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Changes to corporate structure, including the role of the corporate headquarters, have been key factors in bringing about economic reform in China. In this penetrating and insightful book, Dr Qin Xiao, inspired

Recounts the lifelong struggle of the 19th-century pioneer environmental conservationist.

Chinese Cyberspaces provides a multi-disciplinary study on the recent development and consequences of internet expansion in China taken from a social, political, cultural and economic perspective. The book provides critical analysis of

This is a translation of the chapter on perception by Kumarilabhatta's magnum opus, the Slokavarttika, which is one of the central texts of the Hindu response to the criticism of the logical-epistemological

The first to appear in Curzon's well respected 'Popular Dictionary' series.

This book explores devotional Hinduism in a modern context of high consumerism and revolutionized communications. It focuses on a fast-growing and high-profile contemporary Hindu guru faith originating in India and attracting a

Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early eighteenth century onwards, as a result of

This book shows how, during the period of the Japanese economic miracle, a distinctive female employment system was developed alongside, and different from, the better known Japanese employment system which was applied

The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan looks at a relatively unexplored aspect of modern Taiwan: the influence of religion on politics. Although much has been written on the contribution of Christian

Britain's relationship with Gulf region remains one of the few unexplored episodes in the study of British decolonization. The decision, announced in 1968, to leave the Gulf within three years represented an

Al-Farabi and His School examines one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in the development of medieval Islam: the period which ran from the late ninth century to the early eleventh