Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India. Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance.

India China: Rethinking Borders and Security (Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ling, L.H.M.

Bo, Li

Abdenur, Adriana Erthal

Banerjee, Payal

Kurian, Nimmi

Lama, Mahendra P.

Politics & Government

University of Michigan Press

It was the year 1858 and three young run-aways Jason Brandt, son of a Hong Kong missionary, his friend Wu Sek-chong and the beautiful and defiant Black Jade set off to find the capital of the rebel Taiping Tienkuo, The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace. Established in 1851 by a failed civil service candidate who claimed to be the little brother of Christ, the semi-Christian Taiping Kingdom, had made a dramatic and bloody bid to overthrow the Confucian rule of the Ching Dynasty. The three young peoples search for the Heavenly Kingdom and what they eventually found among the Taipings is the central plot of this historical novel of journey and self-discovery in 19th century China.

Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

iUniverse

Sport And The Pandemic

Paul M. Pedersen

Brody J. Ruihley

Taylor & Francis Group

Beyond the Heavenly Kingdom is the second book in a series set in the mid-nineteenth century and follows Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom, which traced the lives of Jason Brandt; his wife, Black Jade; and his scholar friend Wu Sek-chong during the Chinese Civil War. In this second novel, Brandt and Black Jade travel from Shanghai to Boston in the years following the American Civil War. Americans of that era, increasingly anxious about competition from lower wage Chinese immigrants, demanded an end to all immigration from China, which culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.In this novel inspired by Mark Twain’s travel memoir Innocents Abroad, Brandt, a Shanghai-based American journalist, imagines writing a book that chronicles his own travels. He and Black Jade journey to Boston, where his father, a Christian missionary, lives. On the journey, Brandt and Black Jade learn of the Troy Female Seminary, a pioneering girls’ school in Upstate New York, and dream of opening a similar school in China. Along the way, they encounter actual historical figures—including President Grant, Mark Twain, and Senator Charles Sumner—as well as literary characters such as Phileas Fogg. Travel with them as they come to grips with a changing world that shares many parallels with our own.

Beyond The Heavenly Kingdom: Sequel to Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom (Sino-American Tales) (Volume 2)

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom, author Li Bo has drawn on his knowledge of East Asian civilization to transport readers to nineteenth-century China. There a massive civil war is tearing the Qing dynasty apart.
At the heart of the rebellion is the mysterious Taiping Tienkuo, the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace. The Heavenly Kingdom is the center for the Taipings, a religious and political movement determined to overthrow Confucian rule and establish a government based on semi-Christian beliefs. Leading the revolt is a man who claims to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ himself. 
The Heavenly Kingdom is home to the devout, the zealous, and the courageous. Some regard them as mere rebels but others as visionaries. 
For Jason Brandt, the son of a Hong Kong missionary, the Heavenly Kingdom holds an undeniable allure. Accompanied by his best friend, Wu Sek-chong, and the beautiful and stubborn Black Jade, the young man sets off to see the Heavenly Kingdom for himself. 
In the great journey ahead, all three travelers will be tested as they confront their hidden desires and doubts. Could there be catastrophic consequences in the gripping adventure unfolding before them?

Tienkuo: The Heavenly Kingdom (Sino-American Tales)

Literary

<ul> <li>Chapter 1 An Introduction to Sport Organizations</li> <li>Chapter 2 Strategic Planning and Management</li> <li>Chapter 3 Organizational Theories and Organizing Functions</li> <li>Chapter 4 Communication in and Around Sport Organizations</li> <li>Chapter 5 Leadership in Sport Organizations</li> <li>Chapter 6 Human Resource Management in Sport Organizations</li> <li>Chapter 7 Budgeting in Sport Organizations</li> <li>Chapter 8 Risk Management</li> <li>Chapter 9 Sport Governance and Policy Development</li> <li>Chapter 10 Governance of Youth and Recreational Sport</li> <li>Chapter 11 Governance and Issues of Intercollegiate and Interscholastic Sport</li> <li>Chapter 12 Governance of Professional Sport in the U.S.</li> <li>Chapter 13 Governance of Professional Sport Beyond the U.S.</li> <li>Chapter 14 Governance in Professional Individual Sports</li> <li>Chapter 15 Governance of the Olympic and Paralympic Games</li> <li>Chapter 16 Governance of International Sports Federations</li> </ul>

Administration AND Governance in Global Sport Business

Education & Teaching

Brody Ruihley

Schools & Teaching

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

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