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Language: en
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Pages: 487
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-16 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-08 - Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
"Facing rapid globalization, it became evident that the traditional Chinese corporate governance mechanisms, which were heavily influenced by European and Japan
Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978-12-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
This book attempts to explain this aspect of Yüan Shih-k'ai's political power by analysing the relationship between him and Sir John Newell Jordan, British min
Language: en
Pages: 424
Pages: 424
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher:
Examines how representatives of evangelical mission societies in Britain and the US sought to introduce Protestant Christianity to Canton, Guadngdong Province,
Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Based upon selected anecdotal stories written by British observers, this text reconstructs the events of the illegal opium trade in Canton in the 1830s and the