Calyx, Wembley Ware, and Bristile China

A posterior calyx is the preferred point of entry into the urinary collecting system during percutaneous nephrostomy procedures. Although ultrasonographic guidance is the preferred...

China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels—communist, non-Western, devel...

This collection of original essays highlights the implications of China's economic transition since 1978 for Sino-American business and trade. Each chapter assesses the implication...

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...

China’s rise to superpower is seemingly a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history. This book follows China’s geopolitical transformation on the world stage, from struggling to...

From cooperation to a new cold war: is this the future for today's two great powers?U.S. policy toward China is at an inflection point. For more than a generation, since the 1970s,...

A comprehensive sourcebook for historians and sinologists, containing biographies of over 1000 Christian missionaries who served in China before 1955. In this mon...

In 1989, China started charging tuition on a very small scale at a number of universities as a result of the global trend of cost-recovery policies, thus ending the free higher edu...