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A Passion for Facts
“This fascinating book is a fundamental contribution to the global history of social science. Tong Lam demonstrates how Chinese reformers struggled to build a modern society on a foundation of facts and statistics. Their ambitions were no mere dream, but were made real in a prodigious social survey movement which aimed as much to enlighten peasants as to inform administrators.” —Theodore Porter, author of Trust in Numbers “Lam’s approach is highly original. A Passion for Facts presents an impressive host of new material from Chinese and American archives that challenges interpretations of China and Chinese exceptionalism or independent development. Lam makes a compelling argument t...
PATRIARCH PART 3
After summoning Wen Ning, Wei WuXian's mood was a bit chaotic. It was inevitable that he couldn't keep his eyes and ears in all directions, and if Lam Vong Co didn't want others to sense that he was coming, then Of course it would be as easy as turning a hand, so when he turned his head and saw the increasingly cold face under the moonlight, his heart jumped and he was a little startled.
PATRIARCH PART 4
Hieu Tinh Tran's smile stiffened. The two words "Tiet Duong" were truly a huge blow to him. His face did not have much blood in it, but after hearing this name, it suddenly cleared up, his lips almost turned white.
Capitalism and the Camera
A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture. Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of capitalism and the camera as their starting point, the essays in Capitalism and the Camera investigate the relationship between capitalist accumulation and the photographic image, and ask whether photography might allow us to refuse capitalism's violence--and if so, how? Drawn together in productive disagreement, the essays in this collection explore the relationship of photography to resource ext...
Corporate Conquests
Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses througho...
Contrived Laissez-Faireism
This book analyses neo-liberal economic policy in Hong Kong and its relationship to British colonial governance. Using historical, political, and economic examples, the author argues that the growth and stability experienced by Hong Kong in the post-WWII/pre-1997 era was a direct result of policies enacted by the British in an effort to maintain colonial dominance in an era of decolonization rather than the independent workings of the free market. The book works through examples of policies employed by the British in Hong Kong, such as the creation of artificial scarcity in colonial land policy, the construction of large-scale public housing and the Mass Transit Railway System, and education policy that favored competition. Challenging long-accepted narratives, this book draws a direct line between market fundamentalism and direct colonial control. As such, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of economics, political science, history, and those studying the Asia-Pacific region.
CRAZY PRINCE CHAPTER 22
Tu Van Dien and Hoa Linh Dien cannot be compared to Tich Mich Coc. So the fact that Tich Mich Coc was destroyed by Lam Van caused an uproar in the whole Nguyen Tinh County. The sects participating in arranging the blockade were even more worried and uneasy. They are afraid that Lam Van will find them next. In a short period of time, the whole Tu Chan world was watching Lam Van's movements. It's like if the wind blows or shakes it, it will immediately spread throughout the Tu Chan world.
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The Interwar World
The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyze, and interpret this crucial period in twentieth-century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal limits of the world wars. The volume’s contributors challenge the era’s accepted temporal and geographic framings by privileging global processes and interactions. Each contribution takes a global, thematic approach, integrating world regions into a shared narrative. Three central questions frame the chapters. First, when was the interwar? Viewed globally, the years 1918 and 1939 are arbitrary limits,...
