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China in the 1990s, 2nd Edition

UBC Press

Now updated with a chapter-length afterword by the editors on the end of the Deng era and its aftermath, this book provides a comprehensive survey of a nation in transition.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Asia-Pacific Legal Development

Edited by Gerry Ferguson
UBC Press

The topics in this comprehensive volume, which offer Canadian perspectives on contemporary Asian law, include securities, prostitution, environmental, and constitutional law.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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The Power of Words

Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95

UBC Press

This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945

The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu

UBC Press

This is the first comprehensive study of modern Japanese historians and their relationship to nationalism and how they interpreted ancient myths of their origins.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Red Capitalism in South China

Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 1997
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A Heart at Leisure from Itself

Caroline Macdonald of Japan

UBC Press

This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Chinese Opera

Images and Stories

UBC Press

This book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country.

  • Copyright year: 1997
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Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar

UBC Press

A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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New Challenges for ASEAN

Emerging Policy Issues

Edited by Richard Stubbs
UBC Press

This book examines some of the most important policy issues confronting Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) governments.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia

Edited by Ira M. Robinson
UBC Press

The first comprehensive work on the subject of ASEAN mega-urban regions.

  • Copyright year: 1995
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Asia-Pacific Diplomacy

Nongovernmental Organizations and International Relations

UBC Press

Asia-Pacific Diplomacy traces the evolution of the Pacific economic cooperation movement by examining the diplomatic contributions of three international nongovernmental organizations

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation

in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin

UBC Press

The pioneering authority on Chinese historical phonetics Edwin Pulleyblank has compiled this Lexicon to present the result of his researches on the phonology of Middle Chinese and its evolution to Mandarin.

  • Copyright year: 1991
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Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial Japanese

UBC Press

This work lays the foundation for a systematization of aspectual categories on the basis of realized versus unrealized rather than completive and incompletive categories.

  • Copyright year: 1983
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