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“stephane corcuff”

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  • Memories of the Future

    National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan

    by Stephane Corcuff ...
    The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations. It addresses questions central to the looming international issue of Taiwan/China. Part one considers the historical events that help to explain the emergence and development of a separatist, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

    by Ezra F. Vogel ...
    No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist—the pragmatic, disciplined force behind China’s radical economic, technological, and social transformation. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Prisoner of the State

    The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

    by Zhao Ziyang ...
    Translated by Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu, Renee Chiang ...
    Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life ... Read more

    $14.99 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

  • The Myth of Ethnic War

    Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s

    by V. P. Gagnon ...
    "The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Rethinking Chinese Politics

    by Joseph Fewsmith ...
    Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems, political power is difficult to pass on from one leader to the next. Indeed, each new leader must deploy whatever resources he has to gain control ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Coalitions of the Weak

    by Victor C. Shih ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Marching Through Suffering

    Loss and Survival in North Korea

    by Sandra Fahy ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime.These oral ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping

    by Michael E. Marti ...
    China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping documents a turning point in the Chinese communist revolution that elevates Deng to a role equal to that of Mao. Dr. Marti explores post-Tiananmen domestic political wrangling and offers the first documentation of Dengs efforts to link all the major elements of societythe PLA, the Party, the revolutionary elders, and the regional governorsinto a coalition ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Two Systems, Two Countries

    A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong

    by Kevin Carrico ...
    As Hong Kong is integrated into the People’s Republic of China, ever fewer people in the city identify as Chinese. Two Systems, Two Countries explains why.Two Systems, Two Countries traces the origins of Hong Kong nationalism and introduces readers to its main schools of thought: city-state theory, self-determination, independence, and returnism. The idea of Hong Kong independence, Kevin Carrico ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Changing Taiwanese Identities

    Edited by J. Bruce Jacobs, Peter Kang ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
    The peoples of Taiwan have been influenced by many different cultures and migrations throughout the island’s history. In the 20th and early 21st centuries especially it has been a stage for cultural and ethnic conflict, not least because of the arrival of mainland Chinese fleeing the Chinese Communist Revolution. The subsequent tensions between those who see Taiwan as a natural territory of China ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • China's Party Congress

    Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation

    by Guoguang Wu ...
    Nominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining party policy and the selection of China's leaders. Guoguang Wu provides the first analysis of how the Party Congress operates to elect Party leadership and decide Party policy, and explores why such a formal performance of congress meetings, delegate discussions, and non ... Read more

    $43.49 USD