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Roots Of The State - Neighborhood Organization And Social Networks In Beijing And Taipei

by Benjamin Read

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 Focusing on the capital cities of Beijing and Taipei, this book provides a detailed discussion of state-sponsored neighborhood organizations in China and Taiwan. It is grounded in the comparative scholarship on neighborhood organizations, civil society, and state-society relations, particularly in East Asia.
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Rise Of The Red Engineers - The Cultural Revolution And The Origins Of China''S New Class

by Joel Andreas

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 Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today.
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Reconfiguring Families In Contemporary Vietnam

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 Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam chronicles and analyzes the most significant change for families in Vietnam's recent past - the transition to a market economy, referred to as Doi Moi.
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On The Edge Of The Global - Modern Anxieties In A Pacific Island Nation

by Niko Besnier

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 This book explores the malaise present in post-colonial Tonga, analyzing the way in which segments of this small-scale society hold on to different understandings of what modernity is, how it should be made relevant to local contexts, and how it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition.
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Localising Power In Post-Authoritarian Indonesia - A Southeast Asia Perspective

by Vedi Hadiz

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 This book provides an important statement on the underlying social dynamics of local politics in Indonesia following the end of the New Order in 1998. It represents the culmination of a substantial and influential body of work by Hadiz on the political economy of Indonesia's post-authoritarian transition.
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Global Futures In East Asia - Youth, Nation, And The New Economy In Uncertain Times

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 This volume seeks to go beyond single-country area studies to draw together analyses of how globalization and neoliberalism are affecting youth and, as a result, their identities and their futures, in China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.
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Constructing China'S Jerusalem - Christians, Power, And Place In Contemporary Wenzhou

by Nanlai Cao

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 This book depicts the revival of Protestant Christianity among diverse groups of people in the commercially prosperous coastal city of Wenzhou, and shows how resurgent and innovated Christian beliefs and practices in the reform era reveal emerging patterns of power formation, place making and morality building in the context of a market-oriented, modernizing China..
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Beyond The Middle Kingdom - Comparative Perspectives On China’S Capitalist Transformation

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 This book breaks new ground by systematically examining China's capitalist transformation through several comparative lenses.
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Markets In The Name Of Socialism - The Left-Wing Origins Of Neoliberalism

by Johanna Bockman

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 Challenging conventional accounts, Markets in the Name of Socialism chronicles a transnational dialogue among economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These exchanges led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism.
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Developing Home-School Partnerships - From Concepts To Practice

by Susan Mcallister Swap

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 Here, the author applies her experience of home-school relations to provide a detailed overview and practical suggestions for educators working towards strengthening the relationship between educators in local school systems and the most important people in their students' lives - their parents.
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Children'S Influence On Family Dynamics - The Neglected Side Of Family Relationships

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 The topics of the symposia are timely and of significant interest to family researchers. This book focuses on the importance of the differences found among siblings and how they influence interactions between members of the family and behavior outside th
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Modern China'S Network Revolution - Chambers Of Commerce And Sociopolitical Change In The Early Twentieth Century

by Zhongping Chen

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Walter Benjamin - Theoretical Questions

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 This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media.
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Plastic Money - Constructing Markets For Credit Cards In Eight Postcommunist Countries

by Akos Rona-Tas e Alya Guseva

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Writing Against Time

by Michael W. Clune

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 Writing Against Time explores the twentieth-century literary effort to create an image that will never get old.
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Writing Against Time

by Michael W. Clune

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 Writing Against Time explores the twentieth-century literary effort to create an image that will never get old.
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Early Generations Of The Founders Of Old Dunstable (Massachusetts)

by Ezra S. Stearns

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Highland Jacobites, 1745.

by Frances Mcdonnell

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Ages From Court Records, 1636-1700. Volume I: Essex, Middlesex, And Suffolk Counties, Massachusetts

by Melinde Lutz Sanborn

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Political Legitimacy In Southeast Asia - The Quest For Moral Authority

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 The countries of Southeast Asia have had varying degrees of success in achieving political legitimacy. This book studies political legitimacy in aeven South east Asian countries - Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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White Bound - Nationalists, Antiracists, And The Shared Meanings Of Race

by Matthew Hughey

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 A comparative study of a white supremacist organization and a white antiracist organization to understand the underlying similarities of how groups make-meaning of race and whiteness.
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Constructing China'S Jerusalem - Christians, Power, And Place In Contemporary Wenzhou

by Nanlai Cao

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 This book depicts the revival of Protestant Christianity among diverse groups of people in the commercially prosperous coastal city of Wenzhou, and shows how resurgent and innovated Christian beliefs and practices in the reform era reveal emerging patterns of power formation, place making and morality building in the context of a market-oriented, modernizing China..
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15 Sports Myths And Why They'Re Wrong - The Old Regime And The Declaration Of Rights Of 1789

by Jason Winfree e Rodney D Fort

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 "Sports Myths" uses economic principles to bust fifteen college and professional urban legends that continuously rear their heads, but that fall apart under analytical scrutiny.
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Constructing China'S Jerusalem - Christians, Power, And Place In Contemporary Wenzhou

by Nanlai Cao

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 This book depicts the revival of Protestant Christianity among diverse groups of people in the commercially prosperous coastal city of Wenzhou, and shows how resurgent and innovated Christian beliefs and practices in the reform era reveal emerging patterns of power formation, place making and morality building in the context of a market-oriented, modernizing China..
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