“…Jesús Sánchez Breña, S.J. vive y trabaja en Taiwán, con frecuentes excursiones apostólicas a otras naciones de Asia y a China Continental. …”

“…He transports readers from ancient sailing ships that brought the silk trade from China to Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the sixteenth; from the American trade battles of the early twentieth century to the modern era of televisions from Taiwan, lettuce from Mexico, and T-shirts from China. …”

“…Las guerras en Ucrania y Gaza y las tensiones en torno a Taiwán y el mar Rojo han mostrado lo desnudos que estamos ante lo que está por llegar, sea la amenaza de Putin en el este o de un Marruecos que se rearma rápidamente en el sur.Lejos de caer en un discurso derrotista, el almirante Juan Rodríguez Garat analiza las causas de los volcanes bélicos y hace en este libro una llamada de atención a una sociedad que parece dormida, inconsciente de su vulnerabilidad y de los peligros que acechan fuera. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Japan and the East China Sea Taiwan; Korean Peninsula; India; Wild Card: China's Internal Development; China's Evolving Regional Strategy; Alternative Futures; Systemic Continuity; Hegemonic China; Systemic Breakdown; Conclusions; CHAPTER FOUR U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Rise and Fall of the Wolf Warriors -- Chapter 2 -- Beating the Virus in the Chinese Countryside -- Forum · Down and Out in Hong Kong -- Hong Kong's National Security Law -- Waste and the Elderly Working Poor in Hong Kong -- Chapter 3 -- Women's Bodies, Intimate Politics, and Feminist Consciousness Amid COVID-19 -- Forum · Cultural Communication -- The Language of Trust -- Chapter 4 -- The Chinese Economy: Crisis, Control, Recovery, Refocus -- Forum · Coping Through Laughter and Prayer -- Humour in Crisis -- The Power of Compassion: The Buddhist Approach to COVID-19 -- Chapter 5 -- China's Post-COVID-19 Stimulus: Dark Clouds, Green Lining -- Forum · Broken River Shattered Mountain -- The Three Gorges Dam: A Deluge of Doubts -- Chapter 6 -- The Future Repeats Itself: COVID-19 and Its Historical Comorbidities -- Forum · Plan for Difficulty -- The Dao of Crisis -- Chapter 7 -- US-China Relations: A Lingering Crisis -- Forum · Difficult Choices -- Taiwan's Search for a Grand Strategy -- Malaysia: Taking No Side but Its Own -- Chapter 8 -- The Sino-Indian Border Crisis: Chinese Perceptions of Indian Nationalism -- Forum · Of Mao and Money -- Chinese Loans to Africa: Trap or Treasure? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rights and duties of online platforms / European legislative initiative for very large communication platforms / Introducing the systems approach and the statutory duty of care / Policy developments in the USA to address platform information disorders / Interoperability of messenger services : possibilities for a consumer-friendly approach / Six problems with Facebook's oversight board : not enough contract law, too much human rights / "Open with caution" : how Taiwan approaches platform governance in the global market and geopolitics / Digital platform regulation in Japan : does the soft approach work? …”

“…Entre textos e imágenes, ofrece información sobre los pueblos nativos de Guam y Filipinas, el sudeste asiático (Borney, Maluku, Java, Aceh, Patani, Siam, Nueva Guinea), las costas de Champa y Vietnam, el norte de Formosa (Taiwán), Japón y China. El Códice, sin embargo, plantea innumerables interrogantes acerca de su autoría, su cronología precisa, sus finalidades y su carácter culturalmente híbrido. …”

“…Brushed in Light examines how the brushed word appears in films and in film cultures of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC cinemas. This includes silent era intertitles, subtitles, title frames, letters, graffiti, end titles, and props. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Canada and China after the Global Financial Crisis / Yuen Pau Woo -- Post-Colonial Transformations in Hong Kong & Macao: Implications for Cross-Taiwan Strait and Canada-PRC Relations / Vivienne Poy -- Hong Kong: Canada's Partner in Prosperity / Perrin Beatty -- The Transformative Effects of the Global Economic Crisis: Implications for the World and Shanghai's Aspirations / Thomas d'Aquino -- The Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Global Template for Minority Rights and Relevance to China? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributing authors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: comparative political ecology - the EJAtlas, geographical and thematic perspectives -- 2 Japan: toxic archipelago -- 3 The Philippines: extractivism and violence -- 4 Women environmental defenders killed around the world -- 5 Taiwan's environmental movement -- 6 China: political ecology with Chinese characteristics - limits to eco-compensation -- 7 The Arctic, a growing commodity extraction frontier -- 8 India: Odisha, one of the states which are victims of "extractivism" -- 9 India: Kerala and Tamil Nadu -- 10 The world anti-nuclear movement since the 1970s -- 11 Biodiversity conservation: "militarized conservation" vs "convivial conservation" -- 12 East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania, wildlife and human livelihoods -- 13 South East Africa: Madagascar and Mozambique -- transnationals and BINGOs -- 14 Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea: "we thought it was oil but it was blood" -- 15 Sand mining for metallic minerals: a new commodity frontier -- 16 Blockadia and climate justice: LFFU movements -- 17 The Andean countries and Southern Cone -- 18 Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: from Zacatecas to Neo Zapatismo -- 19 Brazil and the Guianas: iron ores, tailings dams and land conflicts -- 20 Working-class environmentalism -- 21 Agrarian justice and human ecology -- 22 Religious groups as environmental activists -- 23 The Iberian Peninsula: transboundary conflicts -- 24 The United States: the cradle of environmental justice against environmental racism -- 25 Indigenous revival and resistance around the world -- 26 Preciosities vs bulk commodities in ecologically unequal trade -- 27 Corporate social irresponsibility and systematic lack of environmental liability -- 28 Environmental activism, uncertain risks and post-normal science…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Initial Public Offerings; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; About the editor; List of contributors; Part One Performance of IPOs; Nasdaq IPOs around the market peak in 2000; Returns to style investments in initial public offerings; The effect of IPO characteristics on long-run performance of Taiwan's IPOs: evidence from efficiently learning markets; Short- and long-run performance of IPOs traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange; Indexing the IPO sector with IPOXTM Indices; The size effect of firms going public on the Spanish capital market…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Tracey Evans Chan -- South Korea's End-of-life Care Decisions Act : law for better end-of-life care / Ilhak Lee -- The law and practice of Advance Directives in Taiwan / Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai -- Advance Directives : the Thai context / Thitinant Tengaumnuay -- Advance Directives in India : seeking the individual within the community / Kelly Amal Dhru & Ravindra Ghooi -- The proposed new law on Advance Directives in Hong Kong : a piecemeal attempt at codification? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ N Orkun Akseli -- Secured transactions reform in East Asia : progress and challenges / Elaine Maceachern -- Secured transactions law reform in civil law jurisdictions : challenging tradition, facing reality, and embracing modernity / Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell -- The law of secured transactions in China : comparison and future reform / Lebing Wang -- Secured transactions law reform in Indonesia : fiducia, at a crossroads / Ibrahim Assegaf and Aria Suyudi -- Navigating the patchwork of secured transactions rules in Japan : towards a framework conducive to asset based lending / Megumi Hara -- Banking the unbanked : an examination of the personal property Security Act of the Philippines / Anthony Amunategui Abad, David Kintanar Rosario III and Griselda (Gay) Santos - Korea : the coexistence of old and new secured transactions law regimes / Youngjoon Kwon -- Law reform on the secured transactions regime in Taiwan : modernisation, controversies, and prospects / Andrew Jen-Guang Lin -- Implementation of international standards on secured transactions into the Thai legal system : possibilities and proposals / Parawee Kasitinon -- Secured transactions reform in Vietnam : prominent achievements, experiences, and lessons learnt / Huyen Pham -- Secured transactions law reform in common law jurisdictions (Brunei Darussalam as Example) / Louise Gullifer -- Bangladesh secured transactions framework : moving towards a reform / Marek Dubovec and Junayed Chowdhury -- Secured transactions law in India : suggestions for reforms / Mr Umarji -- Pakistan's reform of secured transactions law : challenges and the road ahead / Marek Dubovec and Zahra Abid -- Secured transactions law in Singapore : living with untidiness / Dora Neo -- Conclusion / Louise Gullifer…”

“…We accordingly present a set of chapters on East Asian cultures, economies, societies and their management across the board, focusing on countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, as well as the Overseas Chinese enclaves of Hong Kong SAR, Macao and Taiwan. The contributors to this edited book are all specialists in their respective fields; they hail from a variety of universities and business schools across the world, located in a wide range of countries in the East and in the West. …”
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“…"This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of "Asian Cinema". …”
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“…The contemporary writers represented, both the prominent and the little known, come from the People's Republic of China and from Taiwan; a few are immigrants to the United States. …”