High quality photographs from the region's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation, opportunities for naturalists and the main sites for viewing the listed species.
Helps you examine the importance and role of middle powers in the key phenomenon of contemporary international politics, the rise of China. This book reviews China's middle-power relations with South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, South Africa, Turkey, and Brazil.
Why limit yourself to the English menu when ordering dim sum? This is a practical guidebook that includes photographed dish which is identified with Chinese characters and pronunciation.
Looks into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. This volume offers insight into the lives of peasants and China's complex social processes.
This book examines the sensitive nature of the Tibetan political system and its role in the fate that has befallen Tibet, told by Tibetans and the author from his own experiences. It concludes that if Tibet's fate were decided by Tibetans themselves, it would be an independent state rather than a part of China.
This is an English translation of three plays by Yang Zi-a Yuan dynasty playwright, court official, and ocean-shipping tycoon-with extensive annotations of the Chinese originals. The author conveys the way a Yuan zaju play was composed, especially in the use of its extrametrical characters.
Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex explores the role of Jin Yong's popular martial arts fiction in Chinese literary and cultural discourse. The kungfu industrial complex accounts for how his characters, stories, and tropes maintain cultural significance via adaptation in television and film.
This study examines economic development in India and China over the past few decades, in which the former stagnated and the latter grew exponentially. The authors argue that the economic "shock therapy" adopted by India, which China avoided, explains much of the difference.
Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements
This study examines the power asymmetry between China and Southeast Asia from the perspective of the latter. The authors analyze how Southeast Asia has historically assumed a peripheral position when juxtaposed against the power of the Chinese state.
