China category: 3065 books
Contemporary China
Between Mao and Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a leading scholar offers a deeply informed assessment of China’s last decade—its debates and political infighting, its rising and assertive international profile, and the forceful initiatives taken by Xi Jinping, who is proving to be China’s...
China's Twentieth Century
Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century
What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in China’s Twentieth Century the country’s leading critic,...
Blessings from Beijing
Inside China's Soft-Power War on Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of China’s 1959 invasion of Tibet—and the subsequent creation of the Tibetan exile community—the question of the diaspora’s survival looms large. Beijing’s foreign policy has grown more adventurous, particularly since the post-Olympic expansion of...
The China Mirage
The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
"Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --Christian Science Monitor
James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made...
The Souls of China
The Return of Religion After Mao
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.
The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great...
by Yuen Yuen Ang
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world’s second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. In How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Yuen Yuen Ang explains...
Inside China's Grand Strategy
The Perspective from the People's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world power. Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic offers unique insights from a prominent Chinese scholar about the country's...
China and International Institutions
Alternate Paths to Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
China has shifted its foreign policy from one that avoided engagement in international organizations to one that is now embracing them. These moves present a new challenge to international relations theory.
How will the global community be affected by the engagement of this massive global power...
by Bob Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Culture Briefing: China provides current, in-depth information found in no other single publication to help you understand the culture, customs, values and beliefs of the Chinese people. Whether traveling to China, working on a class paper or doing business with the Chinese, you'll find Culture...
The Culture of Leadership in Contemporary China
Conflict, Values, and Perspectives for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The resurgence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism in the context of Chinese leadership values has emerged as a foundation for a new generation of leaders. The once-in-a-decade transition of China’s leadership witnessed the ascendency of a consensus-oriented fifth generation of leaders supporting...
US-China-EU Relations
Managing the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics.
Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future...
The Politics and Philosophy of Chinese Power
The Timeless and the Timely
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
This book provides a timely analysis of the politics, philosophy, and history of Chinese power, focusing on social, strategic, and diplomatic trends that have shaped China for over three thousand years. Chinese elites have used the past to inform the present, but have also mobilized new ideas to address...
In Manchuria
A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's legendary northeast territory. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming...
Contesting Cyberspace in China
Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have endured: no movement comparable to the Arab Spring...