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This book compares the policy approaches taken by China and India in dealing with HIV/AIDS, illuminating the challenges they face as they grapple with this intractable disease and identifying best practices for dealing with HIV/AIDS in the developing world and beyond

According to the author, there was never as tough a test for the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) commitment to law as the 1989 democratic movement triggered by the death of Hu Yaobang, the disgraced former party general secretary, which culminated in the massacre by the military in Beijing on 4 June 1989, followed by a nationwide political and ideological purge. The study inquires whether that crisis has shattered hopes for socialist modernization in general and a legal order in particular in the PRC. It also discusses legal versus political means to solve the 1989 crisis. (DÜI-Sen)

International Conference, From CONTESTED_CITIES to global urban justice - critical dialogues, Madrid, 4-7 July 2016 ; Working paper series IV-2A. International Conference CONTESTED_CITIES, Stream 2: Housing ; What insights can a spatial interrogation of Hong Kong's domestic models and its transformative variants deliver in terms of a territory's processes of compressed domesticity? Furthermore, how would the understanding of these models not only question, but, concomitantly reflect the ideologies of a 'square foot society'? ; According to the Hong Kong SAR Government, 60m2 is seen as the official and standard domestic module. As territorial construct Hong Kong's geopolitical complexity and it's 'Special Administrative Region' status has, since 1997, gradually realigned a number of speculative, housing and political ideologies to establish a unique 'east-meets- west' social-spatial context. The interlacing of rich-versus-poor, limited availability of exploitable property, and the recent emergence of socially driven resistance movements have ruptured conventional spatial tangents, forcing the emergence of tactical strategies as generators for domestic structures far below to the 60m2 mean. ; In this framework housing and its domestic valance has become questionable in its deployment and mechanization as urbanization instrument, that is to say, the 'model versus the lived'. Drawing from the theoretical concepts of Urbanism (Wirth, 1938), territoriality (Elden, 2013) and 'commoning' (Bruyns, et al., 2015) the proposed analysis is meant to show a number of consequences in terms of radicalized dwelling and spatial compression. The comparison of Hong Kong's 'Tong-lau' housing model, as the archetypical historical shop-house standard, and its contrast to contemporary dwellings highlights the social realities operative in high-density urban dwellings of the 21st Century. ; Expression of the mutative orders, between the 'model and the lived' concludes on the questionable forms of occupancy and tenancy within hyper-capitalism, the establishment of a 'square-foot-society' and it sharing of resources that ultimately shifts the focus to continued challenge of the 'model' through human necessities of the 'lived'. ; School of Design ; 201910 bcrc ; published_final