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epub, pdf | | | Author:Peter J. Buckley

References Aitken, B.J. and Harrison, A.E. (1999) ‘Do domestic firms benefit from direct foreign investment? Evidence from Venezuela’, The American Economic Review 89(3): 605–618. Blomström, M. (1986) ‘Foreign investment and ...
( Category: other June 14,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-08-30 | Author:Mieville, China [Mieville, China]

11 October I went back to the shop from where the window came. As I foresaw, the woman knew nothing, remembered nothing, could tell me nothing. She had had the ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-29 | Author:Clarence Hamilton Poe [Poe, Clarence Hamilton]

{137} FASHIONABLE CHINESE DINNER PARTY. HOW LUMBER IS SAWED IN THE ORIENT--THERE ARE PRACTICALLY NO SAW MILLS. {138} A QUOTATION FROM CONFUCIUS. This is the upper part of a scroll ...
( Category: Asia June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Fallows [Fallows, James]

THE VIEW FROM THERE NOVEMBER 2007 For 150 years, The Atlantic has been trying to figure out the American idea. For a quarter of that time, I’ve been on the ...
( Category: International June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof [Kristof, Nicholas D.]

Sima Qian finished his great historical work as a eunuch, “a mutilated being who dwells in degradation,” as he told his friend. Ever since then, Chinese intellectuals have all been ...
( Category: Asia June 13,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-08 | Author:Min, Anchee [Min, Anchee]

The clouds drifted low to the ground and the crowns of pine trees spread like beggars’ arms. Dick and I followed the trail leading to the top of the Purple ...
( Category: Biographical June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:David Shambaugh [Shambaugh, David]

Telecoms The global telecom industry is very crowded, very competitive, and very dynamic. Huawei is the one of the few Chinese firms to have successfully gone global by the aforementioned ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Alex Mackinnon & Barnaby Powell

The three main strands Of the main strands or components of Chinese power, the three most prominent would appear to be mercantile, military and mental capacity (knowledge and ‘intelligence’), and ...
( Category: Management & Leadership June 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman

* * * *1 The military habit of giving code names to people and projects partly accounts for the prevalence if not the nature of the nicknames Stilwell used. *2 ...
( Category: Asia May 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:Barbara W. Tuchman

If Mao Had Come to Washington in 1945 An Essay in Alternatives I ONE OF THE great “ifs” and harsh ironies of history hangs on the fact that in January ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design May 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Ian Johnson

I always found this part of the meditation slightly dubious. We were to focus on something we wanted and pull it into us, making it our own. Of course, it ...
( Category: General May 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Arthur Cotterell [COTTERELL, ARTHUR]

CHAPTER 7 Almost Paradise: Northern Song Kaifeng Two huge frolicking dragons, covered with blue cloth and stuffed with straw, were placed on the left and the right of the palace ...
( Category: Asia April 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard C. Bush

Regina Ip makes the interesting observation that whereas the most advanced countries engage in “original innovation, China excels at making use of secondary innovation to stimulate economic growth.” Hong Kong, ...
( Category: History March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:A J Broomhall [Broomhall, A J]

2.7 Scene of the Yangzhou riot The Prefect promised an answer which they received on the following day. It was an evasive reply and even facetious, but ended with, ‘I ...
( Category: Evangelism March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-27 | Author:Brent Fulton [Fulton, Brent]

As in the case of popular religious movements in pre-modern China, which were usually unable to complete their intellectual formulation and to find legitimate political or social expression, contemporary popular ...
( Category: Social Issues March 22,2017 )

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