is internationally versatile and applicable to different regional and national contexts. This book is published in association with UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education.

Paperback. Condizione: New. China's high-speed economic growth has created a burgeoning middle class. Despite its relatively low proportion in terms of the total population, its absolute number is considerable given China's huge population. According to conservative estimates, the Chinese middle class currently total over 100 million people. Some Chinese scholars predict that the middle class will account for 40% of China's population in the next decade, amounting to approximately 400 million. This is a huge number of people, who will exert considerable influence on China's social, economic, cultural and political sectors.This key book gathers together the latest research results from renowned Chinese scholars who have comprehensively examined the formation of China's middle class. The coverage takes in key background issues, socioeconomic status and sociopolitical functions, the definition, values, social attitudes, income and consumption characteristics of China's rapidly expanding middle class.The Rising Middle Classes in China is divided into four parts: Observing China's Emerging Middle Class from Multiple Perspectives; Definition, Composition and Scale of China's Middle Class; Identity and Social Attitudes of China's Middle Class; Socioeconomic Status of China's Middle Class.Based on extensive survey data and case analysis, this critical new book outlines the formation process and current status of China's middle class, and predicts its future development and influence on the sociopolitical transformation of China in the 21st century.As well as appealing to all social scientists both students and academics this book will serve as an essential resource for business people around the world who want to better identify and understand a phenomenon which will impact the prosperity and opportunities of peoples and businesses around the world for generations to come.

Condizione: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

Paperback. Condizione: New. A unique and far-reaching study of China's contemporary social changes from the perspectives of consumption and consumerism.China has undergone profound social changes, with far-reaching consequences on all walks of life since reform began thirty years ago. To fully understand China's transformation, the landscape must be surveyed from the perspective of consumption, where you can find many intrinsic links between seemingly unrelated aspects of social reform.The Rise of the Consumer in Modern China is the result of a seven-year research campaign conducted by leading Chinese academic Wang Ning. Detailed and comprehensive, it cites numerous policy documents and source material generated from interviews, alongside data, expert commentary and conclusions.The transformation from asceticism to consumerism is a vital factor when considering China's economic and social reforms. Authoritative and richly detailed, this important new book offers a revealing and unique insight into a key aspect of China's opening up.During the most recent thirty years not only have there been revolutionary changes in consumer behavior, furthermore the role of consumption in driving the evolution of society has become un-ignorable. It is vital to study and analyze the changes in Chinese consumption before and after China's opening-up from a sociological perspective. This key book explores the Chinese urban consumption system and the evolution of the ideological concept of consumption by examining a huge number of governmental documents and records.

Paperback. Condizione: New. An extensive account of China's comprehensive private ownership reforms from 1978 to 2008. This key new book uses case studies, research findings and clear examples to examine the sequence and difficulties of China's ownership reforms since the reform and opening up policy was introduced 30 years ago. Leading Chinese academics Zou Dongtao and Ouyang Rihui discuss all aspects of this vital subject, including the changing theories and practice of public ownership, China's modern property rights policies, ownership structures and the consequent economic impacts, developments around private investment and ownership reform, rural land reforms, and China's economic transformation.Reform of Ownership in Modern China is user-friendly and approachable. Whilst the issue of ownership reform is a serious and scholarly one, the authors combine rich research knowledge with examples and academic theories, plus quotations, anecdotes, idioms, and Chinese sayings to help elaborate theoretical problems. Examples include the use of Chinese idioms to illustrate various theorems in a Chinese context. Case studies include 'the first enterprise contractor in China' and 'the first private restaurant in China'.Ownership reform is of immense practical concern to the future of China and the world's economy as well as a key topic in economic theory. The degree of understanding of this phenomenon will influence or even decide the process and pace of other reforms in China. This book supplies unique and important practical insight into all aspects of ownership reform which will benefit those countries considering and debating whether to choose between privatization and nationalization, especially socialist countries undergoing reform.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) marked a major milestone in China's gradual market-oriented reform process, and the developmental fluctuations of these zones offers an in-depth understanding of the complexities and difficulties of reform. They also provide critical insight into China's thirty years of economic and social transformation.This new book examines China's eight Special Economic Zones in the order in which they were established. Key coverage includes the background to the SEZ's establishment and a detailed description of its development, while the intricate reform policy-making process, achievements, challenges and difficulties which will need to be faced if future developments are also explored. This is a practical and well-structured book, packed with a wealth of information for the reader. The panoramic overview and analysis provides not only a history of reform and development of China's eight SEZs, but also an in-depth sense of the waves of historic change and economic reform which have for the last thirty years washed against China, Asia's ancient colossus. The eight SEZs examined are Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Xiamen, Hainan, Shanghai (Pudong New Area), Tianjin (Binhai New Area) and Chengdu-Chongqing.Special Economic Zones are a strategy which has been adopted in many parts of the world. This book offers a blue print for their design, implementation and impact which may prove useful to international policy makers and professionals working in this field as well as China scholars.

Paperback. Condizione: New. First Edition. After joining the WTO, China began to implement a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) strategy. While WTO membership provided China with the best global market access, RTA can serve as both a market access strategy and a foreign policy strategy.Agriculture is at the core of nearly all Asian economies and this vital book examines the effect of the China-ASEAN FTA Early Harvest Program. Regional trade between China and ASEAN is examined from a Chinese perspective and also from the perspectives of major members of ASEAN. It explores how regional trade has allowed greater market access, increased competitiveness and discusses the benefits and the problems for those involved. This book draws upon the expertise of analysts from Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, the Philippines, Indonesia as well as China.In recent years China with ASEAN has emerged as one of the most powerful regional trading regions after the EU and NAFTA. This book is useful in exploring how this relationship has developed. The dynamism of this relationship has implications for the whole of East Asia. Much is written about China but it is also useful to examine China in a regional context.