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  • Love and Marriage in Globalizing China Love and Marriage in Globalizing China
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    Love and Marriage in Globalizing China

    As China globalises the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese-foreign marriages have profound implications for China's cultural identity. This book,...
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  • Juries in the Japanese Legal System Juries in the Japanese Legal System
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    Juries in the Japanese Legal System

    This book discusses Japan's earlier experiments with jury trials, compares developing views in Japan on this issue with views in other countries where dissatisfaction with the jury system is often...
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  • The Vranitzky Era in Austria The Vranitzky Era in Austria
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    The Vranitzky Era in Austria

    Franz Vranitzky, the banker turned politician, was chancellor during the ten years (1986-96) when the world dramatically changed in the aftermath of the cold war
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  • October Earthquake October Earthquake
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    October Earthquake

    October Earthquake presents a chronological account of the days surrounding the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) War, along with the significant military and political events of each day of the conflict
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  • Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora
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    Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora

    This book analyses the nature of the Tibetan Buddhism in the Diaspora. It examines how the re-signification of Tibetan Buddhist practices and organizational structures in the present refers back to...
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  • Local Governance in Timor-Leste Local Governance in Timor-Leste
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    Local Governance in Timor-Leste

    Across many parts of the postcolonial world, it is everyday reality for people to cross regularly between state-based and customary governance, institutions and norms. This book examines this...
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  • Suicide in Sri Lanka Suicide in Sri Lanka
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    Suicide in Sri Lanka

    Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported 'epidemic' levels of suicidal behaviour, this book...
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  • Young Muslim Women in India Young Muslim Women in India
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    Young Muslim Women in India

    Based on extensive, original research, this book portrays a different and an under-represented perspective of young Muslim girls in the bustees (shanty towns) of Kolkata. Through a series of personal...
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  • Japan's Economic Challenge Japan's Economic Challenge
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    Japan's Economic Challenge

    This book, first published in 1988, assembles a key pool of references in English to help study the 'Japanese economic challenge' of the 1980s. Collectively, these writings chronicle the historical,...
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  • Opening Japan's Financial Markets Opening Japan's Financial Markets
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    Opening Japan's Financial Markets

    This book, first published in 1994, takes a broad look at the reasons behind the failure of foreign banks to penetrate Japanese financial markets. It accepts the common argument that the Japanese...
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  • Chinese Business Enterprise in Asia Chinese Business Enterprise in Asia
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    Chinese Business Enterprise in Asia

    This volume, first published in 1995, looks at the development of Chinese business and management practices across Asia from the late nineteenth century. Experts examine how familism and informal...
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  • China Trade Agreements China Trade Agreements
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    China Trade Agreements

    This book, first published in 1988, examines the nature of trade agreements with Chinese companies, and is divided into three parts which are arranged in accordance with the stages of development:...
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  • P.R.C. Laws for China Traders and Investors P.R.C. Laws for China Traders and Investors
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    P.R.C. Laws for China Traders and Investors

    This book, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive reference of the laws and practice relating to trade between China and the rest of the world, at a time when the country had only recently...
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  • Japanese Business Down Under Japanese Business Down Under
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    Japanese Business Down Under

    The first comprehensive study of post-war Japanese transnational corporations in Australia, this book, first published in 1990, gives valuable insights into the particular characteristics of Japanese...
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  • Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan
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    Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan

    Economic success in Japan has been attributed to the existence of harmonious labour-management relations. This book, first published in 1991, argues that this unique 'culture of harmony' was...
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  • Management Issues in China Management Issues in China
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    Management Issues in China

    This book, first published in 1996, examines the problems associated with the management of change, particularly those brought about by the rapid pace of economic development in China in the 'reform'...
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  • The Evolution of Industrial Systems The Evolution of Industrial Systems
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    The Evolution of Industrial Systems

    This book, first published in 1985, tackles simultaneously three major questions about the course of industrial evolution: what are the features of the industrial systems that have developed outside...
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  • The Cultural Revolution in China The Cultural Revolution in China
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    The Cultural Revolution in China

    The Cultural Revolution in China generated a cascade of commentaries and interpretations on the development and meaning of the upheaval. Many students and researchers have found it difficult to...
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  • The Chinese Economic Reforms The Chinese Economic Reforms
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    The Chinese Economic Reforms

    This book, first published in 1983, examines the significant economic reforms undergone by China following the death of Mao and the downfall of the Gang of Four. It looks at Chinese economists'...
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  • The Reform Decade in China The Reform Decade in China
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    The Reform Decade in China

    This book, first published in 1992, provides a detailed analysis of the reform programme in post-Mao China. In it, a distinguished group of specialists show how the dramatic events that came to a...
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  • Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan
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    Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan

    Japan's suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature,...
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  • Mao's Prey Mao's Prey
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    Mao's Prey

    This book, first published in 2001, uses key oral histories to confirm and explain the professional and private lives of post-1949 Chinese intellectuals through the focal point of Chen Renbing, a man...
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  • MediaWriting MediaWriting
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    MediaWriting

    MediaWriting is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing in the twenty-first century. With easy-to-read chapters, a wealth of updated,...
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  • Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese People Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese People
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    Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese People

    This book, first published in 1977, attempts to show Mao Tse-tung in his relationship with the Chinese people. The author makes extensive use of a number of interviews with a cross-section of Chinese...
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  • Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China
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    Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China

    The decade of the 1980s began in China with great expectations of the societal benefits of modernisation, and ended with gunfire in Tiananmen Square. This book, first published in 1991, presents...
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  • Re-Educating Chinese Anti-Communists Re-Educating Chinese Anti-Communists
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    Re-Educating Chinese Anti-Communists

    This book, first published in 1982, is an in-depth study of the process of 're-education' undergone by those who had opposed the Communist revolution in China. Told at first hand by several men who...
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  • China Since the 'Gang of Four' China Since the 'Gang of Four'
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    China Since the 'Gang of Four'

    This book, first published in 1980, addresses the questions raised by the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the 'Gang of Four'. Was China reverting to a capitalist form of development, and...
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  • The Religions of Tibet The Religions of Tibet
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    The Religions of Tibet

    This book, first published in 1961, examines the old Tibetan Bon religion, the development of Buddhism in India and Tibet, and covers the religious struggles of the eighth and ninth centuries. It...
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  • Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet
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    Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet

    This book, first published in 1933, reproduces the diary of the 1930 explorations by the great Italian traveller, Giotto Dainelli. In it he records his experiences as he travels the little-explored...
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  • The Jaina Worldview The Jaina Worldview
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    The Jaina Worldview

    This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvārthādhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and...
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  • Writing in Times of Displacement Writing in Times of Displacement
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    Writing in Times of Displacement

    This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of...
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  • Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal
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    Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

    This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India. It will be...
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    Arabic Media Coverage of Pandemics

    Focused on two networks, Al-Jazeera and BBC Arabic, this study provides an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of different media strategies employed in the coverage of Covid-19.The author...
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    From Fiction to Psychoanalysis

    How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist...
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    Taiwan and Southeast Asia

    Lee, Chan and their contributors analyse the different kinds of soft power deployed by Taiwan in its bid to strengthen its relations with its neighbours in Southeast Asia. Despite not having formal...
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    Making Sense of the Intercultural

    In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and interculturality. Our purpose is to shake established views in...
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