![]() ![]() Louis turns out to be a natural at reading and writing, and Sam buys him a portable blackboard and chalk so he can communicate. Sam takes his swan friend to school with him the next morning. Louis decides he should learn to read and write in order to communicate, and flies away from the refuge to visit Sam Beaver. At the end of summer, the swan family flies to the winter refuge, Red Rock Lakes in Montana. Louis's father promises to find a way for him to communicate. The adults grow increasingly concerned about Louis, worrying that he will not be able to find a mate if he cannot trumpet like all the other swans. The adult swans gradually realize that Louis is mute. The cygnets each chirp at Sam in greeting, except for the youngest who is named Louis and is unable to chirp but pulls Sam's shoelace instead. After the hatching of their cygnets, the cob proudly leads his brood to Sam to introduce them. After this incident, the swans begin to trust him. ![]() Sam chases the fox away, saving both the female and her eggs. One day while the pen steps away from her eggs to stretch her legs, a fox slips up behind her. The swans are worried when Sam Beaver, an 11-year-old boy on a camping trip with his father, begins coming to the lake every day to watch them the cob believes that human boys are dangerous. In Canada during the spring of 1968, the cob (the name for an adult male swan) and the pen (the name for an adult female swan), both trumpeter swans, build their summer nest on a small island in a pond. It tells the story of Louis (pronounced "LOO-ee" by the author in the audiobook, a reference to trumpeter Louis Armstrong, a point that is made explicit in the book), a trumpeter swan born without a voice who overcomes this difficulty by learning to play a trumpet in order to impress a beautiful swan named Serena. Heilmann opens a new window to understand China’s unique developmental experience.The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E. It shows how, rooted in the Chinese Communist revolution, China’s public policy process gradually evolved into various types of experiments and innovations, and facilitated a comprehensive framework for adaptive governance. Going beyond traditional Western theories of institutionalism, this book provides a detailed analysis of how unorthodox policy making contributed to China’s economic rise. School of Public Policy and Management, Schwarzman Scholars, Tsinghu a University Heilmann’s work brings to light the distinctive processes of policy making in China that are not widely known and often misunderstood. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus This is an excellent study that helps us all better understand why a tightly controlled authoritarian system has been so successful. Susan Shirk, Research Professor and ChairĢ1st Century China Center, The University of California, San Diego ![]() Heilmann develops his argument over the course of contemporary Chinese history with great skill and grace. The paradox of China’s successful market reforms is that they were achieved by a combination of top-down direction and decentralized experimentation that originated with Mao Zedong. It finds that Chinese policy making has been driven by a distinctive political methodology-an unusual combination of long-term national agendas with versatile local policy experimentation-that serves as an effective mechanism for policy innovation and correction, and thus provides strong adaptive capabilities in a perpetually shifting economic, technological and international context.Īn original and persuasive book by one of the leading scholars of China’s policy-making process. This book focuses on crucial governmental action programs and examines the manner in which they were developed, formulated, implemented, adjusted, and revised. The resilience of the Communist party-state, in combination with a rapidly expanding and internationally competitive economy, challenges conventional models of economic development and political change. China stands as a major “Red Swan” challenge to the social sciences. ![]()
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