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  • Utopia and Modernity in China

    Contradictions in Transition

    Edited by David Margolies, Qing Cao ...
    The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history. The abundance of manufactured goods being sold in the west attests to China’s industrial revolution, but this capitalist vision of 'utopia' sits uneasily with traditional Chinese values. It is also in conflict with the socialism that has been the bedrock of Chinese society since the foundation of the People’s ... Read more

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  • China Under Western Gaze: Representing China In The British Television Documentaries 1980-2000

    by Qing Cao ...
    This book presents a critical analysis of the images of China portrayed in British television documentaries between 1980 and 2000. The examination is contextualized within the profound transformations of the post-reform China and global political structures in the last two decades of the 20th century. Using an innovative analytical framework based on Vladimir Propp, the book focuses on how ... Read more

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  • E-commerce Operations Management (2nd Edition)

    This updated edition of the book blends in new e-commerce technologies. Mobile commerce (M-commerce) and use of cloud computing are offering a new set of challenges and opportunities for those individuals who know what they are and how they are related to e-commerce. Their use opens up new markets, expanding the need for larger operations, which in turn requires greater knowledge of the operations ... Read more

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  • The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China

    A Case Study of the Xinmin Congbao and the Minbao, 1902-1910

    by Qing Cao ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis
    The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China investigates the linguistic and intellectual roots of China’s modern transformation by presenting a systematic study of the interplay between language innovation and socio-political upheavals in the final decade of the Qing Dynasty.This book examines the formations, internal tensions, and promotion of such macroconcepts as ‘nation people’ ... Read more

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  • Brand China in the Media

    Transformation of Identities

    This book examines China’s identity transformations with a focus on self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it explores the emerging multifaceted ‘China brand’.With its growing economic clout, China has taken a proactive stance in shaping global economic and strategic order through ambitious programmes such as ... Read more

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  • Topics In Lean Supply Chain Management (Second Edition)

    The purpose of this book is to describe how lean and supply chain management can be combined to achieve world-class business performance. To accomplish this purpose, the book contains both basic material on lean and supply chain management, as well as content from current journal research findings, strategies, issues, concepts, philosophies, procedures, methodologies, and practices in managing a ... Read more

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    This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) ... Read more

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  • Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

    The Art of Social Relationships in China

    Series series The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
    An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, ... Read more

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    China's Diverse Majority

    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
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  • Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China

    Understanding the Rhetoric of Suzhi

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    Political discourse in contemporary China is intimately linked to the patriotic reverie of restoring China as a great civilisation, a dream of reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The concept and use of suzhi – a term that denotes the idea of cultivating a ‘quality’ citizenship – is central to this programme of rejuvenation, and is enjoying a revival. This book therefore offers ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China

    A Rhetorical Perspective

    by Xiao Ming ...
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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

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