China category: 3065 books
by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free...
Pursuing China
Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses China and the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution;...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States has used primacy as its grand strategy for some time now. While this strategy has ensured US hegemony, it has also fiscally drained American power and left the United States...
China's New Confucianism
Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one...
Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China
The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
“A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China.” —Steven I. Levine author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948)
The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist...
by Edward L. Dreyer, David C. Wright, Peter Lorge
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imperial dynasties were established as the result of battle, from the chariot warfare of ancient times to the battles of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist...
China Tripping
Encountering the Everyday in the People’s Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
This unique book is the first to bring together a group of influential China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the People’s Republic. Filling an important gap, it allows scholars, journalists, and businesspeople to reflect on their personal...
Sun Tzu and the Rise of China
Why Taiwan Is Being Forced Back to the Mainland, the Fall of Hong Kong and Other Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Herein the writer discusses the present rise of China from looking at a specific critical statement made by Sun Tzu in his ancient treatise The Art of War. The writer builds on this one particular quote in such a way as to obtain a synthesis for why Mainland China needs so desperately to bring back...
by Ryosei Kokubun, Yoshihide Soeya, Akio Takahara
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
From before the dawn of recorded history, there has been a rich flow of interaction between Japan and China. Japan has long learned many things from Chinese civilization, and since the modern era China began to learn from Japan. In the twenty-first century, however, China surpassed Japan in terms...
The River Runs Black
The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Two important papers by the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute provide unique insights into the problems posed by North Korea: Criminal Sovereignty: Understanding North Korea's Illicit International Activities, and Understanding the North Korea Problem: Why it has Become the "Land of Lousy...
by Janice Warren
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This is the true firsthand account of the 1986 Sino-USA Upper Yangtze River Expedition. It was the only joint river rafting expedition to be approved by the highest authority in China, the State Council, and over 40 departments of government. The 1986 Sino-USA Upper Yangtze River Expedition was not...
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China
State, Village, Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author explores how the three major rural actors—local governments,...
Breaking with the Past
The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chinese...