Despite Asia's protracted economic troubles, the region is poised to recover and perhaps become stronger than ever. This timely work identifies the major challenges facing Asia's Four Tigers (Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong), Japan, China, and their Southeast Asian neighbors (Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines) as the region increases it role and stature on the world stage. Highly regarded Asia policy makers and opinion shapers consider such key questions as: What is the appropriate response to China's ascent? Are there prospects for U.S.-Asian partnerships (in such areas as the environment)? Is economic cooperation between both sides of the Pacific realistic? How can Americans gain from Asia's attempts to rebuild her institutions? And will East Asia and the United States adjust to a multi-polar security and economic milieu?

Tigers' Roar: Asia's Recovery and Its Impact (East Gate Books)

Business & Money

Weiss, Julian

Economics

Routledge

The New Hegemony: Deng Xiaoping's China Faces the World (Journal of Social Political and Economic Studies Monographs, No. 18)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Council Social & Economic Studies

In the thirteenth century, profound changes in Spanish society drove the invention of fresh poetic forms by the new clerical class. The term mester de clereca (clerical ministry or service) applies to a group of narrative poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed by university-trained clerics for the edification and entertainment of the predominantly illiterate laity. These clerics, like Gonzalo de Berceo, understood themselves as cultural intermediaries, transmitting wisdom and values from the past; at the same time, they were deeply involved in some of the most contentious and far-reaching changes in lay piety, and in economic and social structures. The author challenges the predominantly didactic approach to the verse, in an attempt to historicize the category of the intellectual, as someone caught in the duality of the worlds of contingency and absolute values. The book will have a broad appeal to medievalists, in part because of the topics covered (feudalism, gender, nationhood, and religion), in part because many poems are either adaptations from French and Latin or have counterparts in other literatures (e.g., the romances or Alexander and Apollonius, the miracles of the Virgin Mary). JULIAN WEISS is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish at King's College London. Table of Contents Introduction - Julian Weiss Pollution and Perception in Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Seora - Julian Weiss Female Associations: Three Encounters with Holy Women - Julian Weiss Dreaming of Empire in El libro de Alexandre - Julian Weiss The Birth of a Nation: Feudal Fictions in El poema de Fernn Gonzlez - Julian Weiss The Cleric, In Between - Julian Weiss

The Mester de Clerecía: Intellectuals and Ideologies in Thirteenth-Century Castile (Monografías A)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Tamesis Books

Glosa sobre las "Trezientas" del famoso poeta Juan de Mena (Spanish Edition)

Núñez de Toledo, Hernán

Cortijo Ocaña, Antonio

Ediciones Polifemo

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