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Inside the engine-room of China's economic growth-the China Development Bank Anyone wanting a primer on the secret of China's economic success need look no further than China Development Bank (CDB)-which has displaced the World Bank as the world's biggest development bank, lending billions to countries around the globe to further Chinese policy goals. In China's Superbank, Bloomberg authors Michael Forsythe and Henry Sanderson outline how the bank is at the center of China's domestic economic growth and how it is helping to expand China's influence in strategically important

Banks and banking --- Guo jia kai fa yin hang (China) --- China --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions

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This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies, as well as her home base of linguistics. She is best known for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to meaning--a versatile tool for exploring 'big questions' concerning the diversity and universals of people's experience in the world. In this volume, Anna Wierzbicka's former students, old and current colleagues, 'kindred spirits' and 'sparring partners' engage with her ideas and diverse body of work. These authors cover topics from the grammar of action verbs to cross-cultural pragmatics, and over 30 languages from around the world are represented. The chapters in Part 1 focus on the NSM approach and cover four themes: lexico-grammatical semantics, cultural keywords, semantics of nouns, and emotion. In Part 2, the contributors connect with a meaning-based approach from their own intellectual perspectives, including syntax, anthropology, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. The deep humanistic perspective, wide-ranging themes and interdisciplinary nature of Wierzbicka's research are reflected in the contributions. The common thread running through all chapters is the primacy of meaning to the understanding of language and culture.

Language and culture. --- Linguistic universals. --- Semantics. --- Wierzbicka, Anna. --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Universals (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Universals --- Vezhbit︠s︡kai︠a︡, A. --- Vezhbit︠s︡kai︠a︡, Anna --- Intercultural communication. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Anthropological aspects

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Agriculture --- Agriculture. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Sri Lanka. --- Cellao --- Ceylon --- Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka --- Ilaṅkai --- Lanka --- Serendib --- Serendip --- Shri Lanka --- Sī Langk --- Sri Lanka Prajathanthrika Samajavadi Janarajaya --- Śrīlaṅk --- Taprobane --- Zeilan --- agribusiness --- livestock --- agricultural sciences --- agricultural economics --- food processing --- Agriculture - General

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Bridging the collapse of the Confucian state and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the period 1911–49 is particularly fascinating to historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. Unfortunately, it is also a very confusing period, full of shifts and changes in economic, social, and political organizations. The social implications of these changes, and the relationships between officials on the subdistrict level, the unofficial leaders, and the bulk of the peasantry remain inadequately known. South China, which nurtured the Communist Party in its formative years, is a particularly interesting case. In this study I use the Kuan lineage of K’ai-p’ing as a case study to show the effects of demographic, economic, administrative, and educational changes after the Treaty of Nanking (1842) on patrilineal kinship as a principle of social organization in South China.

Kinship --- Social classes --- Social structure --- Kaiping (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Social conditions. --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Kai ping (Guangdong Sheng, China) --- Kuan family.

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Pharmaceutical industry --- Medical care --- Forecasting --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Drug industry --- Drug trade --- Medical care. --- Pharmaceutical industry. --- Forecasting. --- Slovakia. --- Eslovàquia --- Republika Słowacka --- République slovaque --- RS --- Slovak Republic --- Slovakii︠a︡ --- Slovaquie --- Slovat︠s︡kai︠a︡ Respublika --- Slovenská Republika --- Slowakei --- Chemical industry --- Public health --- Medicine industry --- Medicines industry --- Prescription medicine industry --- Czechoslovakia --- Slovakii͡ --- Slovat͡skai͡a Respublika --- Slovensko