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  • Xi

    A Study in Power

    by Kerry Brown ...
    'Kerry Brown's Xi is the perfect primer for understanding Xi Jinping's status as China's greatest ruler since Mao and as this century's least assailable statesman' John Keay, author of China: A History'A valuable primer for anyone looking to get up to speed on Xi Jinping's rise to global power' Jeff Wasserstrom, Guardian'Offers a nuanced and thorough explanation of Xi's ... ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Taiwan Matters

    A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future

    by Kerry Brown ...
    Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Contemporary China

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary States and Societies
    The fourth edition of this concise textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China's recent history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fully up to date, this accessible text examines key developments that are shaping China's place in the world today, including the Xi Jinping ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Holistic Guide for a Healthy Dog

    by Wendy Volhard, Kerry Brown, D.V.M. ...
    A complete revision of a ground-breaking reference.Designed to provide updated information found in the original book, as well as lots of new topics, and a new organization—this second edition is more user-friendly than ever!Readers will get the latest on:Healthful diets for dogs of every age and activity levelHow to modify your dog's diet to best meet seasonal needsNatural ways to keep your dog ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China Incorporated

    The Politics of a World Where China is Number One

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours?Here, one of the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership - as they lay out ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • China

    by Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Polity Histories
    China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Western ideas into the country two centuries ago, China's long march to global primacy has been above all an epic fight to renew an ancient country and culture.Leading Sinologist Kerry Brown traces this ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • CEO, China

    The Rise of Xi Jinping

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • China Through European Eyes: 800 Years Of Cultural And Intellectual Encounter

    by Kerry Brown, Gemma Chenger Deng ...
    China Through European Eyes provides a reader's perspective on the conceptualisation of China by Europeans over the last 800 years. With annotated excerpts of their key China related writings by influential figures such as Voltaire, Ricci, Leibniz, Montesquieu, Marx, Weber, Hegel, Barthes and Kristeva, this collection brings together the visions and ideas of individuals who had a unique impact ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • China's Dream

    The Culture of Chinese Communism and the Secret Sources of its Power

    by Kerry Brown ...
    The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this resilience, or, for that matter, what the Party itself stands for.China’s Dream is the first book to explore the Communist Party as a cultural, rather ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition

    Discover How the Pros Uncover the Facts and Get to the Truth

    by Steven Kerry Brown ...
    The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Private Investigating, Third Edition, private investigator and former FBI agent Steven Kerry Brown shares his hard-won expertise ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Taiwan

    History, the United States and a Rising China

    by Kalley Wu Tzu Hui, Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Ballot Box China

    Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Since 1988, China has undergone one of the largest, but least understood experiments in grassroots democracy. Across 600,000 villages in China, with almost a million elections, some three million officials have been elected.The Chinese government believes that this is a step towards `democracy with Chinese characteristics'. But to many involved in them, the elections have been mired by corruption, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD