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“jonathan porter”

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  • Willy Want More

    by Jonathan Porter ...
    Jonathan Porter has always been artistically inclined wanting to find some positive medium in which to use his God given talent to help others,hoping to make writing for children his calling and to give inspiration towards wanting more. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Imperial China, 1350–1900

    by Jonathan Porter ...
    This clear and engaging book provides a concise overview of the Ming-Qing epoch (1368–1912), China’s last imperial age. Beginning with the end of the Mongol domination of China in 1368, this five-century period was remarkable for its continuity and stability until its downfall in the Revolution of 1911. Viewing the Ming and Qing dynasties as a coherent era characterized by the fruition of diverse ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Macau

    The Imaginary City

    by Jonathan Porter ...
    "For many people who have encountered it, Macau makes a deep impression on the imagination, as if the city were not entirely real or, rather, not of the real world. Macau often seems dreamlike, as though it were sustained by the effort of some powerful imagination." In this evocative essay on the cultural and social history of a unique and fragile city, Jonathan Porter examines Macau as an ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

    by Henry M. Paulson Jr. ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of Dealing with China takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role in opening up China to private enterprise. Then, as Treasury secretary, he created the Strategic ... Read more

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  • One Child

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    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers an intimate investigation of China's one-child policy and its consequences for families and the nation at large.For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought ... Read more

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  • China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzŭ Hsi

    by Edmund Backhouse ...
    The family of Yehonala, one of the oldest of the Manchu clans, traces its descent in direct line to Prince Yangkunu, whose daughter married (in 1588) Nurhachu, the real founder of Manchu rule in China and the first direct ancestor of the Ta Ching Emperors. Yangkunu was killed at Mukden in 1583, in one of his raids upon the territories which still owed allegiance to the degenerate Chinese sovereign ... Read more

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  • Meaning of Internationalization

    Practical Advice for a Connected Planet

    Translated by Masao Kunihiro ...
    by Edwin Reischauer ...
    In The Meaning of Internationalization, Edwin O. Reischauer—former American Ambassador to Japan and one of the world's most acclaimed scholars of Japanese life and culture—delivers a heartfelt message to the Japanese people on the need to look beyond their borders at the changing nature of the world. Reischauer stresses the need to adapt in order to survive these changes and thrive in the new ... Read more

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  • The New Politics of Strategic Resources

    Energy and Food Security Challenges in the 21st Century

    Edited by Emily O'Brien, Bruce D. Jones, David Steven ...
    Since 2008, energy and food markets-those most fundamental to human existence-have remained in turmoil. Resource scarcity has had a much bigger global impact in recent years than has been predicted, with ongoing volatility a sign that the world is only part-way through navigating a treacherous transition in the way it uses resources. Scarcity, and perceptions of scarcity, increase political risks, ... Read more

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  • China's Rise in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Brantly Womack ...
    China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels—communist, non-Western, developing country—but whose internal logic remains a mystery to us. Arguing that it would be a major step forward in our genuine knowledge of China if we understood its internal dynamic, this innovative book considers China ... Read more

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  • Korea Focus - May 2012

    by The Korea Foundation ...
    Korea Focus is a monthly webzine accessible at (www.koreafocus.or.kr), which includes editorials, columns, features, interviews, and essays on Korean current affairs and related international issues. Since its inception in 1997, the journal has served as?ᜥ￰Ɛ脀䀀܀맑은 고딕⻨உ￰ƐĀ䀀㜀Calibriව໅￰Ɛ脀䀀㜀새굴림딕Аጄ￰Ɛ脀䀀㜀바탕고딕瀨຾￰Ɛ脀䀀㜀맑은 고딕⻨உ￰ƐĀ䀀㜀Calibri ... Read more

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  • The Porcelain Thief

    Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

    by Huan Hsu ...
    A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long ... Read more

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  • Hong Kong's Watershed

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Hong Kong’s Watershed: The 1967 Riots is the first English book that provides an account and critical analysis of the disturbances based on declassified files from the British government and recollection by key players during the events. The interviews with the participants, including Jack Cater, Liang Shangyuan, George Walden, Tsang Tak-sing, Tsang Yok-sing, and Hong Kong government officials, ... Read more

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