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The Schooling of Tibetans in China: Making Tibetan Chinese
By Gerald Postiglione
The debates over Tibetan cultural autonomy continue without a great deal of attention given to the education system. Never before have so many Tibetans attended school. Before long, most will be at school for six to nine years, and the number going to college and university will increase. What is...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-55239-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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China's New Creative Clusters: Governance, Human Capital and Investment
By Michael Keane
Recognising that creativity is a major driving force in the post-industrial economy, the Chinese government has recently established a range of "creative clusters" – industrial parks devoted to media industries, and arts districts – in order to promote the development of the creative industries....
June 2011 | 978-0-415-60396-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Debating Culture in Interwar China
By Ya-pei Kuo
The May Fourth era (1915-1927) is considered a pivotal point in the history of modern China. This period is usually portrayed as a "Chinese Enlightenment", a period during which total change from the past was sought through the appropriation of Western science and democracy. Conventional...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-55241-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Documenting the Beijing Olympics
Edited by D.P. Martinez
This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes?...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-57548-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Urban Transformation in East Asia
By Hyun Bang Shin
This book explores urban transformation in East Asia, focusing in particular on the rapid transformation of old and dilapidated neighbourhoods in East Asian cities. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork conducted in Seoul and Beijing, including case studies of redevelopment neighbourhoods and...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-46945-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinema: The Amoy-dialect Film Industry in Postwar Asia
By Jeremy E. Taylor
The Amoy-dialect film industry thrived in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in the 1950s. Film in Amoy dialect, a dialect of Chinese, reflects a particular period in the history of the Chinese diaspora, and has been little studied due to its ambiguous place within the wider realm of Chinese and East...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-49355-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Contemporary Chinese Print Media: Cultivating Middle Class Civility
By Zheng Yi
This book examines the transformations in form, genre, and content of contemporary Chinese print media. It describes and analyses the role of post-reform social stratification in the media, focusing particularly on how the changing practices and institutions of the industry correspond to and...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-55969-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Public Procurement in China: A Long March Towards Integration into the Global Trading System
By Ping Wang
Owing to its massive state sector, public procurement in China is a critical element of public policy. At the same time, because of its considerable market size, public procurement is of increasing importance for international trade, and thus subject to enacted regulations in most countries and has...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-46276-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Cultural and Social Change in Taiwan: Society, Cinema and Theatre
By Ming-Yeh Rawnsley
From a Japanese colony to an authoritarian regime to a new democracy, Taiwanese society has gone through many phases of social transition since 1945. This book examines the processes of cultural, social and political transition in Taiwan since 1945, investigating their impact on the Taiwanese...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-42187-4 | Hardback (Routledge)