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Brand Yourself for Admission to Top US Boarding Schools: 5 Key Steps for International Students

By: Marybeth Hodson,Jennifer Yu Cheng

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Brand Yourself for Admission to Top US Boarding Schools: 5 Key Steps for International Students

By: Marybeth Hodson,Jennifer Yu Cheng

An insider’s guide to branding yourself, finding your best-fit boarding school, and acing the admissions process. ? ???How to BUILD a unique and inviting personal brand that DIFFERENTIATES you in the admissions process ???How to STAND OUT in student/parent interviews at highly selective schools ???Tips for earning the BEST recommendations ???Strategies for building MEANINGFUL relationships with target schools ???Principles of SUCCESS in the boarding school setting ???REAL WORLD accounts of students finding their best-fit boarding school ???Plus a FREE My Boarding School Plan Workbook (PDF)! ? Finding a perfect fit between schools and applicants should not only be the goal of admissions officers — but of students as well. Approaching school applications from the vantage point of an educational consultant helps students gain admission and more importantly thrive at their boarding school of choice. ? With over 10 years of professional experience in educational consultancy and having successfully placed hundreds of international students to the most prestigious American boarding schools, Marybeth Hodson and Jennifer Yu Cheng are expertly positioned to walk you through the complexities of boarding school admission. Throughout this insider’s guide, the authors unveil a special five-step approach to determining and getting admitted to a best-fit school, affording parents and students a better understanding of what boarding schools seek in an ideal student and how to brand yourself as THE ideal candidate. ? TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS PREFACE INTRODUCTION STEP 01 START EARLY 1.1????????Readiness Indicators 1.2????????Build Your Brand 1.3????????Building Relationships STEP 02 PLAN WELL ???????2.1?Set Your Target ?????2.2?Getting Ready to Visit Schools ?????2.3?Student and Parent School Visit STEP 03 EXECUTE ???????3.1?Understanding the Application Process ?????3.2?Student and Parent Application ?????3.3?Recommendations ?????3.4?Supplemental Materials STEP 04 FOLLOW-UP ?????4.1?Increase Visibility ?????4.2?The Admission Decision STEP 05 TRANSITION ???????5.1?Before You Go ?????5.2?While You’re There CASE STUDIES APPENDIX: EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANTS CONCLUSIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Enrich Publishing Limited

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9888599461

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Major Companies of The Far East and Australasia 1991/92

Volume 2: East Asia

By: Jennifer L. Carr

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Major Companies of The Far East and Australasia 1991/92

Volume 2: East Asia

By: Jennifer L. Carr

This book represents the eighth edition of what has become 3.n established reference work, MAJOR COMPANIES OF THE Guide to the =AR EAST & AUSTRALASIA. This volume has been carefully 'esearched and updated since publication of the previous arrangement of the book 3dition, and provides more company data on the most mportant companies in the region. The information in the This book has been arranged in order to allow the reader to )()ok was submitted mostly by the companies themselves, find any entry rapidly and accurately. I ;ompletely free of charge. For the second time, a third volume Ilas been added to the series, covering major companies in Company entries are listed alphabetically within each section; ,\ustralia and New Zealand, in addition three indexes are provided on coloured paper at the back of the book. --he companies listed have been selected on the grounds of lhe size of their sales volume or balance sheet or their The alphabetical index to companies throughout East Asia lists lliportance to the business environment of the country in all companies having entries in the book irrespective of their which they are based. main country of operation. _Ore book is updated and published every year. Any company The alphabetical index to companies within each country of tlat considers it is eligible for inclusion in the next edition of East Asia lists companies by their country of operation.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401130108

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9789401130103

Graphic Design: The New Basics (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded)

By: Ellen Lupton,Jennifer Cole Phillips

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Graphic Design: The New Basics (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded)

By: Ellen Lupton,Jennifer Cole Phillips

Our bestselling introduction to graphic design is now available in a revised and updated edition. In Graphic Design: The New Basics (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded), bestselling author Ellen Lupton (Thinking with Type, Type on Screen) and design educator Jennifer Cole Phillips explain the key concepts of visual language that inform any work of design, from logo or letterhead to a complex website. Through visual demonstrations and concise commentary, students and professionals explore the formal elements of twodimensional design, such as point, line, plane, scale, hierarchy, layers, and transparency. This revised edition replaces sixty-four pages of the original publication with new content, including new chapters on visualizing data, typography, modes of representation, and Gestalt principles, and adds sixteen pages of new student and professional work covering such topics as working with grids and designing with color.

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Chronicle Books

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1616894555

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Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan

By: Jennifer M. Wei

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Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan

By: Jennifer M. Wei

Jennifer M. Wei argues that construction and perceptions of language and identity parallel sociopolitical transformations, and language and identity crises arise during power transitions. Under these premises, language and identity are never well-defined or well-bounded. Instead, they are best viewed as political symbols subject to manipulation and exploitation during socio-historical upheavals. A choice of language—from phonological shibboleth, Mandarin, or Taiwanese, to choice of official language—cuts to the heart of contested cultural notions of self and other, with profound implications for nationalism, national unity and ethno-linguistic purism. Wei further argues that because of the Chinese Diaspora and Taiwan's connections to China and the United States, arguments and sentiments over language choice and identity have consequences for Taiwan's international and transnational status. They are symbolic acts of imagining Taiwan's past as she looks forward to the future.

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Lexington Books

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1461633729

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A Question of Intent

Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China

By: Jennifer M. Neighbors

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A Question of Intent

Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China

By: Jennifer M. Neighbors

In A Question of Intent: Homicide Law and Criminal Justice in Qing and Republican China, Jennifer M. Neighbors uses legal cases from the local, provincial and central levels to explore both the complexity with which Qing law addressed abstract concepts and the process of adoption, adaptation, and resistance as late imperial law gave way to criminal law of the Republican period. This study reveals a Chinese justice system, both before and after 1911, that defies assignment to binary categories of modern and pre-modern law that have influenced much of past scholarship.

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900433016X

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A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship

Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections

By: Jennifer Eichman

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A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship

Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections

By: Jennifer Eichman

Through a detailed analysis of epistolary writing, A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections brings to life the Buddhist discourse of a network of lay disciples who debated the value of Chan versus Pure Land, sudden versus gradual enlightenment, adherence to Buddhist precepts, and animal welfare. By highlighting the differences between their mentor, the monk Zhuhong 袾宏 (1535-1615), and his nemesis, the Yangming Confucian Zhou Rudeng 周汝登 (1547-1629), this work confronts long-held scholarly views of Confucian dominance to conclude that many classically educated, elite men found Buddhist practices a far more attractive option. Their intellectual debates, self-cultivation practices, and interpersonal relations helped shape the contours of late sixteenth-century Buddhist culture.

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9004308458

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Digital Feedback Methods

By: Jennifer Schluer

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Digital Feedback Methods

By: Jennifer Schluer

The crucial role of feedback in the learning process is undisputed. But how can feedback be exchanged in the digital age? This book equips teachers and learners with a research-based overview of digital feedback methods. This includes, for instance, feedback in text editors, cloud documents, chats, forums, wikis, surveys, mails as well as multimodal feedback in video conferences and recorded audio, video and screencast feedback. The book discusses the advantages and limitations of each digital feedback method and offers suggestions for their practical application in the classroom. They can be utilized in online teaching as well as to enrich on-site teaching. The book also provides ideas for combining different feedback methods synergistically and closes with recommendations for developing dynamic digital feedback literacies among teachers and students.

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Narr Francke Attempto Verlag

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3823303805

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Translation and Literature in East Asia

Between Visibility and Invisibility

By: Jieun Kiaer,Jennifer Guest,Xiaofan Amy Li

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Translation and Literature in East Asia

Between Visibility and Invisibility

By: Jieun Kiaer,Jennifer Guest,Xiaofan Amy Li

Translation and Literature in East Asia: Between Visibility and Invisibility explores the issues involved in translation between Chinese, Japanese and Korean, as well as from these languages into European languages, with an eye to comparing the cultures of translation within East Asia and tracking some of their complex interrelationships. This book reasserts the need for a paradigm shift in translation theory that looks beyond European languages and furthers existing work in this field by encompassing a wider range of literature and scholarship in East Asia. Translation and Literature in East Asia brings together material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation between and from East Asian languages for the first time.

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Routledge

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1351108654

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Dreaming the New Woman

An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China

By: Jennifer Bond

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Dreaming the New Woman

An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China

By: Jennifer Bond

Based on seventy-five oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the voices of Chinese women who attended Protestant missionary schools for girls in China in the early twentieth century. By focusing on the experience of women who attended these schools, Jennifer Bond provides fresh perspectives on the role of Christianity in the emergence of the Chinese New Woman. The book explores how girls negotiated overlapping school, patriotic, Christian, gendered, and Communist identities during China's turbulent twentieth century of wars and revolutions.

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Oxford University Press

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0197654797

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Ethnomusicology

A Research and Information Guide

By: Jennifer Post

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Ethnomusicology

A Research and Information Guide

By: Jennifer Post

First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1136705198

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Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II

The Ethical Challenge of Biotechnology

By: Jennifer Cushman,Gungwu Wang

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Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II

The Ethical Challenge of Biotechnology

By: Jennifer Cushman,Gungwu Wang

In June 1985, a symposium, "Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere in Australia, North America and Southeast Asia. Participants looked at the current thinking about the parameters of identity and shared their own research into the complex issues that overlapping categories of identity raise. Identity was chosen as the focus of the, symposium because perceptions of self - whether by others or by the individual Chinese concerned - appear to lie at the heart ' of the present-day Chinese experience in Southeast Asia, It is also evident that identity wears many guises and that we cannot talk about a single Chinese identity when identity can be determined by the different political, social, economic or religious circumstances an individual faces at any given time. One of the distinctive characteristics of all the essays in this volume is that they are written from an historical perspective. While the papers forcus on how recent developments in Southeast Asian society have shaped Chinese identity, they also discuss those changes in terms of the historical matrix from which they developed. Because many of the essays in this volume combine an historical overview with more recent statistical data, it should serve as a useful companion to the increasingly popular case studies in which much of the writing about the Chinese in Southeast Asia is now cast.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622092071

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Women and the Christian Story

A Global History

By: Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski

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Women and the Christian Story

A Global History

By: Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski

This is a story about Christian women. It is a story of martyrs, mystics, missionaries, leaders, preachers, theologians, saints, and prophets." For most of its two-thousand-year history, Christianity has told its stories from the perspective of men, mostly powerful men, and almost always men in control of the "official" narrative. These masculine narratives tell only part of the story because they obscure the rich and essential contributions, large and small, of Christian women throughout time. If the stories of women have been overlooked generally, stories of women from outside the Western tradition have been even more seriously overlooked. In this exciting, readable, and fresh new history of Christianity, Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski foregrounds the story of Christian women for a new era. Be they powerful or nameless, saintly or flawed, women across two millennia and six continents are lifted up and allowed to speak fully to their part in the spread of the faith. Wojciechowski's book works perfectly as a classroom text while welcoming general readers of all backgrounds and interest levels.

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Fortress Press

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1506473768

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9781506473765

War by Other Means

Geoeconomics and Statecraft

By: Robert D. Blackwill,Jennifer M. Harris

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War by Other Means

Geoeconomics and Statecraft

By: Robert D. Blackwill,Jennifer M. Harris

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016 Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing everything from trade and investment to energy and exchange rates are wielded as tools to win diplomatic allies, punish adversaries, and coerce those in between. Not so in the United States, however. America still too often reaches for the gun over the purse to advance its interests abroad. The result is a playing field sharply tilting against the United States. “Geoeconomics, the use of economic instruments to advance foreign policy goals, has long been a staple of great-power politics. In this impressive policy manifesto, Blackwill and Harris argue that in recent decades, the United States has tended to neglect this form of statecraft, while China, Russia, and other illiberal states have increasingly employed it to Washington’s disadvantage.” —G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs “A readable and lucid primer...The book defines the extensive topic and opens readers’ eyes to its prevalence throughout history...[Presidential] candidates who care more about protecting American interests would be wise to heed the advice of War by Other Means and take our geoeconomic toolkit more seriously. —Jordan Schneider, Weekly Standard

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Harvard University Press

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0674545982

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Welfare for Autocrats

How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers

By: Jennifer Pan

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Welfare for Autocrats

How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers

By: Jennifer Pan

What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or "stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression. This distortion of Dibao damages perceptions of government competence and legitimacy and can trigger unrest among those denied benefits. Pan traces how China's approach to enforcing order transformed at the turn of the 21st century and identifies a phenomenon she calls seepage whereby one policy--in this case, quelling dissent--alters the allocation of resources and goals of unrelated areas of government. Using novel datasets and a variety of methodologies, Welfare for Autocrats challenges the view that concessions and repression are distinct strategies and departs from the assumption that all tools of repression were originally designed as such. Pan reaches the startling conclusion that China's preoccupation with order not only comes at great human cost but in the case of Dibao may well backfire.

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Oxford University Press

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0190087455

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,Shane J. Lopez,Ryon C. McDermott,C. R. Snyder

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,Shane J. Lopez,Ryon C. McDermott,C. R. Snyder

Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths offers comprehensive coverage of the science and application of positive emotions and human strengths such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, attachment, and love. Authors Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, Shane J. Lopez, Ryon C. McDermott, and C. R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life for students by showing how it can improve all phases of contemporary life. The fully revised Fifth Edition explores new examples and reflections on current events, new and emerging scholarship in the field, expanded coverage of the neurological and biological foundations of positive psychology, and a new focus on the diverse aspects of our society and the many strengths rooted in our multi-faceted cultures. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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SAGE Publications

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1071819224

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9781071819227

Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

By: Jennifer Ann Ho

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Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

By: Jennifer Ann Ho

The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. For example, the book examines the racial ambiguity of Japanese American nisei Yoshiko Nakamura deLeon, who during World War II underwent an abrupt transition from being an enemy alien to an assimilating American, via the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942. It looks at the blogs of Korean, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese Americans who were adopted as children by white American families and have conflicted feelings about their “honorary white” status. And it discusses Tiger Woods, the most famous mixed-race Asian American, whose description of himself as “Cablinasian”—reflecting his background as Black, Asian, Caucasian, and Native American—perfectly captures the ambiguity of racial classifications. Race is an abstraction that we treat as concrete, a construct that reflects only our desires, fears, and anxieties. Jennifer Ho demonstrates in Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813570719

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Anxiety Aesthetics

Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985

By: Jennifer Dorothy Lee

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Anxiety Aesthetics

Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985

By: Jennifer Dorothy Lee

Anxiety Aesthetics is the first book to consider a prehistory of contemporaneity in China through the emergent creative practices in the aftermath of the Mao era. Arguing that socialist residues underwrite contemporary Chinese art, complicating its theorization through Maoism, Jennifer Dorothy Lee traces a selection of historical events and controversies in late 1970s and early 1980s Beijing. Lee offers a fresh critical frame for doing symptomatic readings of protest ephemera and artistic interventions in the Beijing Spring social movement of 1978–80, while exploring the rhetoric of heated debates waged in institutional contexts prior to the '85 New Wave. Lee demonstrates how socialist aesthetic theories and structures continued to shape young artists' engagement with both space and selfhood and occupied the minds of figures looking to reform the nation. In magnifying this fleeting moment, Lee provides a new historical foundation for the unprecedented global exposure of contemporary Chinese art today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520393783

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Indoctrinating the Youth

Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937–1960

By: Jennifer Liu

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Indoctrinating the Youth

Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937–1960

By: Jennifer Liu

Indoctrinating the Youth examines how the Guomindang (GMD or Nationalists) sought to maintain control of middle-school students and cultivate their political loyalty over the trajectory of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, and postwar Taiwan. During the Sino-Japanese War the Nationalists managed middle-school refugee students by merging schools, publishing and distributing updated textbooks, and assisting students as they migrated to the interior with their principals and teachers. In Taiwan, the China Youth Corps (CYC) became a symbol of the regime’s successful establishment. Tracing Nationalist efforts to indoctrinate ideology and martial spirit, Jennifer Liu investigates how GMD leaders Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo tried to build support among young people in their efforts to stabilize Taiwanese society under their rule. By comparing two key youth organizations—the Three People’s Principles Youth Corps in China, and the CYC on Taiwan—Liu uses education as a lens to analyze state-building in modern China. Liu’s careful analysis of the inner workings of GMD youth organizations also illuminates the day-to-day operations of military training in gender-segregated upper-middle schools—including how the government selected instructors and the skills taught to students. According to Liu, mandatory military training contributed to preventing major protest against the government but the policy was not without critics. Intellectuals, parents, and students voiced their dissent at what they perceived as excessive control by a repressive government and a waste of resources interfering with academics. The government-mandated civics curriculum, including government-approved textbooks and standards, reveals the characteristics and duties GMD officials believed modern citizens of the next generation should possess. Through provisions for refugee students, youth organizations, military training, and civics classes, GMD secondary education policy played a critical role in the process of state building in both modern China and Taiwan. Skillfully combining archival work in Nanjing and Taipei, along with oral interviews with former students and CYC administrators, instructors, and members, Liu offers a unique perspective toward a balanced assessment of Nationalist Party rule.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824896998

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Martial Arts For Dummies

By: Jennifer Lawler

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Martial Arts For Dummies

By: Jennifer Lawler

There’s plenty of good reasons that millions of people around the world study martial arts. Besides the fact you can get a great workout when you study a martial art, you may also experience a rewarding balance between your mind, body, and spirit that you just won’t find anywhere else. Plus, it can be a lot of fun! No matter what shape you’re in, martial arts is a great way to drop extra pounds, learn to defend yourself, and develop personal and physical discipline. Whether you’re already studying a style of fighting or you’re just considering it, you’ll find everything you need to know in this helpful, friendly guide (including which movies to check out!). The book breaks down the differences and presents the basics of each style of fighting, so you can make an informed choice about which style you want to study. You’ll also find out what makes for a good instructor, so you can be sure that you’re learning from the best. And there’s much more. You’ll find out: What martial arts is and is not Five resolutions you must accept Understanding the role of the instructor How to set goals for yourself All about the proper clothes, shoes, and equipment How to prevent injuries The philosophy of self defense All about competing in tournaments About Meditation and breathing techniques The lowdown on weapons There’s also a helpful glossary of foreign-language terminology that you’ll frequently encounter in the dojo – that’s the training hall – so you’ll always be prepared. Whether you’re looking for a new way to get in shape, or a new way to sharpen your mind, Martial Arts For Dummies is all you need to get started in Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, or any other style!

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118069617

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Legal Lessons

Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989

By: Jennifer E. Altehenger

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Legal Lessons

Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989

By: Jennifer E. Altehenger

The popularization of basic legal knowledge is an important and contested technique of state governance in China today. Its roots reach back to the early years of Chinese Communist Party rule. Legal Lessons tells the story of how the party-state attempted to mobilize ordinary citizens to learn laws during the early years of the Mao period (1949–1976) and in the decade after Mao’s death.Examining case studies such as the dissemination of the 1950 Marriage Law and successive constitutions since 1954 in Beijing and Shanghai, Jennifer Altehenger traces the dissemination of legal knowledge at different levels of state and society. Archival records, internal publications, periodicals, advice manuals, memoirs, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to determine and promote “correct” understanding of written laws intersected with people’s interpretations and practical experiences. They also show how diverse groups—including party-state leadership, legal experts, publishers, writers, artists, and local officials, along with ordinary people—helped to define the meaning of laws in China’s socialist society. Placing mass legal education and law propaganda at the center of analysis, Legal Lessons offers a new perspective on the sociocultural and political history of law in socialist China.

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1684175879

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,C. R. Snyder

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Positive Psychology

The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

By: Shane J. Lopez,Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti,C. R. Snyder

Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths comprehensively covers the science and application of positive psychology. Authors Shane J. Lopez, Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, and C. R. Snyder bring positive psychology to life by illustrating issues such as how psychological strength can help increase positive outcomes in school and the workplace and promote cooperative relationships among people. Furthermore, the book encourages readers to engage with concepts in order to understand positive emotions and strengths, such as empathy, altruism, gratitude, attachment, and love. Over 50 case studies grounded in practice, research, and the authors’ teaching experience reveal how positive psychological phenomena operate in the lives of real people.

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SAGE Publications

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1544341768

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The One Year Praying the Promises of God

By: Cheri Fuller,Jennifer Kennedy Dean

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The One Year Praying the Promises of God

By: Cheri Fuller,Jennifer Kennedy Dean

Spend this year meditating on the promises of God. In this devotional, Cheri Fuller and Jennifer Kennedy Dean invite readers to explore God’s promises each and every day and encourage them to reflect on how God’s hand is evident if only we look for it. Each reading includes a Bible verse from that day’s reading in The One Year Bible, a devotional, a prayer, and a quotation that relates to the promise of the day. Each day is an invitation to pursue a closer relationship to God and a reminder that God always keeps his promises.

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141437741X

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Discursive Change in Hong Kong

Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems

By: Jennifer Eagleton

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Discursive Change in Hong Kong

Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems

By: Jennifer Eagleton

Discursive Change in Hong Kong: Sociopolitical Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems is an interdisciplinary study of sociopolitical and discursive change in Hong Kong—a westernized Chinese society once under British rule, now decolonized but without independence, and with a constitution promising universal suffrage sometime in the future. Starting off with interesting and frequently contradictory debates surrounding the discussions on the Handover of Hong Kong to mainland China, Jennifer Eagleton provides a stimulating, politically well-informed, and comprehensive “insider” account of many aspects of the press media and official discourse on democracy and political change in Hong Kong as part of “One Country, Two Systems.” The book shows how historical, cultural, and identity issues have shaped and molded post-1997 political discourse and how the seemingly dramatic changes in the city since 2020 may not have been that surprising for long-term observers of Hong Kong. By going beyond consideration of the purely linguistic dimension of the selected texts to encompass the larger historical and socio-political context, and incorporating textual, discursive, and metaphoric analysis over time, this book provides a detailed examination of Hong Kong political discourse and its constituent themes.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793630852

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Major Companies of The Far East and Australasia 1993/94

Volume 1: South East Asia

By: Jennifer L. Carr

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Major Companies of The Far East and Australasia 1993/94

Volume 1: South East Asia

By: Jennifer L. Carr

This book represents the tenth edition of what has become an established reference work, MAJOR COMPANIES OF THE Guide to the FAR EAST & AUSTRALASIA This volume has been carefully researched and updated since publication of the prevIous arrangement of the book edition, and provides more company data on the most Important companies In the region The information In the ThiS book has been arranged In order to allow the reader to book was submitted mostly by the companies themselves, find any entry rapidly and accurately completely free of charge Company entries are listed alphabetically Within each section, The companies listed have been selected on the grounds of In addition three Indexes are provided on coloured paper at the size of their sales volume or balance sheet or their the back of the book Importance to the bUSiness environment of the country In which they are based The alphabetical Index to companies throughout South East Asia lists all companies haVing entnes In the book Irrespective The book IS updated and published every year Any company of their main country of operation that considers It IS eligible for Inclusion In the next edition of MAJOR COMPANIES OF THE FAR EAST & AUSTRALASIA The alphabet/cal Index to companies Within each country of should write to the pu blishers No charge whatsoever IS made South East ASia lists companies by their country of operation for publishing details about a company The bUSiness activity mdex lists companies by their vanous

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401114528

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9789401114523

Predictive Statistics

Analysis and Inference beyond Models

By: Bertrand S. Clarke,Jennifer L. Clarke

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Predictive Statistics

Analysis and Inference beyond Models

By: Bertrand S. Clarke,Jennifer L. Clarke

All scientific disciplines prize predictive success. Conventional statistical analyses, however, treat prediction as secondary, instead focusing on modeling and hence estimation, testing, and detailed physical interpretation, tackling these tasks before the predictive adequacy of a model is established. This book outlines a fully predictive approach to statistical problems based on studying predictors; the approach does not require predictors correspond to a model although this important special case is included in the general approach. Throughout, the point is to examine predictive performance before considering conventional inference. These ideas are traced through five traditional subfields of statistics, helping readers to refocus and adopt a directly predictive outlook. The book also considers prediction via contemporary 'black box' techniques and emerging data types and methodologies where conventional modeling is so difficult that good prediction is the main criterion available for evaluating the performance of a statistical method. Well-documented open-source R code in a Github repository allows readers to replicate examples and apply techniques to other investigations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108594204

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Fields from the Sea

Chinese Junk Trade with Siam during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century

By: Jennifer Cushman

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Fields from the Sea

Chinese Junk Trade with Siam during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century

By: Jennifer Cushman

Methodical and inquisitive, Cushman explores Chinese junk trade with Siam over two centuries. In the course of her analysis, the author illuminates significant aspects of China's economic development, the implementation of commercial policies by the two nations, and concepts of trade in the east and southeast of Asia.

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Cornell University Press

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1501719068

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