PPT-BOOKS ON CHINA YOU SHOULD READ

David Hickey April 2012 SocialPolitical Background Contemporary Life 1994 Its what you would call a journalistic sweeping book each chapter takes on a different aspect Communism capitalism the peasants the intellectual life. st. Century Maritime Silk Road and the South China Sea Conflict. David Arase. Professor of International Politics. Johns Hopkins SAIS—Hopkins Nanjing Center. “MARITIME SILK ROAD” AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA: . Amy Man. PhD Candidate/Associate Lecturer. University of the West of England. Amy.Man@live.uwe.ac.uk. OUTLINE. Core argument. : . IIL is not best placed to reflect the interests of developing host states. . Dynasties. To mark a new beginning for China, the Qin ruler declared himself . Qin . Shihuangdi. . which means “the First Qin Emperor” . Qin brought . changes. to the Chinese government that would last for many years. . Though China\'s economy is projected to become the world\'s largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country\'s citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends. Capturing the consequences of this reality, Bryan Tilt conducts an in-depth, ethnographic study of Futian Township, a rural community reeling from pollution.The industrial township is located in the populous southwestern province of Sichuan. Three local factories-a zinc smelter, a coking plant, and a coal-washing plant-produce air and water pollution that far exceeds the standards set by the World Health Organization and China\'s Ministry of Environmental Protection. Interviewing state and company officials, factory workers, farmers, and scientists, Tilt shows how residents cope with this pollution and how they view its effects on health and economic growth. Striking at the heart of the community\'s environmental values, he explores the intersection between civil society and environmental policy, weighing the tradeoffs between protection and economic growth. Tilt ultimately finds that the residents are quite concerned about pollution, and he investigates the various strategies they use to fight it. His study unravels the complexity of sustainable development within a rapidly changing nation. \"
It is one of the ironies of history that the Chinese, who had all the ingredients for modern science long before the Renaissance, failed to build on their immense knowledge. Today, very few people are aware of the vast body of Chinese invention. The suspension bridge, the fishing reel, the stirrup, the parachute, paper money, playing cards, the decimal system, the seismograph, negative numbers, brandy, rudders, cranks, movable type, matches, steroids as drugs, propellers, biological pest control—all these and many more were Chinese inventions. This volume traces the stunning achievements of ancient and medieval China.
\" In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and the tyrannies of patriarchy that they were incapable of productive work. She proposes a concept of gynotechnics, a set of everyday technologies that define women\'s roles, as a creative new way to explore how societies translate moral and social principles into a web of material forms and bodily practices.Bray examines three different aspects of domestic life in China, tracing their developments from 1000 to 1800 A.D. She begins with the shell of domesticity, the house, focusing on how domestic space embodied hierarchies of gender. She follows the shift in the textile industry from domestic production to commercial production. Despite increasing emphasis on women\'s reproductive roles, she argues, this cannot be reduced to childbearing. Female hierarchies within the family reinforced the power of wives, whose responsibilities included ritual activities and financial management as well as the education of children. Joseph Needham\'s Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker than the general reader. This paperback version, abridged and re-written by Colin Ronan, makes this extremely important study accessible to a wider public. The present book covers the material treated in volumes I and II of Dr Needham\'s original work. The reader is introduced to the country of China, its history, geography and language, and an account is given of how scientific knowledge travelled between China and Europe. The major part of the book is then devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the milieu in which arose the schools of the Confucians, Taoists, Mohists, Logicians and Legalists. We are thus brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese Middle Ages, to the doctrines of the Two Forces (Yin and Yang) and the Five Elements (wu hsing), to the impact of the sceptical tradition and Buddhist and Neo-Confucian thought. This book brings together historians, geographers, political scientists, and legal scholars to examine each of China\'s twenty land or sea borders. Each chapter details the history and status of boundary setting and the ongoing management of transnational interactions--trade, resource exploitation, fishing rights, and population movements. The Benefits of Reading Books The Benefits of Reading Books The Benefits of Reading Books The Benefits of Reading Books The Desired Brand Effect Stand Out in a Saturated Market with a Timeless Brand The Desired Brand Effect Stand Out in a Saturated Market with a Timeless Brand