Saving China

Author : Margherita Zanasi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226978741

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Saving the Nation by Margherita Zanasi Pdf

Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911. Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China’s institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.

Author : Susan Greenhalgh,Li Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 1501747037

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Can Science and Technology Save China? by Susan Greenhalgh,Li Zhang Pdf

"This study of the intimate connections between science and society in China shows that science and technology, far from saving China, as the country's leaders promise, are producing unanticipated, often deeply disturbing effects"--

Author : Barbara Finamore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509532667

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Will China Save the Planet? by Barbara Finamore Pdf

Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution, phasing out coal consumption and leading the development of a global system of green finance. But as leading China environmental expert Barbara Finamore explains, it is anything but easy. The fundamental economic and political challenges that China faces in addressing its domestic environmental crisis threaten to derail its low-carbon energy transition. Yet there is reason for hope. China's leaders understand that transforming the world's second largest economy from one dependent on highly polluting heavy industry to one focused on clean energy, services and innovation is essential, not only to the future of the planet, but to China's own prosperity.

Author : Julie Wei
Publisher : Hoover Instituion Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0817992839

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Prescriptions for Saving China by Julie Wei Pdf

In this book, more than forty selected writings from Sun Yat-Sen, the father of modern China, have been translated into English for the first time. Ranging from early speeches to a graduation address delivered a year before his death, these translations illustrate the depth and breadth of Sun's philosophy and chronicle the development and refinement of the cornerstone of his philosophy, the Three Principles of the People—to mediate open and pluralistic marketplaces in the ideological, economic, and political spheres. Sun's vision called for the creation of a strong, modern, and democratized China to be an equal competitor with Western nations.

Author : Jie Gao
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0774838396

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Saving the Nation Through Culture by Jie Gao Pdf

The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, tried to revitalize the study of folklore to stave off postwar disillusionment with Chinese elite culture. By documenting this phenomenon's origins and evolution, Jie Gao opens a new chapter in the world history of the Folklore Movement. Largely unknown in the West and underappreciated in China, the Chinese branch failed to achieve its goal of reinvigorating the nation. But it helped establish a modern discipline, promoting a spirit of academic independence that continues to influence Chinese intellectuals today.

Author : John R. Watt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004256460

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Saving Lives in Wartime China by John R. Watt Pdf

In the 1920s and 1930s most Chinese people suffered from overwhelming health problems. Epidemic diseases killed tens of millions, drought, flood and famine killed many more, and unhygienic birthing led to serious maternal and child mortality. The Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, and the nationwide War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945), imposed a further tide of misery. Troubled by this extensive trauma, a small number of healthcare reformers were able to save tens of thousands of lives, promote hygiene and sanitation, and begin to bring battlefield casualties, communicable diseases, and maternal child mortality under control. This study shows how biomedical physicians and public health practitioners were major contributors to the rise of modern China.

Author : William T. Rowe
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0804748187

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Saving the World by William T. Rowe Pdf

Through the case of a single well-placed official, Chen Hongmou (1696-1771), this book studies the consciousness and the governing project of the 18th-century Chinese official-elite.

Author : Renqiu Yu
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1566393957

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To Save China, To Save Ourselves by Renqiu Yu Pdf

Combining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, Renqiu Yu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society. Yu brings to life the men who labored in New York laundries, depicting their meager existence, their struggles against discrimination and exploitation, and their dreams of returning to China. The persistent efforts of the CHLA succeeded in changing the workers' status in American society and improving the image of the Chinese among the American public. Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organization could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organization. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their "people's diplomacy" won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, "To Save China, To Save Ourselves." Focusing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s.

Author : Thomas H. Reilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190929503

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Saving the Nation by Thomas H. Reilly Pdf

While Protestant Christians made up only a small percentage of China's overall population during the Republican period, they were heavily represented among the urban elite. Chinese Protestant elites adapted both the social message and practice of Christianity so that they were better able to contribute to the building of a New China. Saving the Nation recounts the history of the Protestant elite and their struggle to strengthen and renew theirnation.

Author : Bob Davey
Publisher : EP BOOKS
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 085234743X

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The Power to Save by Bob Davey Pdf

This should be prescribed reading for Christians in the Western world...' From the foreword by Sinclair B. Ferguson, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina 'Bob Davey is to be deeply thanked for this succinct, deeply helpful overview of the progress of Christianity in China.' Dr Michael A. G. Haykin - Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality In The Power to Save, Bob Davey traces the unconquerable power of the gospel through the years in China. This thrilling account encourages us to pray again for such mighty acts of God even here in the West.' Faith Cook - writer and daughter of OMF missionaries to China 'It will inform and encourage believers...' Joel R. Beeke - President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

Author : Jonathan Watts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : China
ISBN : 057123982X

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When a Billion Chinese Jump by Jonathan Watts Pdf

The Asia environmental correspondent for the "Guardian" delivers a fascinating, frontline account of the current environmental crisis in China.

Author : Li Quan
Publisher : Evans Mitchell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1901268543

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Rewilded by Li Quan Pdf

Rewilded is the amazing story of Li Quan’s unfaltering efforts to save the most ancient, yet most endangered, South China tiger on the brink of extinction. This English-Chinese bilingual book is Ms. Quan’s personal account of the ‘rewilding’ project she established, which aims to return zoo-born South China tigers back to China’s wild. Her moving and engaging diary-style entries are beautifully brought to life with close to 400 stunning images, to produce a captivating record of this innovative conservation project.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Investment and saving in China by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alvyn Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015011365403

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Saving China by Alvyn Austin Pdf

Author : Ms.Longmei Zhang,Mr.Ray Brooks,Ding Ding,Haiyan Ding,Hui He,Jing Lu,Rui Mano
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484388778

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China’s High Savings: Drivers, Prospects, and Policies by Ms.Longmei Zhang,Mr.Ray Brooks,Ding Ding,Haiyan Ding,Hui He,Jing Lu,Rui Mano Pdf

China’s high national savings rate—one of the highest in the world—is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances. High savings finance elevated investment when held domestically, or lead to large external imbalances when they flow abroad. Today, high savings mostly emanate from the household sector, resulting from demographic changes induced by the one-child policy and the transformation of the social safety net and job security that occured during the transition from planned to market economy. Housing reform and rising income inequality also contribute to higher savings. Moving forward, demographic changes will put downward pressure on savings. Policy efforts in strengthening the social safety net and reducing income inequality are also needed to reduce savings further and boost consumption.