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“cuifen weng”

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  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    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 a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

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  • No Wall Too High

    One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison

    by Xu Hongci ...
    Translated by Erling Hoh ...
    "The gripping and deeply moving account of a man's lifelong struggle to reach freedom, driven by an indomitable will to survive in Mao's China." —Xiaolu Guo, author of Nine ContinentsXu Hongci was a bright young student at the Shanghai No. 1 Medical College, spending his days studying to be a professor and going to the movies with his girlfriend. He was also an idealistic and loyal member of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Red Star over China

    The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

    by Edgar Snow ...
    "A historical classic" that brings Mao Tse-tung, the Long March, and the Chinese revolution to vivid life ( Foreign Affairs).Journalist Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936—and out of his up-close experience came this historical account, one of the most important books about the remarkable events that would shape not only the future of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jesus in Beijing

    How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power

    by David Aikman ...
    This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Emperors

    Power and the Princelings in China

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Emperors, the noted China expert Kerry Brown journeys deep into the heart of the secretive Communist Party. China's ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

    by Michel Cormier ...
    With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question the decisions of the governing party are strictly forbidden. In this fascinating account, Cormier ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • China's Rise in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Brantly Womack ...
    China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels—communist, non-Western, developing country—but whose internal logic remains a mystery to us. Arguing that it would be a major step forward in our genuine knowledge of China if we understood its internal dynamic, this innovative book considers China ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • China's Great Wall of Debt

    Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle

    by Dinny McMahon ...
    A stunning inside look at how and why the foundations upon which China has built the world's second largest economy, have started to crumble.Over the course of a decade spent reporting in China as a financial journalist, Dinny McMahon came to the conclusion that the widely held belief in China's inevitable economic ascent is dangerously wrong.In this unprecedented deep dive, McMahon shows how, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Imperial Bandits

    Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands

    by Bradley Camp Davis, Charles F. Keyes, Laurie J. Sears, Vicente Rafael ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three empires (the Qing empire in China, the Vietnamese empire governed by the Nguyen dynasty, and, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Social Ethics in a Changing China

    Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening?

    by Huaihong He ...
    Series series The Thornton Center Chinese Thinkers Series
    Over the past half-century, China has experienced some incredible human dramas, ranging from Red Guard fanaticism and the loss of education for an entire generation during the Cultural Revolution, to the Tiananmen tragedy, the economic miracle, and its accompanying fad of money worship and the rampancy of official corruption. Social Ethics in a Changing China: Moral Decay or Ethical Awakening? ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The China Reader

    Rising Power

    Edited by David Shambaugh ...
    The rise of China is the most significant development in world affairs in this generation. No nation in history has risen as quickly or modernized as rapidly as has China over the four decades. This sixth edition of The China Reader chronicles the diverse aspects of this transition since the late-1990s. It is comprehensive in scope and draws upon both primary Chinese sources and secondary Western ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • China's Tibet?

    Autonomy or Assimilation

    by Warren W. Smith Jr. ...
    This groundbreaking book explores China's efforts to assimilate Tibet, in the process rewriting Tibetan history to conform to Beijing's goals. Warren Smith provides the historical context for understanding the current situation through an overview of China's actual-as opposed to its promised-policies toward Tibet over time. His clear-eyed appraisal of Chinese policy convincingly shows that the PRC ... Read more

    $39.69 USD