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UNINA9910457253203321 |
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Autore |
Dunne Michael J |
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Titolo |
American Wheels, Chinese Roads [[electronic resource] ] : The Story of General Motors in China |
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Chichester, : Wiley, 2011 |
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0-470-82865-X |
1-280-75865-1 |
9786613678003 |
0-470-82864-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (250 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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338.476292 |
338.76292220951 |
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Automobile industry and trade -- China |
Corporations, Foreign -- China |
General Motors Corporation |
Automobile industry and trade - China |
Corporations, Foreign - China |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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American Wheels Chinese Roads: The Story of General Motors in China; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Rules of the Chinese Road; 1: Scaling New Heights; 2: Many Detroits; 3: Getting a Foothold-In Quicksand; 4: The Back Door; 5: The Hook; 6: A Reality Show; Part Two: Pole Position, Yellow Flags; 7: The Kit Price; 8: Putting Shanghai First; 9: Signing the Deal; 10: Two Sons; Part Three: Negotiating the Obstacle Course; 11: The Launch; 12: Fiefdoms; 13: Paper Cups; 14: The Cherry Surprise; 15: Porsches and Sweet Potatoes; 16: Getting Their Arms Around China |
Part Four: Quick Acceleration, Then a Tight Corner 17: The Best and Worst of Times; 18: Miniature Vehicles; 19: A Chill Wind; 20: The Favor; Part Five: The End of the Beginning; 21: A Memory Palace; 22: The Great Tide; 23: Electric Cars and Elevators; Conclusion: The End of the Beginning; Index |
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How could one company-General Motors-meet disaster on one continent and achieve explosive growth on another at the very same time? While General Motors was hurtling towards bankruptcy in 2009, GM's subsidiary in China was setting new sales and profit records. This book reveals how extraordinary people, remarkable decisions and surprising breaks made triumph in China possible for General Motors. It also shows just how vulnerable that winning track record remains. No small part of GM's success in China springs from its management of shifting business and political relationships. |
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UNINA9910617302503321 |
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Titolo |
Agents of Transculturation : Border-Crossers, Mediators, Go-Betweens / / Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun |
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Münster, : Waxmann, 2013 |
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[1st, New ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) : with numerous illustrations |
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Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship ; 6 |
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Dragomans as cultural brokers |
Yuhanna al-Asad |
Hurons |
Iroquoians |
French Agents |
Süleyman Pasa Seve |
Pirate Science |
Coastal Knowledge |
Joseph Jenkins |
Ka Hoku o Osiania |
Channappa Uttangi |
Transcultural Mediation |
Claude Levi-Strauss |
Roberto Ipureau |
Historical periods between the early modern period and the present |
Mediterranean |
Africa |
the America |
Hawaii |
New Zealand |
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Ever since antiquity, but increasingly since the global transformation of the world order in the early modern period, communication between members of different cultural groups depended on translators, diplomats, traders, and other specialists with a knowledge of both cultures. Successful communication and traffic relied on the mediating agency of persons who had been exposed, often in their childhood or through captivities, to the customs and languages of both cultures involved in the contact. Other border crossers and go-betweens acted as missionaries, traders, political refugees, beachcombers, pirates, anthropologists, actors in zoos, runaway slaves, and itinerant doctors. Because of their frequently precarious lives, the written traces left by these figures are often thin. While some of their lives have to be carefully reconstructed through critical readings of the documents left by others (frequently by their enemies), others have left autobiographical texts which allow for a richer assessment of their function as cultural border crossers and mediators. With examples covering from various historical periods between the early modern period and the present, as well as geographical areas such as the Mediterranean, Africa, the Americas, Hawaii, New Zealand and northern Europe, scholars from various disciplines and methodological backgrounds - reaching from history to religious studies and from literary studies to ethnology - fathom the intricacies of in-betweenness and reflect on the impact which "agents of transculturation" have in situations of cultural, social and political encounters. |
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