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The Southern Garden Poetry Society
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ISBN: 9629969173 9789629969172 9789629964672 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hong Kong

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What has traditionally been the main matter explored by Cantonese literati? Oceanic elements and riparian scenes contrasted with rock formations; a love for the exotic, especially local plants, products, and lore;Daoist transcendentalism; and a fierce pride in being culturally authentic Chinese. The Southern Garden Poetry Society in Guangzhou was the only major literary club in Chinese history to be periodically reconvened over the Ming, Qing, and Republican eras. Beginning with an examination of its five founding members during the Yuan/Ming period, in particular Sun Fen (1335-1393), the author traces the various elements of this Southern Muse that became embodied in later Cantonese poetry, further examining the issue of social memory through later reconvenings of the society.


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OECD territorial reviews.
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ISBN: 1282944827 9786612944826 9264090088 926409007X Year: 2010 Publisher: Paris : OECD,

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Located on the southern coast of China, Guangdong is the country’s most populous and rich province. It has 95.4 million inhabitants and provides one-eighth of the national GDP. A key development feature of Guangdong has been “processing trade”, which has allowed companies to profit from importing materials, assembling goods and exporting them via Hong Kong, China. The recent economic crisis has had a strong impact on the province, although Guangdong also faces in-depth structural problems. Growing labour costs and strain on land availability have increasingly challenged the province’s traditional model of development, as have new competitors in China and abroad. Meanwhile, regional disparities within the province have increased, with a high concentration of economic activities and foreign direct investment in the Pearl River Delta area, an agglomeration of nine prefectures of 47.7 million inhabitants that represents 79.4% of the province’s total GDP. This review assesses Guangdong’s current approach to economic development. The province is focusing on industrial policies primarily aimed at heavy manufacturing industries (e.g. automobile, shipbuilding, petrochemicals) and supported by investment in hard infrastructure transport projects and energy supply, along with the implementation of the “Double Relocation” policies intended to move lower value-added factories to lagging regions through incentive mechanisms like industrial parks. The review discusses how some principles of the OECD regional paradigm could help Guangdong. It also addresses the huge environmental challenges that the province is facing and explores the opportunity for developing a green growth strategy. Strategies to improve Guangdong’s governance are analysed as well, with particular attention paid to co-ordination issues within the Pearl River Delta. The Territorial Review of Guangdong is integrated into a series of thematic reviews on regions undertaken by the OECD Territorial Development Policy Committee. The overall aim of these case studies is to draw and disseminate horizontal policy recommendations for regional and national governments.    


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Mission accomplished? The English presbyterian mission in Lingtung, south China : a study in the interplay between mission methods and their historical context.
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ISBN: 3820489959 Year: 1986 Volume: 42 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang


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Reducing inequality for shared growth in China : strategy and policy options for Guangdong province.
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ISBN: 128296643X 9786612966439 0821385011 0821384848 Year: 2011 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Guangdong, a province of over 93 million residents, is located on the southern coast of China, boarding with Hong Kong, China. As China's powerhouse for economic growth and a pioneer of reform and opening up, Guangdong has maintained an annual average GDP growth rate of 13.7 percent over the past three decades. Its historical achievements notwithstanding, Guangdong witnessed increased inequality and regional disparity. To assist the authority in developing a strategy for the new phase of reforms that promotes more inclusive and sustainable growth, Reducing Inequality for Shared Growth in Guang


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Chinese village life today : Building families in an age of transition
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ISBN: 9780295747385 0295747382 9780295747408 0295747404 Year: 2021 Publisher: Seattle University of Washington Press

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"China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better access to jobs, health care, and consumer goods, villagers often travel or migrate to cities, and that cyclical transit and engagement with new technoscientific and medical practices is transforming village life. In this thoughtful ethnography, Gonçalo Santos paints a richly detailed portrait of one rural township in Guangdong Province, north of the industrialized Pearl River Delta region. Unlike previous studies of rural-urban relations and migration in China, Chinese Village Life Today-based on Santos's more than twenty years of field research-starts from a rural community's point of view rather than the perspective of major urban centers. Santos considers the intimate choices of village families in the face of larger forces of modernization, showing how these negotiations shape the configuration of daily village life, from marriage, childbirth, and childcare to personal hygiene and public sanitation. Santos also outlines the advantages of a rural existence, including a degree of autonomy over family planning and community life that is rare in urban China. Filled with vivid anecdotes and keen observations, this book presents a fresh perspective on China's urban-rural divide and a grounded theoretical approach to rural transformation"--

Building local states : China during the republican and post-Mao eras.
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ISBN: 0674013980 9780674013988 1684173973 9781684173976 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard university Asia center

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"In both the Nanjing decade of Guomindang rule (1927-37) and the early post-Mao reform era (1980-92), both national and local factors shaped local state building and created variations in local state structures and practices. This book focuses on one key area of the state, taxation and public finance, to trace the processes of local state building in these two eras. Using the records of local tax and finance offices in the Tianjin area and in Guangdong province, the author maps the process by which these county-level offices grew, reached downward and outward, and took on more tasks." "This book highlights variation in local state structures and practices, variation both between localities and between the central and local governments. As the author shows, this variation is important because it results in regional differences in state-society relations and affects the central state's power in terms of the local state's ability to implement the center's as well as its own policies."--BOOK JACKET.

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Finance, Public --- Local government --- Taxation --- History --- S06/0212 --- S06/0225 --- Duties --- Fee system (Taxation) --- Tax policy --- Tax reform --- Taxation, Incidence of --- Taxes --- Revenue --- Local administration --- Township government --- Subnational governments --- Administrative and political divisions --- Decentralization in government --- Public administration --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Public finances --- Currency question --- China: Politics and government--Republic: local and provincial government --- China: Politics and government--People's Republic: local and provincial government: since 1976 --- Guangdong Sheng (China) --- Hebei Sheng (China) --- Tianjin (China) --- Ti︠a︡nʹt︠s︡zinʹ (China) --- Tienchin (China) --- Tʻien-chin (China) --- Tʻien-chin-shih (China) --- Tien-tsin (China) --- Tenshin (China) --- Tientsin (China) --- Ṭiyeng'in (China) --- Tianjin Municipality (China) --- Tʻien-chin shih jen min cheng fu (China) --- Tianjing (China) --- Tianjin Shi (China) --- Tʻien-ching (China) --- Tʻien-ching-shih (China) --- Tiensen (China) --- Tientsin Municipality (China) --- Tiensin (China) --- Ṭientszin (China) --- 天津 (China) --- 河北省 (China) --- Kahoku-shō (China) --- Ho-pei sheng (China) --- Hopeh Province (China) --- Hopeh (China) --- Hebei Province (China) --- He Bei Province (China) --- Ho-pei (China : Province) --- Ho-pei sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Hebei (China : Province) --- Zhili Sheng (China) --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- 广东省 (China) --- Kwangtung, China (Province) --- Kuang-tung sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Kuang-tung sheng (China) --- Kanton-shō (China) --- Kwangtung (China) --- Kwangtung Province (China) --- Guangdong (China) --- Guangdong Province (China) --- Kuang-tung (China) --- Guang dong (China) --- Guangdong Sheng ren min zheng fu (China) --- 广东省人民政府 (China) --- Politics and government


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Remembering the Samsui women
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ISBN: 0774825774 0774825758 9780774825771 9780774825788 0774825782 9780774825764 0774825766 9780774825757 Year: 2014 Publisher: Vancouver

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In the early twentieth century, thousands of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, with others working in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as "red-head-scarf," after the headgear that protected them from the sun. In Singapore, the women have been celebrated as pioneering figures for their hard work and resilience, and in China for the sacrifices they made for their families. Remembering the Samsui Women looks at who these women really are and at how both countries have commemorated their experiences. It is an illuminating study of the connection between memory and nation, including the politics of what is remembered and what is forgotten.

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Collective memory --- Women immigrants --- Samsui women --- Political aspects --- History --- Social conditions --- Guangdong Sheng (China) --- Singapore --- Emigration and immigration --- Historiography. --- Hong tou jin --- Samsui hong tou jin --- Women foreign workers --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Ciṅkappūr --- Colony of Singapore --- Garden City --- Hsin-chia-pʻo --- Lion City --- Red Dot --- Republic of Singapore --- Republik Singapura --- Singapore City (Singapore) --- Singapore Colony --- Singapore (Singapore) --- Singapour --- Singapur --- Singapura --- Singkhapō --- Tumasik (Singapore) --- Xinjiapo --- Xinjiapo gong he guo --- Xinjiapo Gongheguo --- 新加坡 --- 新加坡共和国 --- Syonan-to --- 广东省 (China) --- Kwangtung, China (Province) --- Kuang-tung sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Kuang-tung sheng (China) --- Kanton-shō (China) --- Kwangtung (China) --- Kwangtung Province (China) --- Guangdong (China) --- Guangdong Province (China) --- Kuang-tung (China) --- Guang dong (China) --- Guangdong Sheng ren min zheng fu (China) --- 广东省人民政府 (China) --- Singapoer --- سنغافورة --- Sanghāfūrah --- Singhāfūrah --- Sinqapur --- Sin-ka-pho --- Сінгапур --- Sinhapur --- Сингапур --- Singgapura --- Σιγκαπούρη --- Sinkapoyrē --- Singapuro --- Singapul --- Sinngapuur --- Singeapór --- 싱가포르 --- Singgap'orŭ --- Singafora --- Sinapoa --- סינגפור --- Singapuri --- Sengapou --- Singapūras --- Singapūro Respublika --- Scingapô --- Szingapúr --- Singaporo --- Hingapoa --- シンガポール --- Shingapōru

A critical guide to the Kwangtung provincial archives, deposited at the Public Record Office of London.
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ISBN: 1684171946 Year: 1975 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : East Asian Research Center, Harvard University : distributed by Harvard University Press,

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Great Britain. --- HMPRO --- H.M.P.R.O. --- PRO --- P.R.O. --- Public Record Office (Great Britain) --- Britisches Staatsarchiv --- Staatsarchiv (Great Britain) --- National Archives (Great Britain) --- China --- Guangdong Sheng (China) --- 广东省 (China) --- Kwangtung, China (Province) --- Kuang-tung sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Kuang-tung sheng (China) --- Kanton-shō (China) --- Kwangtung (China) --- Kwangtung Province (China) --- Guangdong (China) --- Guangdong Province (China) --- Kuang-tung (China) --- Guang dong (China) --- Guangdong Sheng ren min zheng fu (China) --- 广东省人民政府 (China) --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- History --- Sources

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