China category: 3065 books
Geek in China
Discovering the Land of Alibaba, Bullet Trains and Dim Sum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
For every fan of kung fu, steamed dumplings, Confucius and giant skyscrapers, A Geek in China is a hip, smart and concise guide to the Middle Kingdom.
Packed with photographs and short articles on all aspects of Chinese culture, past and present, A Geek in China introduces readers to everything...
China's Water Warriors
Citizen Action and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water...
by Marte Kjær Galtung, Stig Stenslie
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Communism is dead in China. “China Inc.” is buying up the world. China has the United States over a barrel. The Chinese are just copycats. China is an environmental baddie, China is colonizing Africa. Mao was a monster. The end of the Communist regime is near. The 21st century belongs to China....
China in the Era of Xi Jinping
Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. To decrease ethnic instability in Xinjiang, the Chinese government's plan is to economically develop the region. Xinjiang is rich in natural resources, is geographically significant and...
by Simon Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This enchanting hideaway is set around the attractively revamped city of Guilin, in the heart of rural Guangxi Province. Yangshuo, a little to the south, makes for a low-key introduction to the area, and offers a picture-postcard view of what is, to many, the essence of this vast country in which 60%...
Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.
An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
"China threat" has been one of hotly debated topics since the early 1990s, and this book is an effort to test the China threat thesis. The author argues that a test of the China threat thesis requires addressing two fundamental questions: whether China has the capabilities to challenge the...
China's Ascent
Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China's increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China's rise, including its economic might and the continuing modernization of its military. This book offers multiple analytical perspectives—constructivist,...
China's Strategic Partnerships in Latin America
Case Studies of China's Oil Diplomacy in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1991–2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This study examines how China has developed a diplomatic mechanism to expand its international influence through the establishment of strategic partnerships. These strategic partnerships have sparked a debate among analysts. On the one hand, some optimistic studies applaud the win-win objective of...
by Liu Li, Fan Hong
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The history of China’s National Games reflects both the transformation of elite sport in China and wider Chinese society. This is the first book to describe the origins and development of the National Games through their dynamic relationship with Chinese politics, nationalism and identity in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic, military,...
by Guo And Blanchard
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Harmonious World and China's New Foreign Policy consists of essays by China specialists on the Chinese government's characterization of foreign policy as a "harmonious world." The essays deal with such topics as "harmonious world" and China's new diplomacy, China's multilateral...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Piracy threatens commercial shipping passing through major choke points and sea lines of communication in regions such as the Gulf of Aden (GOA) and Southeast Asia. Piracy has become a larger...
China and the World since 1945
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The emergence of China as a dominant regional power with global influence is a significant phenomenon in the twenty-first century. Its origin could be traced back to 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong came to power and vowed to transform China and the world. After the ‘century...