Not Berlin And Not Shanghai

Author : Xiaofei Li
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761852646
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Outward Foreign Investment written by Xiaofei Li and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the characteristics of China's outward foreign investment, its motivation, its sector distribution, and its geographical distribution in order to illustrate the current pattern of 'merchant-state dualism' in China's overseas foreign direct investment. Merchant-state dualism is a hybrid relationship between the state and society that maintains state control over merchants, while giving them some autonomy. By investigating the interactions between business and government elites to determine Chinese outward foreign investment, and by exploring the reasons for selecting certain foreign investments in light of internal political and economic concerns and the external effect of investing in politically sensitive countries, the book highlights the political underpinnings and calculations of China's foreign investment. It thus sheds light on current merchant-state dualism by concluding that merchant-state dualism is the most suitable model for explaining contemporary Chinese government-business relations.

Author : Irene Eber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110268183
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe written by Irene Eber and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world.

Author : Gregory Bracken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135081425
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shanghai Alleyway House written by Gregory Bracken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social community. In recent years however, the city’s rapid redevelopment has meant that the alleyway house is being destroyed, and this book seeks to understand it in terms of the lifestyle it engendered for those who called it home, whilst also looking to the future of the alleyway house. Based on groundwork research, this book examines the Shanghai alleyway house in light of the complex history of the city, especially during the colonial era. It also explores the history of urban form (and governance) in China in order to question how the Eastern and Western traditions combined in Shanghai to produce a unique and dynamic housing typology. Construction techniques and different alleyway house sub-genres are also examined, as is the way of life they engendered, including some of the side-effects of alleyway house life, such as the literature it inspired, both foreign and local, as well as the portrayal of life in the laneways as seen in films set in the city. The book ends by posing the question: what next for the alleyway house? Does it even have a future, and if so, what lies ahead for this rapidly vanishing typology? This interdisciplinary book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Chinese studies, architecture and urban development, as well as history and literature.

Author : Bei Gao
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199840903
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Sanctuary written by Bei Gao and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the plight of the European Jewish refugees who fled to Japanese-occupied China during the Second World War. It examines the Nationalist government's policy towards the Jewish refugee issue and the most thorough and subtle analysis of Japanese diplomacy concerning this matter. The story of the wartime "Shanghai Jews" is not merely a side-bar to the history of modern China or modern Japan. It is a story that illuminates how the "Jewish issue" complicated the relationships among China, Japan, Germany, and the United States before and during World War Two. Both the Chinese Nationalist government and the Japanese occupation authorities thought very carefully about the Shanghai Jews and how they could be used to win international financial and political support in their war against one another. Thus, the Holocaust had complicated repercussions that extended far beyond Europe. The diaspora of Jews to East Asia in the era of the Second World War is a rich and complex story that deserves our attention as well. Firmly grounded in archival sources from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Britain, and Israel, this book is comparative and transnational in scope and makes an important contribution to the international history of the period.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Electrical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "Magic" Background of Pearl Harbor: no separate title written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book China Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angel Wagenstein
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635423724
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell, Shanghai written by Angel Wagenstein and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes–of dazzling wealth and wretched poverty, suffering and pleasure, and, for the four refugees, exile and safety. There, they enter the world of Jewish refugees, many of them artists and intellectuals, who must either starve or eke out an impoverished and sometimes degraded living, but they are determined to live intelligently, upholding the high culture, humor, and even, insofar as they can, the elegance of their former lives. Master storyteller Angel Wagenstein crafts an intense narrative of life and death, passionate love, and profound courage against the backdrop of the war and the millions of lives caught up in it.

Author : Axel Berkofsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030793370
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China-GDR Relations from 1949 to 1989 written by Axel Berkofsky and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relations between China and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1949 to 1989. These relations were characterized by some “ups” but many more “downs,” e.g. when, in the early 1960s, the Soviet Union ordered its vassal state in East Berlin to begin treating its former socialist comrade and brother-in-arms as an adversary and indeed enemy. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, especially from the archive of the GDR’s ruling party, this book examines selected issues and elements of East German and Chinese domestic and foreign policy. In order to better grasp the nature and the historical context of the bilateral relationship, it offers detailed insights into the following aspects: 1. the bilateral “honeymoon period” from 1949 to the late 1950s, which was accompanied by the two parties supporting and applauding each other’s oppressive domestic and ill-fated economic policies, including Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution; 2. relations during the 1960s, when the “Sino-Soviet Split” defined the quality and level of bilateral animosities; 3. the 1970s, when Beijing replaced socialist comradeship with East Berlin with trade and aid from the US and West Germany; and 4. the resumption of Sino-East German relations in the 1980s and the subsequent period up to the Tiananmen Square protests and the collapse of the GDR in 1989. The book will appeal to historians, political scientists and scholars of international relations, as well as policymakers, diplomats, and others with an interest in this previously under-researched area.

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Navigation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of the Treasury written by United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Navigation and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: