Author: Annie Wang
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061842907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud funny portrait of modern China as seen through the lives and loves of four professional women in contemporary Beijing. Divorce, oral sex, plastic surgery. Indulging in a Starbucks coffee, admitting to the emotional repercussions of a one-night stand, giggling over watching pornography. These once taboo subjects have become the substance of daily conversations and practices among urban women in contemporary Beijing. It seems that no one remembers what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. A cross between Sex and the City and The Joy Luck Club, The People's Republic of Desire follows four sassy gals as they preen and pounce among Beijing's Westernized professional class, exultantly obsessed with brand names, celebrity, and sex.
The People's Republic of Desire
Author: Annie Wang
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061842907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud funny portrait of modern China as seen through the lives and loves of four professional women in contemporary Beijing. Divorce, oral sex, plastic surgery. Indulging in a Starbucks coffee, admitting to the emotional repercussions of a one-night stand, giggling over watching pornography. These once taboo subjects have become the substance of daily conversations and practices among urban women in contemporary Beijing. It seems that no one remembers what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. A cross between Sex and the City and The Joy Luck Club, The People's Republic of Desire follows four sassy gals as they preen and pounce among Beijing's Westernized professional class, exultantly obsessed with brand names, celebrity, and sex.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061842907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud funny portrait of modern China as seen through the lives and loves of four professional women in contemporary Beijing. Divorce, oral sex, plastic surgery. Indulging in a Starbucks coffee, admitting to the emotional repercussions of a one-night stand, giggling over watching pornography. These once taboo subjects have become the substance of daily conversations and practices among urban women in contemporary Beijing. It seems that no one remembers what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. A cross between Sex and the City and The Joy Luck Club, The People's Republic of Desire follows four sassy gals as they preen and pounce among Beijing's Westernized professional class, exultantly obsessed with brand names, celebrity, and sex.
The People's Republic of Amnesia
Author: Louisa Lim
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199347700
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199347700
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.
United States Relations with the People's Republic of China
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
United States Relations with the People's Republic of China, Hearings... 92-1, on S. J. Res. 48, S. Res. 18, S. Res. 37, S. Res. 82, and S. Res. 139, June 24,25,28, and 29, and July 20, 1971
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
General Foreign Policy Series
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Water Resources Management in the People's Republic of China
Author: Xuetao Sun
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317989163
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Chinese water resource managers face a challenge that is both immense and unique. They must balance limited water supplies against the needs of the world’s largest population; demands for rapid economic growth with calls for improved environmental management; and the desire for a market-based approach to the allocation of water with a history of State ownership and strict government control of all resources. In China, changes are occurring in water resources management that are representative of many of the fundamental changes occurring within Chinese society, on issues such as property rights, community participation, improved environmental management, and the shift towards market-based decision making. This book describes the development of a water rights system in the People’s Republic of China. It covers different aspects of water resources management in China – including water planning, the provision of environmental flows, urban water management, and irrigation district management – and examines how these are being addressed through a rights-based approach. The book includes several detailed examples of the Chinese application of water rights as they address the diverse challenges of different basins across China. This book previously appeared as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317989163
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Chinese water resource managers face a challenge that is both immense and unique. They must balance limited water supplies against the needs of the world’s largest population; demands for rapid economic growth with calls for improved environmental management; and the desire for a market-based approach to the allocation of water with a history of State ownership and strict government control of all resources. In China, changes are occurring in water resources management that are representative of many of the fundamental changes occurring within Chinese society, on issues such as property rights, community participation, improved environmental management, and the shift towards market-based decision making. This book describes the development of a water rights system in the People’s Republic of China. It covers different aspects of water resources management in China – including water planning, the provision of environmental flows, urban water management, and irrigation district management – and examines how these are being addressed through a rights-based approach. The book includes several detailed examples of the Chinese application of water rights as they address the diverse challenges of different basins across China. This book previously appeared as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
Technology Transfer in the Peoples' Republic of China
Author: Richard J. Goossen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789024734429
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789024734429
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The People's Republic of Walmart
Author: Leigh Phillips
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786635186
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us? An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786635186
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us? An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.
The Relations Between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China in 1979, as Seen by Xinhua News Agency
Author: Xin hua tong xun she
Publisher: Hamburg : Institute of Asian Affairs
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher: Hamburg : Institute of Asian Affairs
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Glossary of Political Terms of the People's Republic of China
Author: Gucheng Li
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622016156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
"A glossary of political terms of the People's Republic of China is a collection of 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry begins with an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words."--Jacket.
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622016156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
"A glossary of political terms of the People's Republic of China is a collection of 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry begins with an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words."--Jacket.