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In Jesus in Beijing, David Aikman recounts the fascinating story of how Christianity began in China (even predating Francis Xavier and the Jesuits), the bloody anti-Christian persecutions (especially under the Communists), the revival of an underground Christian movement led by brave men and women risking death, and the flowering of Christianity — though still under persecution—today with the result that China is actually producing missionaries to the world. While China’s Communist rulers hope to reap the social and economic benefits of Christianity without losing power, as David Aikman so provocatively points out, the Chinese dragon just might be tamed by the Christian Lamb. Few books change the way a reader views the world. Jesus in Beijing is one of those books. [Note: this title is from 'Regnery Publishing, the nation’s [the US] preeminent conservative publisher' and apparently takes much satisfaction from this fact] (ISBN:0895261286) (For this item please quote stock ID 26230) ISBN: 0895261286

China?s deepening reengagement with the African continent has been relatively neglected in academic and development policy circles. In particular, the concrete ways in which different Chinese actors are operating in different parts of Africa, their political dynamics and implications for African development as well as Western views of this phenomenon, have yet to be explored in depth. China Returns to Africa responds to this need by addressing the key issues in contemporary China-Africa relations. (For this item please quote stock ID 29220) ISBN: 9781850658863

In China?s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere, experts from Latin America, China, and the United States, as well as Europe, analyze the history of this triangular relationship and the motivations of each of the major players. Several chapters focus on China?s growing economic ties to the region, including Latin America?s role in China?s search for energy resources worldwide. Other essays highlight the geopolitical implications of Chinese hemispheric policy and set recent developments in the broader context of China?s role in the developing world. Together, they provide an absorbing look at a particularly sensitive aspect of China?s emergence as a world power. (For this item please quote stock ID 29221) ISBN: 9780815775539

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The China Directory 2005 is the most reliable and complete directory of China's leaders, with over 8,000 names and positions for key personnel in all levels of the Communist Party, government, research and educational institutions, and various commissions. Previous edition: 2004 32nd edition: ISBN 494763829X (For this item please quote stock ID 638) ISBN: 9784947638328

A new edition of the Constitution as adopted at the Fifth National People's Congress and Promulgated for Implementation by the Proclamation of the National People's Congress on December 4, 1982. (For this item please quote stock ID 1225) ISBN: 9787119000442

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In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its recent past and its propensity for continually looking backward in order to face the future. Using interviews and participant observation as well as close readings of official documents, propaganda materials, and popular media, Anagnost notes the discontinuities in the nation?s narrative?moments where this narrative has been radically reorganised at critical junctures in China?s modern history. Covering a broad range of issues relating to representation and power?issues that have presented themselves with particular clarity in the years since the violent crackdown on the student movement of 1989, National Past-Times critiques the ambiguous possibilities produced by the market, as well as new opportunities for 'unfreedom' in the discipline of labour and the commodification of women. Anagnost begins with a retrospective reflection on the practice of 'speaking bitterness' in socialist revolutionary practice. Subsequent essays discuss the culture debates of the 1980s, the discourse of social disorder, the issue of population control, the film The Story of Qiu Ju, and anomalies at the theme park 'Splendid China'. 'These are essays in cultural criticism of a type rare in the China field. They have the power to make one regard the everyday differently' ? Gail Hershatter, University of California at Santa Cruz. (For this item please quote stock ID 4098) ISBN: 9780822319696

A collection of work by the writers and artists whose ideas inspired the events of 1989. 'This is the single volume that every English reader who is interested in China should read' - San Francisco Chronicle. (For this item please quote stock ID 4279) ISBN: 9781852240561

Marianne Bastid?s important study on the work of Zhang Jian and the educational reforms in the last years of the Qing dynasty, 1901?1912. Bastid analyses the meaning of those reforms, considering their political, economic, social, and intellectual aspects. Includes nine texts by Zhang Jian and a new introduction by the translator. (For this item please quote stock ID 4311) ISBN: 9780892640621

The 'Asian values' argument within the international human rights debate holds that not all Asian states should be expected to protect human rights to the same degree. This position of 'cultural relativism', often used by authoritarian governments in Asia to counter charges of human rights violations, has long been dismissed by Western and Asian human rights advocates as a weak excuse. This book moves beyond the politicised rhetoric that has dogged the international debate on human rights to identify the more persuasive contributions by East Asian intellectuals. The editors of this book argue that critical intellectuals in East Asia have begun to chart a middle ground between the extreme, uncompromising ends of this argument, making particular headway in the areas of group rights and economic, social, and cultural (ethnic minority) rights. The chapters form a collective intellectual inquiry into the following four areas: critical perspectives on the 'Asian values' debate; theoretical proposals for an improved international human rights regime with greater input from East Asians; the resources within East Asian cultural traditions that can help promote human rights in the region; and key human rights issues facing East Asia as a result of rapid economic growth in the region. 'This volume should become the leading work in this important field. It should be required reading for all those with a serious interest in human rights and in East Asian Studies. It will also be of interest to those interested in 'globalisation' and the politics of cultural diversity' - Michael Freeman, Department of Government; and Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. 'To allow the West to define "universal" human rights seems wrong; to condone the abuses of authoritarians who hide behind "non-Western values" seems equally wrong. This judicious and multifaceted book addresses the difficult but vitally important area that lies behind these two intuitions: What basic human values are shared in today's global village? How can we forge from them common conceptions of human rights?' - Perry Link, Princeton University. (For this item please quote stock ID 4320) ISBN: 9780521645362

For almost two decades after Mao Zedong's death, an epic, no-holds-barred contest was waged in China between orthodox Marxists and reformers. With Deng Xiaoping's strong support, the reformers ultimately won; but they - and China - paid a heavy price. Here, Richard Baum provides a lively, comprehensive guide to the intricate theater of post-Mao Chinese politics. He tells the intriguing story of an escalating intergenerational clash of ideas and values between the aging revolutionaries of the Maoist era and their younger, more pragmatic successors. Baum deftly analyses the anatomy of the reformers' ultimate victory in his brilliant reconstruction of the twists and turns of the reform process. 'Baum demonstrates with this book his command of the Chinese political scene in a critical year of transition for China...Brilliantly researched and full of interpretative and nuanced insights into the leadership struggle, Burying Mao brings China into sharp focus' - Patrick Tyler, The New York Times. 'This is the right way to look at Chinese politics, in which power and personalities are much more important than ideology, which is regularly twisted to fit current needs...Baum excellently pinpoints how factions, the bane of Chinese politics, align and realign' - The Times Literary Supplement. 'In this highly readable book, Baum provides a fascinating and extremely detailed account of how Deng Xiaoping came to power, how he reversed Mao's policies and launched China on the path of economic reform, how he handled the complex interaction between the top leaders of the Party, and how he deftly preserved supreme power in his own hands...[Readers] will find much in the book that will help them comprehend developments in contemporary China' - Choice. (For this item please quote stock ID 4323) ISBN: 9780691036373

Here is a book of documents of democratic dissent under Chinese Communism, most of them previously untranslated and difficult to find in the West. Ranging from eye-witness accounts of a massacre to theoretical critiques of Chinese Marxist thought, these essays are among the most powerful and important works of Chinese dissident literature written in this century. An extensive introduction maintains that the documents reveal a tradition of democratic thought and practice that traces its descent to the New Culture Movement of the 1910s and the founding generation of the Chinese Communist Party. Far from being a late twentieth-century import (along with capitalist economics) from Europe, Japan, and the United States, this tradition of dissent is deeply embedded in the experience of China's revolutionary movements. The story of Chinese Communism has often been reduced to uniformity not only by political bureaucrats in China but by Western scholarship derived from official Chinese histories. Wild Lily, Prairie Fire paints a far richer picture. It calls into question many of the usual beliefs about the relation between democracy and communism, at least in the Chinese case, which may now be seen to depart from the Soviet model in yet another crucial respect. 'The core of this book is a brilliant 84-page introduction to the editors ... who seek to uncover a tradition of democratic dissent in the Chinese Communist Party from Yanan days to Tiananmen' - Choice (For this item please quote stock ID 4410) ISBN: 9780691043586

(Studies in Economic, Social, & Political Change, the Republic of China. More than 40 selected writings of Sun Yat-sen (1866- 1925), the father of the Chinese Revolution. (For this item please quote stock ID 5093) ISBN: 9780817992828

Deng Xiaoping's death marked the end of an era in contemporary Chinese politics. The first generation revolutionary leaders have gone, and the third generation leaders are genuinely in power. At the same time, economic reforms since 1978 have now reached a plateau, and a new impetus is called for to maintain the momentum of economic growth. Reform of the state enterprises is a good example of the situation. Each author deals with a specific policy area, and each chapter covers: >what has been achieved since 1978 >an evaluation of the policies and reforms so far with emphasis on what needs to be done in the future >what the plans of Chinese leaders on further reforms and future changes are, etc. (For this item please quote stock ID 5356) ISBN: 9789622017924

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Directed at both students and scholars of Asia, this volume collects essays by 10 major figures in the debate over human rights in the region. The essays treat the issues surrounding human rights, with a particular focus on the cases of China and Hong Kong. (For this item please quote stock ID 6291) ISBN: 9780195867817

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is an independent centre for research, information, and debate on the problems of conflict, however caused, that have, or potentially have, an important military context. Paul Dibb, formerly a senior official in the Australian government, and now head of the major Australian security policy think tank, provides a provocative analysis of how the Asian balance of power is changing. His tough, realist analysis warns about the risks to regional stability. He offers sharp insights into the potentials of the great powers, and in particular he worries about how the region and the wider world will manage the rise of China. Paul Dibb's policy paper is an antidote to the 'econophoric' analysis of Asia and a clear warning of the need to think strategically about the balance of power in Asia. His advice to 'middle powers' begins to offer a strategy for adjusting to what will be the major changes in the global balance of power in the next century. (For this item please quote stock ID 6436) ISBN: 9780198280699

Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals within the history of the socialist movement in China. Dirlik draws on the most recent scholarship and on materials available only in the last decade to compile the first comprehensive history of his subject available in a Western language. He emphasises the anarchist contribution to revolutionary discourse and elucidates this theme through detailed analysis of both anarchist polemics and social practice. The changing circumstances of the Chinese revolution provide the immediate context, but throughout his writing the author views Chinese anarchism in relation to anarchism worldwide. (For this item please quote stock ID 6470) ISBN: 9780520082649

How to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chinese citizens as it has been among foreign observers. This volume brings together 10 new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and offers a comprehensive framework for understanding the nature of Chinese national identity in past and contemporary settings. (For this item please quote stock ID 6474) ISBN: 9780801480645

In his first collection of writings to be published in English, Fang Lizhi, the world-renowned Chinese astrophysicist and human rights activist reveals to us the intellectual insights that allowed him not only to survive in China but, in many ways, to flourish in the face of powerful opposition. Fang speaks about topics as varied as student demonstrations, cosmology, Renaissance art, the history of science, religion and global citizenship. He talks about his explusion from the Communist Party and the future of democracy in China; he compares the social effects of the great religions; he explores the relationship between philosophy and physics; and he illuminates new theories on the frontiers of physics. (For this item please quote stock ID 6838) ISBN: 9780393308853

'Substantially contributes to post-Soviet era theoretical understanding. Strongly recommended' - Choice. In its careful reconstruction of evolving US positions on key issues in the relationship with China, this book is able to explain the change in American-Chinese relations after 1949 from hostility to rapprochment, and to the full normalisation of ties in 1979. The author goes on to examine the relationship after normalisation, a period in which the United States has come to view China as less of a challenge, but still resistent to certain of the norms of the current international order. Readership: Scholars and students of international relations, and specialists on US and Chinese foreign policy and politics. (For this item please quote stock ID 7097) ISBN: 9780198292920

The author, a well-regarded analyst of Chinese military affairs, has spent 10 years preparing this definitive account of the long simmering and occasionally bitter conflict between China and India, two nuclear powers who account for more than a third of the world's population. Both nations emerged from long periods of foreign domination and established new states at about the same time - independent India in 1947 which became the Republic of India in 1950, and the People's Republic of China in 1949. Both embraced socialist ideologies in hopes of quickly modernising their respective ancient cultures and eradicating widespread poverty. But despite this apparent ideological affinity, they have openly clashed over several patches of disputed territory along their vast shared boarder, in the Indian Ocean, and beyond. They have sparred repeatedly in the diplomatic realm after having established an intricate web of mostly competing geopolitical alliances and regional sympathies against the backdrop of the Cold War. The Dalai Lama's government-in-exile in the Himalayan foothills of India is only one of many flashpoints fuelling deep mutual suspicion, as is the recent flare up of India-Pakistan nuclear tensions amid the recent Kashmir crisis. In reflecting on the sweep of ROI-PRC relations over the last five decades, repeated efforts at rapprochement have collapsed amid eruptions of renewed rivalry. Over the decades, Chinese and Indian leaders and the analysts who advise them have also learned the rules of their rivalry, which has helped to moderate the persistent tensions. But deep suspicions persist. In the final section of the book, the author speculates on the conditions under which a qualitatively different Sino-Indian relation might arise. The growth of Chinese capabilities may lead to further expansion of Chinese ties with India's neighbors, and India may feel increasingly vulnerable and seek ways of countering China's advances. Unless India is willing to become a junior partner of China in the emerging world order, Asia and the world will likely see heightened Sino-Indian rivalry in the years to come. This comprehensive analysis of a half century of geopolitical rivalry will appeal to contemporary historians, political scientists, policy makers and military observers. (For this item please quote stock ID 7306) ISBN: 9780295976174

This book assesses current Chinese arms imports in the light of China's historical efforts to modernise its weapon-production capacity through foreign acquisitions. It considers the implications of these imports for future security developments in the East Asian region. It will appeal to scholars and students concerned with strategic studies, peace studies, and international relations; professionals, consultants, defence analysts, journalists, and policy-makers specialising in these areas. (For this item please quote stock ID 7428) ISBN: 9780198291961

This path-breaking book is the first full-length study of the rise to power of Jiang Zemin, now the central figure in China's 'third generation' of leaders. Tracing Jiang's beginnings as a student in the underground Communist movement in Shanghai through his appointment by Deng Xiaoping as party general secretary and his sudden elevation to central authority in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing, Bruce Gilley offers a fascinating and highly readable look at how Jiang Zemin has secured his position as one of the world's most powerful figures. Gilley follows Jiang's life and career from his early years as the adopted son of a revolutionary martyr, through his training in Western science and engineering, to his emergence as what many believed would be an interim figurehead in the wake of Tiananmen. Gilley shows how Jiang instead persisted as China's key leader following the death of Deng Xiaoping: While he shared the concerns of the last of the Party elders - including their idealistic views of Chinese socialism - he also accommodated the younger generation of economic reformers who have helped China to achieve staggering growth in its domestic economy and foreign trade. Gilley's analysis of the careful and methodical transition of power from Deng to Jiang during the 1990s is a remarkable study in complexity and contrast, clearly illustrating Jiang's ability to either placate his allies and adversaries or ruthlessly exploit their weaknesses. Based on first-hand interviews and primary documents as well as a variety of mainland Chinese and international media sources, Tiger on the Brink is an unprecedented and immensely revealing look into the highest echelons of Chinese politics on the eve of the twenty-first century, and will be of interest to anyone concerned with the world's most populous nation and its newest emerging superpower. (For this item please quote stock ID 7430) ISBN: 9780520213951

The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts at political reform in the Deng Xiaoping era. Merle Goldman describes a group of highly placed intellectuals who, with the patronage of Deng Xiaoping's designated successors Hu Yaobang and then Zhao Ziyang, attempted to reshape both China's Marxist-Leninist ideology and its political system. '[A] definitive study of China's dissidents...[Goldman] is the foremost Western expert on China's intellectual dissidents - especially writers - since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949...Whenever one seeks an explanation, Goldman furnishes it' - Jonathan Mirsky, New York Times Book Review 'Goldman selects about three dozen figures for careful study...Some of the subjects...appear in one of [her] two earlier books (Literary Dissent in Communist China and China's Intellectuals). The three books are similar in style, chronologically consecutive, and together make a comprehensive and shrewdly analytical history of the battles that have taken place over dissident thought in Communist China' - Perry Link, New York Review of Books 'The title of Goldman's new volume is misleading: the book is not simply a recounting of political reform (or its lack) in post-Mao China, but a fascinating account of how China's intellectuals sought to produce such reform in a sometimes favourable, but often hostile, environment. We learn an enormous amount from this book about who the important intellectual actors are in post-Mao China as well as about their views, activities, and relationship to elites and how each of these changed during the course of the era. Goldman's interesting conclusion is that China's intellectuals largely failed in their efforts to bring about political reform through the traditional means of appealing to elite sponsors and acting as the voice of the masses' - Journal of Interdisciplinary History (For this item please quote stock ID 7503) ISBN: 9780674830080

China's bold program of reforms launched in the late 1970s - the move to a market economy and the opening to the outside world - ended the political chaos and economic stagnation of the Cultural Revolution and sparked China's unprecedented economic boom. Yet, while the reforms made possible a rising standard of living for the majority of China's population, they came at the cost of a weakening central government, increasing inequalities, and fragmenting society. The essays of Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Paul Godwin, Murray Tanner, Lianjiang Li and Kevin O'Brien, Tianjian Shi, Martin Whyte, Thomas Bernstein, Dorothy Solinger, David Goodman, Kristen Parris, Merle Goldman, Elizabeth Perry, and Richard Baum and Alexei Shevchenko analyse the contradictory impact of China's economic reforms on its political system and social structure. They explore the changing patterns of the relationship between state and society that may have more profound significance for China than all the revolutionary movements that have convulsed it through most of the twentieth century. 'It is not often that a collection of essays by academics can be read with profit by specialists and laity alike. But The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms is an important exception. In dealing with what will be the most fateful politico-economic relationship of the 21st century - that between the United States and mainland China - most of the contributors write in unjargoned English. There is no better introduction to the complexities - Taiwan, human rights, military expenditures, economic reforms, trade - of U.S.-China relations than this volume' - Arnold Beichman, Washington Times (For this item please quote stock ID 7505) ISBN: 9780674654549

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Han Minzhu and her assistant editor, Hua Sheng - both writing under pseudonyms - present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement - flyers, 'big-character' posters, 'small-character' posters, handbills, poems, articles from non-official newspapers and journals, government statements, and transcriptions of tapes. Linked by a commentary setting the documents in the context of the movement's history and of Chinese social and political life, these expressions - indeed, cries of the participants in the passionate demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities - powerfully convey the atmosphere of this extraordinary protest. In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens, the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989. The editors believe that the underlying motivations, emotions, and aspirations of the prodemocracy demonstrators can best be communicated to those outside China by translations that aim as much as possible to capture the original words, tones, and rhythms of the Chinese people. This book is a unique collection of political and personal documents, and it is also a dramatic presentation of the movement. The lucid commentary, the arrangement of selections in approximate chronological order, and the use of photographs combine to create a vivid and flowing narrative. Beginning with the student discontent and restlessness that pervaded Chinese campuses in the winter of 1989, and continuing through to the violent suppression of the Democracy Movement in June with the army takeover of Tiananmen Square and arrests of activists, the story shows how moderate demands on the part of students grew into a mass antigovernment protest and resistance to martial law in Beijing. Highlighting the demands and goals of the protesters and the attitude of the students toward the Chinese Communist Party, the work movingly evokes the determination, idealism, courage, and flashes of humour that were the essence of this unforgettable spring. 'The book was carefully put together, as evidenced by the well-chosen photographs, careful annotations, and the very useful index...[The book] is an excellent documentary survey of the 1989 Democracy Movement, and one of the best collections in this field currently available in English' - China Information. (For this item please quote stock ID 7719) ISBN: 9780691008578

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This book provides an intriguing and unprecedented account of one of the most popular subjects in China studies today - the role of individuality in China and the extraordinary imbalance in the relations of the state and individuals. It should become essential reference reading for students and for academics. Contents >1. The State & the Individual (Pye) >2. Workers, Managers, & the State (Walder) >3. The Peasant & the State (Ash) >4. The Soldier & the State in China (Shambaugh) >5. The Intellectual & the State (Bonnin & Chevrier) >6.Youth & the State (Gold) (For this item please quote stock ID 8094) ISBN: 9780198289319

In 1949 Mao Zedong made the historic proclamation that "the Chinese people have stood up". This statement was significant, undoubtedly reflecting the changing nature not only of China?s self-perception, but also of its relationship with the rest of the world. In terms of reducing the imperialist presence of the West and Japan within China, and reasserting China?s territorial integrity and legal sovereignty to the outside world, Mao and China can indeed be seen to have successfully ?stood up?. However, the development of China?s position in the hitherto Western-dominated international system has been more ambiguous. In China Stands Up David Scott examines the PRC?s presence in the international system, from 1949 to the present, and also looks forward to the future, asking: How do we define the rise of China? How does China see its role in the world? What shapes China?s role? How do international actors view China?s role in the international community? Has China risen in any real sense? Engaging with a rich tapestry of sources and imagery, ranging from governmental, media, academic and popular settings, and bridging the divide between history and international relations, this book will appeal to students and scholars of both these fields, as well as those interested in Chinese politics and foreign policy. (For this item please quote stock ID 8097) ISBN: 9780415402705

The distinguished contributors to this volume present and interpret the intriguing relationship between China and Japan, covering the important issues - both diplomatic and economic - and considering the implications of current Sino-Japanese contacts for the wider world. This book should prove to be an essential reference for students and academics. Readership: Students and academics in China/Japan studies departments; anyone concerned to understand the Asian dimension of the current world situation. (For this item please quote stock ID 8154) ISBN: 9780198289326

Of interest to: academics and students of Chinese politics and history; political commentators; the interested general reader. (For this item please quote stock ID 8227) ISBN: 9780195060560

Set in the context of international human rights law, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of China's human rights theory and practice since 1949. Particular attention is paid to developments in human rights in the post-1978 modernization era, particularly in the period since the tragic events of 1989. It will appeal to students and scholars of law, politics, international relations and history. (For this item please quote stock ID 8802) ISBN: 9780195855210

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book. 'Impressive ... Rarely does one encounter such fine, readable scholarship on such a timely, complex issue' - Choice Nelson Mandela once said, 'human rights have become the focal point of international relations.' This has certainly become true in American relations with the People's Republic of China. Kent's book documents China's compliance with the norms and rules of international treaties, and serves as a case study of the effectiveness of the international human rights regime, that network of international consensual agreements concerning acceptable treatment of individuals at the hands of nation-states. Since the early 1980s, and particularly since 1989, by means of vigorous monitoring and the strict maintenance of standards, United Nations human rights organisations have encouraged China to move away from its insistence on the principle of noninterference, to take part in resolutions critical of human rights conditions in other nations, and to accept the applicability to itself of human rights norms and UN procedures. Even though China has continued to suppress political dissidents at home, and appears at times resolutely defiant of outside pressure to reform, Ann Kent argues that it has gradually begun to implement some international human rights standards. 'Kent combines primary and secondary research into a detailed case study that tells us important things about both China's relations with the external world and the strengths and limits of contemporary multilateral human rights institutions' - Jack Donnelly, University of Denver 'Ann Kent's China, the United Nations, & Human Rights is remarkable in that it provides both an in-depth analysis of China's human rights policy and its interaction with the various United Nations organs concerned with human rights, and an assessment of the UN human rights regime's success ... For all these reasons, and because it is so well written and researched, Ann Kent's new book is a much-welcomed, much-needed addition to the study of human rights and China' - Global Justice Ann Kent is an Australian Research Council fellow in the Law Program at Australian National University. She is the author of Between Freedom & Subsistence: China & Human Rights. (For this item please quote stock ID 8803) ISBN: 9780812216813

Grappling with enduring questions about the means of achieving power in the Chinese Communist hierarchy, this study analyses the rise of six individuals (Ji Dengkui, Peng Chong, Gu Mu, Yu Qiuli, Xu Shiyou, and Chen Xilian) who held positions of elite political power in the immediate post-Mao Zedong era. In a new preface, the author applies his hypotheses to China?s more recent political developments. (For this item please quote stock ID 9151) ISBN: 9780892640645

The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other. David M. Lampton, former president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, demonstrates that while the United States and China have enormous interests at stake in their bilateral relationship, neither has been particularly deft in dealing with the other. His fascinating account shows how the processes of globalisation, along with the development of international regimes and multilateral organisations, have brought America and China increasingly close in the global bed. At the same time, their respective national institutions, interests, popular perceptions, and the very characters of their two peoples, assure that the nations continue to have substantially different dreams. Lampton explores the reasons why the Sino-American relationship is so difficult for both nations to manage and suggests ways it can be more effectively conducted in the future. His unique experience in China - nearly thirty years as a scholar, as the head of a policy-oriented exchange organisation, and as director of Washington think-tank research programs - enabled him to spend extended periods with Chinese leaders and see them as they encountered America, as well as to observe U.S. leaders as they tried to come to grips with Chinese circumstances. Among many other key events, Lampton witnessed firsthand the aftermath of Tiananmen Square, successive congressional battles over most-favored-nation tariff treatment, the end of the Bush era and the rocky beginning of the Clinton administration, the death of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin's transition to power, the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, and the Asian financial crisis that unfolded from mid-1997 to the end of the decade. Lampton's careful documentary research is supplemented by interviews and accounts of his personal interaction throughout the period with leaders and key players in Washington, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. The book thus represents a singular combination of historical research, policy analysis, and personal observation, and offers guidance for those in both America and China who must shape this critical relationship in the twenty-first century. (For this item please quote stock ID 9152) ISBN: 9780520215900

This book constructs an interactive model of power to explain the relations of the central and provincial governments in reform China. Power in a context of interdependence flows from both sides. Unlike most previous analyses, Centre & Provinces: China 1978-93 argues that provincial non-compliance is partly the product of central policy as well as provincial choice. An adequate understanding of change requires full recognition of this mutuality of power and its manifestations. Compromises are struck amidst protracted conflicts and interdependence, resulting in a more institutionalised form of relations. Readership: Academics dealing with Chinese politics, political economy and history; Political scientists; Sinophiles in general and in trade, business, journalism, consultancy, and government. Postgraduates and 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates studying Chinese politics. Contents: >Introduction >1. Towards a non-zero sum analytical framework >2. Decline in central control over investment >3. Investment in Guangdong: central policy & provincial implementation >4. Investment in Shanghai: central policy & provincial implementation >5. Discretion & strategies in Guangdong >6. Discretion & strategies in Shanghai >7. Centre & provinces: interactive processes >8. Shifting central provincial relations: emerging trends >Appendix 1: Data collection >Appendix 2: Interview respondents >Bibliography >Index (For this item please quote stock ID 9534) ISBN: 9780198293613

'Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organisation chart. . .A major work that no serious student of politics should miss' - Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science. 'The best book yet in the 'doing business in China' category' - Nancy Langston, Far Eastern Economic Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 9716) ISBN: 9780691010755

Bringing together substantial essays by leading scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the politics of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the mid-1990s. The first four chapters are drawn from The Cambridge History of China, Volumes 14 and 15. The last two chapters have been written specifically for the second edition. Richard Baum's chapter covers the events of the 1980s, and Joseph Fewsmith's concluding essay extends the coverage into the 1990s. (For this item please quote stock ID 10401) ISBN: 9780521588638

'This is a collection of essays by prominent specialists about the prospects for regional economic and security cooperation in the Pacific. The conclusions vary, but two of the liveliest essays are pessimistic. The British scholar Barry Buzan argues that the defining feature of the region's international relations is a 'remarkable degree of political fragmentation and hostility'. He also says that there is little that binds Asia's states and societies together and much that divides them. He is particularly concerned about the potential revival of two historical patterns of conflict suppressed by the Cold War: Sino-Japanese and Sino-Indian rivalry. Buzan says that his pessimistic assessment does not mean that large-scale conflict or war is inevitable or even probable. But the escalation of military spending and arms rivalry is a real possibility and could occur in the context of regional hostility virtually unmediated by cooperative traditions and institutions. An Australian scholar, Joseph Camilleri, is pessimistic for different reasons, among them the growing economic tensions between the United States and Japan. David Rapkin, an American academic, focuses on the need for leadership in regional cooperation and finds that the United States has "failed to produce a coherent, let alone comprehensive, vision",' - Donald Zagoria, Foreign Affairs, September/October,1995. (For this item please quote stock ID 10412) ISBN: 9781863736053

The authors analyse the politics of the historic transitions of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan as well as the reunification policies of China. (For this item please quote stock ID 10741) ISBN: 9789622015777

When in 1989 Chinese astrophysicist Fang Lizhi sought asylum for months in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, later escaping to the West, worldwide attention focused on the plight of liberal intellectuals in China. In Science and Dissent in Post-Mao China H. Lyman Miller examines the scientific community in China and prominent members such as Fang and physicist and historian of science, Xu Liangying. Drawing on Chinese academic journals, newspapers, interviews, and correspondence with Chinese scientists, he considers the evolution of China's science policy and its impact on China's scientific community. He illuminates the professional and humanistic values that impelled scientific intellectuals on their course toward open, liberal political dissent. It is ironic that scientific dissidence in China arose in opposition to a regime supportive of and initially supported by scientists. In the late 1970s scientists were called upon to help implement reforms orchestrated by Deng Xiaoping's regime, which attached a high priority to science and technology. The regime worked to rebuild China's civilian science community and sought to enhance the standing of scientists while at the same time it continued to oppose political pluralism and suppress dissidence. The political philosophy of revolutionary China has taught generations of scientists that explanation of the entire natural world, from subatomic particles to galaxies, falls under the jurisdiction of 'natural dialectics', a branch of Marxism-Leninism. Escalating debates in the 1980s questioned the relationship of Marxism to science and led some to positions of open political dissent. At issue were the autonomy of China's scientific community and the conduct of science, as well as the validity and jurisdiction of Marxist-Leninist philosophy - and hence the fundamental legitimacy of the political system itself. Miller concludes that the emergence of a renewed liberal voice in China in the 1980s was in significant part an extension into politics of what some scientists believed to be the norms of healthy science; scientific dissidence was an unintended but natural consequence of the Deng regime's reforms. This thoughtful study of science as a powerful belief system and as a source of political and social values in contemporary China will appeal to a diverse audience, including readers interested in Chinese politics and society, comparative politics, communist regimes, the political sociology of science, and the history of ideas. (For this item please quote stock ID 10840) ISBN: 9780295975320

'A strong antidote to the growing sinophobia in the U.S.' ? Wall Street Journal Many see China and the United States on the path to confrontation. The Chinese leadership violates human rights norms. It maintains a harsh rule in Tibet, spars aggressively with Taiwan, and is clamping down on Hong Kong. A rising power with enormous assets, China increasingly considers American interests an obstacle to its own. But, the authors argue, the United States is the least of China's problems. Despite its sheer size, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military forces, China remains a vulnerable power, crowded on all sides by powerful rivals and potential foes. As it has throughout its history, China faces immense security challenges, and their sources are at and within China's own borders. China's foreign policy is calibrated to defend its territorial integrity against antagonists who are numerous, near, and strong. The authors trace the implications of this central point for China's relations with the United States and the rest of the world. Andrew J. Nathan is professor of political science at Columbia University. Robert S. Ross is professor of political science at Boston College and research associate at the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. (For this item please quote stock ID 11137) ISBN: 9780393317848

Nathan explored the roots of the Tiananmen tragedy in Deng Xiaoping´s ten-year reform. Nearly a decade later, China´s leaders have further opened the economy, reduced inflation, and generally improved the material lives of the Chinese people, yet they have not reformed its rigid political system. How will cultural values and attitudes shape China´s political development? What will be the impact of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the West? How does the burden of China's past constrain its options for the future? Drawing on ground-breaking empirical research, Nathan measures the expectations of individual Chinese and their attitudes toward government and democracy. From its considerations of the difficulties of cross-cultural studies to its sophisticated historical and political analyses that, for example, link human rights in China to the strategic interests of the United States and the rest of the world, China´s Crisis provides an accessible introduction, a journey into the intricate web of contemporary Chinese politics and a look at the possible future. (For this item please quote stock ID 11139) ISBN: 9780231072854

Joseph Levenson Prize for best book on twentieth-century China, The Association for Asian Studies (For this item please quote stock ID 11140) ISBN: 9780520059337

The demise of communism in the former Soviet Union and the massive political and economic changes in China are the stunning transformations of our century. Two central questions are emerging: Why did different communist systems experience different patterns of transition? Why did partial reforms in the Soviet Union and China turn into revolutions? 'This is an immensely exciting, sustained analytical effort...this book is quite likely to become a classic in its field' - Pacific Review. 'From Reform to Revolution makes an important contribution...and is likely to endure as a landmark study in the field' - Journal of Asian Studies 'The first comprehensive effort to compare the recent political experiences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China by tracing their overlapping and diverging paths of regime change...Very tightly argued and erudite' - Philippe C. Schmitter, Russian Review 'An outstanding scholarly work with a powerful argument, reams of relevant data, and a crisp, succinct presentation. It is among the very best of its genre' - Barrett McCormick, China Journal. (For this item please quote stock ID 11727) ISBN: 9780674325647

This work focuses on changes in Chinese university enrollment policies in the post-Mao era and traces the effects of these policies on secondary education, reviewing the role and nature of national entrance examinations and describing screening and preparatory procedures for secondary-level exams. (For this item please quote stock ID 11757) ISBN: 9780892640461

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This is a definitive and unprecedented survey of China's foreign relations since 1949. The contributors include leading historians, economists, and political scientists in the field of Chinese studies, as well as noteworthy international relations specialists. The principle purposes of the volume are to assess the variety of sources that give shape to Chinese foreign policy, and to explain and analyse four decades of Chinese interaction with the world. Readership: Academics and graduates of Chinese studies, and of international relations, international economics, and those interested in decision-making theory. Library acquisition for undergraduates. Business-people, research staffs and commentators seeking an analytical approach to Chinese foreign policy. Contributors: Wendy Frieman; Steven M. Goldstein; Carol Lee Hamrin; Harry Harding; Lillian Craig Harris; Harold C. Hinton; Samuel S. Kim; William C. Kirby; Paul H. Kreisberg,; Steven I. Levine; Barry Naughton; James N. Rosenau; Madelyn C. Ross; Philip Snow; William T. Tow; Wang Jisi; Allen S. Whiting; Michael B. Yahuda; Thomas W. Robinson; David Shambaugh (For this item please quote stock ID 12163) ISBN: 9780198290162

This is the first book to examine systematically the evolution of the Chinese state from the late Ming Dynasty of the seventeenth century, through the Nationalist and Communist party states of the twentieth century, and into the next century. Leading scholars carefully assess the internal organiéation of the Chinese state over time, the ruling parties that have governed it, the foreign and indigenous systems that have served as models for state-building and political development, and the array of concepts that have guided Chinese thinking about the state. Contents: >Introduction: The evolving modern Chinese state, David Shambaugh >1. The late imperial Chinese state, H. Lyman Miller >2. The Chinese state during the Republican era, Ramon H. Myers >3. The post-1949 state in the republic of China on Taiwan, Bruce J. Dickson >4. The Maoist Chinese state, Frederick Teiwes >5. The post-Mao Chinese state, David Shambaugh >6. The Chinese Communist Economic State in Comparative Perspective, Jan Pryblya >7. The Future of the Chinese State, Harvey Nelsen. Key Features: >The first book on the modern Chinese state >Of broad appeal to university students, the public, & scholars alike >Written by leading scholarly authorities in Chinese studies (For this item please quote stock ID 12517) ISBN: 9780521776035

In this first scientific survey of political participation in the People's Republic of China, Tianjian Shi identifies 28 participatory acts and groups them into seven areas: voting, campaign activities, appeals, adversarial activities, cronyism, resistance, and boycotts. What he finds will surprise many observers. Political participation in a closed society is not necessarily characterised by passive citizens driven by regime mobilisation aimed at carrying out predetermined goals. Beijing citizens acknowledge that they actively engage in various voluntary participatory acts to articulate their interests. In a society where communication channels are controlled by the government, Shi discovers, access to information from unofficial means becomes the single most important determinant for people's engaging in participatory acts. Government-sponsored channels of appeal are easily accessible to ordinary citizens, so socioeconomic resources are unimportant in determining who uses these channels. Instead, voter turnout is found to be associated with the type of work unit a person belongs to, subjective evaluations of one's own economic status, and party affiliation. Those most likely to engage in campaign activities, adversarial activities, cronyism, resistance, and boycotts are the more disadvantaged groups in Beijing. While political participation in the West fosters a sense of identification, the unconventional modes of participation in Beijing undermine the existing political order. (For this item please quote stock ID 12627) ISBN: 9780674686410

Democracy literally means ?rule by the people? in ancient Greek. The modern concept of democratic government sprang from ideas and institutions in medieval Europe as related to divine and natural rights and common law to restrain the arbitrary powers of kings and the Pope in the areas of taxation and religious belief. It evolved into a series of institutions and procedures to ensure representation of the citizen in the legislature, the freedom of speech and religion and the guarantee of individual rights. The author finds ?collective democracy? as practised in the People's Republic of China a departure from the Western norm. It does not purport to enhance individual human rights; rather, it aims at preserving and promoting a sense of community so that no one will be neglected in the process of political development and social reform and that there will be no self-centred boundaries separating members within the society. The book allows readers to appreciate and to develop a deeper understanding of legal and political reforms being undertaken inside China. (For this item please quote stock ID 12641) ISBN: 9789622018273

This is the comprehensive study on China. John Bryan Starr has thoroughly researched the changes in the country?s politics, military history, society, culture and China's notoriously vicious human rights policy. He looks at the challenges the country is facing at present and analyses how it can survive as one of the few bastions of communism in the 21st century. John Bryan Starr has written extensively on China, including. He has taught at the Universities of Yale, California and Dartmouth and was president of both the Yale China Association and the China Institute. 'An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country. Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations, Starr?s book is straightforward and unpretentious, like the presentations of an informed tour guide' - New York Times Book Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 12908) ISBN: 9781861971166

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Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that event, Chinese intellectuals were forced in the early 1990s to search for new analytical and critical frameworks. Soon, however, these same individuals found themselves engulfed by tidal waves of globalisation, surrounded by a new social landscape marked by unabashed commodification, and stunned by a drastically reconfigured socialist state infrastructure. The contributors to Whither China? describe how, instead of spearheading the popular-mandated and state-sanctioned project of modernization, intellectuals now find themselves caught between rapidly changing structures of economic, social, political, and cultural relations that are both global in nature and local in an irreducibly political sense. Individual essays interrogate the space of Chinese intellectual production today, lay out the issues at stake, and cover major debates and discursive interventions from the 1990s. Those who write from within the Chinese context are joined by Western observers of contemporary Chinese cultural and intellectual life. Together, these two groups undertake a truly international intellectual struggle not only to interpret but to change the world. Contributors: Rey Chow, Zhiyuan Cui, Michael Dutton, Gan Yang, Harry Harootunian, Peter Hitchcock, Rebecca Karl, Louisa Schein, Wang Hui, Wang Shaoguang, Xudong Zhang Xudong Zhang is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at New York University. (For this item please quote stock ID 16015) ISBN: 9780822326489

This is the most comprehensive, in-depth account of how Chinese foreign and security policy is made and implemented during the reform era. It includes the contributions of more than a dozen scholars who undertook field research in the People?s Republic of China, South Korea, and Taiwan. The volume addresses itself to policy-makers in both the public and private sectors, as well as scholars of China and international relations. It concludes that China?s foreign and national security policy making, as well as its behavior abroad, is largely shaped by the forces of globalisation, decentralisation, pluralisation, and professionalisation. But the book also shows how the enduring power of Chinese decision makers and their national interest focus also mould China?s behavior, notably in crises and in major strategic decisions. Looking ahead, the book suggests that the forces of change in the Chinese system offer the possibility, though not the certainty, that China may increasingly fit more comfortably into the international system in the years ahead, though not without frictions and mishaps. (For this item please quote stock ID 16428) ISBN: 9780804740562

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This is the first book to examine systematically the evolution of the Chinese state from the late Ming Dynasty of the seventeenth century, through the Nationalist and Communist party states of the twentieth century, and into the next century. Leading scholars carefully assess the internal organiéation of the Chinese state over time, the ruling parties that have governed it, the foreign and indigenous systems that have served as models for state-building and political development, and the array of concepts that have guided Chinese thinking about the state. Contents: >Introduction: The evolving modern Chinese state, David Shambaugh >1. The late imperial Chinese state, H. Lyman Miller >2. The Chinese state during the Republican era, Ramon H. Myers >3. The post-1949 state in the republic of China on Taiwan, Bruce J. Dickson >4. The Maoist Chinese state, Frederick Teiwes >5. The post-Mao Chinese state, David Shambaugh >6. The Chinese Communist Economic State in Comparative Perspective, Jan Pryblya >7. The Future of the Chinese State, Harvey Nelsen. Key Features: >The first book on the modern Chinese state >Of broad appeal to university students, the public, & scholars alike >Written by leading scholarly authorities in Chinese studies (For this item please quote stock ID 17323) ISBN: 9780521772341

China Since Tiananmen offers a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of China since the Tiananmen Incident. Fewsmith looks at intellectual trends to capture the way China?s elite has assessed the social, political, economic, and intellectual trends over the past decade. He examines the conduct of elite politics to see the ways in which the political system has evolved. Contents: >Introduction: state & intellectuals at the turn of the century >>Part I. Line Struggle Revidicus: The Attack on Deng?s Reform Program: >Tiananmen & the conservative critique of reform >Deng moves to revive reform >>Part II. Redefining Reform: the Search for a New Way: >The emergence of neo-conservatism >Post-modernism versus liberalism: the emerging gulf of values >The emergence of neo-statism & popular nationalism >>Part III. Elite Politics & Popular Nationalism >Jiang Zemin?s rise to power >Elite politics Key Features: >Offers an up-to-date description of the evolution of political leadership in China >Describes the causes & impact of nationalism in China >Relates the importance of these developments to Sino-US relations (For this item please quote stock ID 17324) ISBN: 9780521001052

China Since Tiananmen offers a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of China since the Tiananmen Incident. Fewsmith looks at intellectual trends to capture the way China?s elite has assessed the social, political, economic, and intellectual trends over the past decade. He examines the conduct of elite politics to see the ways in which the political system has evolved. (For this item please quote stock ID 17325) ISBN: 9780521806343

The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other. David M. Lampton, former president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, demonstrates that while the United States and China have enormous interests at stake in their bilateral relationship, neither has been particularly deft in dealing with the other. His fascinating account shows how the processes of globalisation, along with the development of international regimes and multilateral organisations, have brought America and China increasingly close in the global bed. At the same time, their respective national institutions, interests, popular perceptions, and the very characters of their two peoples, assure that the nations continue to have substantially different dreams. Lampton explores the reasons why the Sino-American relationship is so difficult for both nations to manage and suggests ways it can be more effectively conducted in the future. His unique experience in China - nearly thirty years as a scholar, as the head of a policy-oriented exchange organization, and as director of Washington think-tank research programs - enabled him to spend extended periods with Chinese leaders and see them as they encountered America, as well as to observe U.S. leaders as they tried to come to grips with Chinese circumstances. Among many other key events, Lampton witnessed firsthand the aftermath of Tiananmen Square, successive congressional battles over most-favoured-nation tariff treatment, the end of the Bush era and the rocky beginning of the Clinton administration, the death of Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin's transition to power, the reversion of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, and the Asian financial crisis that unfolded from mid-1997 to the end of the decade. Lampton's careful documentary research is supplemented by interviews and accounts of his personal interaction throughout the period with leaders and key players in Washington, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. The book thus represents a singular combination of historical research, policy analysis, and personal observation, and offers guidance for those in both America and China who must shape this critical relationship in the twenty-first century (For this item please quote stock ID 18186) ISBN: 9780520234628

'A magisterial account of democratic theory as it applies to our world of intensifying global relations and transnational networks ... I regard this book as indispensable reading for scholars and citizens alike ? a comprehensive rethinking and remapping of the terrain of democracy' ? Richard Falk, Princeton University. 'A timely exhortation that we need to continually reassess where our thinking (or lack of thinking) has taken us and where we are likely to go as a world society if we are not vigilant! An important book for philosophers, scientists, business leaders, politicians, in short, anyone who is concerned about the fate of mankind if it is left at the mercy of a simplistic world view' ? Northeastern Naturalist. (For this item please quote stock ID 18387) ISBN: 9780804726870

Mending Fences illuminates the forces driving Moscow's China policy, from the Ussuri River clashes in 1969 to the 'strategic partnership' of the 1990s. Elizabeth Wishnick, noted expert on the Russia and China, analyses the efforts of Soviet leaders simultaneously to maintain their supremacy in the international communist movement, defend their borders from a perceived China threat, and insure the compliance of regional authorities in enforcing China policy. Although a consensus in favor of containing China prevailed within the Moscow policy community throughout the 1970s, by the early 1980s debates emerged between members of the 'containment coalition' and their reform-minded colleagues who argued for greater trade and other contacts with the Chinese. Major shifts in China policy came with changes in the Soviet leadership, most notably in the mid-1980s. Parallel reform efforts in the two countries facilitated a rapprochement, which culminated in a dramatic summit meeting in May 1989 in Beijing, just as student demonstrations enveloped the Chinese capital. After years of confrontation, Soviet and Chinese leaders struggled to insulate their renewed friendship from a series of domestic upheavals, from Tiananmen Square to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the post-Soviet era, as many Russians became disenchanted with Western models of market-democracy and with their country's sharply curtailed role in international affairs, the Yeltsin administration touted a growing 'strategic partnership' with China. Wishnick outlines the successes of Russian-Chinese co-operation and analyses the main barriers to full-scale partnership, including historical grievances, limited economic ties, tensions in regional relations. Despite ongoing efforts by Russian and Chinese leaders to resolve these issues, she concludes that the future of the Sino-Russian partnership will depend on an unpredictable interplay of forces of domestic and international change. Mending Fences is the result of a decade of research in Moscow, Beijing, and the regions along the Russo-Chinese border. Fluent in Russian and Chinese, the author has drawn on recently declassified documents from the archives of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, the Soviet Foreign Ministry, the KGB, and the Khabarovsk Regional Communist Party; numerous interviews with influential Russian and Chinese officials and scholars; and regional and national periodicals and books from both Russia and China. The first work in recent years to analyze Russian-Chinese relations from Moscow's perspective, Mending Fences is a necessary addition to the literature on the late Cold-War era and the strategic triangle between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China. It provides critical new insights for policymakers, scholars, and other analysts of post-Cold-War foreign policy who are seeking to understand and respond to patterns of great power relations in Northeast Asia. As a significant case study of the politics of foreign policymaking, the book will be of great value to readers with a general interest in international relations, as well as to specialists in Russian and Chinese studies. (For this item please quote stock ID 18407) ISBN: 9780295981284

This comprehensive book is an overview of security issues in the Asia-Pacific. It is also an argument for a strategy that promises to achieve greater regional stability. It argues that current approaches by policy-makers increase the likelihood of conflict. Instead, it proposes that a strategy of 'convergent security' be adopted to build a more enduring and peaceful regional security framework. A concise survey of key approaches to regional security politics, it presents a vast selection of empirical discussion, both historical and current. Assessing the outlook for the three powers most likely to vie for regional dominance - the United States, China and Japan - the book also reviews the prospects for other secondary powers, including Korea and Taiwan and analyses the role of Australia and the ASEAN nations of Southeast Asia. Unique, accessible, authoritative and broad-ranging survey designed for a wide body of analysts and students of contemporary Asian politics and strategy. (For this item please quote stock ID 18694) ISBN: 9780521003681

This comprehensive book is an overview of security issues in the Asia-Pacific. It is also an argument for a strategy that promises to achieve greater regional stability. It argues that current approaches by policy-makers increase the likelihood of conflict. Instead, it proposes that a strategy of 'convergent security' be adopted to build a more enduring and peaceful regional security framework. (For this item please quote stock ID 18695) ISBN: 9780521807906

In a fast-moving and incisive narrative, Roger Buckley examines America's close and continuous relationship with the Asia-Pacific region from the end of the Pacific War to the first days of the Presidency of George W. Bush. The author traces the responses of the United States government to the major crises in the area through the Cold War decades and the initial post-Cold War years. He demonstrates how the US sought to maintain its dominant regional position through a series of security alliances and its own political, military and economic strengths. Professor Buckley examines the subject from geopolitical perspectives to provide a gateway to the understanding of a complex region certain to be of global importance in the twenty-first century. (For this item please quote stock ID 18696) ISBN: 9780521007252

In a fast-moving and incisive narrative, Roger Buckley examines America's close and continuous relationship with the Asia-Pacific region from the end of the Pacific War to the first days of the Presidency of George W. Bush. The author traces the responses of the United States government to the major crises in the area through the Cold War decades and the initial post-Cold War years. (For this item please quote stock ID 18697) ISBN: 9780521809641

It has become a truism that continued economic reform in China will contribute to political change. Policy makers as well as many scholars expect that formation of a private sector will lead, directly or indirectly through the emergence of a civil society, to political change and ultimately democratization. The rapidly growing numbers of private entrepreneurs, the formation of business associations, and the cooperative relationships between entrepreneurs and local officials are seen as initial indicators of a transition from China's still nominally communist political system. This book focuses on two related issues: whether the Chinese Communist Party is willing and able to adapt to the economic environment its reforms are bringing about, and whether China's 'red capitalists', private entrepreneurs who also belong to the communist party, are likely to be agents of political change. (For this item please quote stock ID 18699) ISBN: 9780521521437

The important concept of the Three Represents - the Communist Party of China representing the requirement of the development of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of the development of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people - is a penetrating inference and scientific conclusion made by Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC. This collection of 12 Jiang Zemin speeches begins with How to Attain what the Three Represents Requires of our Party Under the New Historical Conditions and ends with Speech at the Rally in Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China. Some of these speeches are published here for the first time. All articles have been checked and approved by the author himself. (For this item please quote stock ID 19168) ISBN: 9780000000002

A collaborative effort by scholars from the United States, China, and Japan, this volume focuses on the period 1972-1989, during which all three countries, brought together by a shared geopolitical strategy, established mutual relations with one another despite differences in their histories, values, and perceptions of their own national interest. Although each initially conceived of its political and security relations with the others in bilateral terms, the three in fact came to form an economic and political triangle during the 1970s and 1980s. But this triangle is a strange one whose dynamics are constantly changing. Its corners (the three countries) and its sides (the three bilateral relationships) are unequal, while its overall nature (the capacity of the three to work together) has varied considerably as the economic and strategic positions of the three have changed and Post-Cold War tensions and uncertainties have emerged. In considering this special era, when the three major powers in the East Asia region engaged in positive interaction, the essays in this volume highlight the importance of this triangular reality in achieving a workable framework for future regional and global cooperation. (For this item please quote stock ID 19172) ISBN: 9780674009608

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What should we make of claims by members of other groups to have moralities different from our own? Human Rights in Chinese Thought gives an extended answer to this question in the first study of its kind. It integrates a full account of the development of Chinese rights discourse - reaching back to important, though neglected, origins of that discourse in 17th and 18th century Confucianism - with philosophical consideration of how various communities should respond to contemporary Chinese claims about the uniqueness of their human rights concepts. The book elaborates a plausible kind of moral pluralism and demonstrates that Chinese ideas of human rights do indeed have distinctive characteristics, but it nonetheless argues for the importance and promise of cross-cultural moral engagement. Features: >Combines philosophical argument with sinological scholarship in a way that is accessible to those interested in cross-cultural moral issues or in China >Provides the first account of Chinese rights discourse that recognises its debts to 17th & 18th century Confucianism >Engages in concrete, cross-cultural dialogue, suggesting specific ways in which Western & Chinese rights theorists can learn from one another Contents: >Introduction >Languages, concepts, & pluralism >The consequences of pluralism >The shift toward legitimate desires in neo-Confucianism >Nineteenth century origins >Dynamism in the early 20th century >Change, continuity, & convergence prior to 1949 >Engagement despite distinctiveness; 9. Conclusions. (For this item please quote stock ID 20010) ISBN: 9780521007528

David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly focused on the rise of Chinese military power. Basing his analysis on an unprecedented use of Chinese military publications and interviews with People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, Shambaugh addresses important questions about Chinese strategic intentions and military capabilities - questions that are of key concern for government policymakers as well as strategic analysts and a concerned public. 'David Shambaugh gives a lucid, comprehensive, and objective account of the substantial growth this past decade in the PLA. He includes an insightful summary of more than a century's history of the Chinese military as a basis for explaining many of the problems the PLA has had, and will continue to have, in its modernisation. This should be read by those responsible for our national security as well as scholars of contemporary China' - William Perry, former United States Secretary of Defense and currently Professor at Stanford University. (For this item please quote stock ID 20193) ISBN: 9780520225077

The financial burden imposed upon the Chinese farmer by local taxes has become a major source of discontent in the Chinese countryside and a worrisome source of political and social instability for the Chinese government. Bernstein and Lü examine the forms and sources of heavy, informal taxation, and shed light on how peasants defend their interests by adopting strategies of collective resistance (both peaceful and violent). Bernstein and Lü also explain why the central government, while often siding with the peasants, has not been able to solve the burden problem by instituting a sound, reliable financial system in the countryside. While the regime has, to some extent, sought to empower farmers to defend their interests - by informing them about tax rules, expanding the legal system, and instituting village elections, for example, these attempts have not yet generated enough power from ?below? to counter powerful, local official agencies. Contents >1.Introduction >2.Peasants & taxation in historical perspective >3.Extracting funds from the peasants >4.Institutional sources of informal tax burdens >5.Burdens & resistance: peasant collective action >6.Containing burdens: change & persistence >7.Burden reduction: village democratisation & farmer national interest representation >8.Conclusions. (For this item please quote stock ID 20331) ISBN: 9780521813181

Contents: >Build a Well-off Society in an All-Round Way & Create a New Situation in Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics >Report to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China >Resolution of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Report of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China >Constitution of the Communist Party of China >Resolution of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Amendment to the Constitution of the Communist Party of China >Work Report of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to the 16th Party National Congress >Resolution of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on the Work Report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection >List of Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China >List of the Alternate Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China >List of Members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China >Communique of the First Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China >Profiles of Members of the Leading Organs of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (For this item please quote stock ID 20349) ISBN: 9787119032269

This volume looks at the development of Chinese-European relations since China embarked on its open policy and the European Union evolved into the major economic and political force in Europe. The papers suggest that political communication has not significantly modified Europe?s relations with China and that both Europe and China tend to view their relations with each other in terms of their relationships with the USA. Articles include: >Human Rights, Europe & the People?s Republic of China >Relations & Mutual Strategic Perceptions: China & the European Union >EU Economic Relations with China: An Institutionalist Perspective >The Role of Hong Kong & Macau in China?s Relations with Europe >A Functional Relationship: Political Extensions to Europe?Taiwan Economic Ties >Economic Relations between Taiwan & Europe >Cultural Relations between China & the Member States of the European Union. (For this item please quote stock ID 20373) ISBN: 9780521524032

This book explores the revival of Chinese nationalism in the 1990s, and analyses the ways in which the West deals with this phenomenon. Yongnian Zheng discusses the complicated nature of China?s new nationalism and presents the reader with a very different picture to that portrayed in Western readings of Chinese nationalism. He argues that China?s new nationalism has been a reaction to changes in the country?s international circumstances and can be regarded as a 'voice' over the existing unjustified international order. Zheng shows that the present Chinese leadership is pursuing strategies not to isolate China, but to integrate it into the international community. Based on the author?s extensive research in China, the book provides a set of provocative arguments against prevailing Western attitudes to and perceptions of China?s nationalism. 'In this well-researched book, author Zheng Yongnian has reconstructed the ideological complex, based on seemingly-unrelated documents by other scholars, to provide a plausible explanation for the Chinese psyche that has been conundrum for China-watchers ... Zheng ... sounds a timely warning when he says "many Chinese now believe that the West does not want to see China develop and will use all possible means to contain it".? - The Sunday Times,Singapore. 'The particular strength of the book lies in the fact that the author makes extensive use of a variety of original Chinese source material from official and semi-official publications. In contrast to the prevalent and dominant Western discourse on Chinese nationalism, the author provides some insightful, more sympathetic discussions on Chinese nationalism from the view of an "insider".? - Journal of Asian Studies. 'This is an essential text to consider for anyone studying Chinese nationalism or China and the world' - Journal of Nationalism & Ethnic Politics. (For this item please quote stock ID 20383) ISBN: 9780521645904

Today, with new leader Hu Jintao, China stands as the most contradictory of the major powers, hovering between an unsustainable tradition and a yet-to-be-born political form that would support its new society and economy. Hanging in the balance is the prospect for freedom within China (for Chinese people and also for Tibetan, Uighur, and other non-Chinese), the future of Australia?s relations with China, and the security of China?s neighbours. This is Ross Terrill?s broadest, most ambitious work, combining political science and history, dealing equally with the People?s Republic of China and China?s imperial story. It weaves in the author?s experiences within China, uses a diversity of Chinese-language sources, and compares the Chinese empire and other ancient and modern empires. Terrill delivers an in-depth picture of where China has come from and where it is going and concludes with scenarios for the fate of the world?s last multi-ethnic empire. Contents: >Preface >Maps >China?s principal dynasties >The problem with China >How the Chinese Imperial state was formed >We are the world: an Imperial tradition both defensive & superior >?The king is dead; long live the king: the post-dynastic quest for a new political order >Red emperor >Your mother is still your mother >Beijing juggles the legacy of empire >Maritime empire >Steppe empire >Foreign policy: imperial gaols & modes >Foreign policy: half-empire & half-modern nation >Autocracy?s last legs? >Bibliography >Index Ross Terrill has been an Associate in Research at Harvard?s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. First known for Eight Hundred Million: The Real China & Flowers on an Iron Tree, he later wrote Mao & Madame Mao, the most widely read biographies of China?s amazing Communist couple. Mao, translated into seven languages, has also sold 1.4 million copies in a Chinese-language edition inside China. With China in Our Time, he portrayed the Deng era, based on his own journeys through China. (For this item please quote stock ID 20747) ISBN: 9780868407586

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Because power in China is so concentrated at the top, changes in leadership usually mean changes in many other domains as well. In this study, based on documents released around the time Jiang Zemin left office in November 2002 and interviews with Chinese officials, the authors concentrate on more fundamental institutional changes, both those under way well before Jiang stepped down and those still urgently needed if China is to remain stable and prosperous in the 21st century. Topics addressed include the role of ideology, the issue of legitimacy, rule-making and -breaking, Party governance, the use of state power for economic ends, state-society relations, and decision making in foreign policy. The authors ask how changing concepts of property rights have influenced China's development, and whether present and future leaders will be able to maintain the Party's monopoly on political power by partially democratising the party itself. They conclude that strengthened institutions are critical to China's future well-being. Contributors include Gang Lin, Xiaobo Hu, David Bachman, Lowell Dittmer, and Richard Madsen. (For this item please quote stock ID 21123) ISBN: 9780804749190

What is 'Chinese' about China?s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese confronted such constitutional questions as: How does the scope of political participation affect state power? How is the state to secure a share of society?s wealth? In response to the changing demands of the age, this agenda has been expressed in changing language. Yet, because the underlying pattern remains recognisable, the modernisation of the state in response to foreign aggression can be studied in longer perspective. The author offers three concrete studies to illustrate the constitutional agenda in action: how the early 19th-century scholar-activist Wei Yuan confronted the relation between broadened political participation and authoritarian state power; how the reformist proposals of the influential scholar Feng Guifen were received by mainstream bureaucrats during the 1898 reform movement; and how fiscal problems of the late empire formed a backdrop to agricultural collectivisation in the 1950s. In each case, the author presents the 'modern' constitutional solution as only the most recent answer to old Chinese questions. The book concludes by describing the transformation of the constitutional agenda over the course of the modern period. (For this item please quote stock ID 21124) ISBN: 9780804749299

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The most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of corruption and change in the Chinese Communist Party, Cadres & Corruption reveals the long history of the party?s inability to maintain a corps of committed and disciplined cadres. Contrary to popular understanding of China?s pervasive corruption as an administrative or ethical problem, the author argues that corruption is a reflection of political developments and the manner in which the regime has evolved. Based on a wide range of previously unpublished documentary material and extensive interviews conducted by the author, the book adopts a new approach to studying political corruption by focusing on organisational change within the ruling party. In so doing, it offers a fresh perspective on the causes and changing patterns of official corruption in China and on the nature of the Chinese Communist regime. (For this item please quote stock ID 21342) ISBN: 9780804744300

This is the first full-length study in English of Peng Zhen (1902-97), a revolutionary comrade of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, and an influential legal policymaker in China during both men?s regimes. As one of the chief architects of PRC law and legal institutions during the 1950s and again in the 1980s, Peng left an indelible mark on the present legal system of China. This book analyses the evolution of Peng?s legal views from his days as a revolutionary in the 1930s and 1940s, through his participation in Communist rule during the 1950s, to his conflicts with Mao and his purge in 1966, and finally to his rehabilitation and resumption of legal reform activities in the 1980s and 1990s. Initially, Peng embraced Leninist notions of law and political authority. These ideas gradually evolved so that in the 1980s Peng advocated increased reliance on formal rules and procedures as mechanisms of governance. (For this item please quote stock ID 21345) ISBN: 9780804745000

With rapid commercialisation, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China?s 'floating population,' have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control. (For this item please quote stock ID 21352) ISBN: 9780804742061

[Bilingual] This Chinese-English edition consists of: >29 component parts of the State Council >17 organisations directly under its jurisdiction >Seven of its agencies >12 undertakings directly under it >13 state administrations under the jurisdiction of the ministries & commissions of the State Council >And appendixes on the people?s governments of the four municipalities directly under the central government & their subordinate departments, bureaus, offices & divisions as well as government organisations at the town and township level. The directory carries the names, addresses, postal codes, telephones, facsimiles, E-mail addresses (of some organisations), names of the persons in charge, and the main functions of the organisations above the bureau and department level. The data included in the directory were collected up until the end of October 2002. The full names of the government organisations are used in the Chinese text throughout with abbreviations in brackets; the names in the English version have been amended by the State Council only recently. (For this item please quote stock ID 21477) ISBN: 9787507312966

'This book admirably fills a glaring gap in our understanding of how to think intelligently about China. Grounding his insights in an extensive survey of recent American and Chinese portrayals of the other country, the author demonstrates convincingly how even specialists can feed the 'fears and fantasies' that shape and distort our respective perceptions and reinforce the stereotypes that complicate the formulation of sound policy. Remarkably, the lessons are as valuable for Chinese readers as for American, for the general public as for the foreign policy expert' - J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China. 'Gries, in full command of the Chinese media, has given us a lively and lucid interdisciplinary study of Chinese self-perception, bringing forward images of the US that have mostly worked to complicate communications in Sino-American relations. An excellent contribution to Chinese foreign-relations studies' - Allen Whiting, University of Arizona, author, The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence. 'Provides an indispensable psychological dimension to the analysis of China's relations with America - especially important today when demonising the other side has become commonplace on both sides of the Pacific Ocean' - Peter Van Ness, editor, Debating Human Rights: Critical Essays from the United States & Asia. Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a 'barbaric' and intentional 'criminal act', the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the roles of perception and sentiment in the growth of popular nationalism in China. At a time when the direction of China's foreign and domestic policies have profound ramifications worldwide, Gries offers a rare, in-depth look at the nature of China's new nationalism, particularly as it involves Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations - two bilateral relations that carry extraordinary implications for peace and stability in the 21st century. Through recent Chinese books and magazines, movies, television shows, posters, and cartoons, Gries traces the emergence of this new nationalism. Anti-Western sentiment, once created and encouraged by China's ruling PRC, has been taken up independently by a new generation of Chinese. Deeply rooted in narratives about past 'humiliations' at the hands of the West and impassioned notions of Chinese identity, popular nationalism is now undermining the Communist Party's monopoly on political discourse, threatening the regime's stability. As readable as it is closely researched and reasoned, this timely book analyses the impact popular nationalism will have on 21st century China and the world. Peter Hays Gries is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, & Co-director of the Sino-American Security Dialogue. (For this item please quote stock ID 21763) ISBN: 9780520232976

Believing that it is a mistake to equate modernity with westernisation and rugged individualism, Hall and Ames argue that as a modern China embraces its larger role in the global marketplace, a new type of democracy will emerge ? a blend of a traditional Western democracy and the Eastern emphasis on community. They contend that China, which may come to dominate the global culture of the 21st century, will maintain far more of its traditional culture than most people believe possible. In fact, the authors conclude that the democracy best suited to the Chinese cultural sensibility is John Dewey's 'communitarian democracy'. 'Centres on getting beyond the liberal Western tradition, both for understanding the prospects for political change in China, and to make a signal contribution to the ongoing debate on Neo-pragmatism ? focusing on John Dewey ? in the U.S. This book is an excellent addition to the literature in both areas, and to the exciting development of comparative philosophy more generally' ? Henry Rosemont, Jr., St. Mary's College of Maryland. 'A creative synthesis of Deweyean pragmatism and Confucianism that is as instructive with respect to the possibilities for what Western liberal democracy could become as it is for the possibilities of a Confucian communitarian democracy in contemporary China' - Randy Peerenboom, UCLA School of Law. (For this item please quote stock ID 22346) ISBN: 9780812693942

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[Indent] This study analyses changes in the protection of social rights in China since 1979 for the middle-income level of the urban population, based on family interviews and documentary studies. It tells how conditions for employment, housing, social security and education have undergone a complete transformation as a consequence of the transition to a market economy. (For this item please quote stock ID 22648) ISBN: 9788791114267

Population is an important and chronic variable that affects a country's development. The Chinese population problem, generally speaking, has two aspects: One, the problem of population control; and two, the problem of how to change the population burden into a benefit through human capital investment and the development of human resources. This book consists of the following chapters: >A Huge Population Is China's Most Basic & Characteristic National Condition >The Population Problem New China Faced >Opportunities & Challenges for the Solution to the Population Problem Brought About by the Reform & Opening up Program >The Achievement of a Low Fertility Rate & New Problems >Migration of Farmers & China's Reform & Development >The Problem of the Quality of the Chinese Population >China's Aging Population & Countermeasures >The Chinese Population & Sustainable Development. (For this item please quote stock ID 22904) ISBN: 9787119033266

The 15th and final volume of the series The Making of Modern Freedom, this volume explores a variety of issues surrounding questions of human rights and freedom in China. The chapters suggest very significant realms of freedom, with or without the protection of law, in the personal, social, and economic lives of people in China before the twentieth century. This was recognised, and partly codified, in the early twentieth century, when legal experts sought to establish a republic of laws and limits. The process of legal reform, however, would be placed firmly in the service of strengthening the post-imperial Chinese nation-state, culminating after 1949 in despotism unparalleled in Chinese history. Nevertheless, the last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of our own would witness a slow, steady, but unmistakable reassertion of realms of personal and communal autonomy that show, even in an era of strong states, at least the prospect of institutionalised freedoms. (For this item please quote stock ID 22922) ISBN: 9780804752329

As the 21st century unfolds, will China move on to centre stage? Written by a team of world-renowned experts from Hong Kong, Australia and the U.S., this volume of 27 essays addresses the problems and significant issues facing China in the twenty-first century, e.g. the leadership succession, the pressure of political, legal, economic and social reforms, accession to the WTO, the impact of globalisation, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, restructuring of the rural/urban workforce, cultural and ethnic relations, as well as environmental conservation and protection. Each author focuses on a specific topic and offers his/her in-depth analysis in clear and easy-to-understand language. This is an excellent source of reference not only for university students and academics interested in contemporary China, but also for professionals, business executives and entrepreneurs who are involved in China trade and businesses. General readers who want to gain a better understanding of current affairs in China will also find it informative and insightful. (For this item please quote stock ID 22934) ISBN: 9789629370817

Has the current political system in the People?s Republic of China lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the Chinese public? On the basis of three carefully drawn surveys of Beijing residents between 1995 and 1999, the author finds that diffuse support for the current political system?based on attitudes toward institutions and values?remains strong, at least among city-dwellers, though it is gradually declining. Specific support for current political authorities, as measured by evaluations of their performance in major policy domains, is much weaker, with many citizens evaluating the authorities? performance as mediocre. In analysing the longitudinal data presented here, the author finds that the same set of key sociodemographic attributes and sociopolitical orientations variably influence citizens? attitudes toward the political system and their evaluations of leaders? performance. Further, the study shows that citizens? attitudes toward the system, on the one hand, and their evaluation of incumbents? performance on the other, have different impacts on forms of political participation, such as voting and contacting authorities. A co-publication with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington, D.C. Jie Chen is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Asian Studies Institute at Old Dominion University. (For this item please quote stock ID 23515) ISBN: 9780804750578

~This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a nation-state and find its place in a modern world. It shows how Chinese political elites have competed to promote different types of nationalism linked to their political values and interests and imposed them on the nation while trying to repress other types of nationalism. In particular, the book reveals how leaders of the PRC have adopted a pragmatic strategy to use nationalism while struggling to prevent it from turning into a menace rather than a prop.

~Suisheng Zhao is Associate Professor at the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies, and Executive Director of its Center for China-U.S. Cooperation. He is the founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and has authored and edited five books. (For this item please quote stock ID 23525) ISBN: 9780804750011

Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the 1920s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores the question of revolutionary violence and the political passion that propels it. 'Who are our enemies, who are our friends, that is a question germane to the revolution,' wrote Mao Zedong in 1926. Michael Dutton shows just how powerful this one line was to become. It would establish the binary division of life in revolutionary China and lead to both passionate commitment and revolutionary excess. The political history of revolutionary China, then, is largely framed by the attempts of Mao and the Party to harness these passions. The economic reform period that followed Mao Zedong's rule offers a hint as to how the magic spell of political faith and commitment can be broken, but it also shows that such disenchantment comes at a considerable cost. This detailed, empirical tale of Chinese socialist policing is, therefore, more than simply a police story. It is a parable that offers a cogent analysis of Chinese politics generally while radically redrafting our understanding of what politics is all about. Breaking with the traditional elite modes of political analyses that focus on personalities, factions, and betrayals, and from 'rational' accounts of politics and government, Dutton provides a highly original understanding of the far-reaching consequences of acts of faith and commitment in the realm of politics. Michael Dutton is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He is the author of Policing & Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to 'The People' and The Crisis of Marxism in China. He is the editor of Streetlife China. (For this item please quote stock ID 23533) ISBN: 9780822334897

A new edition of the Constitution as adopted at the Fifth National People?s Congress and Promulgated for Implementation by the Proclamation of the National People?s Congress on December 4, 1982. First bilingual edition. (For this item please quote stock ID 23618) ISBN: 9787119036823

This volume presents a concise history of how China?s Communist Party (CCP) selected a new generation of leaders in late 2002 and why the individuals, in their late 40s and 50s, were so well qualified to govern China. These leaders are trying to lead China to become a regional and world power in which their people can enjoy a modest living standard and take pride in the nation?s achievements. Written for the expert or ordinary reader, these essays see China?s leaders as challenged by a new trend, visible only in the last decade, of a widening gap between the losers in society and the winners of the recent economic and political reforms. The leaders of the largest, single ruling party and state authority in the world must somehow reverse that trend if China is to survive as one nation. This volume explains they are doing that by reconfiguring their huge command economy, promoting a market economy, and undertaking gradual political reforms. It is unflinching in its discussion of how China?s leaders face mounting political corruption, spreading unemployment, growing disparity of wealth and income, and a crisis of belief. (For this item please quote stock ID 23808) ISBN: 9780521600583

~David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly focused on the rise of Chinese military power. Basing his analysis on an unprecedented use of Chinese military publications and interviews with People's Liberation Army (PLA) officers, Shambaugh addresses important questions about Chinese strategic intentions and military capabilities - questions that are of key concern for government policymakers as well as strategic analysts and a concerned public.

~'David Shambaugh gives a lucid, comprehensive, and objective account of the substantial growth this past decade in the PLA. He includes an insightful summary of more than a century's history of the Chinese military as a basis for explaining many of the problems the PLA has had, and will continue to have, in its modernisation. This should be read by those responsible for our national security as well as scholars of contemporary China' - William Perry, former United States Secretary of Defence. (For this item please quote stock ID 23885) ISBN: 9780520242388

In the spring of 1989, over 100,000 students in Beijing initiated the largest student revolt in human history. Television screens across the world filled with searing images from Tiananmen Square of protesters thronging the streets, massive hunger strikes, tanks set ablaze, and surviviors tending to the dead and wounded after a swift and brutal government crackdown. Dingxin Zhao's The Power of Tiananmen is the definitve treatment of these historic events. Along with grass-roots tales and interviews with the young men and women who launched the demonstrations, Zhao carries out a penetrating analysis of the many parallel changes in China's state-society relations during the 1980s, which, he argues, account for the tragic events in Tiananmen; such changes prepared an alienated academy, gave rise to ecology-based student mobilisation, restricted government policy choices, and shaped student emotions and public opinion. 'I am immensely impressed by the empirical richness and theoretical rigor of Zhao's study ... A must read for students interested in social movement theory and Chinese society and politics' - Goubin Yang, Contemporary Sociology. 'This is an extremely thoughtful and provocative book that deserves to be widely read and debated' - Elizabeth Perry, Journal of Asian Studies. (For this item please quote stock ID 23890) ISBN: 9780226982618

Centered on the urban workplace, the danwei (workunit) has been the fundamental social and spatial unit of urban China under socialism. Not only was it the source of employment, wages, and other material benefits for the vast majority of urban residents, it was also the institution through which the urban population was housed, organised, regulated, policed, educated, trained, protected, and surveyed. Furthermore, as the basic unit of urban society, each danwei became a community, providing its members with identity, a 'face', and social belonging. With particular focus on the link between spatial forms and social organisation, this book traces the origins and development of this critical institution up to the present day. Recent economic restructuring has seen the danwei lose its dominant role, yet its presence still influences the possibilities for urban transformation. Moreover, the author argues, the new institutions emerging in its place display important characteristics of the old danwei system. (For this item please quote stock ID 24622) ISBN: 9780804750387

This book is the first comprehensive examination of China's hukou (household registration) system. The hukou system registers and governs the 1.3 billion Chinese, while creating deep and rigid divisions and exclusions; in many domains the system determines how the Chinese live and shapes China's sociopolitical structure and socioeconomic development. This book shows that the system has made both positive and negative contributions to contemporary Chinese society: it has helped foster rapid economic growth and political stability, but also has reinforced social stratification, the rural-urban divide, regional inequalities, and discrimination and injustice. Using rich new materials, this book traces the history and development of the hukou system. It describes the functions, impact, and operational mechanisms of the system. It also analyses the hukou in comparison with the systems of exclusion and discrimination in other nations, notably Brazil and India. This book presents important insights for understanding China's past, present, and future. (For this item please quote stock ID 24623) ISBN: 9780804750394

China?s giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China?s population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the world. These changes have contributed to an imminent crisis of social security for a rapidly aging population, provoking concern in China and abroad. What political processes underlie these population shifts? What is the political significance of population policy for the PRC regime, the Chinese people, and China?s place in the world? The book documents the gradual 'governmentalisation' of China?s population after 1949, a remarkable buildup of capacity for governance by the regime, the professions, and individuals. Since the turn of the millennium the regime has decisively rejected coercive techniques, initiating a drastic shift from 'hard' Leninist methods of birth planning toward 'soft' neoliberal approaches involving indirect regulation by the state and self-regulation by citizens. Population policy, once a lagging sector in China?s transition from communism, is now helping lead the country toward more modern and internationally accepted forms of governance. Governing China?s Population tells the story of these shifts, from the perspectives of both regime and society, based on internal documents, long-term fieldwork, and interviews with a wide range of actors ? policymakers and implementers, propagandists and critics, compliers and resisters. This study also illuminates the far-reaching consequences for China?s society and politics of deep state intrusion in individual reproduction. Like Mao?s Great Leap Forward, Deng?s one-child policy has created vast social suffering and human trauma. Yet power over population has also been positive and productive, promoting China?s global rise by creating new kinds of 'quality' persons equipped to succeed in the world economy. Politically, the PRC?s population project has strengthened the regime and created a whole new field of biopolitics centering on the production and cultivation of life itself. Drawing on approaches from political science and anthropology that are rarely combined, this book develops a new kind of interdisciplinary inquiry that expands the domain of the political in provocative ways. The book provides fresh answers to broad questions about China?s Leninist transition, regime capacity, 'science' and 'democracy,' and the changing shape of Chinese modernity. (For this item please quote stock ID 24844) ISBN: 9780804748803

The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a warning shot, a wake-up call for public health professionals, security officials, economic planners, and policy makers everywhere. SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is one of the 'new' epidemics. SARS in China addresses the structure and impact of the epidemic and its short and medium range implications for an interconnected, globalised world. After initially stalling and prevaricating, the Chinese government managed to control SARS before it became a global catastrophe, an accomplishment that required political will and national mobilisation. Recent warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding avian flu make it clear that SARS may have been a prelude to bigger things. The contributors to this volume include a journalist, WHO?s representative in Beijing, and health care professionals, several of whom found themselves on the frontlines of the battle to understand and control SARS. Their vivid, first-hand accounts encouraged other contributors to go beyond the boundaries of their respective disciplines and write for a wide audience. The authors of this volume focus on specific aspects of the SARS outbreak ? epidemiological, political, economic, social, cultural, and moral. They analyse SARS as a form of social suffering and raise questions about the relevance of national sovereignty in the face of such global threats. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that SARS had the potential of becoming a major turning point in human history. This book thus poses a question of the greatest possible significance: Can we learn from SARS before the next pandemic? (For this item please quote stock ID 24845) ISBN: 9780804753142

This book describes through case studies how various factors, such as the single-party political system, traditional culture, market reform, and industrialisation, shape public opinion and mass political behavior in urban China. Case studies focus on the process of conducting public opinion polls in China?s political environment, regime legitimacy and reform support, media control and censorship, interpersonal trust and democratisation, mass political participation, labour relations and trade unions, and the role of intellectuals in political change. The book draws most of its empirical evidence from 12 Chinese public opinion surveys conducted between the late 1980s and the late 1990s. The same questions repeated in many of these surveys provide a rare opportunity to examine the changing pattern of the Chinese public mind during this period. The book ends with the provocative conclusion that China?s authoritarian political system proved to be less effective than traditional culture, marketisation, and industrialisation in shaping public opinion and mass political behavior. Liberal ideas and bottom-up political participation can emerge even in the absence of direct elections. (For this item please quote stock ID 24848) ISBN: 9780804752206

The new campaign to ?Open Up the West? that commenced operations in January 2000 is interesting not only because of its dramatic goal of developing the western and interior regions of the People?s Republic of China but also because of the ways it has been articulated. Although presented in some ways as a major state project, it was introduced almost casually into the political process, with none of the usual fanfare and perhaps even more remarkably with no great commitment of state resources. Moreover, though it has been in progress for only a relatively short period it is already clear that uncertainties attend its aims, progress and potential impact. The contested nature of the campaign to Open Up the West becomes particularly apparent if, as is the case here, the topic is approached from provincial and local levels as well as from the national perspective. (For this item please quote stock ID 24911) ISBN: 9780521613491

An enthralling account of modern China, Wild Grass depicts the small pockets of grassroots resistance against corruption and oppression within the all powerful Communist Party. It is a history told through the stories of the Chinese people, as Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Ian Johnson recounts the individual struggles of three people he encountered while living in China. He describes a former Red Guard turned paralegal, jailed for fighting against illegal taxes; a young architect who exposed the destruction of Beijing's ancient buildings; and the daughter of a Falun Gong convict, seeking answers about her mother's death in prison. (For this item please quote stock ID 25018) ISBN: 9780141021553

This evocative exploration of the profound changes overtaking China examines the major dilemmas the country confronts: official corruption, growing disparities between rich and poor, the halting reform of state-owned enterprises, transportation and infrastructure bottlenecks, and environmental degradation. Shanghai-born and Western-educated, Cheng Li provides the unique dual perspective of a local resident and a political scientist who returned to his homeland to observe its remarkable social transformations. His sympathetic yet clear-eyed account provides the reader with the sounds and smells, tastes and textures of a country enduring the pangs of rapid reform. (For this item please quote stock ID 25090) ISBN: 9780847683383

China is by far the world?s leading producer of pirated goods ? from films and books to clothing, from consumer electronics to aircraft parts. As China becomes a full participant in the international economy, its inability to enforce intellectual property rights is coming under escalating international scrutiny. Mertha asks what is the impact of external pressure on China?s enforcement of intellectual property? The conventional wisdom sees a simple correlation between greater pressure and better domestic compliance with international norms and declared national policy. Mertha?s research tells a different story: external pressure may lead to formal agreements in Beijing, resulting in new laws and official regulations, but it is China?s complex network of bureaucracies that decides actual policy and enforcement. The structure of the administrative apparatus that is supposed to protect intellectual property rights makes it possible to track variation in the effects of external pressure for different kinds of intellectual property. Mertha shows that while the sustained pressure of state-to-state negotiations has shaped China?s patent and copyright laws, it has had little direct impact on the enforcement of those laws. By contrast, sustained pressure from inside China, on the part of foreign trademark-owners and private investigation companies in their employ, provides a far greater rate of trademark enforcement and spurs action from anti-counterfeiting agencies. 'You should buy ? not steal or copy ? The Politics of Piracy. It is an impressive and timely book that will help anyone trying to understand today?s (or tomorrow?s) battles between the United States and China regarding intellectual property. In it, Andrew C. Mertha draws on years of experience in China and a rich academic background to produce a study that I know scholars, businesspeople, and policymakers will find valuable with regard to both intellectual property and China?s engagement of global norms in general' ? William P. Alford, Harvard University, author of To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property in Chinese Civilization (For this item please quote stock ID 25163) ISBN: 9780801443640

The dynamics of international relations in Asia are undergoing broad and fundamental changes that are reverberating around the world. Primary among the catalysts of change in the region is the rise of China as the engine of regional economic growth, as a major military power, as a significant voice in regional diplomacy, and as a proactive power in multilateral institutions. With in-depth assessments by 17 of the world's leading experts on China's foreign relations, this groundbreaking volume offers the most timely, up-to-date, and comprehensive analysis of China's emerging influence on international relations in Asia. The contributors explore the various dimensions of China's rise, its influence on the region, the consequences for the United States, and alternative models of the evolving Asian order. What emerges is a clear picture of China increasingly at the centre of the regional web; while North Korean and Taiwan could erupt in conflict, the predominant trend in Asia is the creation of an extensive web of mutual interdependence among states and non-state actors. Providing the best overview we currently have of the changing political balance on the Asian continent, this accessible volume will be essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary Asian affairs. 'This is an extremely important and valuable volume. The analysis is fresh and compelling throughout, and the material reflects the contributors' broad knowledge and sensitivity to ongoing developments in the region' - T.J. Pempel, director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. (For this item please quote stock ID 25261) ISBN: 9780520245709

A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their political rights. China's move to the market and opening to the outside world have loosened party controls over everyday life and led to the emergence of ideological diversity. Starting in the 1980s, multi-candidate elections for local officials were held, and term limits were introduced for communist party leaders. Establishment intellectuals who have broken away from party patronage have openly criticised government policies. Those intellectuals outside the party structures, because of their participation in the Cultural Revolution or the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, have organised petitions, published independent critiques, formed independent groups, and even called for a new political system. Despite the party's repeated attempts to suppress these efforts, awareness about political rights has been spreading among the general population. Goldman emphasises that these changes do not guarantee movement toward democracy, but she sees them as significant and genuine advances in the assertion of political rights in China. Merle Goldman is Professor of History, emerita, at Boston University and Associate of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (For this item please quote stock ID 25265) ISBN: 9780674018907

A comprehensive picture of the pursuit of regionalism across Northeast Asia in the 15 years following the Cold War. In each of six periods, the main dynamic of regionalism and the problems that slowed regionalism?s advance are identified. The evolving strategies of China, Japan, South Korea, and Russia are examined, emphasising the importance of bilateral relations while keeping in mind the globalising US role. By focusing on debates in each country, most rarely covered in English, the book demonstrates how suspicion of neighbours and clashing strategies have undermined aspirations for regionalism. Only by learning the lessons of this transitional era will regionalism be placed on a stable footing. These include: fully embrace globalisation while using regionalism for balance, work together in integrating North Korea while recognising South Korea?s pivotal role, compromise to allow China and Japan to share leadership, and focus on a long-term vision of Northeast Asia. (For this item please quote stock ID 25349) ISBN: 9780521543606

The Cold War shaped the world we live in today ? its politics, economics, and military affairs. This book shows how the globalisation of the Cold War during the last century created the foundations for most of the key conflicts we see today, including the War on Terror. It focuses on how the Third World policies of the two 20th-century superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - gave rise to resentments and resistance that in the end helped topple one superpower and still seriously challenge the other. Ranging from China to Indonesia, Iran, Ethiopia, Angola, Cuba, and Nicaragua, it provides a truly global perspective on the Cold War. And by exploring both the development of interventionist ideologies and the revolutionary movements that confronted interventions, the book links the past with the present in ways that no other major work on the Cold War era has succeeded in doing. 'Based on prodigious research, this ambitious and wide-ranging book presents the most important account to date of the Cold War in the Third World. Westad's study represents broad-based, international history at its best. He deftly weaves together the tale of world politics writ large with stories about variegated processes of revolution and social change across the Third World. This should prove an indispensable work for anyone interested in the history of the twentieth-century' - Robert McMahon, University of Florida 'In a reinterpretation of the Cold War that is as thorough as it is important, Westad places Soviet and American interventions in the Third World at the centre of their struggle. Driven by ideology and the need to affirm the rightness of their principles, both superpowers felt compelled to contest with the other in areas of little intrinsic importance. The results were almost uniformly failures, and in the process brought much sorrow and destruction to the Third World. The picture is not a pretty one, but Westad shows that studying it reveals much about the Cold War, and about the current world scene' - Robert Jervis, Columbia University (For this item please quote stock ID 25352) ISBN: 9780521853644

With Nixon's historic reconciliation with China in 1972, Sino-American relations were restored, and China moved from being regarded as America's most implacable enemy, to a friend and tacit ally. Existing accounts of the rapprochement focus on the shifting balance of power between the US, China and the Soviet Union, but in this book, Goh argues that they cannot adequately explain the timing and policy choices related to Washington's decisions for reconciliation with Beijing. Instead, she applies a more historically sensitive approach that privileges contending official American constructions of China's identity and character. This book demonstrates that ideas of reconciliation with China were already being propagated and debated within official circles in the US during the 1960s. It traces the related policy discourse and imagery, and examines their continuities and evolution into the early 1970s that facilitated Nixon's new policy. (For this item please quote stock ID 25357) ISBN: 9780521839860

Originally published as Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha (A Survey of China's Peasants) by People's Literature Press, this work has been withdrawn from circulation in China. In 2000, acclaimed investigative journalists Wu Chuntao and Chen Guidi set out to document the lives of China?s silent majority ? the country's 900 million peasant underclass. They asked the question: 'Have the peasants been betrayed by the revolution undertaken in their name by Mao and his successors?' Their research revealed the other side of the Chinese 'economic miracle', a feudal system in which petty dictators are free to tyrannise the rural poor. When the book was published in China it caused an uproar. Two months after it appeared, it was banned. Here for the first time is the English translation of Chen and Wu's prize-winning expose - a startling portrait of the people China forgot. Told through four dramatic personal narratives, Will the Boat Sink the Water? looks beneath the shiny surface of the rising superpower and gives a voice to its previously unheard masses. (For this item please quote stock ID 26264) ISBN: 9780732283063

An intricately interwoven history of China and its relationship with the rest of the world. China is considered by many the most exciting rising power in the world today. The explosive growth of its economy and influence with governments in every part of the world has created a fascination ? borne out of admiration, envy and trepidation - to know more about the real China. Harry G. Gelber has written an accessible history for the general reader, telling the story of China from the outside as well as within. His sweeping narrative makes sense of China?s changing relationship with the rest of the world, and details the events of time which have built this growing superpower. Some of the events he focuses on include: B>>The incursions into China of steppe horsemen around 200BC B>>Genghis Khan?s Mongol Empire B>>The arrival of Marco Polo B>>The Opium Wars B>>The Communist Revolution of 1949 B>>The Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 B>>The recent resurgence of China as a dynamic economy and a powerful international player. Spread throughout the book are complementary text boxes, elaborating on people, cultural icons and key moments in time ? from Confucius, tea and Falun Gong to Mao?s sexual habits. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Harry G. Gelber was born in 1926 and read history at Cambridge before going on to do a PhD at Monash University in Australia. He taught international politics at Boston University, Harvard,Yale and Monash. From 1975 until 1992 he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Tasmania and remains Professor Emeritus there. His many books include Nations out of Empires(2001) and Opium, Soldiers and Evangelicals (2004). He lives in Tasmania from where he regularly travels to the USA and Britain. (For this item please quote stock ID 27629) ISBN: 9780747590712

A collection of speeches on China's 'peaceful rise' at the Bo'ao Forum for Asia from 2003 to 2005. (For this item please quote stock ID 28149) ISBN: 9787503533471

A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary economic changes but having experienced few political reforms in the post-Mao period, Merle Goldman details efforts by individuals and groups to assert their political rights. (For this item please quote stock ID 28226) ISBN: 9780674025448

Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive interviews with elite political leaders, diplomats, and others in China, the United States, and countries on China's periphery, David M. Lampton investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's growing influence. His account provides a fresh perspective from which to assess China?how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Lampton gives a valuable historical framework by discussing how the Chinese have thought about state power for over 2,500 years, and he asks how they are thinking about the future use of power through instruments such as their space program. He also provides broad suggestions for policy toward China in light of the 2008 elections in the United States and China's hosting of the Olympic Games, in a book that is essential reading for understanding one of the most significant developments of the twenty-first century. Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Thinking about Power 2. Might 3. Money 4. Minds 5. China and Its Neighbors 6. A Precarious Balance 7. What Chinese Power Means for America and the World Notes Index About The Author David M. Lampton is George and Sadie Hyman Professor, Director of China Studies, and Dean of Faculty at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is author of Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (UC Press) and editor of The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform, among many other books and articles on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs. (For this item please quote stock ID 29056) ISBN: 9780520254428

Why has the Chinese Communist Party kept its grip on power while the former communist states of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have collapsed? And where is China heading? In these pages, David Shambaugh provides a much-needed intellectual framework for thinking about China's recent past and future."?J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. Ambassador to China, Indonesia, and Singapore "To understand Chinese politics, one has to understand the complex and manifold role of the Chinese Communist Party. Shambaugh's book provides this much-needed knowledge and insight." ?Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies "Unlike deductive or speculative Western discourse on the direction of China's political change, this authoritative book scrutinizes the Chinese Communist Party on the basis of its own discourse about other party-states as well as the way it applies these lessons in rebuilding efforts. The coverage of comparative communism is a tour de force, breaking exciting new ground in explaining the important debates over the Soviet Union. The analysis of the ideological and organizational rebuilding of the Party sets the standard for future writings on Chinese politics. With convenient summaries of a wide range of views by Western scholars, this book can serve as a text that combines an overview of the field with the author's clear point of view on China's future."?Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University "David Shambaugh's innovative investigation of how China understood the fall of European communism contributes an important new dimension to our understanding of the Chinese regime's own trajectory. Shambaugh shows how the lessons China's Communist Party took from the Soviet and other collapses helped to shape their reforms, which were aimed at avoiding the fatal errors of communist regimes elsewhere. This book reveals how well the Chinese learned their lessons, as demonstrated by the regime's carefully targeted adaptations and its consequent survival."?Andrew J. Nathan, co-author of China's New Rulers Description Few issues affect the future of China?and hence all the nations that interact with China?more than the nature of its ruling party and government. In this timely study, David Shambaugh assesses the strengths and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and potential longevity of China's Communist Party (CCP). He argues that although the CCP has been in a protracted state of atrophy, it has undertaken a number of adaptive measures aimed at reinventing itself and strengthening its rule. Shambaugh's investigation draws on a unique set of inner-Party documents and interviews, and he finds that China's Communist Party is resilient and will continue to retain its grip on power. About The Author David Shambaugh is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has written and edited many books, including Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (UC Press, 2004) and Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics (UC Press, 2005). (For this item please quote stock ID 29057) ISBN: 9780520254923

Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing?in policies instituted and altered, positions softened, projects undertaken. But will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This book approaches questions about the nature and future of China through the lens of sports?particularly as sports finds its utmost international expression in the Olympics. Drawing on newly available archival sources to analyze a hundred-year perspective on sports in China, Olympic Dreams explores why the country became obsessed with Western sports at the turn of the twentieth century, and how it relates to China?s search for a national and international identity. Through case studies of ping-pong diplomacy and the Chinese handling of various sporting events, the book offers unexpected details and unusual insight into the patterns and processes of China?s foreign policymaking?insights that will help readers understand China?s interactions with the rest of the world. Among the questions Xu Guoqi brings to the fore are: Why did Mao Zedong choose competitive ping-pong to manipulate world politics? How did the two-China issue nearly kill the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games? And why do the 2008 Olympics present Beijing with unprecedented dangers and opportunities? In exploring these questions, Xu brilliantly articulates a fresh and surprising perspective on China as an international sport superpower as well as a new ?sick man of East Asia.? In Olympic Dreams, he presents an eloquent argument that in the deeply unsettled China of today, sport, as a focus of popular interest, has the capacity to bring about major social changes. (For this item please quote stock ID 29224) ISBN: 9780674028401

The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People?s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any communist country, Mao unleashed the Red Guards against the party. Tens of thousands of officials were humiliated, tortured, and even killed. Order had to be restored by the military, whose methods were often equally brutal. In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which Chinese publications conceal). In often horrifying detail, they document the Hobbesian state that ensued. The movement veered out of control and terror paralyzed the country. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing?Mao?s wife and leader of the Gang of Four?while Mao often played one against the other. After Mao?s death, in reaction to the killing and the chaos, Deng Xiaoping led China into a reform era in which capitalism flourishes and the party has lost its former authority. In its invaluable critical analysis of Chairman Mao and its brilliant portrait of a culture in turmoil, Mao?s Last Revolution offers the most authoritative and compelling account to date of this seminal event in the history of China. (For this item please quote stock ID 29226) ISBN: 9780674027480

In Melanesia, rates of HIV infection are among the highest in the Pacific and increasing rapidly, with grave humanitarian, development, and political implications. There is a great need for social research on HIV/AIDS in the region to provide better insights into the sensitive issues surrounding HIV transmission. This collection, the first book on HIV and AIDS in the Pacific region, gathers together stunning and original accounts of the often surprising ways that people make sense of the AIDS epidemic in various parts of Melanesia. The volume addresses substantive issues concerning AIDS and contemporary sexualities, relations of power, and moralities?themes that provide a powerful backdrop for twenty-first century understandings of the tensions between sexuality, religion, and politics in many parts of the world. About the authors Leslie Butt is associate professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Richard Eves is Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at the Australian National University. (For this item please quote stock ID 29655) ISBN: 9780824832490

The book draws on recent findings in the cognitive sciences and in evolutionary psychology to identify ethical principles that are likely to help us humans to succeed biologically as individuals, and, also, as cooperative groups. It also applies those principles to two practical problems of special relevance to China: moral complexities in choices about global warming, and the absence of consistency in the Chinese legal system. Munro finishes the book with his own appearances in two interviews, one about Tang Junyi's legacy and the other about critical challenges to his works on Chinese philosophy since the 1960s. (For this item please quote stock ID 29675) ISBN: 9789629963804

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Relations between China and the United States have been of central importance to both countries over the past half-century, as well as to all states affected by that relationship - Taiwan and the Soviet Union foremost among them. Only recently, however, has the opening of archives made it possible to research this history dispassionately. The eight chapters in this volume offer the first multinational, multi-archival review of the history of Chinese-American conflict and cooperation in the 1970s. On the Chinese side, normalisation of relations was instrumental to Beijing's effort to enhance its security vis-ŕ-vis the Soviet Union and was seen as a tactical necessity to promote Chinese military and economic interests. The United States was equally motivated by national security concerns. In the wake of Vietnam, policymakers saw normalisation as a means of forestalling Soviet power. As the essays in this volume show, normalisation was far from a foregone conclusion. William Kirby is Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and Edith & Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History, Harvard University. Robert Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and a Research Associate at the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University. Gong Li is Professor of International Relations at the International Strategic Research Center, Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party. (For this item please quote stock ID 25266) ISBN: 9780674019041

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This collection of essays brings together some of the leading scholars in the field of Chinese human rights to discuss various aspects of China's record and to speculate on what the future might hold. Some copies of this out of print title still available. (For this item please quote stock ID 21599) ISBN: 9780948454189

[Indent] Global Warming & East Asia examines the domestic politics, foreign policy and international relations of climate change in China, Japan and Southeast Asia. The countries of East Asia are often disproportionately affected by climate change and as they expand and develop, their contribution to the problem grows. This book addresses the forces and actors underlying their policies and behaviour, in so doing increases our understanding of a region vital to mitigating and coping with climate change. Contents: Part I: Perspectives on the Politics of Climate Change in East Asia >1. Introduction: The Politics & Foreign Policy of Global Warming in East Asia: Socio-Economic Impacts & International Justice (Paul Harris) >2. Climate Change Priorities for East Asia: Socio-Economic Impacts & International Justice (Paul Harris) Part II: China & the Politics of Climate Change >3. Chinese Politics, Energy Policy, & the International Climate Change Negotiations (Michael Hatch) >4. The Forces Behind China's Climate Change Policy: Interests, Sovereignty, & Prestige (Zhihong Zhang) >5. Navigating between 'Luxury' & 'Survival' Emissions in China: Bilateral versus Multilateral Negotiations (Yuka Kobayashi) >6. The Clean Development Mechanism & China's Energy Sector: Opportunities & Barriers (Axel Michaelowa, Shouchuan (Jusen) Asuka-Zhang, Karsten Krause, Bernhard Grimm, & Tobias Koch) Part III: Formulating Climate Change Policy in Japan >7. Climate Change as Japanese Foreign Policy: From Reactive to Proactive (Yasuko Kameyama) >8. Development Assistance & Japan's Climate Change Diplomacy: Priorities and Future Options (Shouchuan (Jusen) Asuka-Zhang) >9. Knowledge in the Global Atmospheric Policy Process: The Case of Japan (Atsuko Sato) >10.Beyond Kyoto: The Formation of a Japanese Climate Change Regime (Dana Fisher) Part IV: The Costs & Opportunities of Climate Change in Southeast Asia >11. The Philippines in the Climate Change Arena (Joy Galvez) >12. Cashing in on Kyoto?: Lessons from Indonesia for Emissions Offset Projects, (Frank Jotzo, Agus Sari, & Olivia Tanujaya) >13. Climate Change Investment & Technology Transfer in Southeast Asia (Tim Forsyth) Paul Harris is an associate professor of politics at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. (For this item please quote stock ID 21661) ISBN: 9780415315449

This book examines the complex relationship between art and politics in the People's Republic of China between 1949 and 1984. It focuses in particular on three important facets of this relationship, namely, the organizational structure of China's art establishment, the ideological framework for directing creative activity and the political movement as a key method for periodically ensuring that artists follow the current official line. (For this item please quote stock ID 7240) ISBN: 9789622016491

The accumulation of more than fifteen years of research, Between Ally and Partner reconstructs a comprehensive portrait of Sino-Korean rapprochement and examines the strategic dilemma that the rise of China has posed for South Korea and its alliance with the United States. Thoroughly investigated and clearly presented, this book answers critical questions concerning what kept these two countries talking and how enmity was transformed into a zeal for partnership. (For this item please quote stock ID 30174) ISBN: 9780231139076

Culture changes along with the development of the economy, as do the words and expressions used daily in the media and people's daily life. Every year, every month, and even every day, there are new words and phrases invented and used in China. To better understand modern China in its different spheres, one needs to be familiarized with these new words and phrases to avoid confusion or misunderstanding. This book, with a collection of over 200 such key words and phrases currently in use, may serve as a handbook for anyone who is interested in China's current affairs, as groundwork for reading the media or communicating with people. (For this item please quote stock ID 30372) ISBN: 9787119053479

Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, this book argues that nuclear deterrence will characterize international strategic affairs well into the new century. Case studies assessing the nuclear deterrent policies of China, Britain, and France show why their experience, rather than that of Cold War superpowers, better reflects the future of nuclear deterrence. 'Goldstein?s excellent book helps explain why three very different countries ? Britain, France, and China ? all sought an independent nuclear deterrent despite, and, perhaps, because of their security alliances with nuclear superpowers. This accessible and well-crafted work will be useful not only to diplomatic historians and international relations theorists, but also to policy analysts who are examining why certain relatively weak states are currently pursuing the nuclear option.' ? Thomas Christensen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (For this item please quote stock ID 18921) ISBN: 9780804746861

Since 1979 China's leaders have introduced economic and political reforms that have lessened the state's hold over the lives of ordinary citizens. By examining the growth in individual rights, the public sphere, democratic processes, and pluralisation, the author seeks to answer questions concerning the relevance of liberal democratic ideas for China and the relationship between a democratic political culture and a democratic political system. The author also looks at the contradictory impulses and negative consequences for democracy generated by economic liberalism. Unresolved issues concerning the relationships among culture, democracy, and socioeconomic development are at the heart of the analysis. Non-ideological criteria are used to assess the success of the Chinese approach to building a fair, just, and decent society. (For this item please quote stock ID 18622) ISBN: 9780674008793

In this book, top Chinese demographers introduce the reader to Chinese population policy, assess its effects and project future consequences. In the last three decades, the Chinese have conducted the greatest demographic experiment in human history. They have sought to curb the growth of their vast population through the implementation of rigid population policy and programmes. Whilst helping to keep the population from spiralling out of control, the policy has also had unwanted consequences including an imbalance of males to females and the weakening of family kinship and old-age support networks. This book provides a background to the policy by introducing Chinese history, society and geographical population distribution. The contributors then examine the relation between policy, culture and population in the past and present, and project current trends into the future. The book discusses a wide range of socio-economic impacts of China's demographic dynamics, such as employment, social welfare and urbanisation. The book's conclusion extrapolates these trends into longer-term population projections. (For this item please quote stock ID 18796) ISBN: 9780631201922

This book provides a clear and accessible account of political and economic development in Pacific Asia. Adopting a comparative and historical approach, it examines the factors behind the 'East Asian Miracle' which has transformed the economies and societies of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Political Development in Pacific Asia begins by examining the traditional forms of political culture which prevailed in Pacific Asia and which affected, in various ways, post-colonial political development in the region. Subsequent chapters examine the growth strategies pursued by high-performing economies of East Asia and the implications of rapid growth for democratisation and civil society. The final chapter explores the place of these economies in a rapidly changing regional and international order. While Jones gives due attention to the remarkable achievements of the high-performing economies of East Asia, he also addresses the social and political costs of this rapid, state-managed growth. The result is a balanced and nuanced account of political and economic development in Pacific Asia which will be invaluable for students and scholars alike. (For this item please quote stock ID 18804) ISBN: 9780745615059

This book tells the story of how and why the Chinese military came to play such a powerful role in China's economic and institutional development. It weaves together four stories: Chinese views of technology since 1950, the role of the military in Chinese political and economic life, the evolution of open and flexible conceptions of public management in China, and the technological dimensions of the rise of Chinese power. But the book primarily explores and explains a paradox. This military approach to technology and development emerged during China's period of greatest external threat, 1950-1969. Yet these policies and management methods persist even as China enjoys perhaps its most benign strategic environment since the 1840s. (For this item please quote stock ID 20031) ISBN: 9780804746014

A study of the dynamics at the center of Chinese politics as revealed in the Central Documents through which the leadership communicates with the rest of the political system. (For this item please quote stock ID 9713) ISBN: 9780892640331

In the autumn of 2002 in southern China, a previously unknown virus jumped the species barrier from animal to man and sparked the first global epidemic of the new century. The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to thirty-one countries on every continent. Before it was reined in by a remarkable international scientific effort, the SARS virus demonstrated human society's vulnerability to disease. New infectious diseases like SARS have been emerging at an alarming rate over the past few decades. There is every indication the world will continue to face new viral diseases, some of them much more lethal and contagious than SARS. This book traces the emergence of SARS, in the process examining the global politics and economics of disease. It provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how the global battle against SARS was fought and the incredible research efforts that finally led to identification of the virus. Drawing on unprecedented access to scientists, doctors, and recovered patients, Thomas Abraham recounts the pressures and heartbreaks suffered by brave researchers who battled the clock to solve the SARS puzzle -- even as colleagues and friends succumbed to the disease. (For this item please quote stock ID 27666) ISBN: 9789622097025

China's recent growth has called attention to the power-transition theory, which contends that the danger of a major war is the greatest when a rising dissatisfied challenger threatens to overtake a declining satisfied hegemon. Steve Chan questions this prevailing view by analyzing the extent of ongoing power shifts among the leading powers, exploring the portents for their future growth, and seeking indicators of their relative commitment to the existing international order. To better understand the strategic motivations of ascending and declining states, insights are drawn from prospect theory and past episodes of peaceful and violent transition (such as the end of the Cold War and the outbreak of the First and Second World Wars). He concludes that China is unlikely to instigate a confrontation with the US, and that whilst military conflict over the Taiwan Strait is possible, this is more likely to be due to China's inability to prevent US involvement than its willingness to provoke the US. This book places China in a comparative and historical context, in which inquiry is informed by the experiences of other major powers and pertinent theories in international relations, such as those on extended deterrence, preventive war, and democratic peace. Its comparative and theoretical orientation and its contrarian perspective will be of great interest not only to students and scholars of international relations and Chinese politics, but also to policy makers and professionals. (For this item please quote stock ID 29331) ISBN: 9780415440240

This textbook is designed as an introduction to the study of contemporary Chinese foreign policy. It examines the patterns of engagement with various domestic and international actors which have shaped Beijing?s foreign policy thinking since the end of the Cold War, and offers a combination of ongoing questions and trends in Chinese foreign policy, as well as an in-depth look at key points of China?s current foreign policy. Bringing together the many different facets of China?s foreign interests, this volume presents a unified view of the country?s international affairs, and examines contemporary issues such as: the rise of globalization the increase in the number and types of international regimes modern security challenges bilateral versus multilateral approaches to international problem-solving the question of American hegemony changing linkages between the developed and developing world. Chinese Foreign Policy will be of great interest to upper-level students of Chinese foreign policy, Asian security, comparative foreign policy and international relations, as well as professionals interested in China?s changing place in the world order. Contents 1. Introduction: The Expansion of China`s International Interests 2. Domestic Actors in China`s Foreign Policymaking 3. China`s Strategic Relations 4. The New Politics of Trade 5. China`s New Periphery Policy 6. Foreign Policy Beyond Asia 7. The American Question 8. Conclusion: The Reconstruction of Chinese Foreign Policy (For this item please quote stock ID 30217) ISBN: 9780415465243

Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the 21st-century, New Asian Marxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars?historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists?who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and China. While some of these essays take up key thinkers in Marxist history or draw attention to outstanding problematics, others focus on national literature and discourse in North and South Korea, the 'Mao Zedong Fever' of the 1990s, the implications of Li Dazhao?s poetry, and the Indian Naxalite movement. Illustrating the importance of central analytical categories like exploitation, alienation, and violence to studies on the politics of knowledge, contributors confront prevailing global consumerist fantasies with accounts of political struggle, cultural displacement, and theoretical strategies. 'New Asian Marxisms brilliantly dramatises how contemporary scholars have remembered Marxism in Asia of an earlier time and how this "afterlife" today calls into question the amnesia of Western Marxism and its own complicity with exclusions identified with the culturalist claims of a "unified" West. While the essays in this volume are all concerned with a particular place and time, they also remind us of what so often is forgotten - that Marxism is at home only in the world' - Harry Harootunian, New York University. (For this item please quote stock ID 17858) ISBN: 9780822328735

Public service reform, or public sector reform, has been a hot topic among political scientists in recent years as most existing government structures are inadequate to cope with the ever-changing environments of globalism in terms of capital and technology. This is particularly true among Asian countries where the traditional bureaucracy has been strong as compared to a relatively weak sense of community. Traditional relations between government, the business sector and labour, which slowly have taken shape in the last two decades, are now once again challenged through de-colonialisation in Hong Kong, democratisation in Korea, decentralisation in Singapore and technological innovation in Japan. This timely collection addresses a variety of selected reform issues confronted by these four developed Asian economies. The areas of reform covered range from human resource management, financial management and pay reform, to central agency role, service improvements, private sector involvement and political accountability. (For this item please quote stock ID 24271) ISBN: 9789629961947

This provocative book draws on secret primary documents to reveal the inside story of the rise to power - and plans for the future - of the seven to nine men who in October 2002 took over China?s Politburo Standing Committee, the highest power center in the country. This 'fourth generation' of leaders - after Mao Zedong and his colleagues, then Deng Xiaoping, and finally Jiang Zemin and Li Peng - is expected not only to push China toward a market economy but also to create much stronger ties with the United States. The book?s firsthand accounts reveal the radical reforms this new generation plans to bring to the notoriously entrenched Chinese political system. (For this item please quote stock ID 22991) ISBN: 9781590170724

Since September 11, 2001, our newspapers have been filled with the 'war on terror'; our governments have mobilized their resources for 'homeland security'; and people everywhere are braced for more terrorist attacks. Yet while the threat is genuine, we must not lose sight of the continuing security concerns in the Asia-Pacific. Tensions persist on the Korean peninsula, in the Taiwan Straights and the South China Sea, and in Kashmir. The region is well supplied with weapons of mass destruction and may face an arms race, and there are a range of pressing human security issues. Likewise, the strategic realities of the region remain linked with US power, and with the emergence of China as a key regional player. This book examines the developing strategic relationships in the region, and clarifies the dilemmas for Australian policy-makers as they try to balance genuine engagement with the region against a long-standing and valued alliance with the United States. Emerging from discussions between the Shanghai Institute for International Studies and the University of New South Wales at ADFA, Asia-Pacific Security has a particular relevance for foreign-policy professionals and scholars of the region. (For this item please quote stock ID 23047) ISBN: 9789812302137

Zhao Baoxu, a professor of School of International Studies, PKU, the honorary director of the Research Center for Contemporary China, one of the primary (For this item please quote stock ID 30424) ISBN: 9787560079394

China has broadcast its message. Calling on Africa, Australia and South America for resources, on the West for support, and on the world for understanding, its role in the global hierarchy is established yet pivotal. But that communist blink in the Imperial eye should not deceive you. China has a well shod foot in the global door of capitalism. Western politicians, financiers and consumers have allowed opportunistic strategies to dominate global trade for the ultimate benefit of China. Yet the driving forces behind China?s border and expansionary controls are often misunderstood and not fully appreciated.

Mackinnon and Powell show how China is adapting its traditional values and practices to target strategic investments worldwide. Understanding China?s very different approaches to problem solving permits an effective engagement with modern China as it seeks competitive advantage globally. The authors contend that both China and the West must acknowledge reciprocal and mutually beneficial obligations ? if confrontation is to be averted.

About the Authors
Alex Mackinnon has extensive organizational experience `East of Suez` - in the Middle East, India and Pakistan, in Japan, in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, in Malaysia, in New Zealand and Australia. He has written on the 1997 Asian crisis for The Scotsman, on Chinese strategy in Management Decision and regularly lectures at Jiaotong University in Shanghai. His management research on Chinese global expansion was awarded a PhD in 2005. His consultancy activities focus on China and its overseas adaptation, linking actual business practice with strategic thinking.

Barnaby Powell is a Chinese son-in-law and veteran of development banking in East and South-East Asia (with Singer & Friedlander and Private Investment Company for Asia.) He has also served as Secretary-General of the European Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, as initial Director of the Asia-Invest Programme for the European Commission and as a business consultant in East-West cultural intermediation. (For this item please quote stock ID 30218) ISBN: 9780230210196

This book selects year by year thirty representative eventsthat have attracted attention in the international communityas the starting points to give an overall account of China'sdevelopment and progress. Supplemented with related data links(such as the media reviews and the overseas comparative datain those years, etc.), a three-dimensional review of the course of the reform and opening-up has been presented. Wu Xiao Bo was born in 1968,A graduate of the School of Journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai,he is both a journalist and a publisher in the fields of business,finance,and economics. He is publisher of the"Blue Lion" imprint of business titles.Formwely a visiting scholar at Harvard Univwesity,he currently works at the newspaper cakked the Oiriental Morning Post. His publications include Great Failures, Great Failures ll,Passing Through a Cornfield,Extremly Prifutabke,Alarger Fate,and China's Thirty Tumultuous Yeaes,in two volumes. (For this item please quote stock ID 31636) ISBN: 9787508513638

This book introduces how elections are practiced in China. It mainly describes the system of various elections at the grass-root level. Through real-life examples and true stories readers can gain an insight to the whole process of democratic elections in China. (For this item please quote stock ID 31665) ISBN: 9787802285033

In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese nationalism' the distinction between nation and state is rarely made, consequently nationalism usually appears as loyalty to the state rather than identification with the nation. Yet, since 1989, both the official configuration of the nation and the state's monopolized right to name the nation have come under rigorous challenge. Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China relocates the discussion of nationalism to within a more contemporary framework which explores the disjunction between the people and the state and the relationship of each to the nation. Since the late nineteen eighties the Chinese Party-state has increasingly embraced a more Westernised way of life enabling the country to propel itself into a position of economic and political international importance. This revolutionary upheaval has led cultural nationalists to pose such controversial questions as, what constitutes Chineseness? And, is a Party-state that portrays itself as the sole representative of the nation a legitimate one? This revealing work not only suggests that the CCP is beginning to compromise, therefore highlighting that the state is aware that it is loosing its monopoly, but also that the cultural nationalists further seek to reform the Party-state in accordance with the nation's will, beliefs, values and concept of its own identity. With its challenging exploration of one of the most neglected aspects of identity in China, this book should appeal to Asianists, China watchers and all of those with an interest in cultural and sociological phenomena in East Asia. Yingjie Guo is a lecturer in Chinese Studies at the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney. Contents: 1. Rethinking Nation & Nationalism: Concepts, Positions & Approaches 2. Renationalizing the State: Class & Nation & the Party-state 3. Rewriting National History: The 'Zeng Guofan Phenomenon' 4. Reconstructing a Confucian Nation: The Confucian Revival 5. Repossessing the Mother Tongue: Chinese Characters, Traditional Forms & Cultural Linguistics 6. Reclaiming the 'Othered' China: Nationalist Appropriations of Postcolonialism (For this item please quote stock ID 22620) ISBN: 9780415322645

This fully revised and updated text introduces students to China's foreign policy - past and present - and the factors that may influence the country's future policy agenda. Exploring the new dynamics of China's regional and international roles, the authors outline the political, security, economic, and social issues the country faces in the emerging 21st century. Each chapter of the book familiarises students with the Chinese framework for analysing the issues in question. Alternate policy choices are suggested, along with supporting data for each course of action. Discussion and essay questions, as well as suggested readings and a bibliography of internet resources, are also included. (For this item please quote stock ID 24801) ISBN: 9781588262486

'The overall high standard of the chapters makes the volume worthwhile reading for those interested in Chinese foreign policy' - Journal of Contemporary Asia This book examines perceptions of the 'China Threat', and governments' policies in response to this perceived threat in a wide range of countries, including the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, and countries in the Middle East. Perceptions of the Chinese themselves are also looked at, the current security concerns and policies of each country are examined in detail, especially the policy of engagement, and future prospects for relations with China are assessed. (For this item please quote stock ID 24802) ISBN: 9780415347105

This second edition of Michael Yahuda's extremely successful textbook introduces students to the international politics of the Asia Pacific region since 1945. The new edition is completely updated with contemporary coverage of the economic crises and includes new chapters on: >the current role of East Asia in world affairs >prospects post 2000 >the strengths & weaknesses of US dominance & the challenge of other powers >prospects for & implications of an East Asian economic recovery This essential text is divided into three parts: the first presents a chronological overview of developments since 1945. The new second part looks at the post-cold war period, while the third focuses on the policies of the US, the USSR/Russia, China and Japan in the region. (For this item please quote stock ID 24806) ISBN: 9780415207980

The New Global Politics of the Asia Pacific presents a coherent framework for understanding the complex international and global politics of the Asia Pacific. This is an introductory guide to the main frameworks needed to understand the region (realism, liberalism, critical theory) which is reader-friendly while still offering sophisticated competing interpretations. The authors present a highly topical account, which provides an overview of the main actors, institutions and contemporary issues, such as security and transnational actors. Key content includes: >the US in the Asia Pacific >China & Japan in the Asia Pacific >Southeast Asia in the Asia Pacific >Australia in the Asia Pacific >Europe in the Asia Pacific >Globalisation, regionalism & political economy >Asian values, democracy & human rights >Transnational actors (For this item please quote stock ID 24862) ISBN: 9780415285636

Scholars from China, Singapore and the U.S. use the opportunity of the 16th National Cognress of the Chinese Communist Party to explore the issue of leadership change in China, and its impact on institution building and foreign policy there. Contents: Part 1: Leadership Change & Institution Building >The 16th CCP National Congress: Institutionalization of Succession Politics >New Leaders & Institution Building in China >Building a New Political Order in Post-Jiang China >New Institution Building or Muddling Through in the Chinese Countryside? >To Craft Village Democracy in China: The Roles of National Political Elites >Part 2: Leadership Change & New Foreign Policy Orientations >The 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party & China's Foreign Policy >The Impact of Domestic Politics on Chinese Foreign Policy >Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition >Cross-Strait Relations After the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (For this item please quote stock ID 24865) ISBN: 9781403967343

The twentieth century has been a century of nationalism in China, beginning with the nationalist revolution of 1911. Drawing on the explosion of writings about nationalism in the Chinese speaking world, this new book highlights the main themes of the Chinese nationalist tradition and shows how they are central to the discourse of Chinese politics and foreign policy today. The study analyses trends within Chinese nationalism, explaining the principles behind contemporary debates as they have unfolded since the late 1980s. Presenting a number of perspectives including those of the state and dissent in mainland China, as well as alternative views from Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora, Hughes sets current discussions within the context of the long history of Chinese nationalism. One of the first systematic treatments of Chinese nationalism, Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era provides conceptual insights allowing the reader to grasp the complex weave of Chinese nationalist sentiment today and implications for the future. (For this item please quote stock ID 26678) ISBN: 9780415182669

Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre of which lies exaggerated expectations of China's new consumers. Combining economic trends with the author?s anthropological background, China?s New Consumers details the livelihoods and lifestyles of China's new and evolving social categories who, divided by wealth, location and generation, have both benefited from and been disadvantaged by the past two decades of reform and rapid economic growth. Given that consumption is about so much more than shopping and spending, this book focuses on the perceptions, priorities and concerns of China's new consumers which are an essential part of any contemporary narrative about China's domestic market. Documenting the social consequences of several decades of rapid economic growth and the new interest in 'all-round' social development, China's New Consumers will be of value to students, entrepreneurs and a wide variety of readers who are interested in social trends and concerns in China today. (For this item please quote stock ID 28535) ISBN: 9780415411240

China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, is the result of a lifetime of study, and provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces. The author examines China's energy resources, their uses, impacts and prospects, from the 1970s oil crisis to the present day, before analysing the key question of how China can best produce enough food to feed its enormous population. Smil Vaclav is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Manitoba, Canada. He is widely recognised as one of the world's leading authorities on the biosphere and China's environment. He is the author of many books including The Earth's Biosphere, Enriching the Earth, Feeding the World and China's Environment. (For this item please quote stock ID 21613) ISBN: 9780415314992

Examines topical issues of China's reform process from a political science perspective. (For this item please quote stock ID 21614) ISBN: 9780415260268

[Indent] This book provides a detailed analysis of China's foreign policy towards the Gulf and Arabian peninsula region from the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the end of the 20th century. Based on extensive original research, it looks at the relations between China and each of the countries of the region over the entire period. It demonstrates that two key factors have shaped China's foreign policy with the region - China's relations with the United States and the Soviet Union, and China's drive to increase its economic ties with the countries of the region, especially after becoming a net importer of oil in the early 1990s. Contents: Part I: Some Introductory Observations >1. General Elements & Literature Review Part II: China's Foreign Policy in Global Context >2. Theorising China's Foreign Policy >3. China's Relations with the United States & the Soviet Union/Russia Part III: China's Foreign Policy towards the Gulf & Arabian Peninsula Region >4. China's Perception of the Gulf & Arabian Peninsula Region >5. China's Relations with Iraq, Iran, & Yemen >6. China's Relations with the GCC Countries Part IV: Conclusion >7. Summary, Conclusions, & some Reflections on Future Relations '... the only comprehensive volume available on China's relations with countries of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula ... scholars working in International Relations, Asian Studies and Politics will find this volume a vital insight to modern Chinese foreign policy' - The Middle East. Series Information: Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series Author Biography: Dr Mohamed Binhuwaidin is affiliated to the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University, United Arab Emirates. (For this item please quote stock ID 21664) ISBN: 9780700717309

[Indent] This book investigates the major internal and external pressures and constraints facing China as it enters the new century. It is widely recognised that in its capacity as a nuclear power and as a member of the UN's Security Council, China plays a major role in world politics. China is also a growing economic power, which according to some economists is projected to overtake the US 20 years from now. China has clearly emerged as the major power in the East Asian region and the major issues of contention in the region such as the tension on the Korean peninsula, the Taiwan issue and the conflicting territorial claims in the South China seas cannot be resolved without China's active participation. (For this item please quote stock ID 21673) ISBN: 9780700715329

[Indent] A comprehensive assessment of the political and economic impact of information and communication technologies (ITCs) on Chinese society. It provides in-depth analyses of topics including economic development, civil and political liberties, bureaucratic politics, international relations and security studies. The book covers the aspirations of Chinese policy-makers using the Internet to achieve a 'digital leapfrog' of economic development. Avoiding technical jargon, the book is accessible to anyone interested in the social impact of the Internet and information and communication technologies, from those in academia to business and public policy makers. Contents: >Christopher Hughes & Gudrun Wacker: Introduction - China's Digital Leap Forward >1. Xiudian Dai: ICTs in China's Development Strategy >2. Karsten Giese: Internet Growth & the Digital Divide >3. Gudrun Wacker: The Internet & Censorship in China >4. Junhua Zhang: Network Convergence & Bureaucratic Turf Wars >5. Ngai-Ling Sum: (Re)-Imagining 'Greater China': Silicon Valley & the Strategy of Siliconisation >6. Monika Ermert & Christopher Hughes: What's in a Chinese Domain Name? >7. Christopher Hughes: Fighting the Smokeless War: ICTs & International Security Christopher Hughes is Director of the Asia Research Centre and Lecturer in the department of International Relations at London School of Economics. Gudrun Wacker is Head of Research Unit Asia, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), Berlin, Germany's major think tank. (For this item please quote stock ID 21685) ISBN: 9780415277723

[Indent] Raises the crucial question of the Japanese political leadership's handling of such a complex policy in the face of an increasingly assertive China. This study of the highly topical bilateral relationship will be of great interest to students and researchers in Japanese and Chinese Studies, Politics, International Relations and Security Studies. (For this item please quote stock ID 21687) ISBN: 9780415305075

This important collection analyses the changing context of China's relationship with Japan. Its eminent international contributors address core issues including strategic concerns; security; the issue of Taiwan; diplomacy; economic relations; trade; the role of firms and currency. The book brings together a wide range of perspectives to offer a rich and varied understanding of one of Asia's most crucial and complex relationships. (For this item please quote stock ID 21689) ISBN: 9780415254311

[Indent] This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intriguing study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world. (For this item please quote stock ID 21696) ISBN: 9780415244183

With the U.S./China trade deficit at record levels, interest in the contemporary Chinese experience is keen and growing. But as America contemplates China's growing economic dominance, attention is shifting away from its poor record on human rights and the living conditions of its population. Challenging China gives us a rare and important portrait of contemporary life within China. Mixing personal stories with sober analysis, this revealing book embraces a broad range of social issues, from labor conditions and rural struggles to health and religion. Challenging China also offers rare glimpses of the country's social problems, from underage prostitution to the unlikely situation in which, as the authorities continue to arrest and imprison priests and evangelists involved in China's unsanctioned churches, academics have become the social spokesmen for a faith they do not personally profess. Finally, the book includes the first-ever first-hand accounts to come out of China from dissidents and their families?including accounts by the relatives of those imprisoned or executed and descriptions of life in exile. As companies from Microsoft to Wal-Mart open branches in China, Challenging China gives a revealing portrait of a country whose internal politics we can no longer afford to ignore. Challenging China includes: >The story of life beneath the overpass of Beijing's Second Loop where more than two hundred people have taken shelter, having come from all over China to seek justice through petitions to the central authorities. >The account of a dissident Internet essayist who, inspired by the memoir of an exiled Tiananmen veteran, reflects on the experience of exile within his own country. >A glimpse into the efforts and frustrations of a domestic NGO dedicated to addressing China's AIDS tragedy, and to keeping the outside world informed, by Ha Jin, director of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute. (For this item please quote stock ID 27778) ISBN: 9781595581327

Over the past 20 years change in China has been breathtaking. Reform has affected every facet of life and has left no policy and institution untouched. Now available in a substantially revised second edition covering the changes of the 16th Party Congress and 10th National People's Congress and other recent developments, this major text by a leading academic atuhority, who has also lived and worked in China, provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China. (For this item please quote stock ID 12286) ISBN: 9781403921857

'Seeks to treat the problem of development as a global one: a given country is never studied in isolation nor set against the rest of the world, as its development problems are always placed in the context of global development' - Thierry Pairault, Review of Bibliography in Sinology, 2000. China: Human Development Report summarises the history and current status of sustainable human development in China. It then looks at the outstanding challenges to be faced, and makes a number of broad policy recommendations for tackling them. Because this is the first national Human Development Report undertaken for China, it establishes a baseline for future efforts by discussing in detail a wide spectrum of development issues, including the distribution of income, health care, education and nutrition, population and migration, the status of women, employment, social security provision, the state of the natural environment, and the reform of state enterprises. There are many causal inter-connections highlighted among these various issues. (For this item please quote stock ID 13614) ISBN: 9780195132106

~The Constitution of the People's Republic of China provides that 'The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is a broadly representative organisation of the united front,' and that 'The system of multi-party co-operation and political consultation led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) will exist and develop in China for a long time to come.'

~The CPPCC is an organisation of the Chinese people's patriotic united front, an important organ for multi-party cooperation and political consultation led by the CPC, and an important form of giving display to socialist democracy in the political life in China. The establishment and growth of the CPPCC has its own historical inevitability, and has made an important contribution to the founding of the People's Republic of China and its construction. It has a noble mission and an irreplaceable role in China in the new century.

Contents:
>The Historical Course of the CPPCC >The Nature & Position of the CPPCC >The Main Functions of CPPCC >The Organisation of CPPCC >The Members of CPPCC >Major Systems of CPPCC Meetings >The Basic & Regular Work of the CPPCC >Contributions to Unification at Home & Friendship Abroad >The Foreign Contacts of the CPPCC >The Work of the Local Committees of the CPPCC >The Fine Traditions of the CPPCC. (For this item please quote stock ID 23266) ISBN: 9787119033389

This book defines the fundamental structure of the Chinese system of government and the functions and status of its different parts. It emphasises the core of the Chinese governmental system, and gives the reader an understanding of the system's essence. It combines a theoretical perspective with a systemic analysis, and provides an improved level of academic research into Chinese government. This work contains another important characteristic: the author's timely comments on the latest changes in the process of reform and opening-up. Professor Yang Fengchun was born in 1963 in Tongling, Anhui Province. He is now associate professor at Peking University's School of Government, researcher at its Institute of Political Development and Governance, and senior dean of Academy of e-Government. In 1987, he graduated from Peking University's Department of International Politics with a master's degree in political science. Since then, he has been researching and teaching contemporary Chinese government, politics and electronic government at Peking University's School of International Politics, the School of Government (formerly the School of Politics and Administration) and Academy of e-Government. His works include Contemporary Chinese Government, China's Mainland Government & Politics, and The Politics of Consumers, Outline of e-Government. Among his papers and research reports are 'Connection Between the Educational Levels & Political Participation of Farmers' and 'The Development & Significance of the Chinese Monarchical System'. He was also in charge of the National Social Science Research Fund youth project, 'Government Policy, Income Distribution, & Social and Political Stability', and of the fund's project 'Research into Chinese e-Government Modes'. (For this item please quote stock ID 23936) ISBN: 9787119032856

A vast "army" of over 7,000 terracotta statues of soldiers surrounds the tomb of the first emperor of the Qin dynasty in the Shaanxi province in northwestern China. These vigilant soldiers have been on duty for 2,000 years, but does anyone know what sort of ruler Qin Shi Huang was? Why did his tomb have to be guarded by a mysterious army? Was Qin Shi Huang so power-hungry he sought control even over the spirit world? Why did he feel compelled to defend himself even in the next life? Using the mausoleum structure as a key, the splendidly illustrated book answers many of the questions that have intrigued travelers, archaeologists, and students of Chinese culture since the site was discovered in 1974.This lavish, powerful volume explores the life and times of the man who founded a dynasty that would continue to the dawn of the 20th century. It gathers the most recent archaeological data with photographs taken on site expressly for this book-accompanied by essays from archaeologists and experts in Chinese art and history. What emerges is a profile of one of China's most powerful, legendary figures and a new view of one of Asia's most spectacular tourist attractions. (For this item please quote stock ID 27669) ISBN: 9788854400825

[Indent] Gerry Segal, a world expert on China, was a prolific writer. Before he died in 1999 the journal Foreign Affairs published his very provocative and significant article Does China Matter? Focusing on Segal's theme, this volume expands and takes forward his research by gathering together 10 leading writers on China to reassess his argument. The book opens with a discussion of Dr Segal's contribution, and a reprint of the article. The authors then address the question of 'does China matter?' in the context of the world economy, Asian economy, as a global military power, as a regional military power, within world and Asian politics and within contemporary world and Asian culture. They provide an extension and critique of Segal's work in the context of an authoritative up-to-date and forward-looking evaluation of China's prospects. The question 'does China matter?' remains central to world politics. This book sets out a detailed case for exactly how, why and to whom it matters. Contents >Foreword >List of Contributors >1. Michael Yahuda: Gerald Segal's Contribution >2. Gerald Segal: Does China Matter? (reprinted from Foreign Affairs) >3. Lawrence Freedman: China as a Global Strategic Actor >4. Samuel Kim: China in International Society >5. Stuart Harris: China in the Global Economy >6. David Goodman: China in East Asian & World Culture >7. Jean-Pierre Lehmann: China & the East Asian Politico-economic Model >8. Shaun Breslin: China in the Asian Economy >9. Bates Gill: China as a Regional Military Power >10. Barry Buzan: Conclusions: How & to Whom Does China Matter? >Gerald Segal - Biographical Highlights >References (For this item please quote stock ID 21654) ISBN: 9780415304122

When Mao and the Chinese Communist Party won power in 1949, they were determined to create new, revolutionary human beings. Their most precise instrument of ideological transformation was a massive program of linguistic engineering. They taught everyone a new political vocabulary, gave old words new meanings, converted traditional terms to revolutionary purposes, suppressed words that expressed 'incorrect' thought, and required the whole population to recite slogans, stock phrases, and scripts that gave 'correct' linguistic form to 'correct' thought. They assumed that constant repetition would cause the revolutionary formulae to penetrate people's minds, engendering revolutionary beliefs and values. In an introductory chapter, Dr Ji assesses the potential of linguistic engineering by examining research on the relationship between language and thought. In subsequent chapters, she traces the origins of linguistic engineering in China, describes its development during the early years of communist rule, then explores in detail the unprecedented manipulation of language during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976. Along the way, she analyses the forms of linguistic engineering associated with land reform, class struggle, personal relationships, the Great Leap Forward, Mao-worship, Red Guard activism, revolutionary violence, Public Criticism Meetings, the model revolutionary operas, and foreign language teaching. She also reinterprets Mao's strategy during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, showing how he manipulated exegetical principles and contexts of judgment to 'frame' his alleged opponents. The work concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of linguistic engineering and an account of how the Chinese Communist Party relaxed its control of language after Mao's death. Linguistic Engineering is a powerfully argued and innovative work that has much to offer all those with an interests in language, political communication, Chinese communism, the literature of revolutions, and the psychology of persuasion. Fengyuan Ji is lecturer in Asian studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. (For this item please quote stock ID 21155) ISBN: 9780824825362

As China?s political and economic influence in the world is rapidly increasing, it is essential to understand how China?s domestic politics affects its foreign political and economic policy. This book offers an accessible, informative and up-to-date systemic analysis of the foreign policy of China. Where mainstream literature on international relations usually suggests that China?s foreign policy is primarily determined by external factors, such as the international system and external settings, this book demonstrates instead that domestic factors profoundly shape China?s foreign policy from the late Mao?s era to the reform era. It demonstrates how China?s foreign policy is driven by the:
> preservation of political and economic regimes
> the political survival of the top leader
> the top leader?s vision for, and skills in, managing external affairs
> the leader?s policy priorities; dramatic events and the process of policy making.
It presents its argument in-depth analysis of major cases of Chinese foreign policy ? for example, China?s difficult relations with Southeast Asia; China?s 15-year accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO); China?s oil diplomacy in the recent decade, and the diversified process of foreign policy making in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Hongyi Lai is a lecturer at School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He is author of Reform and the Non-State Economy in China: The Political Economy of Liberalization Strategies, the editor of Asian Energy Security: The Maritime Dimension, and co-editor of Harmony and Development: ASEAN-China Relations and China into the Hu-Wen Era: Policy Initiatives and Challenges.
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Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe, Jane Duckett argues that the state?s retreat from health in China was not a simple consequence of economic policies and market reform. Just as important were the influences of health policies, reform era political institutions, communist party ideology, and bureaucratic stakeholders.
Through her analysis, Duckett maintains that by studying retrenchment in China, the world?s most populous nation and now a major global economic power, we can better understand international transformations in the role of the state, and the politics that shape that role.
The Chinese State?s Retreat from Health both extends research on retrenchment politics to a major authoritarian state and contributes to piecing together understanding of the Chinese state?s changing role across the economy and other social policies, including housing and education. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics, social policy and the Chinese health care system, as well as to those with a comparative interest in health, welfare states and the politics of retrenchment.
Jane Duckett is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow, UK.
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Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China.
Despite the continuing economic successes and rising international prestige of China there has been increasing social protests over corruption, land seizures, environmental concerns, and homeowner movements. Such political contestation presents an opportunity to explore the changes occurring in China today ? what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy today and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People?s Republic?
Key subjects covered include:
> the legitimacy of the Communist Party
> internet censorship
> ethnic resistance
> rural and urban contention
> nationalism
> youth culture
> labour relations
Chinese Politics is an essential read for all students and scholars of contemporary China as well as those interested in the dynamics of political and social change.
About the Authors
Peter Hays Gries is the Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair and Director of the Institute for U.S. - China Issues at the University of Oklahoma, USA. His many publications include China?s New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy and State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention, and Legitimation.
Stanley Rosen is the director or the East Asian Studies Center and a professor of political science at the University of Southern California, USA.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the largest and one of the most powerful, political organizations in the world today, which has played a crucial role in initiating most of the major reforms of the past three decades in China. China?s rapid rise has enabled the CCP to extend its influence throughout the globe, but the West remains uncertain whether the CCP will survive China?s ongoing socio-economic transformation and become a democratic country.
With rapid socio-economic transformation, the CCP has itself experienced drastic changes. Zheng Yongnian argues that whilst the concept of political party in China was imported, the CCP is a Chinese cultural product: it is an entirely different breed of political party from those in the West - an organizational emperor, wielding its power in a similar way to Chinese emperors of the past. Using social and political theory, this book examines the CCP?s transformation in the reform era, and how it is now struggling to maintain the continuing domination of its imperial power. The author argues that the CCP has managed these changes as a proactive player throughout, and that the nature of the CCP implies that as long as the party is transforming itself in accordance to socio-economic changes, the structure of party dominion over the state and society will not be allowed to change.
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In the first systematic documentation of the pattern and processes of land development taking place in China in the last two decades George C.S Lin advocates a fresh and innovative approach that goes beyond the privatization debate to probe directly into the social and political origins of land development. He demonstrates the special and paradoxical nature of China?s land development and challenges the perceived notion of a causal relationship between property rights definition, efficient land use, and sustained economic growth.
In contrast to the existing literature in which changes in urban and rural land are treated separately, the rural-urban interface is shown to be the most significant and contentious locus of land development where competition for land has been intensified and social conflicts frequently erupted.
Theoretically provocative and empirically well-grounded, Developing China provides a systematic, insightful, and authoritative account of the enormous development of China?s precious land resources. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars, students, and professional practitioners in the fields of development studies, political economy, regional political ecology, planning, economics, geography, land use management, and sustainable development with a special focus on contemporary China under market transition.
About the Author
George C.S. Lin is Head of the Department of Geography in the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include China?s urban development and urbanization, land use and land management, the growth of urbanism, rural industrialization and regional development in the Pearl River Delta, transnationalism, cross-border population mobility, and the geography of Chinese diaspora.
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Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a programme of "reform and openness" in the late 1970s, Chinese society has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in almost all realms of social, cultural, economic and political life and the People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as a global power. China?s post-1978 transition from "socialist plan" to "market socialism" has also been accompanied by significant shifts in how the practice and objects of government are understood and acted upon.
China?s Governmentalities outlines the nature of these shifts, and contributes to emerging studies of governmentality in non-western and non-liberal settings, by showing how neoliberal discourses on governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health, have been raised in other contexts. In doing so, it opens discussions of governmentality to "other worlds" and the glocal politics of the present.
The book will appeal to scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in the work of Michel Foucault, neo-liberal strategies of governance, and governmental rationalities in contemporary China.
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Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development.
Each of the eleven chapters addresses one type of grassroots activism, covering feminist activism, civic environmentalism, religious revival, violence, film, media, intellectuals, housing, citizenship and deprivation.
The wide-range of research styles used in this collection, including ethnography, regional comparison, quantitative and statistical analysis, interviews, textual and content analysis, offers students a methodologically rich vista to China Studies.
Written by subject experts and covering all aspects of Chinese Society, this book offers an authoritative overview of Chinese society. It is an invaluable resource for courses on Chinese society and culture and will be of interest to students and scholars in Chinese and Asian studies.
About the Authors
You-tien Hsing is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Ching Kwan Lee is a Professor of Sociology, UCLA, USA.
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China is one of the fastest developing emerging economies in the world today. The country has a huge influence on a global level, both politically and economically. Despite this, very few books cover both the full range of management functions, and the key issues facing managers in this unique business environment.
The Changing Face of Management in China explores the key challenges facing businesses and managers in China, across management functions, as well as across a range of sectors and organization types. Written by prominent scholars with direct experience in this market, this book adds to the existing body of knowledge by examining a range of areas of Chinese management in the context of local political, economic and social traditions, and the global economy.
Part of the successful Working in Asia series, this book includes case studies that allow the voices of local managers to be heard, as well as extensive bibliographies pointing students and researchers to the most up-to-date sources of information in this important area.
About the Authors
Chris Rowley, PhD, is Professor of HRM and Director of the Centre for Research in Asian Management at City University, UK, and advisor to the HEAD Foundation, Singapore, on research publications. He is editor of the leading journal Asia Pacific Business Review and has published widely in the area of Asian business and management with more than 350 articles, books, chapters, pieces and other knowledge transfer output.
Fang Lee Cooke, PhD, is Professor of HRM and Chinese Studies and Deputy Head (Research and Innovation) of the School of Management, RMIT University, Australia. Her research interests include HRM, employment regulations, knowledge management and innovation, outsourcing, Chinese outward FDI, Chinese Diaspora, and comparative studies of HRM practices in China and India. She is the author of HRM, Work and Employment, published by Routledge in 2005.
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This book investigates whether the theory of "deliberative democracy"-developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimization that deliberation can afford-has any application to Chinese processes of democratization. It discovers pockets of theory especially useful to guide Chinese practices and pockets of Chinese practice that can, in turn, educate the West on possibilities for innovative uses of deliberative democratic theory.

About the Authors
Ethan J. Leib is a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
Baogang He is the Chair in International Studies at The School of Politics and International Studies, Deakin University, Australia.

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The dominant view concerning the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that it is simply a matter of time before it comes to an end. This view has been dominant since the pro-democracy protests in 1989 and has only been strengthened by the increasing number of protests in recent years. However, the Chinese Communist Party has continued to remain in power throughout this period and its rule appears to be secure in the short-to medium-term. As the twentieth anniversary of the military suppression of the pro-democracy demonstrations approaches, this book explains how the Chinese Communist Party has maintained its authority since 1989. It provides a detailed analysis of the Party?s discourse emphasising stability in the post-Tiananmen period, analysing the government?s propaganda in order to show how this discourse has been used by the Party to legitimate its authority. The interdisciplinary nature of this book makes it relevant to a number of different academic disciplines including Asian studies, China studies, international relations, politics and sociology.
About the Author
Peter Sandby-Thomas obtained his PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham, UK. His research is concerned with analysing the justification of power and focuses on Chinese politics in the post-Mao period.
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China?s role in global events today cannot be overestimated.
This book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of contemporary political developments in China. Key topics covered include: China's international relations with its neighbours and with the international community more widely; demographic developments; Taiwan; Macao and Hong Kong, Tibet, Uighurs; human rights, health issues (including bird flu); food contamination and defective goods; and a chronology of political developments, congresses and Central Committee sessions since May 2006; the earthquake of 12 May 2008 and the 2008 Olympic Games.
The book continues - and adds to ? the overview of developments up to May 2006 which were covered in the author?s China: A Guide to Economic and Political Developments (2006), and is the companion volume to Economic Developments in Contemporary China: A Guide (2010)
About the Author
Ian Jeffries is Honorary Professor in the Department of Economics in the School of Business and Economics at Swansea University, UK. He is the author of numerous books in the series, Guides to Economic and Political Developments in Asia, including volumes on North Korea, Vietnam, China and Mongolia.
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This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China?s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest one another to ready Lijiang for tourist consumption.
Using rich material from insightful interviews and quantitative data, the authors show how complex tourism development can be even as it strives to do good for the community. Su and Teo investigate the practices of contestation and negotiation of identity within Lijiang; analyze the negotiations that transform material and vernacular landscapes; and suggests strategies that will enable sustained tourism interest in this location. Linking Gramsci?s theory on hegemony to the cultural politics of space, this book has two major strengths: it establishes a theoretical framework to conceptualize power relations in tourism space and provides critical insights into the rapidly shifting socio-political landscape of contemporary China. Comparisons with other Chinese heritage sites are also provided.
By addressing the power struggles inevitable in the process of tourism development, The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China provides an innovative understanding of China?s dynamic politics in a period of transition. As such, it will address the needs of students and academic scholars working in the fields of China studies, tourism, cultural studies, urban studies, sociology, geography, political science and heritage studies.
About the Authors
Xiaobo Su is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Oregon.
Peggy Teo is an independent scholar working on tourism issues in Asia. She is also co-editor of Interconnected Worlds: Tourism in Southeast Asia (Pergamon, 2001) and Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism (Routledge, 2009) (For this item please quote stock ID 32899) ISBN: 9780415478083

Between 1044 and 1104, ideological disputes divided China?s sociopolitical elite, who organized into factions battling for control of the imperial government. Advocates and adversaries of state reform forged bureaucratic coalitions to implement their policy agendas and to promote like-minded colleagues. During this period, three emperors and two regents in turn patronized a new bureaucratic coalition that overturned the preceding ministerial regime and its policies. This ideological and political conflict escalated with every monarchical transition in a widening circle of retribution that began with limited purges and ended with extensive blacklists of the opposition.
Divided by a Common Language is the first English-language study to approach the political history of the late Northern Song in its entirety and the first to engage the issue of factionalism in Song political culture. Ari Daniel Levine explores the complex intersection of Chinese political, cultural, and intellectual history by examining the language that ministers and monarchs used to articulate conceptions of political authority. Despite their rancorous disputes over state policy, factionalists shared a common repertoire of political discourses and practices, which they used to promote their comrades and purge their adversaries. Conceiving of factions in similar ways, ministers sought monarchical approval of their schemes, employing rhetoric that imagined the imperial court as the ultimate source of ethical and political authority.
Factionalists used the same polarizing rhetoric to vilify their opponents?who rejected their exclusive claims to authority as well as their ideological program?as treacherous and disloyal. They pressured emperors and regents to identify the malign factions that were spreading at court and expel them from the metropolitan bureaucracy before they undermined the dynastic polity. By analyzing theoretical essays, court memorials, and political debates from the period, Levine interrogates the intellectual assumptions and linguistic limitations that prevented Northern Song politicians from defending or even acknowledging the existence of factions. From the Northern Song to the Ming and Qing dynasties, this dominant discourse of authority continued to restrain members of China?s sociopolitical elite from articulating interests that acted independently from, or in opposition to, the dynastic polity.
Deeply grounded in both primary and secondary sources, Levine?s study is important for the clarity and fluidity with which it presents a critical period in the development of Chinese imperial history and government.
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This ambitious book looks into the reasons for the exceptional durability of the Chinese empire, which lasted for more than two millennia (221 BCE-1911 CE). Yuri Pines identifies the roots of the empire?s longevity in the activities of thinkers of the Warring States period (453-221 BCE), who, in their search for solutions to an ongoing political crisis, developed ideals, values, and perceptions that would become essential for the future imperial polity. In marked distinction to similar empires worldwide, the Chinese empire was envisioned and to a certain extent "pre-planned" long before it came into being. As a result, it was not only a military and administrative construct, but also an intellectual one. Pines makes the argument that it was precisely its ideological appeal that allowed the survival and regeneration of the empire after repeated periods of turmoil.
Envisioning Eternal Empire presents a panoptic survey of philosophical and social conflicts in Warring States political culture. By examining the extant corpus of pre-imperial literature, including transmitted texts and manuscripts uncovered at archaeological sites, Pines locates the common ideas of competing thinkers that underlie their ideological controversies. This bold approach allows him to transcend the once fashionable perspective of competing "schools of thought" and show that beneath the immense pluralism of Warring States thought one may identify common ideological choices that eventually shaped traditional Chinese political culture. The result is a refreshingly novel look at the foundational period in Chinese intellectual history.
Pines? analysis of the political thought of the period focuses on the thinkers? perceptions of three main components of the preimperial and imperial polity: the ruler, the elite, and the commoners. Regarding each of them, he identifies both the common ground and unresolved intrinsic tensions of Warring States discourse. Thus, while thinkers staunchly supported the idea of the omnipotent universal monarch, they were also aware of the mediocrity and ineptitude of acting sovereigns. They were committed to a career in government yet feared to compromise their integrity in service of corrupt rulers. They declared their dedication to ?the people? yet firmly opposed the lower strata?s input in political processes. Pines asserts that the persistence of these unresolved tensions eventually became one of the most important assets of China?s political culture. The ensuing imperial political system was not excessively rigid, but sufficiently flexible to adapt itself to a variety of domestic and foreign pressures. This remarkable adaptability within the constant ideological framework contributed decisively to the empire?s longevity. About the Author
Yuri Pines is Michael W. Lipson Professor of Chinese Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (For this item please quote stock ID 31178) ISBN: 9780824832759

Combining political psychology with his own insights into Chinese culture, Pye addresses perplexing but profoundly important questions about Chinese political behavior and makes fundamental contributions both to our understanding of the political culture of China and to the theory of political culture itself. (For this item please quote stock ID 11918) ISBN: 9780892640836

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"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor’s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China’s political machinery.... Invaluable." - James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic

The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor’s eye-opening investigation into China’s Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country’s rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China’s economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the U.S.; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. The Party delves deeply into China’s secretive political machine.

An eye-opening investigation into china's communist party and its integral role in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival of the united states

China's political and economic growth in the past three decades is one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The country has undergone a remarkable transformation on a scale similar to that of the Industrial Revolution in the West. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party.

As an organization alone, the Party is a phenomenon of unique scale and power. Its membership surpasses seventy-three million, and it does more than just rule a country. The Party not only has a grip on every aspect of government, from the largest, richest cities to the smallest far-flung villages in Tibet and Xinjiang, it also has a hold on all official religions, the media, and the military. The Party presides over large, wealthy state-owned businesses, and it exercises control over the selection of senior executives of all government companies, many of which are in the top tier of the Fortune 500 list.

In The Party, Richard McGregor delves deeply into China's inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military, and how it keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party's decisions have a global impact, yet the CPC remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law, unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world's only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is steadfastly poised to think the worst of the West.

In this provocative and illuminating account, Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China's Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future.

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Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907-1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinking about borders, loyalty, and identity in premodern China. She takes as her starting point the recognition that, at the time, "China" did not exist as a coherent entity, neither politically nor geographically, neither ethnically nor ideologically. Political borders were not the fixed geographical divisions of the modern world, but a function of relationships between leaders and followers. When local leaders changed allegiance, the borderline moved with them. Cultural identity did not determine people's actions: Ethnicity did not exist. In this context, she argues, collaboration, resistance, and accommodation were not meaningful concepts, and tenth-century understandings of loyalty were broad and various.

Standen begins by setting out a revised vocabulary for discussing the choices and actions of frontier crossers and examining the development of ideas of loyalty, or zhong, from their origins to their radical redefinition by eleventh-century historians. She then considers the practice of loyalty by tracing the relationship between allegiance and borderlines from around 900 until the conclusion of the treaty of Shanyuan in 1005. The meaning of borders and boundaries can be seen in human terms, at the level of individual choice, in five case studies that follow. The work concludes with a summary of the stages by which the meanings of zhong changed through the tenth century and in the historiography of the period, and discussion of the implications for our understanding of territoriality, identity, and morality and the relationships between them before the eleventh century.
Unbounded Loyalty sheds fresh light on the Tang-Song transition by focusing on the much-neglected tenth century and by treating the Liao as the preeminent Tang successor state. It fills several important gaps in scholarship on premodern China as well as uncovering new questions regarding the early modern period. It will be regarded as critically important to all scholars of the Tang, Liao, Five Dynasties, and Song periods and will be read widely by those working on Chinese history from the Han to the Qing.
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Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade: the rural tax and fee reform.

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This groundbreaking study of Chinese Marxism examines the ideology and praxis of Marxism as it has developed in China from its earliest beginnings to current debates. This is the first systematic, full-length analysis of the development and nature of Marxist ideology in China. Adrian Chan challenges established scholarship in both the West and China, which continues to be overshadowed by Cold War dogma and party orthodoxy respectively. It has long been argued that Chinese Marxism was merely an offshoot of Soviet thought blended with ill-defined traditional Chinese ideas. Using previously neglected Chinese sources - including newspapers, political journals and communist party documents - Chan refutes this. Showing how the first Chinese revolutionaries were directly influenced by the writings of Marx, Chinese Marxism argues that Bolshevism was a secondary influence on Chinese communist thought. Mao himself drew upon Marxian themes in the creation of party orthodoxy. In doing so he signalled his differences from Lenin and Stalin on important issues of theory and practice. However, not all party leaders accepted this Marxian praxis. This has led to continuous conflict between proponents of Maoist Marxism and Soviet-type scientific Marxism-Leninism. Chinese Marxism presents detailed studies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution to illustrate the consequences of this ongoing ideological conflict, and brings the story up to the present day with an analysis of the current Thermidorean Reaction and the controversial embracing of Confucianism. Contents: >1. Introduction >2. A Marxian message to the pre-industrialised societies >3. Social and economic conditions in China >4. The road to Marxism >5. Chinese Marxism through the Cold War prism >6. The first fruits I: the removal of delusive prejudices >7. The first fruits II: towards a Marxian cultural theory >8. Mao Zedong's thought >9. Chinese Marxism in action: two case studies >10. The Thermidorean reaction: a crisis of legitimacy >11. Conclusion Adrian Chan is Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. (For this item please quote stock ID 20623) ISBN: 9780826473073

全書共分為三部分：
上篇：秘密錄音醞釀過程．趙紫陽談話（1992.10－1999.12）
中篇：秘密錄音操作過程．趙紫陽談話（2000.1－2009.3）
下篇：秘密錄音前的回顧－－「六四」和那場關係中國命運的「復辟反復辟」（1989.8－1992.10）
透過作者如實記述與趙紫陽間的對話，我們看到下台後經歷多年跡近「軟禁」的中共總書記在幽居中放言高論－－有對於《國家的囚徒》錄音內容的深化補充；有對六四以來中國政局與當政者的褒貶點評、政壇祕聞的披露；也有趙紫陽下台後至離世前十餘年間，個人思想認識上的省覺徹悟，以及晚年歸於平淡的生活境況紀實。 (For this item please quote stock ID 32910) ISBN: 9789866377594

為能在中共十八大更上一層樓，各路諸侯早已使出渾身解數，有的在打“政績牌”，有的在下“民心棋”；有的大造“形象工程”，有的傾心於動員網民－－
雖然《薄熙來之歌》響徹網絡一夜躥紅，但重慶“唱紅打黑”的薄熙來，“兩會”上面對記者質詢爲何卻勃然失態變色？汪洋在廣東“騰籠換鳥”連遭質疑後，又誓言廣東三年解決絕對貧困難題，爲何卻頻頻向重慶故舊示好？俞正聲怎樣趁世博之機正打一場“人民戰爭”，力挽“楊佳殺警案”“釣魚執法案”衝擊上海形象的狂瀾？孫春蘭爲何一上任就喊出實施“海西”戰略為第一要務？通鋼事件後未被問責的王瑉如何把“蘇州模式”搬到遼寧？
張高麗是否是“江氏棋譜”中的最後殺著？最年輕的“封疆大吏”孫政才為啥一到吉林就強調“不折騰”？“秘書幫”出身的姜異康一上任就跟山東官員“約法三章”有何苦衷？備受網民熱捧的“親民書記”張春賢在“彎道超車”後又有何新舉動？“陝西幫”的代言人趙樂際在衣錦還鄉後為什麼政績平平？而不按常規出牌的盧展工河南履新後為何先看愛滋病患者？周強、胡春華與陸昊是否意味著共青團派的迴光返照？
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蔣介石日記（1917～1972）自2006年開始，已於美國胡佛研究院陸續公開，全球學者專家紛往審閱、研讀，掀起一波波蔣介石研究的熱潮。而1945年到1949年，是中華民國歷史上翻天覆地巨變的五年，這段期間的日記，更受矚目。
親歷這五年巨變的郝柏村，1949年後，歷任中華民國參謀總長、國防部長。並曾於1965年到1971年間，擔任總統府侍衛長，親炙蔣介石多年。近年來，幾個問題常在他心中盤旋：為何國民政府要接受雅爾達密約？馬歇爾調停國共紛爭為什麼會失敗？為什麼堅持動員戡亂？為什麼國軍在軍事戰略上，始終犯同樣的錯誤而不知調整？
向歷史提問後的反饋，以及對公開日記史料的深掘，促成郝柏村以四年的時間，寫下近二十萬字「解讀」蔣介石日記的外交與軍事紀錄，將中華民國在大陸最後五年的軍事與談判失敗過程，對比當年的沙場經歷，以及與日記所及人物的互動、軍事外交的見解等，帶領讀者重回歷史現場，在硝煙彈雨中，重建兩岸分野的關鍵時點。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35559) ISBN: 9789862167540

Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry contains an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words. (For this item please quote stock ID 9053) ISBN: 9789622016156

'This collection brings together major authorities on public management in the Pacific Asia region and is destined to become a core text for students and researchers' - Stephen Osborne, Professor of Public Management, Aston University, UK Public service reform, or public sector reform, has been a hot topic among political scientists in recent years as most existing government structures are inadequate to cope with the ever-changing environments of globalism in terms of capital and technology. This is particularly true among Asian countries where the traditional bureaucracy has been strong as compared to a relatively weak sense of community. Traditional relations between government, the business sector and labour, which slowly have taken shape in the last two decades, are now once again challenged through de-colonialisation in Hong Kong, democratisation in Korea, decentralisation in Singapore and technological innovation in Japan. This timely collection addresses a variety of selected reform issues confronted by these four developed Asian economies. The areas of reform covered range from human resource management, financial management and pay reform, to central agency role, service improvements, private sector involvement and political accountability. Anthony B. L. Cheung is a Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong. He also serves concurrently as associate director in charge of the 'Institutions and Management' stream at the University’s Governance in Asia Research Centre. His research interests include public sector reforms in China and Hong Kong, governance reform in Asia, and the politics of reform. He is co-editor of two recent books, Governance & Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business As Usual? (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) and Public Sector Reform in Hong Kong: Into the 21st Century (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2001). (For this item please quote stock ID 24272) ISBN: 9789629962340

《大江大海騙了你:李敖秘密談話錄》是李敖駁斥龍應台的《大江大海一九四九》之作，書中拿出真材實料的證據拆穿龍應台的無知、荒謬和瞎扯。下筆千鈞，掃蕩之下，也不只龍應台應聲倒地，凡是檯面上上赫赫有名的「偽君子」、「真小人」，都無一倖免。讀者一看，當會心驚：「天啊！原來他們並不是如書上所標榜的英雄豪傑，甚至根本是一些欺世盜名之徒。」
　　不過，李敖此書最大的用心之處，不在拆穿錯誤，而是再一次為被國民黨史觀所湮沒的人物發聲，那些不為國民黨同路人所記錄的一面，才真的是斑斑血跡。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35458) ISBN: 9789575101336

中國有這樣一個群體，他們憑藉上一代的官場人脈和裙帶關係，瘋狂搶奪政治資源和人事資源，他們是把公權變爲私權的世襲，他們是近親繁殖的產物，他們擁有天生的絕對的競爭優勢，他們赤裸裸地把公選變成私選，堂而皇之地亮相官場；他們倚仗父蔭，要麽目空一切為所欲為，要麽肆無忌憚公開炫父，那句無人不知的“我爸是李剛”，已成“官二代”的代名詞。
當你讀完史上最強“招聘事件”，得了99分的應考神人，24歲的市長女兒當上大學副院長，還有平庸的“80後”集體登上政壇，舉報“官二代”的網友遭到跨省追捕，以及“史上最牛的縣長”，“史上最牛公務員”等等無數“中國之最”後，或許就能理解“官二代”三個字為何在當今的中國千夫所指。
中國還有這樣一群人，他們有一個共同的稱號“紅二代”。與代表著普通幹部子弟的“官二代”相比，“紅二代”的政治根基更深厚，人脈資源更豐富，他們是高幹子弟，是開國元勛的後代。
同是“紅二代”也被分為“當朝紅二代”、“在野紅二代”等。與“當朝紅二代”第五代接班人相比，其它“紅二代”顯然低調很多，但他們身上畢竟流著“紅色血液”，又豈甘寂寞，他們寫紅書唱紅歌，他們堅信紅色江山屬於“紅二代”。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35545) ISBN: 9781935981244

他們的父輩是改革開放後的第一批淘金者，他們銜金湯匙出生，坐擁豐厚家產，坐擁得天獨厚的能把夢想化為現實的資源。他們中的少數子承父業成功接班，他們中的大多數嬌生慣養坐吃山空，他們中的不少人已變成敗家的紈絝子弟，變成飆車族、燒錢族、炫富族－－“富二代”便是這個群體的稱謂。
《富二代》告訴你，“富二代”一詞到底是不是“窮二代”的仇富產物－－當劉永行之子劉相宇奔赴四川地震災區，茅理翔兢兢業業培養兒子茅忠群成功接班，左穎在父親的調教下成為中國最年輕的億萬富豪，女首富張茵之子一直遵母囑低調行事時，羡慕總是多於嫉妒；然而，當接二連三的致命飆車事件，肆無忌憚的校園選妃事件，自我炒作的高調炫富婚禮，還有豪賭敗家者公開燒錢者出現在你眼前時，為什麼麻木早已替代好奇？
美國也有像中國“富二代”這樣的群體，但為什麼美國的二代不是人神共憤？他們為什麼沒有遭遇這樣的貶義流行詞？中國和美國的二代到底有何差別？美國媒體為何號召美國女孩嫁給中國人？美國銀行又為何要免費培訓中國富家子弟？ (For this item please quote stock ID 35546) ISBN: 9781935981237

昔日“領跑者”變成了“副手”，他低調而“無為”，進入中南海的頭兩年，其形象也如同“泥牛入海”，似乎有些難堪重任。而兩年過後，他為何又強棒出擊，高調突圍？美國人談“政敵團隊”，為何團報也大談“政敵團隊”？他主抓能源安全，他主管宏觀調控，他重手打壓樓市，難道這是在向世界發出他正全面接班的信號？難道幾年前的那句“有胡錦濤在，李克強接班仍有希望”的預示，真的有望變成現實？ (For this item please quote stock ID 35553) ISBN: 9789628744473

The National People’s Congress of China is approaching its 50th anniversary since its birth in 1954. As China’s highest organ of state power the NPC’s circumstances and fate visually embodies the swing of the pendulum of the democratic life of the Chinese people. The book is the first English book on the NPC model written by a Chinese political scholar. Part One briefly reviews the history of the Chinese political system from the Xia dynasty through the formation of the Republic of China, pointing out cultural patterns that have affected the NPC system. Part Two explains the NPC system as set down in the 1954 Constitution and argues that the destruction inflicted upon the NPC during the 'cultural revolution' period amounted to a disaster for both the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people. Part Three displays 'in thick and heavy colours' the reforms made to the NPC system under the 1982 Constitution. It shows a comprehensive picture of the refurbished NPC system with its elections, its powers and functions within the national power structure, its internal organization, its legislative procedure, its decision powers and processes, its discretion over the personnel of the other constitutional branches, its oversight powers and activities, its special committees, its relations with political parties, its Deputies and Members, its relations with the public and the media, its space, time, funding and staff, its relations with local people’s congresses and its relations with foreign legislatures. The purpose is to accurately depict the actual operation of the NPC system with fresh materials. Part Four generalises major features of the NPC system model, justifies the model from historical, international and domestic perspectives, discusses its strengths and offers criticisms on its shortcomings. (For this item please quote stock ID 20805) ISBN: 9787119031330

本书第一部分阐述了当前卫生政策制定的相关情况，包括其历史、近期的变革以及面临的挑战等。本部分陈述了卫生政策的制定是以经济发展和公共管理为大背景的。正如经济和社会一样，卫生政策及其制定还处于过渡性阶段。

第二部分介绍了一系列关于政策理论的研究(分析、发展、执行和评价)。我们期望本部分能够为大家提供一些理论工具，以利于各位思考如何将中国的卫生政策制定融入国际大背景中去，以及如何借鉴国际经验来发展中国的卫生政策制度。

第三部分为案例分析，强调了中国政策制定者在中国特有国情下，应用前面所提到的各种理论时所遇到的问题。案例的选择旨在揭示体制缺陷与政策制定方法，而非“致力于解决现实问题”，尤其是某些特定的医疗卫生事件。本部分试图阐明各种不同的手段和方法，而并非是提出成套的解决方案。

本书以多种方式来面向广大读者。当然，我们的主要读者还是那些服务于各层面的、个人经验不尽相同的政策执行者。我们希望他们能重视本书中所提及的国际视角以及某些常见问题的不同解决方案。我们也期待将中国卫生政策历史与国际视角相结合之举能启发读者的新思考和新观念。 (For this item please quote stock ID 35542) ISBN: 9787811166996

Viewed largely from China's perspective, this study offers a multi-faceted and systematic analysis of the ebb and flow of Sino-Australian relations from 1978 to the early 2000s. (For this item please quote stock ID 28353) ISBN: 9787532737352

《全民医疗保障制度的挑战:澳大利亚卫生体制的启示》共分十一章。
第一章介绍了澳大利亚卫生系统形成的社会、政治、经济背景，为深入理解澳大利亚卫生体制的形成、发展、运作和存在的矛盾冲突提供了丰富的基础资料。
第二章提供了澳大利亚人口健康状况、疾病模式、健康危险因素的详细信息，研究和分析了存在的问题和面临的挑战，以及成为澳大利亚卫生系统重点关注的土著人健康问题。
第三章阐述了澳大利亚的医疗保障制度，重点介绍和讨论了体现澳大利亚卫生体制特征的全民医疗保障制度——医疗照顾和药品补贴计划。
第四章概述了澳大利亚卫生系统的系统绩效，并详尽介绍了国家卫生系统绩效的评价框架和指标，以及国家为持续改善卫生系统绩效所采取的保障措施。
第五章探索了澳大利亚卫生系统调控的一系列策略和措施，包括卫生投资、医疗卫生机构、卫生设施、卫生人力和卫生服务的规制等。
第六章论述并分析了澳大利亚的卫生计划背景和卫生计划框架，全面介绍了澳大利亚利用计划手段合理配置卫生资源的模式和做法。
(For this item please quote stock ID 35329) ISBN: 9787117108690

薄熙來既有政治野心, 也有作一番事業的雄心。他敢做好事, 也敢做壞事。 歷史把這樣一個政治人物安排到了中國各種矛盾最突出的重慶地區，打破了政治的僵局，也打破了改革的僵局。圍繞重慶模式的爭論和政治博弈，將不僅決定重慶模式的命運，還將決定中國模式的命運。
《薄熙來破局》記錄了中共十七大後薄熙來在重慶任職這段歷史，除介紹其打黑除惡、唱讀講傳和整治環境等眾所熟知的大動作，著重披露和揭示“重慶模式”幕後運作的推手，以及鮮為外界所知的薄熙來智囊團隊，還有為“重慶模式”保駕護航的左膀右臂。 　　 (For this item please quote stock ID 35550) ISBN: 9781935981220

中國新權貴家族更加與時俱進，更加明目張膽，更加肆無忌憚，他們全面出擊，佔據各行各業，以更加瘋狂的手段掠奪所有資源……本書所列出的中國十大權 貴家族，依靠“與生俱來”的權力資本，以資本運作為主，在資產拍賣、企業兼併、募集資金等令人眼花繚亂的騰轉挪移中，巧取豪奪，成為中國權貴階層的金字塔 尖。 (For this item please quote stock ID 34760) ISBN: 9781935981091

二十年來劉曉波不斷發出獅子吼，都是為了挽救一個一天天沉淪下去的大國，希望他有一天會回到文明的正流。本書所收五十篇文章是他在再度入獄前寫成的，包括兩個方面：正面是伸張自由、民主、人權、和平等普世價值，反面則是揭示「以沉淪當崛起」的種種醜惡面相。這是一位可敬的公共知識人的稀世之音，值得每一位讀者細心傾聽！ (For this item please quote stock ID 35945) ISBN: 9789867178961

20世纪在世界东方，莫过于中华民族从东亚病夫到东方巨龙、从百年沉沦到百年复兴这一历史命运的大落大起。在这一命运形成之初，中国国民党、中国共产党、联共（布）与共产国际、日本昭和军阀集团这四大力量，以中国大地为舞台发生了猛烈碰撞。内外矛盾冲突空前尖锐，相互斗争局面极其复杂，各派力量的策略转换空前迅速；每一方的领袖和将领皆在较量中淋沥尽致地展现自己全部能量，从而在历史中留下深深的印痕。外部的围追堵截，内部的争论与妥协、以及不尽的跋涉、惊人的… (For this item please quote stock ID 36025) ISBN: 9787801426208

这本《中国》小百科，以介绍中国的基本情况为主，向读者展示中国在政治、经济、文化等各领域的现状与发展变化。从中，我们可以看到中国的国际往来、经济增长、环境保护、科技与教育、文化交流和社会生活等各个方面的最新动态这本《中国》小百科，以介绍中国的基本情况为主，向读者展示中国在政治、经济、文化等各领域的现状与发展变化。从中，我们可以看到中国的国际往来、经济增长、环境保护、科技与教育、文化交流和社会生活等各个方面的最新动态。 (For this item please quote stock ID 36058) ISBN: 9787119071794

China is a primer to help international readers acquire a better understanding of China. While maintaining certain basic historical facts and general information, it offers the latest facts and figures on every facet of China, including its international contacts, cultural exchanges, economic growth, environmental protection,developments in science and technology,social progress, and improvements of people's livelihood. (For this item please quote stock ID 36060) ISBN: 9787119071800

趙紫陽(1919-2005)，中國八十年代著名的政治領袖。曾任國務院總理、中共總書記。主持中國的「改革開放」新政，中外矚目。但是在1989年六四事件中，因反對武力鎮壓，而被罷黜，軟禁至死，成為張學良式的傳奇人物。在長達十六年嚴厲的禁錮中，幸有一位趙的老戰友宗鳳鳴可以入室探訪，和趙上百次的密談，記錄了趙對中共內部權力鬥爭和政策分歧真相的披露。包括鄧小平如何垂簾聽政、趙和胡耀邦的關係、趙下台的真實原因、上書十五大的經過、對中國走向權貴資本主義的分析，以及對六四後執政的江、胡班子的批評。還有對共產黨專政理論和歷史的反省、批判，提出思想啟蒙、議會民主、聯邦自治等多方面改革中國政治的主張。對中美關係、蘇聯演變及台灣問題也有獨到見解……顯示胡耀邦、趙紫陽這一代領導人廣闊的視野和罕見的才能與抱負。本書描述趙紫陽在中國政治舞台消失的悲劇，也為研究那段歷史提供了權威的史料。 (For this item please quote stock ID 27587) ISBN: 9789627934219

中国传记文学第一名家叶永烈，走访诸多重大历史事件的当事人及见证者，浓笔重彩，写照“新时期的遵义会议”，史料价值与文学价值兼顾，让人爱不释卷。
　　本书是关于邓小平在1978年重要历史关头力挽狂澜，改变中国命运走向的全景记录。 　　中国如今的欣欣向荣的盛景，都源于那个时期的决策。“文化大革命”结束后，中国不是立即走上了正轨，在两年的时间内，又发生了多少故事，鲜为人知？
　　邓小平如何三起三落，最终被确立为中共第二代领导集体的核心？
　　深具历史意义的十一届三中全会不仅仅是一次会议，围绕着它，前前后后发生了许多事情，虽不是刀光剑影，却也是跌宕起伏，悬疑丛生。 (For this item please quote stock ID 30013) ISBN: 9787210038290

習近平，生於一九五三年，為中共開國元勛習仲勛之子。幼年於名門大宅生活，青年時曾在陝西農村插隊七年；步入政途後，曾在福建省擔任各級地方官達十七年，之後陸續接任浙江省委書記、上海市委書記等職。二○○七年秋中共十七大，習近平進入由九人組成的中共中央政治局常務委員會，成為中共最高領導層裡的一員；二○○八年三月，當選為中華人民共和國副主席。他已被視為中共第五代必然的接班人。
在即將來臨的習近平時代，正是中國處在內外矛盾和社會危機深刻的關鍵期，倘若中共紅朝不進行政治體制的民主改革，就勢必會激起民變，習近平不可能做一個太平天子，他必須作出歷史的選擇。
本書細述習近平從少至今的生活經過及仕途論政的歷程，同時側論中共政治局勢的變化，可視為在二○一二年秋天中共改朝換代之際，了解這位中共新一代領導人的必讀之書。 (For this item please quote stock ID 36046) ISBN: 9789571354538

中共正處於一場革命或政變的前夜，這不是危言聳聽，而是中國社會的結構、矛盾和現狀告訴人們，這一場革命或政變在今後十年內或遲或早必然要發生，而且是不可避免地注定要發生的，這是一場不以中共執政集團意志為轉移而勢必要來到的一場劇變。
由於中國社會經濟發展快速，貧富差距日異懸殊之際，社會對於政府的不滿與矛盾早已積累至深，中國表面的盛世隱藏著深刻的社會危機，中共領導集團正坐在民眾憤怒的火山口上而渾然不覺。
有鑑於此，作者搶在二○一二年的秋天，中共第五代領袖在中共十八大的換屆聲中登台亮相前，分析並預測了這一批新的領導人物。本書先破題立論了中國即將發生政變之原因，分析其在政治面、社會面、國際氛圍間勢不可擋之原由；之後則精選介紹了九位中共第五代領導人物，他們分別是：現任中共中央軍委副主席習近平、國務院常務副總理李克強、廣東省委書記汪洋、中共中央組織部處長李源潮、中共重慶市委書記薄熙來、國務院副總理王岐山、空軍出身的劉亞洲、海軍司令吳勝利及擅長信息戰的陸軍未來掌門人章沁生。
作者細膩地以其多年的觀察研究心得剖析這幾位關鍵人物的出生、性格與仕途進退，與他們各自在近年來在政治圈的表現。這批人將負起領導這個有近十四億人口、世界第二經濟規模的大中國的責任。中國將注視他們，世界也將注視他們。 (For this item please quote stock ID 36114) ISBN: 9789571353913

司馬文武／薛心鎔／黃肇珩／俞國基／南方朔／吳豐山／李旺台／殷允芃／周天瑞／戎撫天／楊憲宏／楊渡／王健壯／李永得／徐璐／黃年／陳銘城
　 他們像是在無盡的黑夜中尋找星星，對外迎向忽明忽暗的民主亮光，對內追尋若有似無的記者典範。
二十年後，這群人當中的十七位，成為本書深入訪談的主角。他們當年寫下的所有報導與觀察，早已存放在各大圖書館提供公開查閱；他們在新聞界甚或其他領域都是響噹噹的要角，成為菜鳥記者仰之彌高的學習對象；他們新聞生涯的成功與失敗，也已到了可以接受公評檢驗的時刻。 (For this item please quote stock ID 36115) ISBN: 9789571347813

身為“太子黨”，再加上江澤民、曾慶紅的器重，歷練完整、人脈資源豐富、各派勢力均能接受，讓他在中共十七大更上兩層樓。“王儲”亮相，強勢出擊，對內領軍奧運和維穩，對外痛斥外國人吃飽沒事幹。個性如此鮮明，議論如此紛爭，他真讓中國人看到了希望？ (For this item please quote stock ID 33593) ISBN: 9789628744442

王鶴濱，1924年4月5日生於河北省農村，1938年參加抗日工作，1941年入伍，1942年入黨，1985年離休。醫學博士，蘇聯醫學副博士，研究員，享受政府津貼，是毛澤東的保健醫生兼生活秘書，同時也兼任劉少奇、周恩來、朱德、任弼時4位書記的保健醫生。 (For this item please quote stock ID 36456) ISBN: 9789861678528

毛澤東的保健工作是屬於個人保健範疇，但是為這位偉人做保健又遠遠超出了個人保健的範圍，其中有許多值得總結學習的地方。 本書對毛澤東生活中的衣、食、住、行等各個方面的健康問題進行的闡述，是帶著從總結經驗、吸取教訓的角度去回顧的。哪些是我們應該繼承、發展的，哪些是我們應該克服、避免的，都對現代人的保健具有很實際的參考價值。總的來說，毛澤東生活中合理的舉措，正是他吸取了中國廣大農民式的生活方式，這些都給他帶來了健康上的利益。而他生活中的不良習慣，比如長年吸菸、進城後運動量大大減少等，對他的健康造成損失，導致他晚年體格偏胖、便秘等的負面影響。 (For this item please quote stock ID 36457) ISBN: 9789861678771