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  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINA'S FINANCIAL REFORMS
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    THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHINA'S FINANCIAL REFORMS
    PAUL BOWLES / GORDON WHITE
    THIS PATHBREAKING Work analyzes the evolution of China's financial reforms since 1979. China's reformers have stressed the construction of a more diverse, flexible, and competitive financial system as a crucial element of China's economic reform program. The authors assess the theory and practice of financial reform in light of China's specific characteristics as a large, devel...

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  • MICROPOLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
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    MICROPOLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
    MARC J. BLECHER / GORDON WHITE
    This title was first published in 1980. One of the most prevalent and significant issues facing socialist countries is the role of intellectuals. In the poorer countries like China, this has presented itself with particular acuity in the relationship of scientists and technicians to the process of socialist economic modernization. Since the Cultural Revolution has come to a clo...

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  • PARTY AND PROFESSIONALS
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    PARTY AND PROFESSIONALS
    GORDON WHITE
    Originally published in 1981, this study fits into a wider context of works analysing the impact of the social revolution on the structure of Chinese society since 1949. Party and Professionals focuses on the teaching profession in relation to social ranking. As a part of the intelligentsia, the socialist government has an ambiguous relationship with teachers of all levels and ...

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  • PHILOSOPHERS AS EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 10)
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    PHILOSOPHERS AS EDUCATIONAL REFORMERS (INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION VOLUME 10)
    PETER GORDON / JOHN WHITE
    This volume assesses how far the ideas and achievements of the 19th century British Idealist philosophical reformers are still important for us today when considering fundamental questions about the structure and objectives of the education system in England and Wales. Part 1 examines those ideas of the Idealists, especially T. H. Green, which had most bearing on the educationa...

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  • THE EAST ASIAN WELFARE MODEL
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    THE EAST ASIAN WELFARE MODEL
    GOODMAN, ROGER / KWON, HUCK-JU / WHITE, GORDON
    For many politicians and observers in the West, East Asia has provided a broad range of positive images of the state's intervention in society. Neoliberals grew excited by popular welfare systems that cost little in expenditure and bureaucracy. Social-democrats thought they had found a model for social cohesion and equality. In fact the reality in East Asia is rather different ...

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  • DAEMONS ARE FOREVER
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    DAEMONS ARE FOREVER
    DAVID GORDON WHITE
    A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings—dæmons—and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: dæmonology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especial...

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  • THE ALCHEMICAL BODY
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    THE ALCHEMICAL BODY
    DAVID GORDON WHITE
    The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by one and the same people, and that they can be understood only when viewed together...

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  • SINISTER YOGIS
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    SINISTER YOGIS
    DAVID GORDON WHITE
    Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, Da...

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  • KISS OF THE YOGINI
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    KISS OF THE YOGINI
    DAVID GORDON WHITE
    For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from ...

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