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China's emerging financial markets reflect the usual contrast
between the country's measured approach toward policy, regulatory,
and market reform, and the dynamic pace of rapid economic growth
and development. But they also offer unusual challenges and
opportunities. In the past five years, the pace of opening and
reform has accelerated sharply. Recapitalization and partial
privatization of the largest banks, and the allowance of some joint
venture and branch operations for foreign financial institutions,
are making rapid headway in developing and expanding financial
services and improving access to domestic business and households.
This book provides the most extensive look available at the
evolving Chinese financial system. It begins with alternative
perspectives on the evolution of the financial system and the broad
outlines of its prospects and potential contribution to economic
growth. Three articles review broad aspects of the financial
system. Franklin Allen, Jun ''QJ'' Qian, Meijun Qian, and Mengxin
Zhao lead off with overviews of the banking system and performance
of the equity market and other institutions.
The rise of Islamic radicalism has led to heated discussions about
how best to address the threat of religious terror. Disputes
covering the right and wrong of war with Iraq, and the even bigger
war on terrorism, continue to rage across America. But this is not
the first argument of this nature-America was faced with a similar
moral dilemma on the eve of World War II. Fascism was conquering
Europe, and religious leaders across the nation vehemently debated
how to confront Nazi Germany. In The End of Illusions: Religious
Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm, Joseph Loconte brings
together pieces from the most significant religious thinkers of the
pre-war period. In these essays, the writers eloquently and
passionately present their arguments for going to war or
maintaining the peace. In doing so, they explore issues vibrantly
relevant today, including the Christian cause for war, the problem
of evil, and America's role in the world. These urgently written
pieces connect the past with the present and resonate with renewed
clarity and poignancy.
China's emerging financial markets reflect the usual contrast
between the country's measured approach toward policy, regulatory,
and market reform, and the dynamic pace of rapid economic growth
and development. But they also offer unusual challenges and
opportunities. In the past five years, the pace of opening and
reform has accelerated sharply. Recapitalization and partial
privatization of the largest banks, and the allowance of some joint
venture and branch operations for foreign financial institutions,
are making rapid headway in developing and expanding financial
services and improving access to domestic business and households.
This book provides the most extensive look available at the
evolving Chinese financial system. It begins with alternative
perspectives on the evolution of the financial system and the broad
outlines of its prospects and potential contribution to economic
growth. Three articles review broad aspects of the financial
system. Franklin Allen, Jun ''QJ'' Qian, Meijun Qian, and Mengxin
Zhao lead off with overviews of the banking system and performance
of the equity market and other institutions.
A landmark of postmodern American fiction, "Letters" is (as the
subtitle genially informs us) "an old time epistolary novel by
seven fictitious drolls and dreamers each of which imagines himself
factual." Seven characters (including the Author himself) exchange
a novel's worth of letters during a 7-month period in 1969, a time
of revolution that recalls the U.S.'s first revolution in the 18th
century - the heyday of the epistolary novel. Recapitulating
American history as well as the plots of his first six novels,
Barth's seventh novel is a witty and profound exploration of the
nature of revolution and renewal, rebellion and reenactment, at
both the private and public levels. It is also an ingenious
meditation on the genre of the novel itself, recycling an older
form to explore new directions, new possibilities for the
novel.
Karl Barth was one of the most important theologians of the 20th
century and, according to Pope Pius XII, the most important since
Thomas Aquinas. His magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, runs to thirteen
volumes and is one of the most substantial works of systematic
theology ever written. 'On Religion' presents a central chapter
from the Barth's masterpiece, in which he explores the phenomenon
religion itself. Including a substantial introduction and
commentary, this is an essential introduction to the Church
Dogmatics.
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