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  • We Need To Talk About Xi

    What we need to know about the world’s most powerful leader

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Meet the most powerful leader in the world.Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery.From growing up with a father purged in Mao's Cultural Revolution and his mission to eradicate poverty, to his persecution of Uyghur Muslims and paranoia about being likened to Winnie-the-Pooh, Xi ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Achieve What You Want in Life: Manage Your Mind for Success

    by Michael Dillon F. S. S. M. Ph. D. (Hon) ...
    CHANGE HOW YOU USE YOUR MINDMAKE PERSONAL SUCCESS A FACTNOT A DREAM!Achieve what you want in life:-Using six mental laws for success.-Harnessing the power of your subconscious mind.-Boost your self-confidence and self-belief.'The author explains in a psychological context how the mind works and how this knowledge can be used to improve the quality of your life in many positive ways.'Chris Smith: ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zhou Enlai

    The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao

    by Professor Michael Dillon ...
    Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s.Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the most important events in China's modern history and was a close associate of both the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and communist leader Mao Zedong, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Mongolia

    A Political History of the Land and its People

    by Professor Michael Dillon ...
    Mongolia remains a beautiful barren land of spectacularly clothed horse-riders, nomadic romance and windswept landscape. But modern Mongolia is now caught between two giants: China and Russia; and known to be home to enormous mineral resources they are keen to exploit. China is expanding economically into the region, buying up mining interests and strengthening its control over Inner Mongolia. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Deng Xiaoping

    The Man who Made Modern China

    by Professor Michael Dillon ...
    One of the most important figures in global politics during the second half of the 20th century; Deng Xiaoping is generally considered the central figure behind China's economic liberalization programme that produced historically unprecedented growth rates and development beginning in the late 1970s. Lifting nearly a billion people out of poverty, Deng Xiaoping's 'Four Modernisations' called for ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Out of the Ordinary

    A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

    by Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka ...
    Now available for the first time—more than 50 years after it was written—is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915–62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • China

    A Modern History

    by Professor Michael Dillon ...
    In this complete guide to modern China, Michael Dillon takes students through its social, political and economic changes, from the Qing Empire, through the civil war and the Communist state, to its incarnation as a hybrid capitalist superpower.Key features of the new edition include:- A brand new chapter on the Xi Jinping premiership- Coverage of the recent developments in Hong Kong- Unique ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • China in the Age of Xi Jinping

    by Michael Dillon ...
    This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics, and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; and Taiwan and Hong ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power

    Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the Qing Empire, with considerable interest taken in it by the British and the Russians as part of their ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Chinese Minorities at home and abroad

    Edited by Michael Dillon ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these categories effectively.This book offers a new, and sometimes unusual, perspective on ethnic relations in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Chinese History

    Edited by Michael Dillon ...
    China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society and economy and increasing coverage of contemporary China in the media.Our ... Read more

    $580.00 USD

  • Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies

    by Howard Good, Berrin A. Beasley, Sandra L. Borden, Robert Brown, John Carvalho, Michael Dillon, Matthew C. Ehrlich, Joseph C. Harry, Lee Anne Peck, Bill Reader, S Holly Stocking, Joe Saltzman ...
    How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions-and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and the public alike worry that journalism has lost its way, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies is ... Read more

    $32.99 USD