Dwight H. Perkins, Aldine Transaction, 2013 Agricultural Development in China explains how China’s farm economy historically responded to the demands of a rising population. Dwight H. Perkins begins in the year A.D. 1368, the founding date of the Ming dynasty. More...
Xiaofei Tian, Tianjin renmin chuban she, 2014 In this book on the sixteenth-century masterpiece of classical Chinese novel, Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin ping mei), Tian Xiaofei gives a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the novel, making detailed comparisons of the two...
Karen Thornber, “Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism” Edited by Louise Westling, Cambridge University Press, 2014 The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new...
Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business Review Press, 2014 In this thought-provoking book, noted China experts from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School assert that while China has experienced remarkable economic growth...
Steven M. Goldstein, Polity Press, 2015 Relations between Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago seceded from the Communist mainland over six decades ago. While the mainland has...