Controlling Development : Certainty, Discretion And Accountability. by Booth, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Controlling development; Britain; France; Zoning control in Europe, the USA and Hong Kong; The question of certainty; Flexibility, discretion and accountability; Accountability; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index.…”
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Europe and China : strategic partners or rivals?

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East sails West : the voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855 by Davies, Stephen N. G.

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Free trade's first missionary : Sir John Bowring in Europe and Asia by Bowring, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Exeter lad's radical roots -- War, Spain and the Unitarians -- Bentham's favourite son -- A poisonous Greek pie -- Polyglot poet meets Kubla Khan -- Reforming politics and public accounts -- The new gospel : free trade -- Of Egypt and Levantine plagues -- Bolton : pit of poverty and progress -- Progressive MP coins the florin -- An ironmaster derails -- Opiate of various peoples -- Frustration at Canton -- Some progress on the China coast -- Arrow ploy sunk by ye -- The War of Two Bruces -- Hong Kong : good input, little output -- High-minded humiliation -- The king and he : a lasting legacy -- Philippine fiesta -- A new wife and energy to the end -- Conclusion : why he matters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The book worlds of East Asia and Europe, 1450-1850 : connections and comparisons

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Economic geography of higher education : knowledge, infrastructure and learning regions

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Economic geography of higher education: setting the stage; Universities, regions and the production of knowledge; The response of HEIs to regional needs; Governance for university industry collaboration in Hong Kong; Knowledge still travels on foot: an educationalist's perspective on regional development; University knowledge transfer through social and professional embeddedness: a case study; About unlearning and learning regions; HEI industry collaboration.…”
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National Pasts in Europe and East Asia. by Preston, Peter W. W.

Table of Contents: “…National pasts in Europe and East Asia -- The scale and pace of change recalled -- Available lessons : private memories and wider European agendas -- Europe : general crisis, collapse, and recovery -- Uncomfortable lessons : the European Union and the USA, 1989/91-2008 -- Reading the ongoing changes : European identity -- Sweeping change in East Asia : political leaders and the experience of violence -- East Asia : general crisis, collapse, and national development -- Contested compromises : national pasts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Bangkok -- Japan/China : national pasts and the reordering of East Asia -- Europe and East Asia : intermingled pasts and changing identities -- Afterword: War is failure.…”
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Housing and the new welfare state : perspectives from East Asia and Europe

Table of Contents: “…Four worlds of welfare and housing / Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson -- The Singapore model of housing and the welfare state / Sock-Yong Phang -- The state-managed housing system in Hong Kong / K.Y. Lau -- The state and housing policy in Korea / Shin-Young Park -- Housing and state strategy in post-war Japan / Yosuke Hirayama -- From socialist welfare to support of home-ownership : the experience of China / Ya Ping Wang -- Taiwan's housing policy in the context of East Asian welfare models / Pui Yee Connie Tang -- From tenants to home-owners : change in the old welfare states / Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson -- The property owning welfare state / Richard Groves, Alan Murie and Christopher Watson.…”
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Europe and China in the Cold War : Exchanges Beyond the Bloc Logic and the Sino-Soviet Split. by Schaufelbuehl, Janick Marina

Table of Contents: “…Friendship Associations with China in France and Switzerland, 1950s-1980s; 5 China's Communist Youth League, Transnational Networks and Sino-European Interactions in the Early Cold War; 6 History and Memory: Italian Communists' Views of the Chinese Communist Party and the PRC During the Early Cold War; 7 Everyday Propaganda: the Leftist Press and Sino-British Relations in Hong Kong, 1952-1967; Part 3: Eastern Europe and China: National Interests and Ideology…”
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Fiscal Sustainability and Competitiveness in Europe and Asia. by Rajan, Ramkishen S.

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Anxieties, fear and panic in colonial settings : empires on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Table of Contents: “…Schär -- Arrested circulation: catholic missionaries, anthropological knowledge and the politics of cultural difference in imperial Germany, 1880-1914 / Richard Hölzl -- 'The strangest problem': Daniel Wilberforce, the Human Leopards panic and the special court in Sierra Leone / Christine Whyte -- Critical mass: colonial crowds and contagious panics in 1890s Hong Kong and Bombay / Robert Peckham.…”
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Commodities, ports and Asian maritime trade since 1750

Table of Contents: “…5 Revisiting the 'Decline of Surat': Maritime Trade and the Port Complex of Gujarat in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries6 Western Merchants in the Foreign Settlements of Japan (c.1850-1890); 7 Neglected Orphans and Absent Parents: The European Mercantile Houses of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Java; 8 Building Intra-Asian and Transcontinental Mercantile Networks in the Age of the British East India Company: The Rise and Fall of the House of John Palmer; 9 Linking Global and Local Networks of Credit and Remittances: Ma Tsui Chiu's Financial Operations in Hong Kong, 1900s-1950s.…”
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Golden growth : restoring the lustre of the European economic model by Gill, Indermit Singh, 1961-, Raiser, Martin

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Copyright law and the information society in Asia

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Business relationships with East Asia : the European experience

Table of Contents: “…Levels of culture and Hong Kong organizations / Sid Lowe -- 10. Japanese product transplants in Asia and consumer choice / Yong Gu Suh -- 11. …”
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