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  • We Need To Talk About Xi

    What we need to know about the world’s most powerful leader

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Meet the most powerful leader in the world.Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery.From growing up with a father purged in Mao's Cultural Revolution and his mission to eradicate poverty, to his persecution of Uyghur Muslims and paranoia about being likened to Winnie-the-Pooh, Xi ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Out of the Ordinary

    A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

    by Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka ...
    Now available for the first time—more than 50 years after it was written—is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915–62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology. Here at last ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Essays on Nature and the Philosophy of Environmental Education

    Edited by Michael Bonnett, Justin Dillon, Alan Reid ...
    This volume identifies and debates important elements of what would be involved in an education that is truly adequate for the environmental situation that currently confronts us. The chapters in the book present a wide variety of perspectives and raise questions about much mainstream environmental education, particularly the heavy emphasis given to science in understanding environmental problems ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Contemporary China - An Introduction

    by Michael Dillon ...
    This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; and Taiwan and Hong Kong as ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Dictionary of Chinese History

    by Michael Dillon ...
    First Published in 1979. This title is intended as a guide to personalities, events, ideas and institutions in China from earliest times right up to the present day. The dictionary should be particularly useful to anyone interested in Chinese history for its own sake, or in contemporary China, where today's events are so often seen in terms of the past. It should also help anyone interested in ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Biopolitics of Security

    A Political Analytic of Finitude

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Series series PRIO New Security Studies
    Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory.Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course of the 17th century, the problematisation of government and rule became newly enframed by a novel ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Lesser Dragons

    Minority Peoples of China

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Lesser Dragons is a timely introduction to the fascinating and complex world of China’s ‘national minorities’. Based on detailed research, including the author’s first-hand fieldwork in several minority areas, it introduces the major non-Han peoples of China, including the Mongols, the Tibetans, the Uyghurs of Xinjiang and the Manchus, and traces the evolution of their relationship with the Han ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD

  • Politics of Security

    Towards a Political Phiosophy of Continental Thought

    by Michael Dillon ...
    In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Politics of Security establishes the relationship between ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Zhou Enlai

    The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao

    by Professor Michael Dillon ...
    Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s.Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the most important events in China's modern history and was a close associate of both the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and communist leader Mao Zedong, ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • China in the Age of Xi Jinping

    by Michael Dillon ...
    This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics, and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; and Taiwan and Hong ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Deconstructing International Politics

    by Michael Dillon ...
    Series series Interventions
    Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not only in challenging traditional scholarship and addressing contemporary politics, but in ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • China's Muslim Hui Community

    Migration, Settlement and Sects

    by Michael Dillon ...
    This is a reconstruction of the history of the Muslim community in China known today as the Hui or often as the Chinese Muslims as distinct from the Turkic Muslims such as the Uyghurs. It traces their history from the earliest period of Islam in China up to the present day, but with particular emphasis on the effects of the Mongol conquest on the transfer of central Asians to China, the ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD