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  • Combat Shaolin

    by Brian Klingborg, Gary Tang, Albert Loui ...
    Northern Shaolin is a complete martial art, with an exhaustive array of strikes, kicks and grappling techniques. Lai Hung, the inspiration for this book, is Northern Shaolin's most famous fighter, with numerous wins in full contact bouts back in the 1950's and 1960's, using very little padding and almost no rules. Combat Shaolin is the first time the famous two-person fighting form of Northern ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hong Kong Media

    Interaction Between Media, State and Civil Society

    by Chi Kit Chan, Gary Tang, Francis L. F. Lee ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the challenges to news professionalism and media autonomy stemming from the state, market pressure, the digitalization of communication, and a polarized civil society in Hong Kong. China is tightening its control over post-handover Hong Kong, which includes press freedom. Harsh market competition, coupled with shifting readership from mainstream media to digital platforms, is ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era

    Reassessing Collective Leadership

    by Cheng Li ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    Chinese politics are at a crossroads as President Xi Jinping amasses personal power and tests the constraints of collective leadership.In the years since he became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi Jinping has surprised many people in China and around the world with his bold anti-corruption campaign and his aggressive consolidation of power.Given these new developments, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Xi Jinping

    Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018

    by Alfred L. Chan ...
    Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the village level, he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and China's paramount leader in 2012. Few expected what would come next: a sweeping restructuring of China's political economy and political culture which included anti-corruption ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The New Rich in China

    Future rulers, present lives

    Edited by David Goodman ...
    Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • European Integration of Western Balkans

    From Reconciliation to European Future

    by Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    While most of Europe decided to unite in the 20th and 21st century, a country in the Balkans split into seven independent states. The efforts of these states to join the European Union and the reconciliation initiatives between the countries are detailed in this research paper. Despite the efforts of the countries of the region and of the EU, a lot of work is needed before these countries will ... Read more

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  • Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts

    Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China

    by Jeremy L. Wallace ...
    A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics-until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations

    by Winnie King, Chun-wing Lee, Kai-chi Leung, Shih-diing Liu, Yaling Pan, James Reilly, Sow Keat Tok, Benson Wai-kwok Wong, Chun Zhang ...
    Series series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredible rate. By the end of 2008, there were approximately 298 million netizens in China, a number which surpasses that of the U.S. and ranks China the highest user in the world. The rapid development of the online Chinese community has not only boosted the ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • State, Society and Markets in North Korea

    by Andrew Yeo ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia
    Under Kim Jong-un, North Korea has experienced growing economic markets, an emerging 'nouveau riche,' and modest levels of urban development. To what extent is North Korean politics and society changing? How has the growth of markets transformed state-society relations? This Element evaluates the shifting relationship between state, society, and markets in a deeply authoritarian context. If the ... Read more

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  • Contextualizing Occupy Central In Contemporary Hong Kong

    by Tai Wei Lim, Xiaojuan Ping ...
    In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity. The Occupy Central with Love and Peace in Hong Kong (September to December 2014) movement represents a significant event in Hong Kong's ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Policing in Taiwan

    From authoritarianism to democracy

    by Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang, Ivan Y. Sun ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    The police in Taiwan played a critical role in the largely peaceful transition from an authoritarian regime to a democracy. While the temptation to intervene in domestic politics was great, the top-down pressure to maintain a neutral standing facilitated an orderly regime change. This is the first monograph to examine the role of the police as a linkage between the state and civil society during ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Limits to the European Union’s Normative Power in a Post-conflict Society

    EULEX and Peacebuilding in Kosovo

    by Rok Zupančič, Nina Pejič ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
    By shedding light on EULEX - the EU mission to Kosovo – this open access book investigates the EU’s peacebuilding activities in that country, in the light of the normative power theory in the post-conflict setting and peacebuilding theory. Ten years after the massive engagement of the EU in the country torn by war, the authors critically assess the effects of the EU projecting its normative power ... Read more

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