China Books

This picture album is a collection of nearly 800 photographs that 'objectively and vividly reflect the great and arduous course of development' of the People?s Republic of China. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the PRC, this album shows the course which the Chinese people have traversed, much of it against great odds. A great pictorial history of a fascinating country and an intriguing people. Indent only. (For this item please quote stock ID 16834)

This book presents a survey of rural and urban Chinese people examining the dramatic changes in traditional culture that have taken place, and documenting the nature of contemporary Chinese culture. Chu and Ju examine attitudes about family relations, social relations, job preferences and work ethic, organisational relations, community life, and belief systems. Although there remains some limited continuity with the past, mainly in family stability, the book shows how lifestyle and values in post-Mao China today reveal a radical departure from traditional Chinese culture. The authors discover that Chinese people no longer endorse the Confucian precepts of harmony and tolerance, nor do they submit compliantly to authority as previous generations did. They now demonstrate, in an environment of rising aspirations and mounting frustration, a new assertiveness, as seen in the tragic outburst in the Tiananmen demonstrations. (For this item please quote stock ID 5787) ISBN: 9780791416228

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After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and society explore the interpersonal consequences of rapid commercialisation. In the early 1980s, Beijing's communist leadership advocated decollectivisation, foreign trade, and private entrepreneurship to jump-start a stagnant economy, while explicitly rejecting any notion that economic reforms would promote political change. However, by the early 1990s the reforms in the marketplace not only produced double-digit growth but also enabled ordinary citizens to nurture dreams and social networks that challenged official discourse and conventions through millions of daily commercial transactions. Using participant observation, contributors to this book describe and analyse a wide range of these changing consumer practices: luxury housing, white wedding gowns, greeting cards, McDonald's, discos, premium cigarettes, bowling, and more. (For this item please quote stock ID 6288) ISBN: 9780520216402

This imaginative and incisive collection of pieces about life in contemporary China reveals, like a series of snapshots, a picture of the lives of ordinary people and the rules and rituals that govern their daily existence. Key themes surface: in particular, the emergence of a consumer culture driven by the market, and the way in which this intersects with the 'floating population' of vagrants, prostitutes, and liumang (hooligans). We see how, in turn, the official strategies of the state deal with this perceived social disorder and how the street responds. Underlying much of the discussion of contestation and transformation is the notion of human rights. There will be no better introduction to the discourses of contemporary China, and few more entertaining, vivid, and stimulating accounts of shifts in cultural life and politics. 'Michael Dutton is in the opinion of this reviewer the most gifted China analyst working today with poststructuralist methods and concepts' - Arif Kirlik, Duke University. 'Streetlife China is a well-researched and intelligent look at some of the losers of economic reform in China ... [It] provides a wealth of information on the darker side of the Chinese economic miracle, information available elsewhere in English. This is an aspect of China that, I suspect, will continue to grow in political significance and news worthiness during the next few years' - The Australian. 'Dutton has produced a book rippling with fascinating , sometimes bizarre, detail. It is yet another China. He puts it succinctly when he says it is "a story that begins in a back street and never really leaves it" ? - Panorama, Canberra Times. 'As always, there are two Chinas: the official and the unofficial. and while experts dissect every word that Beijing's bosses say, the ordinary Chinese on the street are doing what they've always done: going about the struggle of daily life, whether selling Mao badges or posters (regaining popularity), finding a life partner, or - for under one percent of the population, "an awful lot of people" - resorting to crime. Dutton's text is mesmeric in weaving these diverse backstreet threads into mainstream visions? - The Weekend Australian. (For this item please quote stock ID 6602) ISBN: 9780521637190

The Falun Gung religious cult has been in the news often over the last year. The Chinese government has been accused of religious persecution, denial of basic human rights and being heavy handed in the treatment of the Falun Gong followers. This book provides the official PRC response to Falun Gong and is essential reading for those who want to comprehend why the Chinese government has reacted the way it has. There are more than two sides to any story, and those who are serious about obtaining a balanced view will find this title confronting and polemical. (For this item please quote stock ID 8528) ISBN: 9787801482389

A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial conglomerate, became the richest village in China and a model for the rural reforms of the 1980s and early 1990s. A growing campaign of political resistance led to increasing tensions between the villagers and the Chinese state, and eventually, in an event that made headlines around the world, an armed confrontation between the village and higher authorities backed by paramilitary police brought Yu Zuomin and his village crashing down. Bruce Gilley is a contributing editor to the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and the author of Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite (California, 1998). (For this item please quote stock ID 15320) ISBN: 9780520225336

Media, Market, & Democracy in China is an astonishingly close look at the intertwining nature of the Communist Party and the news media in China, how they affect each other, and what the future might hold for each. How do market forces influence the media in China? How does the Party both introduce and try to contain the market's influence? How do commercial imperatives both accommodate and challenge Party control? To answer these and other questions, Yuezhi Zhao interviewed a wide range of scholars, media administrators, and media professionals. During five months in China in 1994 and 1995, she monitored media content, carried out extensive documentary research in Beijing, and held off-the-record meetings with Chinese media insiders. The first study of its kind to trace the Chinese print and broadcast media from the 1920s to 1996, this work will be must reading for students of journalism, mass communications, political science, and China studies, as well as for media and business professionals and policy makers who need to understand what's happening to China and its mass media (For this item please quote stock ID 15851) ISBN: 9780252066788

The Monkey and the Dragon tells the strange tale of Hou Dejian - Taiwan songwriter, defector, dissident and, in his latest incarnation, feng shui master. Hou Dejian was only 22 when he wrote the song that would become the anthem of the Chinese world in the 1980s and would change his own life forever. He was 26 when he defected to mainland, in a move that shocked his peers and sparked a debate on national identity in Taiwan, blowing open long-standing taboos. He helped save thousands of lives on Tiananmen Square in 1989. The Chinese government, fed up with his criticisms of the regime, literally shipped him back to Taiwan in 1990. Turning to the I Ching for answers to the many questions of his life, he developed his own system of feng shui, and by the end of the 1990s, had become a celebrity feng shui master. Linda met Hou in 1981, when she was living in Hong Kong as a journalist. They became close friends. When he defected, she was the only friend who was able to stay in close contact. Taiwan's Nationalist government suspected her of aiding his defection, and banned her from Taiwan for many years. After Tiananmen, Hou went toLinda's flat in Beijing, and she helped to get him into the Australian Embassy. His intended overnight stay became a 70-day refuge, when a fellow hunger striker was arrested. When Linda began work on this book, Hou Dejian gave her access to his papers, his family, friends and even the unlisted phone numbers of his enemies; he never asked to censor the result. The Monkey and the Dragon is a fascinating history of recent political and social change in China, and the story of a truly extraordinary friendship. Linda Jaivin is an Australian writer and translator living in Sydney. She is co-editor, with Geremie Barmé, of New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, and the author of the non-fiction collection Confessions of an S&M Virgin. Linda's novels include the international best-seller Eat Me, Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space, Miles Walker, You're Dead and Dead Sexy. She has written numerous works of short fiction, essays and journalism. Linda lived in Taiwan from 1977-79, in Hong Kong from 1979-85, and in Beijing from 1985-86. She speaks and reads fluent Mandarin. (For this item please quote stock ID 16071) ISBN: 9781876485917

Completely revised and updated, this book is an indispensable and manageable guide to the world?s most populous nation. Emphasising the period from the 1990s, the book covers politics, law, economics, foreign relations, education and population, and includes a chronology and a gazetteer. With an excellent selection of figures, diagrams and maps, this book will be the standard reference to contemporary China for students, teachers, journalists, travellers, academic and government researchers, business people, policy-makers and general readers. Contents: >Preface; Abbreviations; >1. Chronology >2. Politics and law >3. Eminent contemporary figures >4. Bibliography >5. Foreign relations >6. China?s economy (by Kevin Bucknall) >7. Population >8. Gaéetteer >9. The minority nationalities >10. Education. Key Features: >Information is comprehensive & up-to-date, emphasising the period from 1990 >Clearly arranged & easily accessible, including maps, figures & graphs >Includes politics, economics, population as well as education, culture & society (For this item please quote stock ID 16223) ISBN: 9780521786744

Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politbureau or an activist like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a democratic manifesto? Is China?s future to be found amid the boisterous sleaze of an electoral campaign in Taiwan or in the maneouvers by which ordinary residents of Beijing quietly resist the authority of the state? These are among the questions that Ian Buruma poses in this enlightening and often moving tour of Chinese dissidence. Moving from the quarrelsome exile communities of the U.S. to Singapore and Hong Kong and from persecuted Christians to Internet 'hacktivists,' Buruma captures an entire spectrum of opposition to the orthodoxies of the Communist Party. He explores its historical antecedents its conflicting notions of freedom and the paradoxical mix of courage and cussedness that inspires its members. Panoramic and intimate, disturbing and inspiring, Bad Elements is a profound meditation on the themes of national identity and political struggle. 'Ian Buruma is a powerful storyteller ... Bad Elements is the best book yet written on Chinese dissidents.' - The New York Review of Books '[Buruma is] one of the sharpest minds writing about Asia ... A brilliant examination ... impressively comprehensive.' - The Wall Street Journal '[Buruma?s] sharply observed and well-drawn portraits of obstinate, courageous and sometimes flawed people inspire admiration and compassion ... A vivid history of repression and resistance.' - The New York Times Book Review 'An intellectual travelogue that gradually circles Beijing before ending up there. Buruma has a good eye for the small ironies of exile.' - The Washington Post Book World (For this item please quote stock ID 17381) ISBN: 9780679781363

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Despite a savage landscape and climate, Xinjiang has a rich past: sand-buried cities, painted cave shrines, rare creatures, and wonderfully preserved mummies of European appearance. Their descendants, the Uighurs, still farm the tranquil oases that ring the dreaded Taklamakan, the world's second largest sand desert, and the Kazakh and Kirghiz herdsmen still roam the mountains. The region's history, however, has been punctuated by violence, usually provoked by ambitious outsiders - nomad chieftains from the north, Muslim emirs from Central Asia, Russian generals, or warlords from inner China. The Chinese regard the far west as a barbarian land. Only in the 1760s did they subdue it, and even then their rule was repeatedly broken. Compared with the Russians' conquest of Siberia, or the Americans' trek west, China's colonisation of Xinjiang has been late and difficult. The Communists have done most to develop it, as a penal colony, as a buffer against invasion, and as a supplier of raw materials and living space for an overpopulated country. But what China sees as its property, the Uighurs regard as theft by an alien occupier. Tension has led to violence and savage reprisals. This portrait of Xinjiang should be essential reading for travelers and for anyone interested in today's China and the fate of minority peoples. Christian Tyler is a former staff writer for the Financial Times of London. He has reported on industry, politics and international trade, and has traveled widely in China. (For this item please quote stock ID 23527) ISBN: 9780719563416

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Despite many predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain unity and gain international stature since the Tiananmen crisis of 1989. This volume addresses the ?fragmentation/disintegration thesis? and examines the sources and dynamics of China?s resilience. Through theoretically informed empirical studies, the volume?s authors look at key institutions for political integration and economic governance. They also dissect how difficult policies to regulate economic and social life (employment and migration, population planning, industrial adjustment, and regional disparities) are designed and implemented. The authors show that China?s leaders have retained authoritarian political institutions, but have also reinforced and modified them, constructing new ones in the light of changing circumstances. In policy implementation, China?s leaders have learnt by doing and made significant and effective adaptations to socio-economic policies. Institutional and policy adaptations together have helped shore up political authority and create an environment for rapid growth, while accommodating growing diversity. (For this item please quote stock ID 23812) ISBN: 9780521837309

~China's grain problem has been a hot issue attracting international attention since the beginning of the 1990s. The eleven theses included in this book have been selected from among over 400 on this topic. Written by well-known experts and scholars these essays, rich in content and information, provide many perspectives on the proposition that 'the Chinese can feed themselves'.

~Contents: >Fluctuation in China's Food Production >How Did China Feed Itself in the Past? How Will China Feed Itself in the Future? >Analysis of China's Food Development in the Early Phase of the 21st Century >Trade Liberalisation & China's Food Economy in the 21st Century: Implications for China's National Food Security >China's Present Food Supply Demand Situation, & Policy Suggestions >A Study of China's Food Security >The Long-term Trend for China's Grain Demand >China's Food Supply & Demand & International Trade >Is There No Oversupply of Grain? >Balanced Supply & Demand in China's Major Agricultural Products & Options of Supportive Policies >Scientific & Technological Innovation & China's Modern Food Security Strategy (For this item please quote stock ID 24083) ISBN: 9787119037479

Leading Chinese journalist Sang Ye follows his successful book Chinese Lives with this collection of absorbing interviews with 26 men, women, and children taking the reader into the complex realities of the People's Republic of China today. Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation from its founding as a socialist state in 1949 up to the present. The voices of people who have lived under - and often despite - the Communist Party's rule give a compelling account of life in the maelstrom of China's economic reforms - reforms that are being pursued by a system that remains politically rigid and authoritarian. Artists, politicians, businessmen and women, former Red Guards, migrant workers, prostitutes, teachers, computer geeks, hustlers, and other citizens of contemporary China all speak with frankness and candour about the realities of the burgeoning power of East Asia, the China that will host the 2008 Olympics. Some discuss the corrosive changes that have been wrought on the professional ethics and attitudes of men and women long nurtured by the socialist state. Others recall chilling encounters with the police, the law courts, labour camps, and the army. Providing unique insight into the minds and hearts of people who have first-hand experience of China's tumultuous history, this book adds invaluable depth and dimension to our understanding of this rapidly changing country. Sang Ye divides his time between China and Brisbane, Australia. His most recent book is The Year the Dragon Came (1996). Geremie R. Barme is a Professor of Chinese History at the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies at The Australian National University. He is the author of An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (2002), In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture (1999), and Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader (1996). Miriam Lang is a researcher and translator based at Monash University in Melbourne. (For this item please quote stock ID 25260) ISBN: 9780520245143

As the world braces for the next flu pandemic, the 2003 SARS outbreak now seems even more relevant as the harbinger of crises to come. The next great viral storm will likely emerge from Asia and could be more contagious than any respiratory disease since the catastrophic influenza of 1918. China Syndrome, an intensely compelling and unrivalled exploration of the first epidemic of the 21st century, explores how globalisation, coupled with rampant development, is ushering in a terrifying new chapter in the history of human health. When SARS broke out in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicentre of the outbreak. After vague, initial reports of terrified Chinese emptying pharmacy shelves and boiling vinegar to 'purify' the air in nearby Guangdong province, Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime. His taut, scientific thriller, in the tradition of The Hot Zone and The Great Influenza, takes readers on a gripping ride that blows through the Chinese government's effort to cover up the disease. Greenfeld deftly tracks this mysterious killer outbreak, from the bedside of one of the first Chinese victims to overwhelmed hospital wards crashing from the onslaught of cases, from cutting-edge labs where researchers struggle to identify the virus to the war rooms at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva. Infectious diseases have re-emerged as one of the globe's most pressing problems. In this thorough, revelatory account of SARS, Greenfeld gives us a crucial blueprint for how an epidemic evolves. China Syndrome will make you realise how lucky you are to be alive - and wonder how long that good luck will hold. (For this item please quote stock ID 26126) ISBN: 9780060587222

From multi-billion dollar investments in oil and minerals to the influx of thousands of merchants, labourers and cheap consumer goods, China's economic and political reach is redefining Africa's traditional ties with the international community. This book investigates the emerging relationship between China and Africa. (For this item please quote stock ID 28525) ISBN: 9781842778647

A brief description of the kinds of homes and property which Chinese people live in today. >Memories of Old Residences >Property Rights and Dreams >Pleasures and Worries >Community: Changing Homes, Changing Lives >The New Growth Rings of Cities (For this item please quote stock ID 28825) ISBN: 9787508510828

Contents: >Boundless Sea of Learning >Colorful Life >Study, then to Work (For this item please quote stock ID 28827) ISBN: 9787508510880

An accessible, authoritative single-volume narrative history of China from the earliest times to the present day, designed both to engage the general reader and to challenge the horizons of the China specialist. Modelled on the author's India: A History, this book is informed by a wide knowledge of the Asian context and acclaimed narrative skills. Broadly chronological, the book presents a history of China that includes the vast areas - Yunnan, Tibet, Xinjiang and Mongolia - which are left out of the usual dynastic histories. The book also examines the many non-Chinese elements in China's history - the impact of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity; the effects of trade, the nature of barbarian invasion. Major archaeological discoveries in the last two decades afford a chance to flesh out and correct much of the written record. (For this item please quote stock ID 29471) ISBN: 9780007257850

Robert Weller's richly documented account describes the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the 20th century. Indeed, both places can be said to have ?discovered? a new concept of nature. The book focuses on nature tourism, anti-pollution movements, and policy implementation to show how the global spread of western ideas about nature has interacted with Chinese traditions. Inevitably differences of understanding across groups have caused problems in administering environmental reforms. They will have to be resolved if the dynamic transformations of the 1980s are to be maintained in the 21st century. In spite of a century of independent political development, a comparison between China and Taiwan reveals surprising similarities, showing how globalisation and shared cultural traditions have outweighed political differences in shaping their environments. The book will appeal to a broad readership from scholars of Asia, to environmentalists, and anthropologists. (For this item please quote stock ID 25346) ISBN: 9780521548410

An oral history compiled by two Chinese journalists as they travelled through China. (For this item please quote stock ID 45)

Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist performing research at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist and an ardent member of the local Communist party. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life - Lu, and China. At Lu's insistence, Needham travelled to China where he immersed himself in the country's history and culture. For the next fifty-eight years, he established himself as the pre-eminent China scholar of all time, documenting everything from Chinese medicine to philosophy to nautical history, and formulating the belief that China would one day achieve world prominence - a belief that is being borne out today. By the end of his life, Needham had become a truly global figure, travelling endlessly and honoured by all except the university where he worked. And in 1989, after a fifty-two year affair, he finally married the woman who had first inspired his passion.The Great Secrets of China is Simon Winchester at his best - at once a magnificent portrait of one man's remarkable and passionate life, and a rivetting exploration of the country that so engaged him. (For this item please quote stock ID 30004) ISBN: 9780670913794

Memory Lane offers an insight into the initial stage, further development and current status of various social and economic aspects in China after the Reform and Opening Up. With amazing stories, authentic data and vivid pictures, it sets us on a journey to trace the development of various industries and reforms in China after 1978, revealing how the Chinese overcame the difficulties and obstacles, embraced or sometimes resisted the novelties, and benefited from the new social and economic developments. For example, the first TV ads, the first mobile phone, the first fast food restaurant, stock market, venture capital, retailer, Internet, insurance, environmental protection, architecture, English newspaper, etc. It would provide readers with a very informative and enjoyable reading experience. (For this item please quote stock ID 30821) ISBN: 9787802289277

All the things carried in our bags may pile up far beyond our limited memories, yet they often become cultural signs or markers of social, economic and historical changes. Bags and their contents in different periods depict the living standards as well as spiritual vision of the people. Revealing the economic and cultural development of society they serve to create a fascinating mirror of historical and living Changes in this vast country. Bags, entangled with the complex threads of recent history, produce a stream of apt images and anecdotes reflecting a dynamically changing China. (For this item please quote stock ID 31319) ISBN: 9787119055923

Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The contributors emphasize the complex interaction of state and society during this tumultuous period, exploring the way events originating at the centre of political power changed people's lives and how, in turn, people's responses took the Cultural Revolution in unplanned and unanticipated directions. This approach offers a more fruitful way to understand the Cultural Revolution and its historical legacies. The book provides a new look at the student Red Guard movements, the effort to identify and cultivate potential 'revolutionary' leaders in outlying provinces, stubborn resistance to campaigns to destroy the old culture, and the violence and mass killings in rural China. Joseph Esherick holds the Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies and is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Paul Pickowicz is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Andrew Walder is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and Director of the Asia-Pacific Research Center. (For this item please quote stock ID 26280) ISBN: 9780804753500

The State of China Atlas contains nearly 40 full-colour maps as well as sophisticated and eyecatching graphics that illustrate China?s key economic, political, and social indicators and illustrate the most important issues facing China today. For centuries the world's most populous country, China now has the fastest growing economy, which threatens to surpass the United States. The profound changes occurring in China are illustrated in this atlas, along with some clashes of priorities: between population growth and the one-child family; human rights and political stability; energy needs and the environment. Robert Benewick is a professor of politics at the University of Sussex, and the author of Reforming the Revolution: China in Transition and China in the 1990s. Stephanie Donald is a lecturer in media at Murdoch University, Western Australia. (For this item please quote stock ID 24400) ISBN: 9780868408330

This informative and up-to-date text takes a multidisciplinary approach in examining contemporary China. It provides students with a comprehensive analysis of a number of the social, political and economic problems that China faces as it enters the twenty-first century. The chapters cover key issues including: >critical developments in Chinese politics >uneven economic development >privatisation in China >environmental problems >demography and food production >ethnic minorities >cross-strait relations >socio-cultural issues. Critical Issues in Contemporary China reflects the many recent reforms in China and will equip the undergraduate with the analytical skills they need to study the critical issues surrounding China from contending perspectives. (For this item please quote stock ID 27192) ISBN: 9780415395854

China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lifeways not only of China's leaders but China's working people. It outlines the ambitious economic reforms taken since the 1980s and shows the complex responses to the consequences of reform in China today. It shows the domestic concerns and social forces that shape the foreign policy of one of the worlds great powers. It will equip the reader to judge media reports independently and to consider the experience and values not only of the Chinese government but China's workers, women, and minorities. (For this item please quote stock ID 27193) ISBN: 9781842777237

This book is part of a series that explores the daily life, traditions and beliefs of the Chinese people. Through the first-hand personal accounts the reader will learn about China?s history and its ancient cultures. They can examine the varied landscapes, the native plants and animals, and the diverse peoples of one of the largest countries on Earth. Special features include: First-hand personal accounts and viewpoints throughout the text Examples of Chinese and Australians working together on a range of projects Did You Know?(fun facts) For Your Information fact boxes providing additional or background information. Contents: China, a big country Chinese culture Calligraphy Chops Festivals Porcelain Yin and Yang Music Chinese opera Literature Film Painting Martial arts Kites Chinese and Australians working together Moving with the times (For this item please quote stock ID 29340) ISBN: 9781420224597

'Leads readers almost painlessly through an extensive tour of modern China's events and issues. This anthology is well planned and, with its extensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter, a useful guide to deeper study as well as a rich resource for acquainting readers with China ... a well woven and brightly coloured tapestry creating a kaleidoscopic and vibrant picture of China' ? Mary Karen Solomon, Education About Asia Understanding Contemporary China offers students a readable, well-grounded exploration of the most crucial issues affecting China today. Designed as a core text for 'Introduction to China' or 'Introduction to Asia' courses, it can also be used effectively in a wide variety of discipline oriented curriculums. Assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, the book begins with an overview of China's geography and cultural history. The authors then provide thorough analyses not only of the country's politics, economy, and international relations, but also of demographic trends, environmental problems, family patterns, the role of women in development, and religion and cultural expression. Each chapter provides historical context, and each topic is covered with reference to the latest available scholarship. All of the chapters in this third edition have been fully revised and updated to reflect the rapid pace of change in China. Numerous maps and photographs enhance the text. Robert Gamer is professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His publications include Governments & Politics in a Changing World and The Developing Nations: A Comparative Perspective. (For this item please quote stock ID 30066) ISBN: 9781588265944

Consists of a collection of comments from 17 world famous people in industrial and commercial circles concerning China?s reform and ?opening up?, and the development of China?s market economy and intellectual economy. It covers a wide range of subjects from business strategies to management and administration, market development, etc. (For this item please quote stock ID 17805) ISBN: 9787560018454

This is a concise and timely book on a hughely important topic - China in the 21st century. Peter Nolan argues that China is at a crossroads in its development. It faces a series of complex problems, most of which are the consequence of its rapid growth since the process of 'reform and opening up' began in the late 1970s. The way in which it responds to these will determine the pattern of development of the country for a long period ahead. Nolan explores the possibilities for China to build a civilised, socially cohesive society over the next few decades, during what is still the early phase of China's industrialisation. Among the challenges facing the leadership are issues of poverty and inequality, the global business revolution, the environment, the capability and role of the state, international relations, the Communist Party and the economy. Nolan shows that there are several paths that China could take in the coming decades, but he argues that the country has historically developed its own 'Third Way' between state and market and that this is the only rational solution to the challenges it faces. By making a success of this endeavour, China can contribute enormously to the future direction of the global political economy, offering an alternative to US-dominated 'free market fundamentalism'. Special Features: > Concise & timely book arguing that China is at a crossroads in its development > Written by one of the world's leading authorities on China > Explores the challenges facing China's leadership in the 21st century > Puts forward a concrete view about the course China should follow in the coming decades. (For this item please quote stock ID 22075) ISBN: 9780745632391

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors of China Wakes comes this insightful and comprehensive look at Asia on the rise. The recent economic crisis in Asia heaped devastation upon millions. Yet Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that it was the best thing that could have happened to Asia. It destroyed the cronyism, protectionism, and government regulation that had been crippling Asian business for decades, and it left in its wake a vast region of resilient and determined millions poised to wrest economic, diplomatic and military power from the West. Thunder from the East is a riveting look at a complex region, a fascinating panoply of compelling characters, and a prophetic analysis from arguably the West's most informed and intelligent writers on Asia. (For this item please quote stock ID 28088) ISBN: 9780375703010

'In comparing protest movements in Taiwan and the PRC, Teresa Wright sheds important new light on the dynamics of contentious politics in authoritarian political systems. The empirical information, based upon intensive interviews with participants, will be of interest to China specialists while the broader analysis raises questions with standard theories of social mobilisation.? - Elizabeth J. Perry, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University Drawing on interviews and little-known first-hand accounts, Teresa Wright offers the most complete and representative compilation of thoughts and opinions of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest. She compares this closely studied movement with one that has received less attention, Taiwan?s Month of March Movement of 1990. This theoretically informed work introduces for the first time in English a narrative of Taiwan?s largest student demonstration to date. Teresa Wright is assistant professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach. (For this item please quote stock ID 15595) ISBN: 9780824824013