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  • The Premodern Chinese Economy

    Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility

    by Gang Deng ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. These factors include:* resource endowments* socio-economic structure* property rights* state and bureaucracy* ideology and values* geo-political environment* internal rebellions* external ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Embedded Systems Technology

    15th National Conference, ESTC 2017, Shenyang, China, November 17-19, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Yuanguo Bi, Gang Chen, Qingxu Deng, Yi Wang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Embedded Systems Technology, ESTC 2017, held in Shenyang, China, in November 2017.The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 papers. The topics cover a broad range of fields focusing on the theme "embedded systems and intelligent computing," such as context aware computing, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Soft Power

    China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics

    by Jianfeng Chen, Xiaohe Cheng Xiaogang Deng, Yong Deng, Zhongying Pang, Ignatius Wibowo, Lening Zhang, Yongjin Zhang, Gang Chen, Joshua Kurlantzick, Suisheng Zhao, Zhiqun Zhu ...
    Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

    Edited by Smaro Kamboureli, Robert Zacharias ...
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    Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take ... Read more

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    Opportunities and Obstacles

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    Te Roopu Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi

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    Conceptual Foundations and Contemporary Debate

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    Content, Context, and Controversy

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