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...desperate, he is often skinned alive. Money-lending in China is a world in itself, which cries out for investigation...of a wedding or ____________________ 1 Chinese Economic Journal , Vol. VI, No. 4, April, 1930 Shanghai Pawnshops...first case and $68 in the ____________________ Conditions in Suiyuan ; China Critic , July 4, 1929 Agricultural...

...Nihon Mengyo to Chugoku Modern Japanese Cotton Industry and China (Tokyo, 1982). , Ishin zengo no gaiatsu o meguru ichinino...Studies in Overseas Chinese Communities in Japan (Tokyo, 1949). Xu, T., and Wu, C. (eds.), Zhongguo Ziben Zhuyi Fazhanshi...intra-Asian trade came from the development of a regional economic capacity to respond to external stimuli through these native...

...For this reason any general conclusion must be of a tentative nature. However, on the basis of available information, China does not appear to be especially favorably endowed by nature in this respect although recent discoveries in several items...

...3 THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS: CHINAs ECONOMIC AND SPATIAL TRANSITION 7 Agrarian Reform in China: Feeding the Billion-Plus 119 Introduction: The Great Famine, 1958-1961 , 119...

This book studies economic decentralization in eight Chinese provinces -- Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Shandong, Fujian, Hainan, and Sichuan -- by focusing on the role of provincial leadership in the initiation and implementation of economic reform.

...Rural Development in China) offer detailed insights on a variety of issues and outcomes central to the often-mercurial road China has followed while successfully helping more than 200 million out of chronic poverty. There are many excellent recently published...

Rural Industries in Post-reform China: an Inquiry into Their Characteristics Rural industries in post-reform China: An inquiry into their characteristics. Edited by Per Ronnas. New Delhi, South Asia Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, 1996...

...today) has been the feminization of agriculture-men work and women plough (nan gong nu geng) (Judd 2001; Song 1998). As rural China shifts from commune- to householdbased farming, increasing numbers of married men seek off-farm employment, leaving agricultural...

...eastern countries" (p. 13). There were three main ways in which U.S. vocational education and guidance were transmitted to China. First, Y. Yanpei visited the United States to learn about American vocational education and guidance. Second, some activists...

...the villages accounting for 15 per cent of the total number of villages. In 1997, there were some 150,000 RCFs throughout China. By the end of 1997, the RCFs total assets amounted to 150 billion RMB estimated by the PBC, or 250 billion RMB estimated...

...products and services fit the PRC governments development plans well," remarked Mark Steele, president of ITT Industries-China, referring to the companys water and wastewater pump systems and electronic components. To pursue these opportunities and...

...across China. Drawing on our national community-based survey of 215 randomly selected villages from eight provinces across China in 1995 (including the same six provinces in the 2000 household survey), we find a distinct pattern in the distribution of...

...hold steady Bulk commodities (mainly grains, cotton, and soybeans) accounted for 59 percent of US agricultural exports to China in the last decade Though such exports have generally been in decline since 1995, with some rise in 2000 (see Figure), US...

...import categories. Self-sufficiency in grain has been an important goal for Chinese policymakers, but some economists in China argue that the country could make better use of its scarce land resources by importing more of these land intensive crops...

...can only get worse, polarization can only accelerate, and economic stagnation can only deepen. Going it alone on scattered noodle...penetration and intervention had brought into being new classes in China, a bourgeoisie and a working class, both victimized by feudalism...struggle over Chinas future that continues to this day. From 1949 on no policy has gone uncontested, no initiative unopposed...

...Clinton administration is embroiled in an uphill battle to get Congress to approve permanent NTR for China this year. Approval of NTR would pave the way for China to enter the WTO under a deal U.S. negotiators cut with China last year. To critics, examples like the copyright industries are the best argument against granting China permanent NTR. "China has not lived up to past commitments, and if we grant permanent NTR we will have given...

...Other projects they work on include the U.S.-China Water Resource Management Program, which involves 13 U.S. agencies. China has a severe water problem. Its industries, poorly managed communities and decaying water-treatment facilities are continually...

Strained dealings with China by Cord Meyer There is no doubt that the one-party communist government in Beijing that rules over the more than 1.2 billion people of China presents a confusing and contradictory picture to American government...

...signing of the planned bilateral free trade agreement which, the DFA said, is still under negotiations. The Philippines and China are expecting bilateral trade volume to double from $ 17.56 billion in 2005 to at least $ 30 billion by 2010. "President...

High Stakes; Trade Cases against China Split Industries. Byline: Jeffrey Sparshott, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Chinese-made consumer goods worth more than $1.7 billion...

...arid areas especially in the west and north limit cultivation to only about 15% of the land surface. Since the late 1970s, China has decollectivized agriculture, yielding tremendous gains in production. Even with these improvements, agriculture accounts...

TAI , lake, China ti, lake, c.1,300 sq mi (3,370 sq km), on the border between Jiangsu...industries. The lake basin is one of the richest agricultural regions in China; rice, wheat, and cotton are grown. The lake is linked to the Grand Canal...

CHIN , dynasty of China (221 206 b.c.) chin, dynasty of China, which ruled from 221 b.c. to 206 b.c. The word China is derived from Chin, the first dynasty to unify the country by conquering the warring feudal states of the late Chou period...

JILIN , province, China je lin or Kirin ke rin , province (1994 est. pop. 25,150,000), 72,000 sq mi (186,528 sq km), NE China; one of the original Manchurian provinces. The capital is Changchun . It is bordered by Heilongjiang prov. and...

...the nature of the agricultural village. In Asia large holdings by the nobles, partly arising from feudalism (especially in China and Japan), produced a similar pattern. The Rise of Commercial Agriculture As the Middle Ages waned, increasing communications...