China category: 3065 books
Science in China, 16001900
Essays by Benjamin A Elman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science...
Forgotten Vanguard
Informal Diplomacy and the Rise of United States-China Trade, 1972–1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The trading relationship between the United States and China, though now robust, was a recent and hardly inevitable development. Political animosity stemming from the Korean War and America's subsequent strategic embargo of China broke off economic and cultural ties. Following two decades of China's...
China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The need to understand China has never been more pressing. Within one generation, the global giant has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse; yet conflicting impressions of the country and its leaders abound. In the fully revised and updated second...
The Great Equal Society
Confucianism, China and the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Confucianism is the guiding creed for a quarter of mankind, yet hardly anyone has explained it in plain terms — until now. Written in a style both intelligible and enjoyable for the global audience, The Great Equal Society distils the core ideas of the major Confucian classics and shows how their...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United States proceed to withdraw their forces from Afghanistan, the inherent and preexisting geopolitical, security, and strategic challenges in Central Asia become ever more apparent. The rivalry among the great powers (the United States,...
China's Urban Space
Development under market socialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This unique collection of American military documents provides a special view of recent Chinese military and policy developments. Contents: China Shaping the Operational Environment - A Disciple on the Path of Deception and Influence * The "People" in the PLA: Recruitment, Training, and...
The Fall and Rise of China
Healing the Trauma of History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Today, China is a global power, home to the world’s fastest-growing economy and largest standing army—which makes it hard to believe that only 150 years ago, China was enduring defeats by Western imperial powers and neighboring Japan. For a time, the Middle Kingdom seemed like it was on the...
China's Mongols at University
Contesting Cultural Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Minority students in China often receive preferential treatment for access to universities. However, very little is known about minority student experiences and perceptions on campus after they are accorded what's called "meaningful access" to university.
The Mongols emerged as a...
Created in China
The Great New Leap Forward
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
This book examines China’s creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. Since the 1950s China has endeavoured to catch-up with advanced Western economies. ‘Made in China’ is one approach...
The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry
Making Silicon Valley in Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of...
by Roseann Lake
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future.
Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both...
by Simon Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
This is based on our full China Adventure Guide, which is 640 pages. It's designed to enable you to gain the most from China during your trip. All the major sights in the destinations covered are described, but so are little dumpling houses, lively markets, walks through narrow old streets, places to...
Marketing Dictatorship
Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China"
China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it is understood in Western terms. After...