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Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of Amy Tan.
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During the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War, new global humanitarian ideas and practices coalesced around the cause of saving the children in China. How did China’s children become archetypal victims who ignited a new global humanitarian imagination? And who would prevail in the transnational contest to control the vast quantities of aid flowing into China on their behalf? The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story. Analyzing how the “adoption plan” for international child sponsorship became one of the most popular fundraisin...
Introductory courses in combinatorial optimization are popular at the upper undergraduate/graduate levels in computer science, industrial engineering, and business management/OR, owed to its wide applications in these fields. There are several published textbooks that treat this course and the authors have used many of them in their own teaching experiences. This present text fills a gap and is organized with a stress on methodology and relevant content, providing a step-by-step approach for the student to become proficient in solving combinatorial optimization problems. Applications and problems are considered via recent technology developments including wireless communication, cloud comput...
A comprehensive monograph of this practice, ranked the fastest-growing firm in China.
DREAMS AND THE SUPERNATURAL: Angle of repose -- Bless me, Ultima -- Ceremony -- Fools crow -- Going after Cacciato -- The great Gatsby -- The heart is a lonely hunter -- House made of dawn -- The house made of dawn -- The house of the seven gables -- Love medicine -- Mama -- Mama day -- Reservation blues -- Slaughterhouse five -- Tar baby. FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Absalom, absalom! -- The bell jar -- The bluest eye -- Bone -- Brown girl, brownstones -- Charlotte temple -- Cold mountain -- The color purple -- Ellen Foster -- Foxfire -- The good Earth -- House on Mango Street -- How the Garcia girls lost their accents -- In the time of butterflies -- The poisonwood bible -- The rise of Silas Lap...
The rise of the economic power of the ethnic Chinese, known also as overseas Chinese, Chinese overseas or Chinese diaspora, was a late 20th century phenomenon. It was partly the result of the rise of the Four Little Asian Dragons in the 1970s, and was speeded up by the tempo of globalization towards the end of that century. This book explores the ethnic identity and boundary of the Chinese as minority groups in foreign lands, and as sub-groups among the Chinese themselves. It examines prominent personalities that had wielded considerable influence in the ethnic Chinese communities in the economic, social and educational arenas. It also discusses the type of politics that had impacted their relationship with their mother country — China.Containing 16 papers presented at various international conferences in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan as keynote speeches and research findings which are predominantly unpublished in English, this book provides fresh perspectives and re-interpretations on the issues of ethnicity, leadership and politics in the ethnic Chinese worlds.