Virtually every major media, information, and telecommunications investment in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media functions in potentially the world's largest market. As the West, particularly the United States, tries to integrate China into the civilized world through the neoliberal regime of global capitalism, Chinese Media, Global Contexts asks how globalizing forces will clash with nationalist feelings to shape China's media discourses and ideology.

This is a book of self-assessment questions based on the current medical literature, with full references to papers and full explanatory answers. The questions are based on research papers and reflect the increasing importance of basic science in clinical medicine. The book contains useful appendices to assist candidates in their exam preparation. In this completely revised edition the questions are a mixture of true/false multiple-choice questions, best of five questions and viva-style questions, thus making the book suitable not just for the MRCP Part 1 exam but also for the PACES clinical...

This book uses a wide range of original Japanese sources to trace important aspects of the history of Japanese economic ideas, in particular, the development of Japan's industrial policy. In contrast to most others who begin their story within the 1930s or after 1945, Sohn goes back to the Meiji era to trace the evolution of Japanese developmental debates, state policies and market strategies involving cartels and small enterprises, city and countryside, and approaches that variously emphasize the market and the role of the state as Japan seeks to position itself in the world and regional...