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  • Creating Culture in (Post) Socialist Central Asia

    Edited by Ananda Breed, Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Ali Iğmen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together historical and ethnographic research from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang, in order to explore how individuals and communities work to create and maintain forms of ‘culture’ in contexts of ideological repression and erasure. Across Inner Central Asia, in both China and the Soviet Union, while ethnic culture was on one hand lauded and promoted, it was simultaneously ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Fixing the Foundation

    Teachers and Basic Education in East Asia and Pacific

    by Rythia Afkar, Tara Beteille, Mary Breeding, Linden, Aaditya Mattoo, Tobias Pfutze, Lars Sondergaard, Noah Yarrow ...
    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    Countries in middle-income East Asia and the Pacific were already experiencing serious learning deficits prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-related school disruptions have only made things worse. Learning poverty -- defined as the percentage of 10-year-olds who cannot read and understand an age-appropriate text -- is as high as 90 percent in several countries. Several large Southeast Asian ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Fixing the Foundation

    Teachers and Basic Education in East Asia and Pacific

    by Rythia Afkar, Tara Beteille, Mary Breeding, Toby Linden, Andrew Mason, Aaditya Mattoo, Tobias Pfutze, Lars Sondergaard, Noah Yarrow ...
    Series series World Bank East Asia and Pacific Regional Report
    Countries in East Asia and the Pacific were already experiencing a learning crisis when the COVID-19 pandemic made things worse. This report examines key factors affecting learning outcomes in the region, including teaching, the use of educational technologies (EdTech), and public spending on education. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Future of the Fifth Child

    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent children with the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Illusive Utopia

    Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea

    by Suk-Young Kim ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    "North Korea is not just a security or human rights problem (although it is those things) but a real society. This book gets us closer to understanding North Korea beyond the usual headlines, and does so in a richly detailed, well-researched, and theoretically contextualized way."---Charles K. Armstrong, Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University"One of this book's strengths is how ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Disaster Management

    by Olivier Rubin, Rasmus Dahlberg ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Dictionary of Disaster Management offers over 200 terms covering different disasters from a social science perspective, brining together insights from many different disciplines including sociology, political science, history, anthropology, and natural science. It also features practical terms, key concepts in disaster research, and important organizations involved in disaster management. Terms ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Edited by Kam Louie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Changing The Trajectory : Education And Training For Youth In Democratic Republic Of Congo

    by Bashir Sajitha ...
    This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enrollment in alternative education programs and considers alternative scenarios for developing the post-primary sector. Each ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Revolutionary Nativism

    Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937

    by Maggie Clinton ...
    In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to China from Europe or Japan; rather it emerged from the charged social conditions that prevailed in the country's southern and coastal regions ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Enduring Work

    Experiences with Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program

    by Catherine E. Connelly ...
    If you believed most of what’s said about the Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker program, you might naturally assume that there is a trade-off between workers’ poor experiences with the program and employers’ significant benefits. In reality, the experiences of workers are far worse than is commonly acknowledged, while employers are not reaping as much benefit as the public might suppose.In ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD