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Understanding China [3rd Edition]
A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in China's present and future. In the new edition, Starr seamlessly weaves in additional material on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese...
China's Peaceful Rise
Perceptions, Policy and Misperceptions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Can China peacefully attain great power status in the twenty-first century? Adopting a constructivist approach, the book argues that China's prospects for achieving great power status peacefully depend more on Chinese and international perceptions of China's rise/development than on concrete measures...
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China
A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku...
by Robert G. Sutter
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
The foreign relations of the People's Republic of China have gone through dramatic change since 1949. The strong-man rule of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party leader's dominance of Chinese foreign policy decision making for three decades witnessed dramatic swings in alignment, repeated and...
by Jonathan Unger, Unn Målfrid H. Rolandsen, Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world’s largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signalled significant changes to rural social relations, when privatization,...
by Capitalism one0one
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The China-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world....
China Rising
Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People's Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status. Its growing material power has simultaneously led to both greater influence and unsettling questions about its international intentions. China also has found itself in a...
by Sabrina Zajak
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and...
The US vs China
Asia's new Cold War?
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in Asia to counteract any challenge. Examining and...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This is a professionally-formatted, free flowing ebook reproduction of six unique guides produced by the Department of Defense that provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in China, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters,...
Winning the Third World
Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Winning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role...
The Changing Face of China
From Mao to Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive or is it being challenged by growing inequality and unrest? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? In this highly readable...
Taiwan and the Rise of China
Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Coincided with China’s economic reform and her rapid ascendance to a great power status, the relations between Taiwan and Chinese mainland since 1979 have also seen some encouraging development. However, the rapprochement is nothing but a smooth ride. Taiwan Strait has always been full of tensions...
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative,...