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UNINA9910465994503321 |
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Gentles-Peart Kamille |
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Romance with voluptuousness : Caribbean women and thick bodies in the United States / / Kamille Gentles-Peart |
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Lincoln : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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0-8032-9515-4 |
0-8032-9513-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Expanding frontiers: interdisciplinary approaches to studies of women, gender, and sexuality |
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Women, Black - Caribbean Area |
Women immigrants - United States |
Caribbean Americans - Cultural assimilation |
Body image - United States |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - United States |
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - Caribbean Area |
Racism - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The "thick black woman": racialized body politics and the marginalization of black women -- Constructing diasporic identity: black Caribbean women's self-representation and cultural citizenship -- Unrequited romance: black Caribbean beauty ideals and discontent in the United States -- Transgressive discourses: negotiating the thin hegemony and negative physical capital -- Embodying diaspora: centering thick bodies in black women's diasporic experiences. |
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UNINA9910789065603321 |
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China's financial transition at a crossroads / / edited by Charles W. Calomiris |
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New York, [New York] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007 |
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©2007 |
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1 online resource (432 p.) |
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"Collection of papers presented at joint Columbia-Tsinghua University conferences in 2005 and 2006." |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Calomiris, Charles W. -- 1. China's Financial Markets: An Overview / Branstetter, Lee -- 2. China's Banking Sector and Economic Growth / Brandt, Loren / Zhu, Xiaodong -- 3. Understanding the Structure of Cross- Border Capital Flows: The Case of China / Prasad, Eswar / Wei, Shang-Jin -- 4. Financial Openness and the Chinese Growth Experience / Bekaert, Geert / Harvey, Campbell R. / Lundblad, Christian -- 5. The Effects of Stock Market Listing on the Financial Per for mance of Chinese Firms / Hu, Fred -- 6. China's Exchange Rate Regime: The Long and Short of It / Eichengreen, Barry -- 7. China's Foreign Exchange Policy: What Will China Do? What Should China Do? / Garber, Peter / Hodrick, Robert J. / Makin, John H. / Malpass, David / Mishkin, Frederic S. / Prasad, Eswar -- Appendix 1 Regional Estimates of New Deposit and Loan Shares, and Nonperforming Loans / Brandt, Loren / Zhu, Xiaodong -- Appendix 2. Evolution of Capital Controls in China / Prasad, Eswar / Wei, Shang-Jin -- List of Contributors -- Index |
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China's increasing role in global economic affairs has placed the country at a crossroads: how many and what types of international capital-market transactions will China permit? How will China's financial system change internally? What kind of relationships will the Chinese government develop with foreign financial institutions, |
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especially with those based in the United States? Can China broker a sustainable partnership with America that will avoid sending economic shock waves throughout the world?Drawing on the contemporary research of prominent international scholars, the experts in this volume outline the trajectory of China's financial markets since the advent of reform and anticipate their uncertain future. Chapter authors and commentators include Geert Bekaert, Loren Brandt, Lee Branstetter, Mary Wadsworth Darby, Michael DeStefano, Barry Eichengreen, Campbell Harvey, Fred Hu, Xiaobo Lu, Christian Lundblad, Ailsa Roell, Daniel Rosen, Shang-Jin Wei, Jialin Yu, and Xiaodong Zhu. The book begins with an overview of the history of financial-sector development, regulation, and performance and then focuses on the banking sector, discussing the progress, challenges, and prospects of current sector reform. Subsequent chapters describe the role of foreign capital in China's development and analyze the changes in capital flows and controls over time; explore various explanations for China's composition of foreign-capital and foreign-exchange policies, particularly the factors shaping China's reliance on foreign direct investment; and provide an international, comparative perspective on the remarkable growth experience of China and the contribution of its institutional environment to that experience. Contributors dispute the belief that stock market listing has done little to reform state-owned enterprises and take a hard look at the exchange rate regime choice for China, considering the potential long-run desirability of flexibility and the appropriate sequencing of reforms in foreign-exchange policy, domestic banking reform, and capital-market openness. The book concludes with a roundtable discussion in which prominent economists, including Peter Garber, Robert Hodrick, John Makin, David Malpass, Frederic Mishkin, and Eswar Prasad, debate the pace of the appreciation of China's currency and the likely consequences of that policy within and outside of China. |
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UNINA9910968625203321 |
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Autore |
Liu Ning Rong |
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Decentralization and marketization : the changing landscape of China's adult and continuing education / / Ning Rong Liu |
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New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Education in a competitive and globalizing world |
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Adult education - China |
Continuing education - China |
Education, Higher - China |
Universities and colleges - Decentralization - China |
Educational change - China |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Research methodology -- Global influences: decentralization and marketization in higher education -- Historical perspectives: China's adult and continuing education -- Driving forces behind the reorganization of China's continuing education -- Changes in institutional structure and organizational culture: a case study -- Key findings, discussion, and conclusions. |
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China's adult and continuing education institutions have launched comprehensive reforms in order to meet the increasing demands for professional training. With decentralisation and marketisation becoming global trends in reforming public sectors across the world, China's adult and continuing education institutions have also adopted these policies in their restructuring. The present research presents a holistic picture of the restructuring of China's adult and continuing education. The global and local forces that are driving the decentralisation and marketisation of China's adult and continuing education such as the development of the market economy in the country, the rising demand for professional talent, the impact of the increasing enrolment in China's regular higher education institutions, and the external influence of educational reforms are identified and |
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