China category: 3065 books
Red Flags
Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise
Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China’s...
Ghost Protocol
Development and Displacement in Global China
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Even as China is central to the contemporary global economy, its socialist past continues to shape its capitalist present. This volume's contributors see contemporary China as haunted by the promises of capitalism, the institutional legacy of the Maoist regime, and the spirit of Marxist resistance....
by John A. Lent, Xu Ying
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
International Convention of Asia Scholars 2019 Book Prize – Best Art Publication
In the most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject, Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present as...
Encountering China
Early Modern European Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local traditions...
The Republican Party and the Rise of China
How an American political Party Helped Create Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
No man - or country - is an island, and China's emergence over the past two centuries was not solely the product of internal actions. In this ground-breaking study, David Petriello argues that out of all the catalyzing influences in the creation of modern China, none was more vital than the Republican...
Gender in Motion
Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies under...
China's Great Train
Beijing's Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
A vivid account of China's unstoppable quest to build a railway into Tibet, and its obsession to transform its land and its people
In the summer of 2006, the Chinese government fulfilled a fifty-year plan to build a railway into Tibet. Since Mao Zedong first envisioned it, the line had grown...
Ethnic China
Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale demonstrations. Why are minorities such as the Uyghur dissatisfied, when China is rising as a world...
South China Sea
Energy and Security Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
In South China Sea: Energy and Security Conflicts, foreign policy analyst Christopher L. Daniels analyzes the core causes of the dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea, which separates some of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Starting with the question of access to the billions...
Manchus and Han
Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
China�s 1911�12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown�the Qing�was that of a minority ethnic group that had...
by Albert Meltzer, Wat Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The republication of Albert Meltzer's The Origins of the Anarchist Movement in China is a major event. Outside of The Origins . . . Robert A. Scalapino and George T. Yu’s The Chinese Anarchist Movement (which does not go beyond the early 1920s, stopping short of the Shanghai Commune) and Olga Lang’s...
The Costliest Pearl
China's Struggle for India's Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them in a bid to extend the Celestial...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this informative book discusses why United States Special Operations Forces (USSOF) and its partner nation Special Operations Forces (SOF) in the Asia-Pacific region should prepare for expanded roles and responsibilities...
by Charles Horne
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Charles Horne wrote this essay about the Nestorian Tablet, a 10 foot tall medieval Christian relic in China that shows Christianity flourished in medieval China. Carven dragons and a cross adorn its summit, and its main shaft is completely covered with some two thousand Chinese characters. It stands...