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  • Treading the Path of Zen

    by John Wong ...
    A hundred old koans. This book meets them the way you'd meet a stranger on the road — with a jab, a laugh, a craving for lunch.The author doesn't explain the koans; scholars have done that, by the cartload. He answers them — bluntly, in the present tense, from wherever he happens to be. A monk asks whether a dog has Buddha-nature, and the neighbor's dog just barks. The Buddha holds up a flower, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zhu Rongji And China's Economic Take-off

    by John Wong ...
    Following Deng Xiaoping's economic reform and opening (Gaige Kaifang) policy, China experienced unprecedented high growth for over three decades. Crucial in the process was the role of Zhu Rongji, who was hand-picked by Deng initially as Executive Vice-Premier and later full Premier to carry through the needed reform and manage the critical marketization process through the turbulent 1990s when ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Flower Held Up In Silence

    by John Wong ...
    On a hot mountain in India, twenty-five centuries ago, the Buddha gave a sermon without a single word.He held up a flower. One monk, far back in the crowd, smiled — and in that wordless exchange, Zen was born.A Flower Held Up in Silence follows that one flower down the whole length of its journey. Out of India and into the Chan masters of China. Across to the Zen of Japan. Over the widest ocean to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Could Lao Tzu Be The CEO?

    by John Wong ...
    Seventy percent of transformations fail. This book is about the thirty percent that don't — and why.Companies rarely fail for lack of strategy. They fail because they mistake what they are, defending a fixed form long after the world has moved on. Kodak invented the digital camera yet could not stop being a film company. Fujifilm, IBM, and Nintendo survived the same shock by grasping a different ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Economy Of Deng's Nanxun, The: Breakthrough In China's Reform And Development

    by John Wong ...
    This volume is about the political economy of Deng Xiaoping's Nanxun (tour of South China), which was the most critical phase in China's reform and development since 1978. The first round of Deng's reform resulted in high growth through the 1980s. However, it created a messy half-reformed economy with many problems, including the Tiananmen incident. The immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen was ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Apec And The Rise Of China

    by John Wong, Lok Sang Ho ...
    Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China's accession to the WTO in 2001. China's economy is expanding rapidly, and has already passed Japan in 2010 to become the world's second largest economy. It is clearly producing a huge impact on the world economy, and particularly on ASEAN countries. This is the appropriate time to take stock: what has APEC achieved so far? How is ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century

    The House of Houqua and the Canton System

    by John D. Wong ...
    In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world through the lens of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. In contrast to interpretations that see Chinese merchants in this era as victims of rising Western mercantilism and oppressive ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Suzhou Industrial Park: Achievements, Challenges And Prospects

    by John Wong, Liang Fook Lye ...
    Series series Eai Series On East Asia
    This book studies the Suzhou Industrial Park, a flagship project between the governments of Singapore and China, in a holistic manner, by highlighting not only its economic progress but also the developments on the social front such as its neighbourhood centres, schools, housing and talent attraction. The success of the Park should be assessed keeping in view not only its economic achievements ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Challenge Of Making Cities Liveable In East Asia, The

    by John Wong, Liang Fook Lye ...
    The rate of urbanisation will accelerate in the years ahead. The massive influx of people to cities will result in the demand for more services, expending more resources and generating more waste. The forces of globalisation and better connectivity will hasten this urbanisation process. Although the developed and developing countries in East Asia are at different stages of development, they have ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Hong Kong Takes Flight

    Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998

    by John D. Wong ...
    Series Book 454 - Harvard East Asian Monographs
    Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the era of global mobility, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained. By underscoring the shifting process through which this hub emerged, Hong Kong Takes Flight aims to describe ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Goh Keng Swee On China: Selected Essays

    by John Wong, Yongnian Zheng ...
    Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore's economic growth, Dr Goh's collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light on the various challenges that China faced in the early 90s. His arguments and analyses were presented clearly and concisely while being firmly established upon economic principles. Covering a broad range of topics from the growth of industries and enterprises to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Coast to Coast

    Hockey in Canada to the Second World War

    Edited by John Chi-Kit Wong ...
    As an institution that helps bind Canadians to an imagined community, hockey has long been associated with an essential Canadian identity. However, this reductionism ignores the ways Canadians consume hockey differently based on their socio-economic background, gender, ethnicity, and location. Moreover, Canadian culture is not static, and hockey's place in it has evolved and changed.In Coast to ... Read more

    $33.09 USD