Tigers without Teeth
Title | Tigers without Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Wilson |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 277 |
Release | 2015-03-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442236175 |
This compelling book analyzes the rise of civil society and legal contentiousness in contemporary China. Scott Wilson examines how Chinese AIDS carriers and pollution victims, relying on weak laws and judicial institutions, pursue justice and protection of their rights in Chinese courts and civil society. In exploring the “politics of justice” in China, the author contends that civil society and legal rights advance when their organizers have support from pockets of the Chinese Communist Party, resources from international groups, and the backing of protesters. Even lawsuits that fail in the courts can raise societal consciousness of social issues and can lead to revised state policies to address the substantive claims of disadvantaged citizens. Underlying the politics of justice is the regime’s attempt to balance commitments to legal development and its interest in regime stability. Wilson argues that the Chinese state has looked more favorably upon pollution victims’ civil-society organizations and lawsuits than those of AIDS carriers. Going beyond the standard overviews of China’s legal system, Tigers without Teeth is unique in its close comparison of legal activism on two sensitive and politically relevant social issues. It provides important insights into the development of civil society, as well as highlighting limitations to the pursuit of justice as the system balances between the development of rule of law and regime stability.
Counting the Tiger's Teeth
Title | Counting the Tiger's Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Toyin Falola |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2014-11-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0472119486 |
A preeminent historian’s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria
Tigers Forever
Title | Tigers Forever PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Winter |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1426212402 |
A National Geographic photographer embarks on a one-man mission to address the plight of the tiger before it's too late.
Let's Brush Our Teeth!
Title | Let's Brush Our Teeth! PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Cassel Schwartz |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1534485341 |
"An interactive tooth-brushing book"--Cover.
Pulling A Dragon's Teeth
Title | Pulling A Dragon's Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Shao Wei |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 81 |
Release | 2020-02-24 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0822980134 |
There is a proverb in China, hu kou ba ya, literally "pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth," used to describe any extremely difficult task. When Shao Wei first arrived in the United States at age thirty-one, her desire to write poems in English seemed almost impossible. Pulling a Dragon's Teeth, a first stop on the successful journey toward that goal, is filled with the rhythms and visions of this exciting young poet.Shuttling between her childhood in a small mountain city on the shores of the Yangtze River (soon to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam Project) and adulthood in Manhattan, Shao Weicaptures the pains and joys of tradition and displacement familiar to any immigrant. Blending fairy tales, New York images, family stories, and the universal rites of passage associated with growing up, she paints a vibrant canvas of passion and imagination.
Jungle Trails in Northern India
Title | Jungle Trails in Northern India PDF eBook |
Author | John Hewett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Hunting |
ISBN | 9788181581051 |
Sir John Hewett was an administrator in India, with a passion for big game hunting. He wrote this chatty memoir in 1938 when he returned to England. The book offers a detailed account of his adventures in the jungles of Tarai, Gooch Behar, the Central Provinces, and up north in Kumaon and Garhwal. In reading of his descriptions of his travels, we learn a lot about John, as he was known among friends. He travelled a great deal with his younger daughter Lorna, who was an intrepid hunter in her own right and even returned with him to India in 1926-27. The last chapter in this book is about Lorna's unchaperoned trek, to Leh in 1921. The book provides interesting vignettes of the social structures and cultural traditions of the days of the Raj. The photographs of the people the author knew, the maharajas and his colleagues and the author's staff lend colour to the readers' visual vocabulary of a bygone era.
Amazing Tigers!
Title | Amazing Tigers! PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah L. Thomson |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2005-10-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 006054452X |
Amazing Tigers! is the first paperback edition in our exciting series of nonfiction I Can Read Books filled with amazing photos from the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the world's oldest and most respected wildlife conservation organizations.