The Quest for Legitimacy in Chinese Politics: A New Interpretation 0367339714, 9780367339715

The Quest For Legitimacy In Chinese Politcs: A New Interpretation [First ed.] 9780367339715, 9780429323195

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Rural Politics in Nasser's Egypt: A Quest for Legitimacy 9780292769120

On September 29, 1970, President Gamal Abdel Nasser died of a heart attack. The hysterical outpouring of grief at the st

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China's Quest for Political Legitimacy : The New Equity-Enhancing Politics 9781461633129, 9780739122587

This book examines the new equity-enhancing politics in China in the context of Chinese traditional cognitive patterns o

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Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State 9781400889518

Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good

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Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State 9780691196985

Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good

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Courtyard Housing in China: Chinese Quest for Harmony

The Chinese have lived in single-extended-family courtyard houses in many parts of China for thousands of years. The earliest courtyard house found in China was during the Middle Neolithic period (5000-3000 BCE). The courtyard form signifies Chinese quest for harmony with nature and in social relationships. However, the 20th century was a significant turning point in the evolution of Chinese courtyard houses; this paper provides an overview of this transition. It starts by briefly introducing traditional Chinese courtyard houses and their decline since 1949, it then examines the emergence of new courtyard housing in Beijing and Suzhou since the 1990s, and then it evaluates the new development of Chinese-style courtyard garden villas in/around these two cities since the 2000s, such as Beijing Guantang and Suzhou Fuyuan villa estates. They are explorations of a new way to honor Chinese architectural history and philosophy, meanwhile, incorporating Western interior design principles to meet modern living requirements. This architectural acculturation represents Chinese sustained quest for harmony in their art of living. The paper finally proposes four designs of new courtyard garden houses for future practice. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2017) 1(2), 38-56. https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2017.3647

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Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority 9780804764704

The countries of Southeast Asia have had varying degrees of success in establishing governments that are perceived by th

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Ways to Paradise: The Chinese Quest for Immortality 9576381835, 9789576381836

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The History of South Vietnam The Quest for Legitimacy and Stability, 1963–1967 9780367618896, 9781003108009

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The Politics of Cultural Capital: China's Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature 9780824864958

In the 1980s China’s politicians, writers, and academics began to raise an increasingly urgent question: why had a Chine

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