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  • Heijin

    Organized Crime, Business, and Politics in Taiwan

    de Ko-Lin Chin ...
    This work examines the structure and illegal activities of organized crime groups in Taiwan and explores the infiltration of crime groups into the business and political arenas. It looks at the intricate relationship among government officials, elected deputies, businessmen, and underworld figures. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Counterfeited in China

    The Operations of Illicit Businesses

    de Ko-Lin Chin ...
    Counterfeiting tops the list of organized crimes committed worldwide, raking in nearly half a trillion dollars in 2019. The impact of this illicit business is felt by consumers, brand owners, state authorities, and workers, and it impacts the economy. Moreover, its proliferation has fueled the advancement of organized crime groups.In his illuminating study, Counterfeited in China, Ko-lin Chin ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Golden Triangle

    Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade

    de Ko-lin Chin ...
    The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Chinese Heroin Trade

    Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond

    de Ko-lin Chin, Sheldon X. Zhang ...
    In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control ... Leer más

    $42.29 USD

  • Going Down to the Sea

    Chinese Sex Workers Abroad

    de Ko-lin Chin ...
    In Chongqing, Ling Ling had been a waitress earning twenty-five dollars a month; a few years later in Hong Kong she was making six times that each day. Kelly taught preschool in Beijing for ten years before moving to LA and opening a brothel. These are just two of the eighteen Chinese women interviewed in this book about how they came to sell sex in Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, ... Leer más

    $19.98 USD

  • Selling Sex Overseas

    Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking

    de Ko-lin Chin, James O. Finckenauer ...
    2013 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Division of International Criminology, American Society of CriminologyEvery year, thousands of Chinese women travel to Asia and the United States in order to engage in commercial sex work. In Selling Sex Overseas, Ko-lin Chin and James Finckenauer challenge the current sex trafficking paradigm that considers all sex workers as victims, or sexual slaves, ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

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  • Out of Mao's Shadow

    The Struggle for the Soul of a New China

    de Philip P. Pan ...
    From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable transformation.Philip P. Pan's groundbreaking book takes us inside the dramatic battle for China's soul and into the lives of individuals struggling to come ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel

    Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China

    de Pin Ho, Wenguang Huang ...
    The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family -- the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo's secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo's supporters ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • China’s Crony Capitalism

    The Dynamics of Regime Decay

    de Minxin Pei ...
    When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” More than three decades later, China’s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people’s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing ... Leer más

    $32.79 USD

  • Madame Prosecutor

    Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity

    de Chuck Sudetic, Carla Del Ponte ...
    Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide and crimes against humanity head-on, struggling to bring to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • China Renaissance, The: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And The 18th Communist Party Congress

    de Writers, Artists And Editors Of The South China Morning Post, Jonathan Sharp ...
    Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party's 18th National Congress held in November 2012. While the conclave itself passed off with smoothly choreographed efficiency, the months leading up to this once-a-decade transition were anything but orderly. Intense factional wrangling behind the scenes was accompanied by scandals very much in ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Will the Boat Sink the Water?

    The Life of China's Peasants

    de Chen Guidi, Wu Chuntao ...
    The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900 million peasants. They are missing from the portraits of booming Shanghai, or Beijing. Many of China's underclass live under a feudalistic system unchanged since the fifteenth century. They are truly the voiceless in modern China. They are also, perhaps, the reason that China will not be able to make the great social ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD