Dragons And Tigers

Author : Barbara A. Weightman
Publisher : Wiley Global Education
ISBN 13 : 1118139992
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragons and Tigers written by Barbara A. Weightman and published by Wiley Global Education. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia, Third Edition is the only book that covers all three regions South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. It is the most comprehensive book on the market for a Geography of Asia course. It contains updated and additional maps covering distribution of religions, physical features, linguistic and religious pluralism in Southeast Asia, and more. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the author discusses evolving physical and cultural landscapes. New to this edition is added content coverage on the impact of globalization, environmental issues, recent environmental disasters and their effects on the region, the recent global economic crisis, migration and urbanization, gender and child welfare issues, religious conflict, agribusiness and sustainability and new patterns of trade.

Author : Douglas B. Fuller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198777205
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons written by Douglas B. Fuller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms? China's domestic financial system fails most private firms by neglecting to give them sufficient support to pursue technological upgrading, even while smothering state-favoured firms by providing them with too much support. Due to their foreign financing, multinational corporations suffer from neither insufficient funds nor soft budget constraints, but they are insufficiently committed to China's development. Hybrid firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign financing are the hidden dragons driving China's technological development. They avoid the maladies of China's domestic financial system while remaining committed to enhancing China's domestic technological capabilities. In sad contrast, China's domestic firms are technological paper tigers. State efforts to build local innovation clusters and create national champions have not managed to transform these firms into drivers of technological development. These findings upend fundamental debates about China's political economy. Rather than a choice between state capitalism and building domestic market institutions, China has fostered state capitalism even while tolerating the importing of foreign market institutions. While the book's findings suggest that China's state and domestic market institutions are ineffective, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China's institutional terrain impacts technological development, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater. Looking beyond China, hybrid-led development has implications for new alternative economic development models and new ways to conceptualize contemporary capitalism that go beyond current domestic institution-centric approaches.

Author : Lindsay Buroker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951367039
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sinister Magic written by Lindsay Buroker and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tough, snarky heroine and an aloof dragon shifter must work together to save Seattle in this new urban fantasy series.

Author : Robert J. Antony
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs written by Robert J. Antony and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen papers from the Workshop on Qing Management and the Bonds of Civil Community, 1600-1014, held in Cumberland Falls, Kentucky in October 1998 examine the strategies and institutions the Qing government used to solve practical problems and needs of a regionally diverse and culturally complex empire. Most of the contributing historians are American. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Macdonald Collection
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo written by George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Macdonald Collection and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early seventeenth century when the secret of porcelain was first carried from China to Japan by Korean potters, Japan has produced some of the world's most exquisite porcelains. The Kakiemon masters in Arita on the island of Kyushu gained particular renown for the quality of their colourful overglaze enamels and artistic designs. Through exports Kakiemon ware had a profound impact on the development of European porcelain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inspiring ceramic manufacturers in both continental Europe and England to reach new levels of technical and artistic achievement. Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo highlights 170 masterpieces from the Bill and Molly Anne Macdonald Collection at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Canada. This extraordinary collection illustrates many different aspects of the historical interaction between Japanese and European porcelain during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is unquestionably the best cross-cultural porcelain collection in Canada and is among the best of its kind in the world. Illustrated with more than 160 full-colour photographs commissioned for this volume, Dragons, Tigers and Bamboo for the first time makes the Macdonald Collection accessible to an international audience.

Author : Peter Kuhn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783948378127
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragon and Tiger written by Peter Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim A Tompkins
Publisher : Tompkins Press
ISBN 13 : 1930426062
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caught Between the Tiger and the Dragon written by Jim A Tompkins and published by Tompkins Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught Between the Tiger and the Dragon is a modern-day fable that cleverly brings to life the ups and downs of business interactions with China and being under the thumb of a private equity company. Rich Morrison, the new CEO of a lingerie manufacturing company, feels as if he's on a crazy, never-ending treadmill powered by a tightfisted overlord who thinks China holds the key to all riches and that financial forecasts can actually predict the future. From North Carolina to New York City and finally to China Rich navigates the stormy waters of today's global business world with his executive team and his wife, Melissa. Along the way, he learns what he really wants out of life and how to get it. A compassionate and intelligent leader, Rich also learns how the tigers of the Western world and the dragons of the Chinese world can come together by developing and cultivating Guanxi. It is no wonder that executives from large and medium-sized companies alike are calling Jim Tompkins' latest book 'a fun read that teaches us the realities of doing business with Asia.'

Author : Simone Marnier
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595125751
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Tiger, Green Dragon written by Simone Marnier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Tiger, Green Dragon follows the spiritual, erotic and psychic evolution of Tu Ming, a Taoist monk in Old China. Tu is apprenticed in sequence to five female adepts in the discipline known as the “dual cultivation,” a kind of tantra yoga in which sexual techniques replicate states of spiritual progress. This practice culminates in the creation of a spiritual embryo at the moment of enlightenment. The five masters who instruct Tu run the gamut of Chinese folklore characters, including the gentle pillow girl, Mei Cha, the doughty herb gatherer, Su Ba, and Lekshe Tsogyel, an acrobatic aristocrat from Tibet. Tu advances not only in his practice, but also in his understanding of life and love as he falls under the spell of five unforgettable women unequaled in religious literature. In the exciting conclusion, he experiences an epiphany that redefines what it means to attain the highest knowledge.

Author : Barbara A. Weightman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragons and Tigers written by Barbara A. Weightman and published by . This book was released on 2004-03-27 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores conditions, events, problems and trends of the Asian region and its individual nations. Using a cross disciplinary approach, the author discusses evolving physical and cultural landscapes. Nature-society relations will provide the foundation for social, economic, political and environmental problems. Updated edition includes two new interludes on China and Japan.

Author : Jon Alan
Publisher : Gray Duck Creative Works
ISBN 13 : 1948052555
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lion vs. Tiger written by Jon Alan and published by Gray Duck Creative Works. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s fight time for the lion and the tiger! One animal is The King of Beasts, and the other animal is The Stealthy Slayer. Both fighters show bursts of speed. But which one will be crowned champion of the Big Cat Brawl?