China category: 3065 books
Faked in China
Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime...
by M. L. Milne
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
An Inside Look at China relates the author’s impressions and insights during the five years she lived in China. You’ll read about the people, politics, spirituality, education, recreation, entertainment, and just everyday life. It’s an eclectic collection intended to reach a wide cross-section...
A Jesuit in the Forbidden City
Matteo Ricci 1552-1610
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China...
Creativity and Its Discontents
China’s Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights Offenses
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Creativity and Its Discontents is a sharp critique of the intellectual property rights (IPR)–based creative economy, particularly as it is embraced or ignored in China. Laikwan Pang argues that the creative economy—in which creativity is an individual asset to be commodified and protected as property—is...
China-US Relations Transformed
Perspectives and Strategic Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
China’s emergence in the 21st century to the status of great power has significant implications for its relationship with the United States, the sole superpower in the post-Cold War World. Now that China is rising as an economic, political, and military power and has expanded its diplomatic activism...
Affairs of China
A Survey of the Recent History and Present Circumstances of the Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
First published in 1938, this book aims to be a ‘true and objective’ account of China’s recent history and its present circumstances at the time, drawing on the author’s thirty years of experience as a member of the British consular service in China. The recurrent themes of the period are...
How China Works
Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Industrial Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Spanning the whole of the twentieth century, How China Works examines the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China in both the Republican and People's Republic epochs. The international team of contributors treat China's twentieth-century revolution as an industrial revolution, stressing...
American Editor in Early Revolutionary China
John William Powell and the China Weekly/Monthly Review
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This is a study of Sino-American relations and the editorial policy of the China Weekly Review / China Monthly Review , published in Shanghai by John William Powell during the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. The Review supported US attempts in early 1946 to avert civil war through the creation...
Birth Control in China 1949-2000
Population Policy and Demographic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This comprehensive volume analyses Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on China's 'Hardship Number One Under Heaven': the highly controversial one-child campaign, and the violent clash between family...
Merchants and Society in Modern China
Rise of Merchant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In ancient China, as the lowermost class in the social hierarchy, merchants were viewed as greedy and immoral, commanding little respect. But since the sixteenth century, when China entered modern times with the sprout of capitalism, merchants have become a strong force to transform the ancient...
by Salam D Singh
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
The India China Youth Exchange programme was a new generation approach to strengthen bilateral relationships and mutual trust between India and China. It was launched in November 2006, when the first batch of 100 youth member delegates from both countries was reciprocally exchanged; this was continued...
The Everyday Cold War
Britain and China, 1950-1972
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People's Republic of China. But it took 22 years for Britain to establish full diplomatic relations with China. How far was Britain's China policy a failure until 1972? This book argues that Britain and China were...
China Calls
Paving the Way for Nixon's Historic Journey to China
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In 1971 the United States had no diplomatic relations or established route of communications with China. Despite that, in a stunning act of diplomacy, President Richard Nixon announced that he would travel to China to meet with its leaders. Ron Walker, director of the White House Advance Office, was...
A Call to Mission - A History of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954
Volume 2: The Wider European and American Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
China has bulked large in the imagination of the Catholic Church for 500 years. It had been central to the missionary dream of the Jesuits for almost as long. However, only with this book's appearance has the detailed focus of attention shifted to the substantial and neglected period of catholic and...