China category: 3065 books
CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY
Cultureshocking News : A guide to Chinese etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette
This is Cultureshocking News: China is the BEST behaved country in the world. How is it possible? Why is it BEST? And how we gonna deal with that? The intercultural encounter with China is a challenge. Prime your pump in your business,...
by Paul Pellew
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
The author’s great-grandfather was reportedly a British Royal Navy officer posted to Shanghai, China. The Englishman fathered a son with a Chinese woman, who was the author’s grandfather, Charles Pellew. Over the past 100 years, three generations of the family lived in China with an obligation...
Student Loans in China
Efficiency, Equity, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
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 education era in China. It was not until 1997 that all higher education institutions in China started charging tuition and...
Chinese History and Literature
New Ways to Examine China's Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Chinese History and Literature: New Ways to Examine China's Past collects important studies on Chinese history and literature studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the study of Chinese Economic History, 'Jiangnan...
Chinese Rules
Mao's Dog, Deng's Cat, and Five Timeless Lessons from the Front Lines in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
From the author of the acclaimed Mr. China comes another rollicking adventure story—part memoir, part history, part business imbroglio—that offers valuable lessons to help Westerners win in China.
In the twenty-first century, the world has tilted eastwards in its orbit; China grows confident...
Prisoner of the State
The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.
Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the...
by Simon Foster
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
This is equivalent to the print edition, which is 640 pages. The focus is on areas likely to be most rewarding for tourists (all of China could not be seen in several lifetimes): Beijing & surroundings, Shanghai and Hong Kong, the Terracotta Warriors near Xi'an, the Yangzi River's Three Gorges, the majestic...
The Hundred-Year Marathon
China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role...
by Huang Quanyu, Chen Tong, Joseph W Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Knowledgeable decision making not only saves you time, money, and effort, but also leads you to extra opportunities. Business Decision Making in China improves your business acumen by showing you who (in itals) is involved in business decision making, how (in itals) decisions have been made, what...
Doing Business in China
The Sun Tzu Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
"Strike hard, retreat, seize a position, reject compromise, and strike again."—These are common negotiating tactics in a country with a long history of strategic philosophy.
Negotiating a deal in China requires patience—a well known Confucian virtue; persistence—something which...
by Rob Walters
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
If you are thinking of going to China to teach or travel then don’t – not until you have read this book. The book may entice you to go or it may persuade you to stay. Either way if you are interested in China and wish to advance far beyond the tourist guide view, then read this book.
The...
A Village with My Name
A Family History of China's Opening to the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
When journalist Scott Tong moved to Shanghai, his assignment was to start the first full-time China bureau for “Marketplace,” the daily business and economics program on public radio stations across the United States. But for Tong the move became much more—it offered the opportunity to reconnect...
China
How the Empire Fell
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The Qing dynasty was China’s last, and it created an empire of unprecedented size and prosperity. However in 1911 the empire collapsed within a few short months, and China embarked on a revolutionary course that lasted through most of the twentieth century. The 1911 Revolution ended two millennia...
China's Wings
War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them...