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  • Wuhan

    How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control

    by Dali L. Yang ...
    The definitive account of the Chinese government's response to the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan. The Covid-19 pandemic, which began as an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019, has claimed millions of lives and caused unprecedented disruptions. Despite its generation-defining significance, there has been a surprising lack of independent research examining the decisions and measures implemented in ... Read more

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  • Yin Jiaqi and China's Struggle for Democracy

    In the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen incident, Yin Jiagi has emerged as a leading Chinese dissident and theorist of the Democracy Movement. This collection of essays documents his views on a range of subjects, crucial to China's future. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Child and Youth Well-being in China

    Series series Routledge Research on Asian Development
    The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance ... Read more

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  • Beyond Beijing

    Liberalization and the Regions in China

    by Dali L. Yang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    This book offers a balanced assessment of the dynamics and consequences of the decentralization of power and resources in post- Mao China. The author argues that decentralization has increased tensions amongst ethnic groups and unleashed much competition and emulation among local governments. This book is an authoritative study of an issue that will remain highly visible on China's political ... Read more

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    Wuhan

    How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control

    by Dali L. Yang ...
    Narrated by David Shih ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 18 min

    The Covid-19 pandemic, which began as an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019, has claimed millions of lives and caused unprecedented disruptions. Despite its generation-defining significance, there has been a surprising lack of independent research examining the decisions and measures implemented in the weeks leading up to the Wuhan lockdown, as well as the missteps that allowed the novel coronavirus ... Read more

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    Dispatches from a Quarantined City

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    From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-nineteen outbreak.On January twenty-five, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, her nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Chinese Economy

    The Driving Forces Behind Modern Day China

    by Rongxing Guo ...
    This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert from China offers a quality and breadth of coverage. In this book, the author provides an introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. The book sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods ... Read more

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  • Viral

    The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

    "Chan and Ridley write with an urgency...that inspires gripping depictions of what viruses are, how infectious-disease laboratories work and wonderfully lucid descriptions of bats. . . . They powerfully recount how dangerous pathogens can both leak from a lab and emerge in nature." (New York Times Book Review)Understanding how Covid-19 started is crucial for the future of humankind. Viral is the ... Read more

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  • The China Boom

    Why China Will Not Rule the World

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of Chinese supremacy ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World

    In March 2020, liberal democracy ground to a sudden stop.Like the Reichstag Fire of 1933, historians may never know how SARS-CoV-2 came about. For scientists, exploring its origins would be a rewarding endeavor if it weren't precluded by an immovable force-the jackboot of Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party.But while intelligence agencies spent months investigating the virus's origins, the world ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Understanding the Chinese Economies

    by Rongxing Guo ...
    China's economic growth has been more robust in some regions than others. In a country as large as China, examinations of regional differences can provide a viable way to learn about the economy as a whole. Rongxing Guo provides a systematic introduction to the economies of China by describing their external and internal drivers and by placing them within geopolitical and even socio-cultural ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    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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