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  • The Mind of Empire

    China's History and Modern Foreign Relations

    by Christopher A. Ford ...
    "Ford's reading of Confucius is both shrewd and instructive, with implications for contemporary policymakers . . . a scholarly analysis of Chinese history." — The Weekly StandardChina's prosperity has increased dramatically in the last two decades, propelling the nation to a prominent position in the international community. Yet China's ancient history still informs and shapes its understanding of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China Looks at the West

    Identity, Global Ambitions, and the Future of Sino-American Relations

    by Christopher A. Ford ...
    Series series Asia in the New Millennium
    Chinese leaders have long been fascinated by the United States, but have often chosen to demonize America for perceived cultural and military imperialism. Especially under Communist rule, Chinese leaders have crafted and re-crafted portrayals of the United States according to the needs of their own agenda and the regime's self-image—often seeing America as an antagonist and foil, but sometimes ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Bully of Asia

    Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order

    by Steven W. Mosher ...
    The Once and Future HegemonIn a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country-that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago-whose economic power rivals our own-that believes its superior race and culture give it the right to universal deference ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Origins of Political Order

    From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • China In World History

    by Paul S. Ropp ...
    Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese history. What is distinctive about China in comparison with other civilizations? What have been ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wealth and Power

    China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

    by Orville Schell, John Delury ...
    Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful period of dynastic decline, intellectual upheaval, foreign occupation, civil war, and revolution, manage ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

    by Barrington Moore ...
    This classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies—and others as fascist or communist dictatorships.Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a comparative survey of some of what Barrington Moore considers the major and most indicative world economies as they evolved out of pre-modern political systems into industrialism. But Moore is not ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • China: Its History and Culture

    by W. Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis ...
    “A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rutgers UniversityNewly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture,Fourth Edition, incorporates the crucial social and economicchanges that have taken place in China over the last decade.Through ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Invention of China

    by Bill Hayton ...
    "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this dayChina’s current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but “China” as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates

    Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire

    by Wensheng Wang ...
    The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796–1820 CE) has long occupied an awkward position in studies of China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911 CE). Conveniently marking a watershed between the prosperous eighteenth century and the tragic post–Opium War era, this quarter century has nevertheless been glossed over as an unremarkable interlude separating two well-studied epochs of great transformation. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand China has never been more pressing. Within one generation, the global giant has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse; yet conflicting impressions of the country and its leaders abound. In the fully revised and updated second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, China expert Jeffrey ... Read more

    $10.49 USD