China category: 3065 books
The Anthropology of China
China as Ethnographic and Theoretical Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Putting China into the context of general anthropology offers novel insights into its history, culture and society. Studies in the anthropology of China need to look outwards, to other anthropological areas, while at the same time, anthropologists specialised elsewhere cannot afford to ignore contributions...
China's Quiet Rise
Peace Through Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Despite China's desire to make its rapid ascendance in the 21st century as non provocative as possible, the key to ensure China's peaceful rise lies in two-way integration and engagement. A closely integrated China with the rest of the world and China's acceptance of existing international norms and...
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China
Power and Politics in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. As the rebalancing of U.S. power towards the Asia-Pacific occurs, the potential for conflict has increased in the South China Sea (SCS) due to China's assertiveness. In response, the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Since the birth of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, American military strategy, foreign policy, and naval presence in East Asia, have all had a significant effect on the...
by Patrick W. Nee
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Welcome to the Making Money in China series:
The key to a successful business is knowing the markets. MAKING MONEY IN CHINA: CHINA BUSINESS GUIDE AND CONTACTS offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business in China.
Written as an...
Great Books of China
From Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Great Books of China invites readers to discover—or rediscover—some of the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. The literature of China remains largely unknown in the West, yet it offers much insight into Chinese life. The long continuity of Chinese culture means that texts created...
by Jim Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
While China rises to challenge the United States for world supremacy, Americans suffer from a seriously flawed perspective on past U.S.- China relations. America's view of the critical period when Mao Zedong rose to power is based on a fairytale. In that fable, the hero leads a popular revolution...
Emily Hahn on China
Chiang Kai-Shek and China Only Yesterday, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Chinese history is brought to vivid life by the “quintessential New Yorker narrator” and author of The Soong Sisters, who lived in China from 1935 to 1941 (The New York Times).
Chiang Kai-Shek: As the head of the Nationalist Party, Chiang led the Republic of China for over two decades from...
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
The Realignment of India–China Relations, 600–1400
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries. The unfolding of this transformation, its causes, and wider ramifications are examined in this masterful analysis of the changing patterns...
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Through a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to preeminence that is at once analytical and personal. How did a nation, after a long and painful...
by Edwin E. Moise
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
The past hundred years in China have seen almost continuous transformation and upheaval. From Confucianist monarchy to warlordism, from fanatically doctrinaire socialist tyranny to almost doctrineless social-capitalism, China has experienced political, cultural and economic disintegration, reunion,...
The Writing on the Wall
Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
The prevailing view of China is that the country is an economic juggernaut sure to become the dominant power of the twenty-first century. In this provocative and stimulating book critically acclaimed author Will Hutton warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from...
by Patrick W. Nee
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Welcome to the Making Money in China series:
The key to a successful business is knowing your client. MAKING MONEY IN CHINA: CHINA COUNTRY GUIDE FOR BUSINESSES offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business in China.
Written...