Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011

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• The China Economy Yearbook, Volume 5

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Jiagui Chen
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  • This fifth English volume of The China Economy Yearbook is based on a symposium held in autumn 2009 titled Analysis and Forecast of China’s Economic Situation, organised by the Analysis and Forecast Project Group for China’s Economic Situation of the Institute of Economics, China Academy of Social Sciences.

• The China Educational Development Yearbook, Volume 3

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • The third volume of the English-language The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in Chinese education today from the perspective of Chinese academics, practitioners, and applied researchers.

• The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 5

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • In this fifth volume of the China Environment Yearbook by Friends of Nature, key issues affecting China’s environment in the year 2009 are explored through five main themes: Public Policy, Litigation, Pollution and Health, Consumption, and Ecological Protection.

• The China Legal Development Yearbook, Volume 5

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Lin Li
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  • Various aspects of law and regulation that are giving shape to China’s legal system are examined in this volume of the Yearbook. The editors present an informative and comprehensive volume, covering both general topics such as administrative law reform, as well as analysing a number specific areas of interest such as military law and the new food safety regime.

• The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 3

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Meiyan Wang; Meiyan Wang
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  • This English-language volume is an edited collection of articles from the 2010 Chinese-language volume of the Green Book of Population and Labor. It examines recent developments in the Chinese demographic transition and its implications, especially for the labor market.

• The China Society Yearbook, Volume 5

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Xin Ru; Xueyi Lu; Peilin Li
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  • The China Society Yearbook, Volume 5 continues the ten-year tradition of presenting precise and venerable academic principles by compiling the findings of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ subject research group for the “Analysis and Forecast of the Social Situation”.

• China’s Creation and Origin Myths

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Mineke Schipper; Shuxian Ye; Hubin Yin
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  • This book makes a provocative case for the comparative study of China’s oral and written myth traditions in different languages and cultures. It opens new doors to the study of Chinese mythologies, a surprising and so far almost unknown world outside China.

• Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Marleen Dieleman; Juliette Koning; Peter Post
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  • By taking regime change as its main theme this book offers a new perspective on the multiple roles that Chinese Indonesians played in terms of shaping, moderating, and stimulating social change in Indonesia.

• The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Jurgis S.A. Elisonas; Jeroen P. Lamers
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  • Shinchō-Kō ki, the work translated here into English under the title “The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga,” is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese history—Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the “Three Heroes” who unified Japan after a century of fragmentation and internecine bloodshed.

• A Concise History of Chinese Literature (2 vols.)

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: Luo Yuming
  • Editor Yang Ye
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  • Adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, this book by a leading Chinese scholar seeks to provide a coherent, panoramic description of the development of premodern Chinese literature and its major characteristics.

• The Constitution and Contestation of Darhad Shamans' Power in Contemporary Mongolia

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  • This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby making a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. It examines the social making of shamans, in particular those of the Shishget depression of the northernmost borders of Mongolia.

• Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua

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  • Author: H. LI
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  • The focus of this study is coming of age in troubled Cultural Revolutionary times as portrayed in contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua, along with a comprehensive overview of the Bildungsroman in China and the west.