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  • Beyond Power Transitions

    The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations

    by David Kang, Xinru Ma ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics
    Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian War, as chronicled by Thucydides, as well as the rise of Germany under Bismarck and the Anglo-German ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • China Rising

    Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

    by David Kang ...
    Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Nuclear North Korea

    A Debate on Engagement Strategies

    by Victor Cha, David Kang ...
    The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad," "rogue," even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and existing scholarly literature on North Korean policy and security, this critical issue remains mired in political ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Nuclear North Korea

    A Debate on Engagement Strategies

    by Victor Cha, David Kang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen years later, as North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles and the U.S. president angrily ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Nuclear North Korea

    A Debate on Engagement Strategies

    by Victor Cha, David Kang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Victor D. Cha and David C. Kang’s Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. It promptly became a landmark of an ongoing debate in academic and policy circles about whether to engage or contain North Korea. Fifteen years later, as North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missiles and the U.S. president angrily ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • East Asia Before the West

    Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

    by David Kang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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

  • Vietnam

    Rising Dragon

    by Bill Hayton ...
    An “enlightening and persuasive” (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian powerThe eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The History of China

    by Kenneth Pletcher ...
    Series series Understanding China
    China’s unmatched ability to reinvent itself over the centuries is perhaps its most timeless asset. Even in the wake of violent civil wars, Mongol invaders, and turbulent governance, China has endured and, in recent times, achieved a level of prosperity rivaled by few other countries in the world. The events that transformed China from an imperial nation to a superpower are chronicled in this ... Read more

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