With Four Quartets as the supreme example, this is the first book that discusses how reading and understanding could often be surreptitiously and serendipitously influenced by the "invisible" but prosodically indispensable text-enlivened and text-enlivening "trivial" function ...
This study provides a comprehensive examination of the breaking of political relations between China and the Soviet Union. Based on archival materials from several countries-particularly China-the authors analyze the split from 1959, when visible cracks in the relationship appeared, to China's foreign policy shift toward the United States in 1973.
How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations During the Cold War
Argues that China's influence on the US-India relationship is neither a recent nor a momentary phenomenon. Drawing on documents from India and the United States, Tanvi Madan shows that American and Indian perceptions of and policy toward China significantly shaped US-India relations in three crucial decades, from 1949 to 1979.
Challenges Facing China's Economic Reform and Opening at Forty
Leading experts offer insights into the many difficult issues China now faces, including development of its rural economy, urban industrial policy, public finance, and international trade and investment. The authors provide historical context, drawing lessons from four decades of reform in China.
Catholicism in China has had a history of over seven hundred years. Especially since the founding of New China, it has experienced many ups and downs, but its adherents have never disappeared. Especially in some out-of-the-way rural areas, Catholicism represents important spiritual sustenance for many, and penetrates all aspects of daily life. ......
Catholicism in China has had a history of over seven hundred years. Especially since the founding of New China, it has experienced many ups and downs, but its adherents have never disappeared. Especially in some out-of-the-way rural areas, Catholicism represents important spiritual sustenance for many, and penetrates all aspects of daily life. ......
China is today regarded as a major player in world politics, with growing expectations for it to do more to address global challenges. Yet relatively little is known about how it sees itself as a great power and understands its obligations to the world. In China's Global Identity, Hoo Tiang Boon embarks on the first sustained study of China's ......
