Search Results - "survivalism"

Beijing a survival guide to customs and etiquette / by Jones, Kay, 1959-

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Evolution of power : China's struggle, survival, and success /

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Hong Kong a survival guide to customs and etiquette / by Wei, Betty Peh-Tʻi, 1930-

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Cities and stability : urbanization, redistribution, and regime survival in China / by Wallace, Jeremy L.

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On the Margins of Tibet : Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier / by Kolas, Ashild

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Managing institutions : the survival of Minban secondary schools in mainland China / by Wang, Ying

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Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions / by Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961-

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Reluctant regulators how the West created and how China survived the global financial crisis / by Goodstadt, Leo F.

“…How the West created and how China survived the global financial crisis…”
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Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city / by Eber, Irene, 1929-

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The specter of "the people" urban poverty in northeast China / by Cho, Mun Young, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…In search of "the people" -- Gambling for a new home -- On the edge between "the people" and "the population" -- The will to survive -- Inclusive exclusion -- Dividing the poor.…”
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Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 / by Coble, Parks M., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Surviving the fall of Shanghai -- Japan's new order -- Establishing control : the North China and Central China Development companies -- Puppet governments and Chinese capitalists -- Individual firms and the war experience -- The Rong family industrial enterprises and the war -- Textile and consumer industries in the war era : beyond the Rong model -- Chemical and match industrialists -- China's rubber industry.…”
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Prosperity's predicament : identity, reform, and resistance in rural wartime China / by Crook, Isabel

Table of Contents: “…Insiders -- The market way of life -- Living off the land: farm labor -- Not far afield: family survival strategies -- Lineages, landlords, and the local body politic -- The paoge and informal power -- Part II. …”
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China fragile superpower / by Shirk, Susan L.

Table of Contents: “…Strong abroad but fragile at home -- China's economic miracle -- Domestic threats -- The echo chamber of nationalism : media and the Internet -- The responsible power -- Japan : "when the Chinese people get angry, the result is always big trouble" -- Taiwan : "a question of regime survival" -- The United States : "external troubles can become internal troubles" -- China's weakness, America's danger.…”
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Life in a Kam village in southwest China, 1930-1949 by Ou, Chaoquan

Table of Contents: “…Location -- Langdong -- The name 'Kam' -- The villagers -- Physical characteristics of the people -- The village -- Farming -- Spinning and weaving -- Thrifty people -- Mornings and evenings -- Food -- Mealtime etiquette -- Drinks -- Clothing -- Coming-of-age -- Courtship by night -- Courtship by day -- Intimidating situations for young women -- Matchmakers -- Engagement ceremony -- Marriage and divorce -- Unorthodox marriages -- Marriage relationships -- The distinction in culture between men and women -- Clan-centred community -- Pipe-smoking elders -- No beggars or thieves -- Monotonous and primitive music -- Festivals and celebrations -- Children -- Survival in the midst of suffering -- Author's postscript -- Translator's postscript.…”
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Taiwan and China : Fitful Embrace /

Table of Contents: “…US security relations with Taiwan & the prospects for stability in the Taiwan Strait / Ping-Kuei Chen, Scott Kastner & William Reed -- Xi Jinping's Taiwan policy: boxing Taiwan in with the one China framework / Jing Huang -- Strategies of China's expansionism and Taiwan's survival in Southeast Asia: a comparative analysis / Samuel Ku -- China, Taiwan and the waning dream of reunification / Lowell Dittmer.…”
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Understanding North Korea : indigenous perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical evolution of North Korea's monolithic political system and its main characteristics -- The historical origins and formation of the monolithic political system in North Korea / Kee Kwang-seo (Chosun University) -- The stability of the monolithic system under Kim Jong-un : an analysis / Kim Keun-sik (Kyungnam University) and Lee Gee-dong (Institute for National Security Strategy) -- The power elite of North Korea's monolithic system / Lee Ju-cheol (Korea Broadcasting System) -- Change in North Korean society from the view of economic policy and social transformation -- Potential for economic reform in North Korea / Kim Yeon-chul (Inje University) -- North Korean economy in transition : market feudalism / Han Jong-woo (Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University) -- The process of social change in North korea / Lee Woo-young (University of North Korean Studies) -- North Korea's foreign policy, perception of the United States, and its relations with the United States and China (G2) -- Surviving in the face of hegemony : North Korea's post-cold war American policy / Suh Bo-hyuk (Seoul National University) -- The formation and development of North Korea's understanding of the United States / Kim Kwang-un (National Institute of Korean History) -- The transformation of China-North korea relations and its implications / Lee Jong-seok (Sejong Institute) -- Twenty years of the North Korean nuclearization problem : the North Korean perspective / Lim Soo-ho (Samsung Economic Research Institute) -- The inter-Korean relationship, United STates and North East Asia -- Change in North Korea's policy toward South Korea and its implications / Chin Hee-gwan (Inje University) -- Understanding conflict on the Korean peninsula : a focus on the Yellow Sea incident / Suh Choo-suk (Korea Institute for Defense Analyses) -- Economic cooperation between the two Koreas : present and future / Kim Yeon-chul (Inje University) -- The irony of American policy toward North Korea : regime denial / Han Jong-woo (Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University) -- Conclusion.…”
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Rejuvenating Communism : Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China / by Doyon, Jerôme

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Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 / by Tan, Ying Jia, 1978-

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Transforming Gender and Emotion : The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea / by Cho, Sookja

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Intimate Communities : Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 / by Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth, 1975-

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