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Introduction -- Chinas Preparation for the Peace Conference during WWI -- Preparation for the Peace Conference after the Ceasefire of WWI -- The Diplomacy during the Peace Conference -- Refusal to Sign the Peace Treaty -- After the Refusal -- Conclusion.

Fragmented Citizenship in a Quasi-Nation: The Case of Hong Kong / Ka-ki Chan, Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong -- Writing the "Nation-Like Space" / Lucy Hamilton, School of English, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK -- An Examination Intergenerational Controversies and the Concerns of the Youths in Hong Kong under the Socio-Political Disturbances / Vincent W. P. Lee, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Henry W. H. Ling Assistant Lecturer [Practice Consultant], Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Johnson C. S. Cheung, DSW Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong -- The Future of Hong Kong English: Codification and Standardisation? / Ka Long Roy Chan, Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong.

China-Africa economic tie has experienced lasting rapid growth since the 2000s, attracting lots of discussion on its nature and effects. A key question is whether Chinese engagements provide an alternative paradigm to existing mainstream models, like Washington Consensus, for developing countries. However, theories on state-market dichotomy can hardly explain the strong momentum of bilateral cooperation. By examining a broad range of practices with solid field research, including trade, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, industrial zones, labor and socio-environmental preservation, this book proposes a new angle of non-linear circular causality to understand Chinese approaches to work with Africa. Guided by the pursuit for sustainable growth rather than by specific models, Chinese actors are able to experiment diverse methods to foster structural transformation in Africa. In particular, the author carefully records mutual influences between Chinese and African stakeholders at all levels, from grassroots to policy making, to illustrate the effects of coevolving industrialization.

"Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration (statement/exposition better?) of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm. He critically builds on existing discussions on social evolution, while drawing from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, the philosophy of social sciences, and evolutionary biology. Clarifying the relationship between biological evolution and social evolution, Tang lays bare the ontological and epistemological principles of the Social Evolutionary Paradigm. He also presents operational principles and tools for deploying this paradigm to understand empirical puzzles about human society. This is a vital resource for students, practitioners and philosophers of all social sciences"--

In this book, author Min Tang examines the political economy of the China-based leading global Internet giant, Tencent. Tracing the historical context and shaping forces, the book illuminates Tencent's emergence as a joint creation of the Chinese state and transnational financial capital. Tencent reveals interweaving axes of power on different levels, particularly interactions between the global digital industry and contemporary China. The expansion strategies Tencent has employed--horizontal and vertical integration, diversification and transnationalization--speak to the intrinsic trends of capitalist reproduction and the consistent features of the political economy of communications. The book also pinpoints two emerging and entangling trends-- transnationalization and financialization--as unfolding trajectories of the global political economy. Understanding Tencent's dynamics of growth helps to clarify the complex nature of China's contemporary transformation and the multifaceted characteristics of its increasingly globalized Internet industry. This short and highly topical research volume is perfect for students and scholars of of global media, political economy, and Chinese business, media and communication, and society.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 General Nogi's Wife: Representations of Women in Narratives of Japanese Modernization -- 2 Against Metaphor: Gender, Violence, and Decolonization in Korean Nationalist Literature -- 3 Writing Erratic Desire: Sexual Politics in Contemporary Chinese Fiction -- 4 Two Murakamis and Marcel Proust: Memory as Form in Contemporary Japanese Fiction -- 5 The Fractured Cinema of North Korea: The Discourse of the Nation in Sea of Blood -- 6 New Urban Culture and the Anxiety of Everyday Life in Contemporary China -- 7 Image, Information, Commodity: A Few Speculations on Japanese Televisual Culture -- 8 Cinema and the Public Sphere: The Films of Ōshima Nagisa -- 9 Sexual DisOrientations: Homosexual Rights, East Asian Films, and Postmodern Postnationalism -- 10 Looking Backward in the Age of Global Capital: Thoughts on History in Third World Cultural Criticism -- Selected Βibliography -- About the Book -- About the Contributors -- Index.

"In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain, for sovereign states had no acknowledged common authority that would create, change, apply, and enforce legal norms. In Imagining World Order, Chenxi Tang shows that international world order was as much a literary as a legal matter. To begin with, the poetic imagination contributed to the making of international law. As the discourse of international law coalesced, literary works from romances and tragedies to novels responded to its unfulfilled ambitions and inexorable failures, occasionally affirming it, often contesting it, always uncovering its problems and rehearsing imaginary solutions. Tang highlights the various modes in which literary texts--some highly canonical (Camões, Shakespeare, Corneille, Lohenstein, and Defoe, among many others), some largely forgotten yet worth rediscovering--engaged with legal thinking in the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In tracing such engagements, he offers a dual history of international law and European literature. As legal history, the book approaches the development of international law in this period--its so-called classical age--in terms of literary imagination. As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the process, a set of literary forms common to major European languages (epic, tragedy, romance, novel) evolved"--

"Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle class in most western societies, associated with market, consumerism, democracy and 6 eople like us", the significant features of the middle class for any society. In China, private home ownership was not the norm from 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party took power, until the 1990s. In the past three decades, however, there has been a fast growing housing consumption and private homeowners have become the most significantly changing aspect of Chinese urban life. In particular, the rise of gated communities has become a predominant feature of the urban landscape. Similar to their western counterparts, the gated communities in China exemplify 6 igh status" symbols with enclosed and restricted residential areas, exclusive community parks and recreational facilities, and professional management and security services. But different from western societies where gated communities usually represent luxurious lifestyles only limited to a small group of people, in urban China gated communities have become one major form of supply in the housing market and one of the most popular and desirable choices for homebuyers. Private home ownership and residency in gated communities, altogether characterize the most significant aspect of comfort living and distinct lifestyles of China's new middle classes who have successfully got ahead in the socialist market economy. This book examines the formation of 6 hina's housing middle class". It develops a theoretical argument about, and provides empirical evidence of the heterogeneity of China's new middle class, which underlines the relations between the state, market and life chances under a socialist market economy. As such it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Chinese society, sociology and politics."--Provided by publisher

As one of the boat people refugees, Thien escaped war-torn Vietnam on a harrowing journey that landed him in a Malaysian refugee camp. This is a graphic and beautifully-written account of Thien Tang's 30-month plight as a refugee from Vietnam during the 'boat people' exodus.

1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual underpinnings of global queering -- 3. Postcolonial Singapore : state, nationalism and sexuality -- 4. Sexual politics in Singapore : sodomy law and lesbian resistance -- 5. Transnational politics of local queer activism and lesbian activists -- 6. 'Modern' lesbian lives in postcolonial Singapore -- 7. Recollections, remarks and re-making the relations : a postcolonial politics of difference.