China category: 3065 books
Law and Investment in China
The Legal and Business Environment after China's WTO Accession
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The Chinese market is appealing, but the Chinese legal system is very complicated. A basic understanding of Chinese law is absolutely crucial for companies investing in this fast-growing and potentially huge market. Since China is moving toward a socialist market economy and is increasingly integrated...
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Who will be the next Superpower? Is this China?It seems modern China is a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity.China, in general, has been one of the...
Ready for Takeoff
China's Advancing Aerospace Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
An assessment of China's aerospace manufacturing capabilities and how China's participation in commercial markets and supply chains contributes to their improvement. It examines China's aviation and space manufacturing capabilities, government efforts to encourage foreign participation, transfers...
Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980
Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China....
The Water Kingdom
A Secret History of China
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China’s culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The...
How the Market Is Changing China's News
The Case of Xinhua News Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book provides a critical account of the transformations, both structural and in terms of journalism practice, undergone by Xinhua, the top Party organ of the Communist regime in China, since the start of the reform age in the late 1970s. It sets out to answer a number of key questions:
How...
by Sanping Chen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of...
Mobilizing Shanghai Youth
CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism and Japanese Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, youth emerged as a new and important social force in many parts of the world. In China the image of this new youth imprinted itself on Chinese consciousness and made clear to potential national leaders that future governments would not be able...
Chinese Cyberspaces
Technological Changes and Political Effects
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
The internet is developing more extensively in China than any other country in the world. Chinese Cyberspaces provides multidisciplinary perspectives on recent developments and the consequences of internet expansion in China. Including first-hand research and case studies, the contributors examine...
by Ming Xin
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book, based on the Chinese dream and its basic principles, global significance, path of implementation and practical requirements, systemically explains China’s Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy. The Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy is the strategic concept of the Communist Party of contemporary...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
History of china is too long and too descriptive to be entirely included in this short book. However, various important parts are included. History of China is often presented in four major parts. First on is the prehistory. Prehistory describes the period, when china was not unified as a single empire....
China and Iran
Parallel History, Future Threat?
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
China and Iran have featured heavily in the news in recent years. China is both a military and an economic superpower with 20% of the world’s population; Iran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons and arming terrorists, and sits on the world’s second-largest oil and gas reserves. They are...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of Chinese and Indian Naval Power
Between Rising Naval Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This book examines the emerging maritime security scene in Southeast Asia. It considers highly topical implications for the region of possible strategic competition between China and India - the rising naval powers of Asia - with a possible naval "arms race" emerging between these countries...
From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty
How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
A beggar, an itinerant monk, leapt to greatness during a tumultuous epoch and went on to found the Ming Dynasty of China (1368-1644).As a destitute peasant with nothing to lose, he started a local rebellion; success built on success. Defeating local warlords, Zhu Yuan Zhang conquered all...