Описание: This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and general readers of world history. The book's narrative is clear, completely jargon-free, strikingly independent, and addresses the complete cycles of two world empires. The topics explored include nation formation, state building, empire building, arts of government, strategies of superpowers, and decline and fall.
Описание: Will the nations of Southeast Asia maintain their strategic autonomy, or are they destined to become a subservient periphery of China? This book's expert authors address this pressing question in multiple contexts. What clues to the future lie in the modern history of Sino-Southeast Asian relations? How economically dependent on China has the region already become? What do Southeast Asians think of China? Does Beijing view the region in proprietary terms as its own backyard? How has the relative absence, distance, and indifference of the United States affected the balance of influence between the US and China in Southeast Asia? The book also explores China's moves and Southeast Asia's responses to them. Does China's Maritime Silk Road through Southeast Asia herald a Pax Sinica across the region? How should China's expansionary acts in the South China Sea be understood? How have Southeast Asian states such as Vietnam and the Philippines responded? How does Singapore's China strategy compare with Indonesia's? How relevant is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations? To what extent has China tried to persuade the "overseas Chinese" in Southeast Asia to identify with "'the motherland" and support its aims? How are China's deep involvements in Cambodia and Laos affecting the economies and policies of those countries? "This rich collection," writes renowned author-journalist Nayan Chanda, answers these and other questions while offering "fresh insights" and "new information and analyses" to explain Southeast Asia's relations with China.
Автор: Whiteman, Stephen H. Название: Where dragon veins meet ISBN: 0295745800 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295745800 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies. The Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat (Bishu Shanzhuang) was strategically located at the node of mountain “veins” through which the Qing empire’s geomantic energy was said to flow. At this site, from late spring through early autumn, the Kangxi emperor presided over rituals of intimacy and exchange that celebrated his rule: garden tours, banquets, entertainments, and gift giving.
Stephen Whiteman draws on resources and methods from art and architectural history, garden and landscape history, early modern global history, and historical geography to reconstruct the Mountain Estate as it evolved under Kangxi, illustrating the importance of landscape as a medium for ideological expression during the early Qing and in the early modern world more broadly. Examination of paintings, prints, historical maps, newly created maps informed by GIS-based research, and personal accounts reveals the significance of geographic space and its representation in the negotiation of Qing imperial ideology. The first monograph in any language to focus solely on the art and architecture of the Kangxi court, Where Dragon Veins Meet illuminates the court’s production and deployment of landscape as a reflection of contemporary concerns and offers new insight into the sources and forms of Qing power through material expressions.
China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power drives the current course of the nation's foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now, China is strong, and it wants others to subordinate, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests.
What are the primary forces and how have these forces driven China's reemergence to global power? This book weaves together complex events, processes, and players to provide a historically in-depth, conceptually comprehensive, and up-to-date analysis of Chinese foreign policy transition since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arguing that transformational leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions prevail are the game changers. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping are transformational leaders who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity, and power. With the ultimate decision-making authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance.
Автор: Li, Xiao-bing (professor Of History And Director Of The Western Pacific Institute, Professor Of History And Director Of The Western Pacific Institute, Название: Dragon in the jungle ISBN: 0190681616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190681616 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5542.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: El paquete Courseware consiste de dos publicaciones , VeriSM - Fundamentos Courseware y Fundamentos guia de estudio.Este material de entrenamiento cubre el plan de estudios para la calificacion VeriSM fundamentos. El entrenamiento puede ser entregado durante dos dias. Este Courseware esta acreditado para preparar al estudiante para la certificacion VeriSM. VeriSM Fundamentos consiste de dos partes: VeriSM Essentials y VeriSM Plus, cada uno cubriendo un dia de entrenamiento.Los estudiantes que ya tienen un certificado en Gestion de Servicios (TI) pueden beneficiarse del conocimiento que ya tienen. Son el publico objetivo para el entrenamiento VeriSM Plus unicamente. Cuando aprueben el examen VeriSM Plus, recibiran el certificado de VeriSM fundamentos. Proveedores de entrenamiento que quieran ofrecer un dia de capacitacion sobre principios de gestion de servicios podrian decidir ofrecer unicamente el entrenamiento de VeriSM Essentials. Los estudiantes que aprueben el examen VeriSM Essentials, recibiran el certificado de VeriSM Essentials. Si posteriormente ellos aprueban el examen VeriSM plus, recibiran automaticamente el certificado VeriSM Fundamentos.El courseware cubre los siguientes temas:¢ La organizacion del servicio (Essentials)¢ Cultura del servicio (Essentials)¢ Personas y cultura organizacional (Essentials)¢ El modelo VeriSM (Ambas)¢ Practicas progresivas (Plus)¢ Tecnologias innovadoras (Plus)VeriSM es un enfoque holistico y orientado a la empresa, que le ayuda a comprender el creciente panorama de las mejores practicas y como integrarlas para ofrecer valor al consumidor.Esto es una evolucion en el pensamiento de la Gestion de Servicios y ofrece un enfoque actualizado, incluyendo las ultimas practicas y desarrollos tecnologicos, para ayudar a las organizaciones a transformar su negocio en la nueva realidad de la era digital.VeriSM es un enfoque de Gestion de Servicios que esta Dirigido por el valor, Evolutivo, Responsivo (Adaptado) e Integrado VeriSM es una marca registrada y propiedad del IFDC, la Fundacion Internacional de Habilidades Digitales
Название: F-15C Eagle Units in Combat ISBN: 1841767301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841767307 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 2523.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The F-15A/C is irrefutably the most successful jet fighter of the last 30 years. Serving in the Air Forces of Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia, it has racked up a kill ratio exceeding 105:0. Despite its age, it remains the leading operational air superiority and intercept platform in service today.
The hi-tech wizardry of modern air combat detailed in this book makes for fascinating reading, even to those not immediately familiar with modern airpower, and a huge pool of previously unpublished information on both aircrafts' combat records is uncovered.
Автор: Basil Название: Test Tubes Dragon Scales ISBN: 1138988693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138988699 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3520.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched, Xi's sense of mission to restore what he believes is China's natural position as a great power drives the current course of the nation's foreign policy. When China was weak, it was subordinated to others. Now, China is strong, and it wants others to subordinate, at least on the issues involving what it regards as core national interests.
What are the primary forces and how have these forces driven China's reemergence to global power? This book weaves together complex events, processes, and players to provide a historically in-depth, conceptually comprehensive, and up-to-date analysis of Chinese foreign policy transition since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), arguing that transformational leaders with new visions and political wisdom to make their visions prevail are the game changers. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping are transformational leaders who have charted unique courses of Chinese foreign policy in the quest for security, prosperity, and power. With the ultimate decision-making authority on national security and strategic policies, these leaders have made political use of ideational forces, tailoring bureaucratic institutions, exploiting the international power distribution, and responding strategically to the international norms and rules to advance their foreign policy agendas in the path of China's ascendance.
