Michael Dillon: 25 books
Politics of Security
Towards a Political Phiosophy of Continental Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought....
China
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
China's transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable -- and most controversial -- development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist...
Lesser Dragons
Minority Peoples of China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating, complex, and vital world of China’s national minorities. Drawing on firsthand fieldwork in several minority areas, Michael Dillon introduces us to the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Uyghur of Xinjiang,...
by Michael Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not...
Deng Xiaoping
The Man who Made Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Deng Xiaoping has generally been given the credit for the reforms of the late 1970s that put China on the path to spectacular economic growth and development, a process that has turned it into one of the greatest powers of the twenty-first century. His 'Four Modernisations' - reform in agriculture,...
by Howard Good, Berrin A. Beasley, Sandra L. Borden
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions—and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and...
by Michael Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and international...
Out of the Ordinary
A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Previously unpublished memoir of first transgender man to undergo phalloplasty.
Biopolitics of Security
A Political Analytic of Finitude
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory.
Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the...
Xinjiang
China's Muslim Far Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive...
China's Muslim Hui Community
Migration, Settlement and Sects
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This is a reconstruction of the history of the Muslim community in China known today as the Hui or often as the Chinese Muslims as distinct from the Turkic Muslims such as the Uyghurs. It traces their history from the earliest period of Islam in China up to the present day, but with particular emphasis...
Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century
Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority population,...
Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power
Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the...
by Michael Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First Published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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