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Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

By: Xiaoyuan Jiang

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Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

By: Xiaoyuan Jiang

Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History discusses the ancient Chinese's needs and reasons for engaging in astronomy. It presents the study on ancient astronomical phenomena and manuals, and analyzes the cosmological views of ancient Chinese. It also expounds the nature and functions of astronomy to ancient Chinese, as well as its difference from the western modern astronomy of today, exploring on new issues in a bold but logical fashion, and offering arguments that challenge even the views of authority.This book stands as a translated version, by Chen Wenan, an associate professor of Ningbo University, of the original Chinese publication Tianxue Waishi by Jiang Xiaoyuan.

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World Scientific

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9811223475

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9789811223471

NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

This book investigates how NGOs in authoritarian states, such as China, craft accountability and legitimacy to ensure their survival. It explores this through the lens of child welfare organisations from 2007 to 2017. The authors provide a fresh approach to accountability that is more attuned to the particular conditions of authoritarianism. The project explores the effects of power relations in shaping the hierarchies of accountability and participation that emerge and the attention given to different voices such as those of donor, government, and users. Essential reading for researchers and policy makers interested in development, NGO, social policy, political science, and child welfare studies.

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236

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Springer

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3319902210

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9783319902210

Disability Policy in China

Child and family experiences

By: Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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Disability Policy in China

Child and family experiences

By: Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

Without access to a public social welfare system in parts of China, some families face invidious decisions about the lives of their children with disabilities. In other places, children with disabilities can now expect to participate in their families and communities with the same aspirations as other children. Understanding how Chinese policy has changed in the places that have addressed these stark situations is vital for the rights of the children and their families who still struggle to find the support they need. This book examines family experiences of child disability policy in China, and is the first to compile research on this area. It applies a child disability rights framework in four domains – care and protection, economic security, development and participation – to investigate families’ experiences of the effectiveness of support to fulfil their children’s rights. Questioning how families experience the interrelationships between these rights, it also considers what the further implications of the policy are. It includes vivid case studies of families’ experiences, and combines these with national data to draw out the likely future policy directions to which the Chinese government has said it is committed. Bringing together a wealth of statistical and qualitative data on children with disabilities, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese social welfare, social policy, society and children's studies, as well as policy-makers and NGOs alike.

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Routledge

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1317392396

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9781317392392

Young People Leaving State Care in China

By: Shang, Xiaoyuan,Fisher, Karen

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Young People Leaving State Care in China

By: Shang, Xiaoyuan,Fisher, Karen

In the last 20 years, state care in China has shifted away from institutional care, towards alternative care that recognises children’s rights to an inclusive childhood and adulthood. This book reviews changes in policy and practices that affected the generation of young people who grew up in state care in China during this time. The young people themselves give their perspectives on their childhood, their current experiences and their future plans for independence. These insights, combined with analysis of national state care datasets and policy documents, provide answers to questions about the impact of different types of alternative care on young people’s experiences, the impact on their identity and their capacity to live independently, finding a job, a home and relationships. All countries continue to struggle with how to improve the quality child protection practices and alternatives to group care. The results here provide evidence to researchers, governments and professionals to help to improve social inclusion by changing institutionalisation practices.

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282

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Policy Press

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1447336704

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9781447336709

The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader

By: Helen Shen,Zhou Yunong,Xiaoyuan Zhao

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The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader

By: Helen Shen,Zhou Yunong,Xiaoyuan Zhao

The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader is a comprehensive reader designed to provide varied, stimulating and up-to-date reading material for learners of Chinese at the intermediate level. The Chinese Reader provides a bridge between basic literacy skills and the ability to read full novels and newspapers in Chinese. It consists of forty readings, graded on the basis of complexity of vocabulary, grammar and syntax. These readings present a range of different text types representative of modern Chinese popular writing which will inspire students to continue reading independently in Chinese. It is ideal for learners who already possess a knowledge of essential grammar and vocabulary and who wish to expand their knowledge of the language through contextualized reading material. Key features include: Extracts from newspaper and internet articles Vocabulary annotation next to the reading paragraphs for quick reference Short grammar explanations of any complicated structures Comprehension and discussion questions Notes on culture and idioms Lesson structure maps to aid comprehension A companion website containing lesson audio and electronic vocabulary flash cards Full glossary at the back and answer key for reading questions Suitable for both class use and independent study, The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader is an essential tool for facilitating vocabulary learning and increasing reading proficiency.

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Routledge

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1135050937

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9781135050931

Frontier Passages

Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921-1945

By: Xiaoyuan Liu

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Frontier Passages

Ethnopolitics and the Rise of Chinese Communism, 1921-1945

By: Xiaoyuan Liu

In this pathbreaking book, Xiaoyuan Liu establishes the ways in which the history of the Chinese Communist Party was, from the Yan’an period onward, intertwined with the ethnopolitics of the Chinese “periphery.” As a Han-dominated party, the CCP had to adapt to an inhospitable political environment, particularly among the Hui (Muslims) of northwest China and the Mongols of Inner Mongolia. Based on a careful examination of CCP and Soviet Comintern documents only recently available, Liu’s study shows why the CCP found itself unable to follow the Russian Bolshevik precedent by inciting separatism among the non-Han peoples as a stratagem for gaining national power. Rather than swallowing Marxist-Leninist dogma on “the nationalities question,” the CCP took a position closer to that of the Kuomintang, stressing the inclusiveness of the Han-dominated Chinese nation, “Zhongua Minzu.”

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276

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Stanford University Press

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0804749604

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9780804749602

A Partnership for Disorder

China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945

By: Xiaoyuan Liu

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A Partnership for Disorder

China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941-1945

By: Xiaoyuan Liu

A Partnership for Disorder examines American-Chinese foreign policy planning in World War II for decolonising the Japanese Empire and controlling Japan after the war. This study unravels some of the complex origins of the postwar upheavals in Asia by demonstrating how the US and China's disagreements on many concrete issues prevented their governments from forging an effective partnership. The two powers' quest for long-term cooperation was further complicated by Moscow's eleventh-hour involvement in the Pacific War. By the war's end, a triangular relationship among Washington, Moscow, and Chongqing surfaced from secret negotiations at Yalta and Moscow. Yet the Yalta-Moscow system in Asia proved too ambiguous and fragile to be useful even for the purpose of defining a new balance of power among the Allies. The failure of the system was compounded by its obliviousness to Asia's dynamic nationalist forces.

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390

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Cambridge University Press

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0521528550

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9780521528559

To the End of Revolution

The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959

By: Xiaoyuan Liu

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To the End of Revolution

The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959

By: Xiaoyuan Liu

The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on unprecedented access to the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking account of Beijing’s evolving Tibet policy during the critical first decade of the People’s Republic. Liu details Beijing’s overarching strategy toward Tibet, the last frontier for the Communist revolution to reach. He analyzes how China’s new leaders drew on Qing and Nationalist legacies as they attempted to resolve a problem inherited from their predecessors. Despite acknowledging that religion, ethnicity, and geography made Tibet distinct, Beijing nevertheless forged ahead, zealously implementing socialist revolution while vigilantly guarding against real and perceived enemies. Seeking to wait out local opposition before choosing to ruthlessly crush Tibetan resistance in the late 1950s, Beijing eventually incorporated Tibet into its sociopolitical system. The international and domestic ramifications, however, are felt to this day. Liu offers new insight into the Chinese Communist Party’s relations with the Dalai Lama, ethnic revolts across the vast Tibetan plateau, and the suppression of the Lhasa Rebellion in 1959. Placing Beijing’s approach to Tibet in the contexts of the Communist Party’s treatment of ethnic minorities and China’s broader domestic and foreign policies in the early Cold War, To the End of Revolution is the most detailed account to date of Chinese thinking and acting on Tibet during the 1950s.

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718

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Columbia University Press

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0231551274

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9780231551274

Young People Leaving State Care in China

By: Shang, Xiaoyuan,Fisher, Karen

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Young People Leaving State Care in China

By: Shang, Xiaoyuan,Fisher, Karen

For children who grow up being cared for by the state, rather than their families, in China, the past twenty years has seen a shift: China has gone away from keeping those children in institutions and towards alternative approaches that attempt to honor children's rights to an inclusive childhood and adulthood. This book reviews the changes in policy and practice that underlie this shift, and, through interviews with young people involved with state care in the period, presents a clear view of how the change in approach has affected individual lives. As this is an issue that all countries struggle with, the lessons on offer here will be of value not just to those working in and studying China but to a broader range of practitioners in child welfare and development.

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Policy Press

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1447336690

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9781447336693

China after Jiang

By: Gang Lin,Xiaoyuan Liu,Xiaobo Hu

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China after Jiang

By: Gang Lin,Xiaoyuan Liu,Xiaobo Hu

One of the first evaluations of China's leadership transition with Jiang Zemin's 2002 retirement as Communist Party chief, this book probes the country's related institutional transitions—both those under way and those still needed if China is to remain stable and prosperous in the 21st century.

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Stanford University Press

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0804749191

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9780804749190

Caring for Orphaned Children in China

By: Shang Xiaoyuan,Karen R. Fisher

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Caring for Orphaned Children in China

By: Shang Xiaoyuan,Karen R. Fisher

International media regularly features horrific stories about Chinese orphanages, especially when debating international adoption and human rights. Much of the popular information is dated and ill-informed about the experiences of most orphans in China today, Chinese government policy, and improvements evident in parts of China. Informal kinship care is the most common support for the orphaned children. The state supports orphans and abandoned children whose parents and relatives cannot be found or contacted. The book explores concrete examples about the changing experiences and future directions of Chinese child welfare policy. It is about the support to disadvantaged children, including abandoned children in the care of the state, most of whom have disabilities; HIV affected children; and orphans in kinship care. It identifies how many orphans are in China, how they are supported, the extent to which their rights are met, and what efforts are made to improve their rights and welfare provision. When our research about Chinese orphans started in 2001, these children were almost entirely voiceless. Since then, the Chinese government has committed to improving child welfare. We argue that a mixed welfare system, in which state provision supplements family and community care, is an effective direction to improve support for orphaned children. Government needs to take responsibility to guarantee orphans’ rights as children, and support family networks to provide care so that children can grow up in their own communities. The book contributes to academic and policy understanding of the steps that have been taken and are still required to achieve the goal of a child welfare system in China that meets the rights of orphans to live and thrive with other children in a family.

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288

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Lexington Books

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0739136968

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9780739136966

NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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NGOs and Accountability in China

Child Welfare Organisations

By: Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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Springer

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Disability Policy in China

Child and family experiences

By: Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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Disability Policy in China

Child and family experiences

By: Xiaoyuan Shang,Karen R. Fisher

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131739240X

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Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

By: Xiaoyuan Jiang

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Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

By: Xiaoyuan Jiang

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Book's by Xiaoyuan Shang

Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

NGOs and Accountability in China

NGOs and Accountability in China

Disability Policy in China

Disability Policy in China

Young People Leaving State Care in China

Young People Leaving State Care in China

The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader

The Routledge Intermediate Chinese Reader

Frontier Passages

Frontier Passages

A Partnership for Disorder

A Partnership for Disorder

To the End of Revolution

To the End of Revolution

Young People Leaving State Care in China

Young People Leaving State Care in China

China after Jiang

China after Jiang

Caring for Orphaned Children in China

Caring for Orphaned Children in China

NGOs and Accountability in China

NGOs and Accountability in China

Disability Policy in China

Disability Policy in China

Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

Chinese Astrology And Astronomy: An Outside History

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