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  • Suicide Jockeys

    The Making of the WWII Combat Glider Pilot

    by Monique Taylor ...
    On May 10, 1940, the Germans neutralized one of the most heavily fortified fortresses in Europe with a new weapon: the combat glider-an aerial vehicle capable of carrying men and equipment in close proximity to each other and crash landing behind enemy lines. The Army Air Corps soon established its own glider pilot program, but the glider pilots were not considered power pilots nor infantry. The ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • China’s Digital Authoritarianism

    A Governance Perspective

    by Monique Taylor ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a governance perspective on China’s digital authoritarianism by examining the political and institutional dynamics of the country’s internet sector in a historical context. Using leading theories of authoritarian institutions, it discusses China’s approach to the internet and methods of implementation in terms of party-state institutions and policy processes. This provides a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security

    by Monique Taylor ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Monique Taylor analyses the policy rationale and institutional underpinnings of China's state-led or neomercantilist oil strategy, and its development, set against the wider context of economic transformation as the country transitions from a centrally planned to market economy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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  • Chinese Industrial Espionage

    Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation

    by William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon, Anna B. Puglisi ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology.Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated an elaborate system to spot foreign technologies, acquire them by all conceivable means, and convert ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • E-government in Europe

    Re-booting the State

    Edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes.Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe:the degree to which e-government translates into genuine reform of government and public administrationthe dual role of the EU as ... Read more

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  • China’s Cyber Power

    by Nigel Inkster ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    China’s emergence as a major global power is reshaping the cyber domain. The country has the world’s largest internet-user community, a growing economic footprint and increasingly capable military and intelligence services. Harnessing these assets, it is pursuing a patient, assertive foreign policy that seeks to determine how information and communications technologies are governed and deployed. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • 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

    $28.49 USD

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  • Intellectual Property Rights in China

    Politics of Piracy, Trade and Protection

    by Gordon C.K Cheung ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement is so rampant in China that counterfeit goods - from general household merchandise, garments and media consumables to specialist products including pharmaceutical products and super computer chips - can be found in roadside stalls, markets, shops, department stores and even laboratory of leading universities. If allowed to continue these ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • IT Development in Korea

    A Broadband Nirvana?

    by Kwang-Suk Lee ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    This book investigates the contextual factors that led to Korean society becoming ‘broadband heaven’ — the most wired nation in the world — by scrutinizing the historical contexts surrounding the Korean Information Infrastructure (KII) project (1995–2005), which aimed to establish a nationwide high-speed backbone network, as well as its later evolution, which involved redesigning the public ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Huawei Model

    The Rise of China's Technology Giant

    by Yun Wen ...
    Series series The Geopolitics of Information
    In 2019, the United States' trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT) firm entwined with China's political-economic transformation. But the question remained: why does Huawei matter?Yun Wen uses the Huawei story as a microcosm to understand China's evolving ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Networking China

    The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy

    by Yu Hong ...
    Series series Geopolitics of Information
    In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China , Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realigning its ... Read more

    $14.39 USD