Bøker av Michael Sullivan

This book explains the rise and sudden fall of revenue farming, traces the changing fortunes of the Chinese businessmen who held the major farms, and uses the study of revenue farming to examine the emergence of the modern state in Southeast Asia.

A tool for overcoming the cultural and developmental challenges, stereotyping, and lack of role models that essentially programme boys out of the library. The author's practical ideas and insights show librarians and teachers how to make vitally needed connections with this underserved population.

Focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. This book documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements.

A biographical dictionary which offers short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Deals with the place of the individual and community in democratic society. Mapping out a brief history of American legal thinking regarding rights, from communitarianism to liberalism, this book gives an account of how pragmatism worked to resolve conflicts of self-interest and community well-being.