China Deconstructs

China Deconstructs
Author: David S.G. Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2002-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134815328

China has experienced the world's fastest economic growth for over a decade. It is likely that within a generation, China will have the world's largest economy. Yet, at the moment when China looks set to regain its former power, serious questions have to be asked about the continuing integrity of China. The challenges posed by economic reform, succession politics, and new forces of political liberalism are compounded by boundary uncertainties, as China adopts a strategy of greater interdependence with the regional and global economy. The writers of this book analyse the factors that might lead to and that might prevent the break-up of China. They provide key data about economic activity and external connections of the major regional forces. Their analysis provides essential reading for those concerned with the prospects for China, and the future stability of East Asia.

Accommodating the Chinese

Accommodating the Chinese
Author: Michelle Campbell Renshaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2005-04-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 113587235X

This in-depth comparative study demonstrates that the hospital established in China - its planning and architecture, financing, and all aspects of day-to-day operation - differed from its counterpart at home. These differences were never due to a single, or even dominant cause. They were a result of a complex process involving accommodation, appreciation, negotiation, opportunism and pragmatism.

Primary Sources in World History

Primary Sources in World History
Author: James Richard Farr
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2023
Genre: Economic history
ISBN: 1538174383

"This reader is a comprehensive primary source book for a truly global look at economic trends and power distribution through history, giving a specific theme to this far-ranging course"--

Let's Review Regents: Global History and Geography 2020

Let's Review Regents: Global History and Geography 2020
Author: Mark Willner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020-06-05
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1506270832

Written by experienced, award-winning teachers of Global History from throughout New York State, Let's Review Regents: Global History and Geography 2020 has been fully updated to review the “Transition Exam” format, cover significant world events from 1750 to the present, and include practice questions as well as two actual, recently released, Global History and Geography “Transition Exams” with answer keys and online access to an overview of the “Global History and Geography II Exam.” All Regents test dates for 2020 have been canceled. Currently the State Education Department of New York has released tentative test dates for the 2021 Regents. The dates are set for January 26-29, 2021, June 15-25, 2021, and August 12-13th. This book offers: Extensive review of all frequently tested topics from 1750 to the present Extra practice questions with answers for all tested topics A detailed overview of the “Transition Exam” and an introduction to the course A thorough glossary of all key terms from 1750 to the present Two actual, recently released, Global History and Geography “Transition Exams” with answer keys A webpage that contains an overview of the “Global History and Geography II Exam” and answers to frequently asked questions about that version of the exam This book is designed primarily to prepare high school students for the Global History and Geography Regents exams, but it will also be helpful to students in their daily Global History and Geography coursework. Looking for additional practice and review? Check out Barron’s Regents Global History and Geography Power Pack 2020 two-volume set, which includes Regents Exams and Answers: Global History and Geography in addition to Let’s Review Regents: Global History and Geography.

The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature

The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature
Author: Mingjun Lu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317038509

The Chinese Impact upon English Renaissance Literature examines how English writers responded to the cultural shock caused by the first substantial encounter between China and Western Europe. Author Mingjun Lu explores how Donne and Milton came to be aware of England’s participation in ’the race for the Far East’ launched by Spain and Portugal, and how this new global awareness shaped their conceptions of cultural pluralism. Drawing on globalization theory, a framework that proves useful to help us rethink the literary world of Renaissance England in terms of global maritime networks, Lu proposes the concept of ’liberal cosmopolitanism’ to study early modern English engagement with the other. The advanced culture of the Chinese, Lu argues, inculcated in Donne and Milton a respect for difference and a cosmopolitan curiosity that ultimately led both authors to reflect in profound and previously unexamined ways upon their Eurocentric and monotheistic assumptions. The liberal cosmopolitan model not only opens Renaissance literary texts to globalization theory but also initiates a new way of thinking about the early modern encounter with the other beyond the conventional colonial/postcolonial, nationalist, and Orientalist frameworks. By pushing East-West contact back to the period in 1570s-1670s, Lu’s work uncovers some hitherto unrecognized Chinese elements in Western culture and their shaping influence upon English literary imagination.

Global Gospel

Global Gospel
Author: Douglas Jacobsen
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2015-11-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441248757

In this pathbreaking book, award-winning author Douglas Jacobsen describes global Christianity and provides a framework for understanding the varied experiences of Christians around the world. Focusing on the five big continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, Jacobsen recounts their differing histories, contemporary experiences, and cultural theologies. In the current era of massive and dynamic global challenges, this accessible and fair-minded volume sets the stage for Christians worldwide to engage the gospel--and each other--more deeply. Global Gospel contains numerous maps, charts, and illustrations that aid comprehension. Accompanying videos can be found on YouTube's "Global Christianity" channel (www.youtube.com/globalchristianity).

Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia

Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia
Author: Thomas David DuBois
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-04-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139499467

Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.

Living Catholic Faith in a Contentious Age

Living Catholic Faith in a Contentious Age
Author: Raymond G. Helmick SJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441107037

Catholics, especially in the U.S., are sharply divided over what constitutes faithful Catholicism: a quest for the relevance of their faith to the actualities of their lives or unquestioning obedience to the precepts of Church leadership. Tension over these questions goes to such extremes that it has drastically reduced church-going and identification of Catholics with the institution within a remarkable brief period of time. Writing in sharp, accessible language, Helmick attempts to focus these issues on the nature of faith. To do so involves exploring the task of theologians, who are in the first line of attack by those who see submissiveness as criterion of fidelity. He balances this with a study of the nature of orthodoxy, still concentrated especially on theologians and those Catholics who want to read and discuss relevant material on living their faith in the real world. The early chapters take these themes - faith, theologians, orthodoxy - in turn. From there the remaining chapters describe the contentious character of our current life in the Church and the critical questions-facing up to wedge issues in the political realm, dealing with the long-running sexual abuse crisis, the flagging ecumenical front and the fundamental task of reconciliation as mission of the Church.

Lost Churches on the Silk Road

Lost Churches on the Silk Road
Author: Dale A. Johnson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2013-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1312098201

This is the commemorative edition for the 4th International Conference on the Church of the East in China. This is a collection of essays used as background research to seek and find the lost churches of the Silk Road. The author has used the "Da Qin Jing Jiao" Stone to provide clues for searching for the reported churches and monasteries that we built during the Tang dynasty. For later periods material from Mogao and other artifacts have been used in the investigation.

Walking With The Gods

Walking With The Gods
Author: W. D. Wilkerson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-04-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0991530012

Walking With The Gods is the result of Dr. Wilkerson's 3-year long ethnographic survey of 120 contemporary Western polytheists that offers a startling, intimate and detailed view of this emerging religious practice and raises important theological questions about our culture's assumptions regarding Deity, faith, religion, nature, and humanity's relationship with each. Through thorough analysis and articulate ethnography, Dr. Wilkerson demonstrates how these emerging religious practices constitute a unique religiosity that substantially differs from the concerns of a contemporary Western culture that is dominated by a monotheist perspective.