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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ka che yip”
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  • China Reconstructs

    by Ko-wu Huang, Philip Yuen-sang Leung, Wang Ke-wen, Ka-che Yip, James P. Leibold, Odoric Y.K. Wou, Chau Chi Fung, Parks M. Coble ...
    China Reconstructs includes ten articles that investigate the reconstruction of modern China and provide different dimensions to the vibrant and multifaceted history of the country. The book discusses how prominent individuals, political parties, and ordinary people alike looked for ways to "reconstruct China" in a period of great political upheavals. ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment

    Chinese Universities Since the Late Nineteenth Century

    by Ricardo K.S. Mak, Ricardo K. S. Mak, Guangxin Fan, Chan-fai Cheung, Michael Wing-hin Kam, Eva Kit Wah Man, Timothy Man Kong Wong, Ka-che Yip, Lauren F. Pfister ...
    Transmitting the Ideal of Enlightenment is a collection of articles that shed light on different aspects of university education in China since the late nineteenth century and address how far the ideal of modern university education, which has gradually been developed in the West since the age of European Enlightenment, was adopted or creatively transformed by Chinese universities. In addition to ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Health Policy and Disease in Colonial and Post-Colonial Hong Kong, 1841-2003

    by Ka-che Yip, Yuen Sang Leung, Man Kong Timothy Wong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Besides looking at major outbreaks of diseases and how they were coped with, diseases such as malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, plague, venereal disease, avian flu and SARS, this book also examines how the successive government regimes in Hong Kong took action to prevent diseases and control potential threats to health. It shows how policies impacted the various Chinese and non-Chinese groups, and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia

    International Influences, Local Transformations

    Edited by Liping Bu, Ka-che Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War. It examines how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices were improved, shows how international health standards were implemented, sometimes through the direct intervention of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia

    Edited by Liping Bu, Darwin H. Stapleton, Ka-Che Yip ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe and the United States to several Asian countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Reconstructing Bodies

    Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea Since 1945

    by John DiMoia ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    South Korea represents one of the world's most enthusiastic markets for plastic surgery. The growth of this market is particularly fascinating as access to medical care and surgery arose only recently with economic growth since the 1980s. Reconstructing Bodies traces the development of a medical infrastructure in the Republic of Korea (ROK) from 1945 to the present, arguing that the plastic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Public Health in Asia and the Pacific

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies
    The Asia-Pacific region has not only the greatest concentration of population but is, arguably, the future economic centre of the world. Epidemiological transition in the region is occurring much faster than it did in the West and many countries face the emerging problem of chronic diseases at the same time as they continue to grapple with communicable diseases.This book explores how disease ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Prisoner of the State

    The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

    by Zhao Ziyang ...
    Translated by Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu, Renee Chiang ...
    Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Partner to the Poor

    A Paul Farmer Reader

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Series Book 23 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients—and worked to address the root causes of their disease—in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015

    by Liping Bu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing political ideologies; and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Modern China: A Very Short Introduction

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Modern History of Hong Kong

    1841-1997

    by Dr Steve Tsang ...
    This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to ... Read more

    $26.49 USD