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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Chinese consumers from multiple perspectives, from the megatrends to their values and psychological changes. The book examines in detail the digital and...

?With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day Chinese thinking across the spheres of politics,...

This book is an ethnography of Chinese daigou (cross-border shopping on the behalf of mainland Chinese customers) and their mobilities practices. Daigou practitioners, predominantly women, engage in...

This volume focuses on Chinese economic statecraft during the first decade of Deng Xiaoping? reform and opening-up policies, from 1978 to 1989. During these years, Chinese economic engagement with...

This book examines the evolving economic relationship between China and the West, in particular investment regimes and climates. How do their economic models differ, how do they interact, and what...

This book critically analyses how home institutional elements influence the design and development of Chinese firms' capabilities at home, and questions if and how these capabilities are applicable...

This book examines the use of Chinese by school-aged Chinese Australians from a dual-track culturalisation perspective. Drawing upon interviews, participant observations and documentary analysis, the...

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New...

This book focuses on corporate social responsibility (CSR) records of Chinese oil investments in five Latin American countries: Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia, and Venezuela. These investments...

Takes a local approach to a popular export product to explore the broader history of transpacific trade during the early modern period Offers detailed accounts of several different sites of...

This book presents the welfare regime of societies of Chinese heritage as a liminal space where religious and state authorities compete with each other for legitimacy. It offers a path-breaking...

This book summarizes the new economic phenomenon and problems of rural families in China from the perspective of relative poverty. Based on the data of China Rural Household Panel Survey (CRHPS), a...

This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan cultures, internet fiction, gender, eco-criticism,...

This book examines China's role and its cultural productions in the process of environmental destruction and transformation, focusing on how various cultural media play a significant role in shaping...

This book explores Chinese soft power and public diplomacy, and the way that it has played out in the context of the US-China relationship. As tensions between the two countries have grown in recent...

This book engages with the Chinese mediation of wars and conflicts in the global environment.Proposing a new cascading media and conflict model, it applies this to the studyof war correspondents from...

First book to provide a broad and current account of women leaders in ChinaServes as a basis for the development of a future research agenda for international comparison studies on women in...

Exploring how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and re-construct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context, Hu examines what happens when two distinct...

This book examines vital intersections of narration, linguistic innovation, and political insight that distinguish Chinua Achebe's fiction as well as his non-fiction commentaries. Each chapter...

Provides a fresh perspective on a grassroots community that has been both glorified and condemned by human rights activists and academia Focuses on an area that has experienced extreme levels of...

This book examines a creative approach to exploring choreographic practice artistically, theoretically, and pedagogically. It explores the interweaving of dance, dance teaching, dance...

Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940: Living with DifferenceAuthor: Anne SummersPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 05, 2017Number of Pages: 240 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

This book provides new insights on the unique role of doctoral students and new faculty as they join other stewards of the academy working within Christian higher education. Weaving together a...

This book discusses the relationship between faith, formation and education. Rooted in a variety of discourses, the book offers original insights into the education and formation of the human person,...

Christian Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church: Chips in the Brain, Immortality, and the World of TomorrowAuthor: Steve DonaldsonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 16,...

Christian Zionism and English National Identity, 1600-1850Author: Andrew CromePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jun 15, 2018Number of Pages: 305 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book links Calvinist belief in the Perpetual Assurance of Salvation with self-efficacy for economic success. Certain values are at stake for the success of economic behavior. Since the genesis...

This book charts the profound changes in British Christianity over the last century. It does so through the medium of diverse local case-studies, based on high quality new research. The ethnic...

Utilizes a broad base of empirical research to contest various theories that seek to explain the rise of homophobia in Africa as the result of US evangelical interventions Situates homophobia in...

Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral HeritagesAuthor: Victor E. TaylorPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 01, 2017Number of Pages: 182 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...