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China's Telecommunications Revolution

By: Eric Harwit

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China's Telecommunications Revolution

By: Eric Harwit

China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the PRC expects to quickly pass the US in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace. This book tells how China conducted its remarkable "telecommunications revolution". It examines both corporate and government policy to get citizens connected to both voice and data networks, looks at the potential challenges to the one-party government when citizens get this access, and considers the new opportunities for networking now offered to the people of one of the world's fastest growing economies. The book is based on the author's fieldwork conducted in several Chinese cities, as well as extensive archival research. It focuses on key issues such as building and running the country's Internet, mobile phone company rivalry, foreign investment in the sector, and telecommunications in China's vibrant city of Shanghai. It also considers the country's internal "digital divide", and questions how equitable the telecommunications revolution has been. Finally, it examines the ways the PRC's entry to the World Trade Organization will shape the future course of telecommunications growth.

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OUP Oxford

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0191607932

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9780191607936

China's Automobile Industry

Policies, Problems and Prospects

By: Eric Harwit

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China's Automobile Industry

Policies, Problems and Prospects

By: Eric Harwit

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income. The book reviews public assistance programmes, and evaluates other plans that have been proposed.

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197

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Routledge

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1315286793

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9781315286792

China's Telecommunications Revolution

By: Eric Harwit

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China's Telecommunications Revolution

By: Eric Harwit

A comprehensive look at China's telecommunications industry this text considers the way Chinese companies and the government acted in concert to put telephones and Internet access in the hands of hundreds of millions in less than 25 years, and looks at the consequences of this telecommunications 'revolution

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199233748

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Changing Lanes in China

Foreign Direct Investment, Local Governments, and Auto Sector Development

By: Eric Thun

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Changing Lanes in China

Foreign Direct Investment, Local Governments, and Auto Sector Development

By: Eric Thun

This book addresses two of the most important trends in political economy during the last two decades - globalization and decentralization - in the context of the world's most rapidly growing economic power, China. The intent is to provide a better understanding of how local political and economic institutions shape the ability of Chinese state-owned firms to utilize foreign direct investment (FDI) to remake themselves in the transition from inefficient and technologically backward firms into powerful national champions. In a global economy, the author argues, local governments are increasingly the agents of industrial transformation at the level of the firm. Local institutions are durable over time, and they have important economic consequences. Through an analysis of five Chinese regions, the treatment seeks to specify the opportunities and constraints that alternative institutional structures create, how they change over time, and ultimately, how they prepare Chinese firms for the challenge of global competition.

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352

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Cambridge University Press

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1139447866

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The Restless Universe

Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton

By: Eric M. Schlegel

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The Restless Universe

Understanding X-Ray Astronomy in the Age of Chandra and Newton

By: Eric M. Schlegel

Carl Sagan once noted that there is only one generation that gets to see things for the first time. We are in the midst of such a time right now, standing on the threshold of discovery in the young and remarkable field of X-ray astronomy. In The Restless Universe, astronomer Eric Schlegel offers readers an informative survey of this cutting-edge science. Two major space observatories launched in the last few years--NASA's Chandra and the European Newton--are now orbiting the Earth, sending back a gold mine of data on the X-ray universe. Schlegel, who has worked on the Chandra project for seven years, describes the building and launching of this space-based X-ray observatory. But the book goes far beyond the story of Chandra. What Schlegel provides here is the background a nonscientist would need to grasp the present and follow the future of X-ray astronomy. He looks at the relatively brief history of the field, the hardware used to detect X-rays, the satellites--past, present, and future--that have been or will be flown to collect the data, the way astronomers interpret this data, and, perhaps most important, the insights we have already learned as well as speculations about what we may soon discover. And throughout the book, Schlegel conveys the excitement of looking at the universe from the perspective brought by these new observatories and the sharper view they deliver. Drawing on observations obtained from Chandra, Newton, and previous X-ray observatories, The Restless Universe gives a first look at an exciting field which significantly enriches our understanding of the universe.

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229

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Oxford University Press

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0198033842

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9780198033844

Stone Conservation

An Overview of Current Research

By: Clifford A. Price,Eric Doehne

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Stone Conservation

An Overview of Current Research

By: Clifford A. Price,Eric Doehne

First published in 1996, this volume has been substantially updated to reflect new research in the conservation of stone monuments, sculpture, and archaeological sites.

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Getty Publications

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1606060465

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China's Automobile Industry

Policies, Problems and Prospects

By: Eric Harwit

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China's Automobile Industry

Policies, Problems and Prospects

By: Eric Harwit

After tracing the history of the development of China's automobile industry, this book examines four cases of foreign-invested passenger car projects -- American Motors (Chrysler), Volkswagon, Peugeot, and Panda Motors. Then, on the basis of empirical data and theories of rational choice applied to the Chinese government, the author predicts the future progess of the automotive industry in China. This is the first book to study comprehensively the historical and political development of this vital sector of the Chinese economy.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765632691

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