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In October 2007 renowned experts from different countries assembled at the University of Mainz in Southwest Germany to discuss new insights into Chinese wine culture and latest research results from different academic perspectives. During this symposium it has been confirmed that China has one of the longest traditions of viticulture and grape wine. This volume contains revised and enlarged papers from the conference and represents the first attempt to establish an interdisciplinary research forum on Chinese wine culture. In order to encourage a broad international discourse on the topic, the book has been designed as a bilingual Chinese-English publication
This second volume of Stephen Jones' work on ritual and musical life in north China, again with accompanying downloadable resources, gives an impression of music-making in daily life in the poor mountainous region of Shaanbei, northwest China. It conveys some of the diverse musical activities there around 2000, from the barrage of pop music blaring from speakers in the bustling county-towns to the life-cycle and calendrical ceremonies of poor mountain villages. Based on the practice of grass-roots music-making in daily life, not merely on official images, the main theme is the painful maintenance of ritual and its music under Maoism, its revival with the market reforms of the 1980s, and its ...
The topic of the financial industry, from both practical and regulatory perspectives, has been widely debated since the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, but the discussion is mostly framed within a Western context. However, China now boasts one of the largest and most dynamic financial systems in the world and has three of the largest global stock markets as well as the gigantic commercial banks such as the ICBC and the Bank of China. It is actively opening its financial markets by reforming its securities law and introducing stock connect schemes with exchanges in the UK and Switzerland and also has the most advanced Fintech and mobile payment sector. China's central bank digital curre...
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream ideology, and they also offer a rich area of research by providing insight into the changing Chinese political, social and cultural context. This book examines a group of recently released TV drama serials in China which focus upon, and to various degrees represent, topical political, social and cultural phenomena. Some of the selected TV serials reflect the present ideological proclivities of...
First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This book is designed for people who want to understand e-commerce – and by "understanding", we mean first and foremost Why and What, not How. Why is Amazon dominating the market? What happened between 1995 and 2015? Why were the incumbents like Walmart not able to fight back? What will become of the herd of new unicorn e-commerce companies? And what will happen to the traditional value chain on which retail companies operate? This is not a book about How, though, so don't read this hoping to learn "how to master online marketing". From our point of view, the Why and What is much more challenging and important, whether you are running a company in this market or are a student wanting to br...
Das Buch liefert eine umfassende Darstellung der deskriptiven und induktiven Statistik sowie moderner Methoden der explorativen Datenanalyse. Dabei stehen inhaltliche Motivation, Interpretation und Verständnis der Methoden im Vordergrund – unterstützt durch zahlreiche Grafiken und Anwendungsbeispiele, die auf realen Daten basieren. Hervorhebungen am Rand erhöhen dabei die Lesbarkeit und Übersichtlichkeit. Das Buch eignet sich als vorlesungsbegleitende Lektüre, aber auch zum Selbststudium. Für die vorliegende 8. Auflage wurden bisher verwendete Anwendungsbeispiele und Datensätze aktualisiert sowie weitere Beispiele und exemplarische R-Codes hinzugefügt. Die im Buch beschriebenen Ergebnisse können außerdem anhand der online zur Verfügung stehenden Materialien reproduziert sowie um eigene Analysen ergänzt werden.
Essays on Chinese fiction writers provides information how these writers were impacted by the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School, the change in intellectual activity from Beijing to Shanghai, the Literary Research Association, the introduction of foreign literature and literary theory, the evolution of Chinese prose, the May Fourth writers, "I" Fiction, the Sun Society, the Creation Society and the writing of propagandistic literature.