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  • News Stories

    A Memoir

    by Peter Nolan ...
    The book is a memoir that chronicles my many years as a broadcast newsman from Niagara Falls to Chicago in the latter half of the twentieth century. A former Federal Judge and Governor gets out of prison,, a policeman on trial for trying to drown his son,, an alderman runs off with 100K in federal funds,, the death of President John F. Kennedy, The disappearance of Rosemary Kennedy, homecoming for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • China, Hong Kong and the West

    The World Turned Upside Down

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    This book analyses Hong Kong’s history from a long-run perspective. It examines Britain’s relationship with the city in the context of Hong Kong’s location within the Pearl River Delta and its strategic position within East Asia.Britain’s interaction with Hong Kong commenced in the 1830s. Britain was at the zenith of its economic, political, cultural and military power, while China was approaching ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • America’s Cold War against China

    Destined to Fail

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    This book discusses how the USA has launched a new cold war against China.Showing how this New Cold War can only be fully understood by analysing the long-run history of the East and the West, and the fundamental differences between the Old and the New Cold Wars, this book outlines how the New Cold War focuses on issues connected with China’s territorial integrity: Xinjiang, the South China Sea, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Possums and Bird Dogs

    Australian Army Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance Flight in South Vietnam

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Shit! I've been hit!'Captain Bevan Smith's inadvertent broadcast alerted the troops on the ground that a Viet Cong ambush had been triggered. The knuckles had been shot out of his left hand. Somehow he got the Sioux chopper and battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Alec Preece down safely, but his war in Vietnam was over.The story of Australian Army Aviation in South Vietnam begs to be told. The ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Is China Buying the World?

    by Peter Nolan ...
    China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies. ‘China's Rise' preoccupies the global media, which regularly carry articles suggesting that it is using its financial resources to ‘buy the world'.Is there any truth to this idea? Or is ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • The Political Economy Of Collective Farms

    An Analysis Of China's Postmao Rural Reforms

    by Peter Nolan ...
    This book examines the case for and against collective farms in developing countries. Basing his account on a careful analysis of China's rural economy from the 1950s to the 1980s, the author argues that collective farms have serious shortcomings and that they are not the most suitable institutional form for rural economic development in poor count ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Family of Origin

    A Poetry Collection

    by Peter Nolan ...
    In Family of Origin Peter Nolan is deeply aware of the power of words. He believes that 'words will never free us' in Letters to my Family but through his writing Nolan does attempt to become free, with poetry he can 'Disarm shared history'. With complete honesty he explores his relationships with his family members, where in remembering he can 'Immerse in a child's glorious laughter'. This ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • China in the Asian Financial Crisis

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    The widely held view of the Asian Financial Crisis is that it had no substantial impact on China. In fact, the country was far more vulnerable than most people realized, due to the high possibility of financial contagion entering the system from Hong Kong through Guangdong province. This book analyzes the severe policy challenge that it presented for China’s leaders.The crisis in Guangdong’s ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • China and the West

    Crossroads of Civilisation

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business power, and financial instability. Regulation of global political economy in the interests of the majority ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Finance and the Real Economy

    China and the West since the Asian Financial Crisis

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    The different approach taken by China and the West towards finance and the real economy rests upon philosophical foundations that have diverged fundamentally since the Ancient World. Since the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997–98 a tremendous transformation has taken place in the financial systems in both China and the West. China has persisted steadily with reform of its financial system but it ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Chinese Firms, Global Firms

    Industrial Policy in the Age of Globalization

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of ‘reform and opening up’ put into place since the late 1970s. China’s industrial policies have nurtured a large group of firms with high profits and a high market capitalisation. However, few people in the West can name a single Chinese firm. During the modern era of capitalist globalisation firms from the high income ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Understanding China

    The Silk Road and the Communist Manifesto

    by Peter Nolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    If the West wishes to understand China better, it needs to appreciate the depth of thought and range of debate that is taking place within the Chinese political system. China is entering a new and complicated phase in its development. From a minnow in the 1970s it has become a mighty player on the global stage. It is likely that its role in the global economy and international relations will ... Read more

    $70.99 USD