China’s bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s―the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world―ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China’s unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China’s population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society.
The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul H. B. Godwin, Murray Scot Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O’Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin King Whyte, Thomas P. Bernstein, Dorothy J. Solinger, David S. G. Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle Goldman, Elizabeth J. Perry, and Richard Baum and Alexei Shevchenko analyze the contradictory impact of China’s economic reforms on its political system and social structure. They explore the changing patterns of the relationship between state and society that may have more profound significance for China than all the revolutionary movements that have convulsed it through most of the twentieth century.

The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (Harvard Contemporary China Series, No. 12)

Business & Money

Kevin J. O'Brien

Barry Naughton

Joseph Fewsmith

Paul H. B. Godwin

Murray Scot Tanner

Lianjiang Li

Tianjian Shi

Martin King Whyte

Economics

Harvard University Press

Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice

This interdisciplinary book of essays addresses critical issues arising from the emergence of legal process and legal institutions in contemporary China. The introduction by the editors and the individual chapters attempt, for the first time, to bring to bear on the study of Chinese law the law-and-society scholarship that has enriched Western legal studies.

History

Neil J. Diamant

Stanley B. Lubman

Asia

Stanford University Press

"Religion and ecology" has arrived. What was once a niche interest for a few academics concerned with environmental issues and a few environmentalists interested in religion has become an established academic field with classic texts, graduate programs, regular meetings at academic conferences, and growing interest from other academics and the mass media. Theologians, ethicists, sociologists, and other scholars are engaged in a broad dialogue about the ways religious studies can help understand and address environmental problems, including the sorts of methodological, terminological, and substantive debates that characterize any academic discourse. This book recognizes the field that has taken shape, reflects on the ways it is changing, and anticipates its development in the future. The essays offer analyses and reflections from emerging scholars of religion and ecology, each addressing her or his own specialty in light of two questions: (1) What have we inherited from the work that has come before us? and (2) What inquiries, concerns, and conversation partners should be central to the next generation of scholarship? The aim of this volume is not to lay out a single and clear path forward for the field. Rather, the authors critically reflect on the field from within, outline some of the major issues we face in the academy, and offer perspectives that will nurture continued dialogue.

Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology

Religion & Spirituality

Whitney A. Bauman

Richard R. Bohannon II

Christian Books & Bibles

Pickwick Publications

On the planet Talamh, in the year 1310 of the second Common Era, a young woman Elizabeth Rose Silverleaf, born of a mix marriage, raised in Winter storm in Elvin kingdom of Cynewyn, was sent to live with her uncle so she can learn in mother's society. Join her in a journey of discovery and her rights of passage. She arrived in time to join and adventuring company that was planning a voyage of discovery to eastern kingdoms by sailing west. Her uncle was one of the ship captains, he apprenticed her to the company's leader navigator. In the company, she was one of 120 members of the five ships company, and she was the only female, which brought its only dangers, over the journey and sea ones. They departed from Fair Haven in the kingdom of West Thorne, and discovered kingdoms of Tullian, Wei, Chin, and Ryujin. They fought the sea and few battles. Dealt with new and strange foods, cultures, and societies along the way. Company build trade routes, deals, and new allies. Many of members of the company failed to return home. Those that were able to return, did it with wealth and honor. She return with great wealth and knowledge, but paid a heavy price of family and shipmates. Are you brave enough to join her in her quest for a new life and future.

Quest of the May's Rose

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Pageturner, Press and Media

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