Skip to main content
Search Button
Librairie Kobo Canada Cartes cadeau Aide

Kobo Rakuten

Ma liste d'envies

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


« john a donaldson »

1-12 sur 12 résultats pour « john a donaldson »
Skip side bar filters

  • Small Works

    Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China

    par John A. Donaldson ...
    How can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate promoting economic growth, on the grounds that it generally reduces poverty while bringing other economic benefits. However, this dominant hypothesis offers few alternatives for economies that are unable to grow, or in places where economic growth fails to reduce or actually exacerbates poverty. In Small Works, ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

Les lecteurs de ce roman ont aussi aimé

  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    par Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Socialism Is Great!

    A Worker's Memoir of the New China

    par Lijia Zhang ...
    With a great charm and spirit, "Socialism Is Great!" recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she was always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant minature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Hong Kong's Watershed

    par 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, ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Red Revolution, Green Revolution

    Scientific Farming in Socialist China

    par Sigrid Schmalzer ...
    In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more "red," or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.In Red Revolution, Green ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Brush With The Chinese.

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    par G. A. Henty ...
    This is one of G.A. Henty's classic tales. "It was early in December that H. M. S. Perseus was cruising off the mouth of the Canton River. War had been declared with China in consequence of her continued evasions of the treaty she had made with us, and it was expected that a strong naval force would soon gather to bring her to reason. In the meantime the ships on the station had a busy time of it, ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Networking China

    The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy

    par Yu Hong ...
    Collections series Geopolitics of Information
    In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China , Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realigning its ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • My Tibetan Childhood

    When Ice Shattered Stone

    par Naktsang Nulo ...
    Traduit par Angus Cargill, Sonam Lhamo ...
    In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to and from Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted that same journey as they fled from ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Nyonya Kebaya

    A Century of Straits Chinese Costume

    par Datin Seri ...
    This longtime Malaysian fashion icon was originally a long, straight, Arab-inspired top of plain woven cotton. The Nyonyas, the women of the early Peranakan community, gradually transformed it into a shapely, embroidered, translucent blouse, fastened with a set of chained brooches and worn with a matching hand-drawn batik sarong.Sheer, romantic, alluring, yet sedate, the designs of Nyonya kebaya ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • Origins of Chinese Cuisine

    par Xu Shitao, Fu Chunjiang, Wu Jingyu ...
    Chinese cuisine is so well-known in the world that even people who know little else about the country and its culture have heard about or tasted Chinese food. Origins of Chinese Cuisine showcases some of the most famous and best-relished dishes. This entertaining account will no doubt delight fans of Chinese cuisine. ... En savoir plus

    $6.18 CAD

  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    par Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... En savoir plus

    $38.49 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The 'Awakening' of China: A History of Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century

    par Edwin Poon ...
    The 'Awakening' of China: Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century' explores the reasoning behind the concept of "China's Awakening" at a time when China was weak, divided and dominated by western imperialism. Battered by the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of the Qing, the descent into warlordism and then formation of the shaky foundations of a republic in the 1920s, he seems ... En savoir plus

    Gratuit