許家銘（Chia）: 141 books
Jumpstarting South Asia
Revisiting Economic Reforms and Look East Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Jumpstarting South Asia focuses on the slowing pace of economic growth and makes the case for a two-pronged strategy to jumpstart South Asian economies. South Asian countries should complete the economic reform process that they had begun in the 1980s and the early 1990s and implement the more microeconomic...
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Beyond Han Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning...
Strategy without Design
The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Strategy exhibits a pervasive commitment to the belief that the best approach to adopt in dealing with affairs of the world is to confront, overcome and subjugate things to conform to our will, control and eventual mastery. Performance is about sustaining distinctiveness. This direct and deliberate...
The Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese
Workbook Level 1, Traditional Characters
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
* The* Routledge Course in Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study which takes students from complete beginner to post-intermediate level. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops...
by Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-Chia Chen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and...
by Claudia Ross, Baozhang He, Pei-chia Chen
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as pronunciation, character writing, word use and...
by Michael Chia,Patricia Wong
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Exercise Personal Training 101 provides a message of empowerment for personal trainers who believe in the holistic development of their clients. The key philosophy of the book is to help personal trainers of exercise to empower their clients with good problem-solving and decision-making skills concerning...
Toward Better Governance in China
An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Toward Better Governance in China takes a fresh look at the latest efforts made by Chinese leaders to promote governance-based reform. It asserts that the improvement of governance has now become one of the breakthrough points of the much anticipated political reform. Although the Chinese government...
Education, Culture and the Singapore Developmental State
World-Soul Lost and Regained?
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This book explores the role of education in the formation of the Singapore developmental state. The book provides a historical study of citizenship education in Singapore, whereby a comparative study of history, civics and social studies curricula, and the politics and policies that underpin them are examined.
by Claudia Ross, Jing-Heng Sheng Ma, Baozhang He
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook is a book of exercises and language tasks for all learners of Mandarin Chinese. Divided into two sections, the Workbook initially provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures, and moves on to practice everyday functions such as making introductions,...
A Jesuit in the Forbidden City
Matteo Ricci 1552-1610
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China...
International Education
An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This encyclopedia is the most current and exhaustive reference available on international education. It provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of key topics, concepts, and issues, as well as in-depth studies of approximately 180 national educational systems throughout the world. Articles examine education...
by Aubrey Tang, Fang-yu Li, Yenna Wu
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Li Ang (1952–) is a famous and prolific feminist writer from Taiwan who challenges and subverts sociocultural traditions through her daring explorations of sex, violence, women’s bodies and desire, and national politics. As a taboo-breaking writer and social critic, she uses fiction to expose...
Rethinking Hobbes and Kant
The Role and Consequences of Assumption in Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Rethinking Hobbes and Kant argues that predominant approaches to the theoretical relationship between Hobbes and Kant have reached conclusions that were pre-digested in assumptions about the ‘isms’ which these two writers are propounding. Chou shows how these assumptions have inhibited commentators...