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  • A Passion for Facts

    Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949

    by Tong Lam ...
    Series Book 9 - Asia Pacific Modern
    In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • China beyond the Headlines

    by Geremie R. Barmé, Susan D. Blum, Jay Dautcher, Harriet Evans, Howard Goldblatt, Lionel M. Jensen, Tong Lam, Timothy Oakes, Henry Rosemont Jr.0, Vaclav Smil1, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom2, Wei Jingsheng3, Xiao Qiang4 ...
    This unique book takes the reader Obeyond the headlinesO to explore a China few Westerners have seen. The authors argue that the great gap between what specialists understand and the general public believes has led to distorted and potentially dangerous misunderstandings of China. Seeking to bridge that gap, a group of prominent scholars and activists challenge readers to move past the usual ... Read more

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • What Does China Think?

    by Mark Leonard ...
    An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Perfect Dictatorship

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author concludes that under the new leadership of Xi Jinping, the system of government has been transformed into a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • China Wave, The: Rise Of A Civilizational State

    by Weiwei Zhang ...
    This is a best-seller in China and a geopolitical book for our times. As a leading thinker from China, Zhang Weiwei provides an original, comprehensive and engrossing study on the rise of China and its effective yet controversial model of development, and the book has become a centerpiece of an unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the world's most populous nation and its ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • End of an Era

    How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its Rise

    by Carl Minzner ...
    China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party political system, and on the surface, their efforts have been a success. But as Carl Minzner shows, a closer look at China's reform era ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • Getting China Wrong

    by Aaron L. Friedberg ...
    The West’s strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China’s rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • The China Questions

    Critical Insights into a Rising Power

    Edited by Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi ...
    “Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions… Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower.”—Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of ChinaAfter years of isolation, China is now center stage as an economic and global power, but its rise has ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • An Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder

    Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Sulaiman Hakemy ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang used his 2003 work Kicking Away The Ladder to challenge the central orthodoxies of development economics, using his creative thinking skills to shine new light on an old topic.Creative thinkers are often distinguished by their willingness to challenge received ideas, and this is a central aspect of Chang’s work on development. Before Chang, the received wisdom ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Asia as Method

    Toward Deimperialization

    by Kuan-Hsing Chen ...
    Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of deimperialization became impossible to imagine in imperial ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • What Does China Think?

    by Mark Leonard ...
    We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just thirty years, and that its impact on the global economy is growing at unprecedented speed. We have an image of China as a dictatorship; a nationalist ... Read more

    $15.99 USD