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  • New Developments in the Trilateral Relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China

    by Dean P. Chen, Chi Fang, Karl Ho, Wei-hao Huang, Chien-pin Li, Chia-Yu Lin, Kuan-Chia Joshua Lin, Lin (Kirin) Pu, Robert G. Sutter, Austin Horng-En Wang, Stan Hok-Wui Wong0, Charles K.S. Wu1, Dr. Yao-Yuan Yeh3 ...
    Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections in January 2024. The incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a pyrrhic victory—with DPP keeping the presidential seat but losing the majority in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Congress). The political status of Taiwan is one of the few, if not the ... Read more

    $85.09 USD

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  • The Third Revolution

    Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful set of political and economic reforms: the centralization of power under Xi, himself, the expansion of the Communist Party's role in Chinese political, social, and economic life, and the construction ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Overreach

    How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

    by Susan L. Shirk ...
    Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • China's Gilded Age

    The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption

    by Yuen Yuen Ang ...
    Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Broken China Dream

    How Reform Revived Totalitarianism

    by Minxin Pei ...
    A provocative book that demystifies China’s great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country’s embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hopedWhen China embarked on its transformative journey of modernization in 1979, many believed the country’s turn toward capitalism ... Read more

    $21.59 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

  • 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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  • Fractured China

    How State Transformation Is Shaping China's Rise

    by Lee Jones, Shahar Hameiri ...
    Is China's rise a threat to international order? Fractured China shows that it depends on what one means by 'China', for China is not the monolithic, unitary actor that many assume. Forty years of state transformation – the fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation of party-state apparatuses – have profoundly changed how its foreign policy is made and implemented. Today, Chinese ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Difficult Choices

    Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life

    by Richard C. Bush ...
    How Taiwan can overcome internal stresses and the threat from ChinaTaiwan was a poster child for the third wave of global democratization in the 1980s. It was the first Chinese society to make the transition to democracy, and it did so gradually and peacefully. But Taiwan today faces a host of internal issues, starting with the aging of society and the resulting intergenerational conflicts over ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • China–Japan–South Korea Trilateral Cooperation

    Institution Building and Power Politics

    by Muhui Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book aims to review the history, achievements, and challenges of trilateral cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea in a systematic way. It offers numerous perspectives to explain the emergence of trilateral institution-building processes and the fluctuations of trilateral cooperation, and underscores three countries’ respective policy stances towards the building of the ... Read more

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  • China-US Competition

    Impact on Small and Middle Powers' Strategic Choices

    Edited by Simona A. Grano, David Wei Feng Huang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access edited book brings together a closer examination of European and Asian responses to the escalating rivalry between the US and China. As the new Cold War has surfaced as a perceivable reality in the post-COVID era, the topic itself is of great importance to policymakers, academic researchers, and the interested public. Furthermore, this manuscript makes a valuable contribution to ... Read more

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