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This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which
political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and
the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even
actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of
dissent.
The introduction of market reforms has radically transformed China. The Market in Chinese Social Policy examines the impact of a shift to market principles in the critical sector of social policy. The contributors demonstrate how social policy reform has been driven by economic transformation, as profound structural change produced inevitable knock-on effects in people's livelihood. Marketization in social policy in turn creates new needs and raises issues that challenge commonly accepted notions of public-private responsibilities in a society undergoing rapid and deep social change.
Learn how to make the most of nature in on-location drawings and
paintings with artists and Urban Sketcher educators Gail L. Wong
and Virginia Hein. In The Urban Sketching Handbook Spotlight on
Nature, Gail and Virginia share their secrets for getting beyond
basic greenery. Presenting a variety of approaches, including
detailed step-by-step examples and quick, insightful tips, this
book explains and clarifies important fundamentals for composition
and color and inspires unique treatments and points of view.
Whatever your skill level, you can bring nature to life on the page
for urban parks as well as expansive landscapes with The Urban
Sketching Handbook: Spotlight on Nature. The Urban Sketching
Handbook series offers artists expert instruction on creative
techniques, on-location tips and advice, and an abundance of visual
inspiration. These handy references come in a compact,
easy-to-carry format-perfect to toss in your backpack or artist's
tote.
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive
nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and
court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged
understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and
cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits
involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied
slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction,
these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken
back to a slave jurisdiction-at least according to abolitionists
and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom
formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring
suit in a court of law. Edlie Wong critically recuperates these
cases in an effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction
of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically
central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah
Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known
slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med,
and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary
criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free
presents the freedom suit as a "new" genre to African American and
American literary studies.
The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered
wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters
looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing
indentured laborers in what became known as "coolieism." From
heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by
Chinese activists, public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S.
industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the
figure of the Chinese labor immigrant who struggled for inclusion
at a time when black freedmen were fighting to redefine
citizenship. Racial Reconstruction demonstrates that U.S. racial
formations should be studied in different registers and through
comparative and transpacific approaches. It draws on political
cartoons, immigration case files, plantation diaries, and
sensationalized invasion fiction to explore the radical
reconstruction of U.S. citizenship, race and labor relations, and
imperial geopolitics that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act,
America's first racialized immigration ban. By charting the complex
circulation of people, property, and print from the Pacific Rim to
the Black Atlantic, Racial Reconstruction sheds new light on
comparative racialization in America, and illuminates how slavery
and Reconstruction influenced the histories of Chinese immigration
to the West.
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive
nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and
court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged
understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and
cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits
involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied
slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction,
these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken
back to a slave jurisdiction-at least according to abolitionists
and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom
formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring
suit in a court of law. Edlie Wong critically recuperates these
cases in an effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction
of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically
central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah
Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known
slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med,
and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary
criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free
presents the freedom suit as a "new" genre to African American and
American literary studies.
This volume fills this gap by examining the many ways in which
political parties, the business world, foreign policymakers, and
the intelligence community experienced, confronted, and even
actively contributed to domestic and transnational forms of
dissent.
Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a
venue for service to others? Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek
to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely
Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service
that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the
specific questions they address along the way are these: What
implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission
or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement? What parts of
business can be affirmed and practiced "as is" and what parts need
to be rejected or transformed? What challenges exist as attempts
are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world
characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term
investor pressures? How do Christian values inform specific
functional areas of business such as the management of people,
marketing and environmental sustainability? Business can be even
more than an environment through which individual Christians grow
in Christlikeness. In this book you'll discover how it can also be
a means toward serving the common good. The Christian Worldview
Integration Series, edited by J. P. Moreland and Francis J.
Beckwith, seeks to promote a robust personal and conceptual
integration of Christian faith and learning, with textbooks focused
on disciplines such as education, psychology, literature, politics,
science, communications, biology, philosophy, and history.
The introduction of market reforms has radically transformed China.
Marketizing Social Policy in China examines the impact of a shift
to market principles in the critical sector of social policy. The
authors demonstrate how social policy reform has been driven by
economic transformation, as profound structural change produced
inevitable knock-on effects in people's livelihood. Marketization
in social policy in turn creates new needs and raises issues that
challenge commonly accepted notions of public-private
responsibilities in a society undergoing rapid and deep social
change.
The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s
left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that
continues to reverberate through the community. In this book,
Briana L. Wong explores the compelling stories of Cambodian
evangelicals, their process of conversion, and how their
testimonials to the Christian faith helped them to make sense of
and find purpose in their trauma. Based on ethnographic fieldwork
with Cambodian communities in the metropolitan areas of
Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Paris, and Phnom Penh, Wong examines
questions of religious identity and the search for meaning within
the context of transnational Cambodian evangelicalism. While the
community has grown in recent decades, Christians nevertheless make
up a small minority of the predominantly Buddhist diaspora. Wong
explores what it is about Christianity that makes these converts
willing to risk their social standing, familial bonds,and, in
certain cases, physical safety in order to identify with the faith.
Contributing to ongoing dialogues on conversion, reverse mission,
and multiple religious belonging, this book will appeal to students
and scholars of world Christianity, missiology, and the history of
Christianity, as well as Southeast Asian studies, secular
sociologies, and anthropologists operating within the field of
religious studies.
Beyond Integrity is neither excessively theoretical nor simplistic
and dogmatic. Rather, it offers a balanced and pragmatic approach
to a number of concrete ethical issues. Readings from a wide range
of sources present competing perspectives on each issue, and
real-life case studies further help the reader grapple with ethical
dilemmas. The authors conclude each chapter with their own
distinctly Christian commentary on the topic covered. This third
edition has been revised to provide the most up-to-date
introduction to the issues Christians face in today s constantly
changing business culture. Revisions include: * 30 new case studies
* Numerous new readings * 50% substantially revised * Sidebars
reflecting issues in the news and business press * Summaries and
material for discussion With the goal of helping readers arrive at
their own conclusions, this book provides a decision-making model.
Beyond Integrity equips men and women to develop a biblically-based
approach to the ethical challenges of twenty-first century
business."
PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute
son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband
slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and
condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang
led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry comrade from Cuba.
His adopted sister, a beautiful actress, is kidnapped, and her
remorseful black captor becomes her savior as his tavern is
engulfed in flames. Vendetta, gang violence, racial tensions, and
international intrigue collide in an explosive novella based on the
events leading up to an infamous 1849 Philadelphia race riot. The
Killers takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from the hallowed
halls of academia at Yale College to the dismal solitary cells of
Eastern State Penitentiary and through southwest Philadelphia's
community of free African Americans. Though the book's violence was
ignited by the particulars of Philadelphia life and politics, the
flames were fanned by nationwide anxieties about race, labor,
immigration, and sexuality that emerged in the young republic.
Penned by fiery novelist, labor activist, and reformer George
Lippard (1822-1854) and first serialized in 1849, The Killers was
the work of a wildly popular writer who outsold Edgar Allan Poe and
Nathaniel Hawthorne in his lifetime. Long out of print, the novella
now appears in an edition supplemented with a brief biography of
the author, an untangling of the book's complex textual history,
and excerpts from related contemporaneous publications. Editors
Matt Cohen and Edlie L. Wong set the scene of an antebellum
Philadelphia rife with racial and class divisions, implicated in
the international slave trade, and immersed in Cuban annexation
schemes to frame this compact and compelling tale. Serving up in a
short form the same heady mix of sensational narrative, local
color, and impassioned politics found in Lippard's sprawling The
Quaker City, or The Monks of Monks Hall, The Killers is here
brought back to lurid life.
With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians,
political scientists, geographers, anthropologists, and
sociologists, this collection examines the transnational practices
and identities of immigrant and ethnic communities in Canada. It
looks at why members of these groups maintain ties with their
homelands -- whether real or imagined -- and how those connections
shape individual identities and community organizations. How does
transnationalism establish or transform geographical, social, and
ideological borders? Do homeland ties affect what it means to be
"Canadian"? Do they reflect Canada's commitment to
multiculturalism? Through analysis of the complex forces driving
transnationalism, this comprehensive study focuses attention on an
important, and arguably growing, dimension of Canadian social life.
This is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive
and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism. It will
appeal to scholars and students interested in issues of
immigration, multiculturalism, ethnicity, and settlement.
The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered
wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters
looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing
indentured laborers in what became known as "coolieism." From
heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by
Chinese activists, public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S.
industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the
figure of the Chinese labor immigrant who struggled for inclusion
at a time when black freedmen were fighting to redefine
citizenship. Racial Reconstruction demonstrates that U.S. racial
formations should be studied in different registers and through
comparative and transpacific approaches. It draws on political
cartoons, immigration case files, plantation diaries, and
sensationalized invasion fiction to explore the radical
reconstruction of U.S. citizenship, race and labor relations, and
imperial geopolitics that led to the Chinese Exclusion Act,
America's first racialized immigration ban. By charting the complex
circulation of people, property, and print from the Pacific Rim to
the Black Atlantic, Racial Reconstruction sheds new light on
comparative racialization in America, and illuminates how slavery
and Reconstruction influenced the histories of Chinese immigration
to the West.
With the number of Chinese living outside of its borders expected
to reach 52 million by 2030, China has one of the most mobile
populations on earth, shaping economies, cultures, and politics
around the globe. Trans-Pacific Mobilities charts how the
cross-border movement of Chinese people, goods, and images affects
notions of place, belonging, and identity, particularly in Canada.
Drawing on the new mobilities paradigm, contributors explore this
phenomenon through five lenses, mapping out historic, cultural and
symbolic, highly skilled, family and gendered, and transnational
mobilities. This volume offers fresh insights into historical and
contemporary Chinese mobilities and issues of transnationalism.
Teaching Japanese Honorifics to Non-Native Students---Lesson Plans
and Instructions in Japanese
PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute
son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband
slave trade. Another son, hidden from the father since birth and
condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang
led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry comrade from Cuba.
His adopted sister, a beautiful actress, is kidnapped, and her
remorseful black captor becomes her savior, as his tavern is
engulfed in flames. Vendetta, gang violence, racial tensions, and
international intrigue collide in an explosive novella based on the
events leading up to an infamous 1849 Philadelphia race riot. "The
Killers" takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from the hallowed
halls of academia at Yale College to the dismal solitary cells of
Eastern State Penitentiary and through southwest Philadelphia's
community of free African Americans. Though the book's violence was
ignited by the particulars of Philadelphia life and politics, the
flames were fanned by nationwide anxieties about race, labor,
immigration, and sexuality that emerged in the young
republic.Penned by fiery novelist, labor activist, and reformer
George Lippard (1822-1854) and first serialized in 1849, "The
Killers" was the work of a wildly popular writer who outsold Edgar
Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne in his lifetime. Long out of
print, the novella now appears in an edition supplemented with a
brief biography of the author, an untangling of the book's complex
textual history, and excerpts from related contemporaneous
publications. Editors Matt Cohen and Edlie L. Wong set the scene of
an antebellum Philadelphia rife with racial and class divisions,
implicated in the international slave trade, and immersed in Cuban
annexation schemes to frame this compact and compelling
tale.Serving up in a short form the same heady mix of sensational
narrative, local color, and impassioned politics found in Lippard's
sprawling "The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monks Hall," "The
Killers" is brought back to lurid life.
The emerging dominance of managed care provided by profit-seeking
corporations has intensified the public's concern that traditional
business goals of maximizing profits will destroy medicine's
traditional commitment to patient well-being. Society is left to
wonder how physicians can properly honor their duties to patients
when the managed care organizations that employ them have financial
obligations to shareholders. Kenman L. Wong's book addresses issues
raised by the new intersections of business and medicine with an
ethical assessment of emerging health care arrangements. By
focusing on organizational ethics, he offers an integrative
framework that seeks to balance patient, societal, and corporate
interests. To avoid overly simplistic solutions, Wong compares
managed care, traditional fee-for-service arrangements, and other
proposed health care reform options such as rationing programs and
medical savings accounts based upon principles of fairness. Though
Wong argues that managed care is the best available option, he
finds fault with many current practices of managed care
organizations. He evaluates the place of the profit motive in the
guiding ethos of managed care organizations and addresses the
pressing issue of whether or not managed care should remain the
exclusive domain of nonprofit organizations. He concludes with an
integration of business ethics and medical values that formulates
organizational norms and specific practice reforms for managed care
organizations. Medicine and the Marketplace should be read by
health care practitioners, plan administrators, instructors of
medical ethics, health administration, and public policy, and
members of the general public interested in how managed care can be
made into an ethics-driven system.
With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians,
political scientists, geographers, anthropologists, and
sociologists, this collection examines the transnational practices
and identities of immigrant and ethnic communities in Canada. It
looks at why members of these groups maintain ties with their
homelands -- whether real or imagined -- and how those connections
shape individual identities and community organizations. How does
transnationalism establish or transform geographical, social, and
ideological borders? Do homeland ties affect what it means to be
"Canadian"? Do they reflect Canada's commitment to
multiculturalism? Through analysis of the complex forces driving
transnationalism, this comprehensive study focuses attention on an
important, and arguably growing, dimension of Canadian social life.
This is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive
and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism. It will
appeal to scholars and students interested in issues of
immigration, multiculturalism, ethnicity, and settlement.
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