China Insight
The Last Empress
A fascinating insight into life behind the closed doors of the forbidden city…In 1851, a fifteen-year-old girl named Yehonala entered the Imperial Palace of China as a concubine third grade, leaving behind her family, the love of her life, a...
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Cliffs Notes: Buck's The Good Earth
While the story is about a Chinese farmer, Pearl Buck is truly writing about a universal farmer, one who knows that his riches and security come from the good earth itself. She provides an insight into life in China and one of the first novels to reflect an ecological spirit.
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Economic Development in Twentieth-Century East Asia
Including many papers from scholars based in Japan and China, this collection supplies insights into aspects of East Asian economic development which will interest scholars in a variety of related fields and provoke further research and debate.
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Political Economy of Rural Poverty
Discussing countries as diverse as China, Kenya, India, Bolivia, Egypt and South Korea the book offers new insights to anyone working in rural development.
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Post-Communist Democratization
This book examines the way democracy and democratization are thought about and lived by people in China, Russia and eleven other countries in the post-communist world.
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