The success or failure of China's development will impact not only its own citizens but also
those of the world. China is widely recognized as a global actor on the world stage and no …

Both absolute and relative geographical changes have been, and are, occurring in the world
economy; there has been a progressive shift in the center of gravity of the world system and …

With China's rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and
China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become …

China has used industrial policies to try to build large corporations that can challenge those
based in more advanced countries. By the late 1990s the operational mechanism of China's …

World Criminal Justice Systems, Ninth Edition, provides an understanding of major world
criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's …

Background: Although extensive descriptive research shows that childhood obesity
predisposes a person to adult obesity, little is understood about the dynamics of weight …

This book addresses three principal questions: first, what is the relationship between
industrialization and development?; second, who or what are the agents that promote …

Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups
(MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united front between the 1930's and …

Drawing on Chinese sources hitherto unavailable in the West including official documents
and interviews with top athletes, the author explores the rise of Chinese super sportswomen …

A study to compare vocational education and training (VET) systems examined nine
countries across these three large geographical regions: Europe, East Asia, and the …