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  • The Battle For China's Past

    Mao and the Cultural Revolution

    by Mobo Gao ...
    --Shows that the Mao era was benficial for most Chinese citizens--"A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang’s recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed." Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff"This important book opens a much ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Constructing China

    Clashing Views of the People's Republic

    by Mobo Gao ...
    From fear and anxiety, to celebration, China's rise has provoked a variety of responses across the world. In light of this phenomenon, how are our understandings of China produced?From West to East, Mobo Gao interrogates knowledge production; rejecting the supposed objectivity of empirical statistics and challenging the assumption of a dichotomy between the Western liberal democracy and Chinese ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Decoupling

    A New Global Order/Disorder?

    Edited by Mobo Gao, Justin O’Connor, Baohui Xie, Jack Butcher ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the decoupling process between the US and China from a number of perspectives. The rise of China, a country that is very different from the dominating West headed by the USA, in terms of both political systems and civilizational traditions, is profoundly unsettling for the latter. Talk of decoupling the West from China has been going on for some years now and some actions have ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Gao Village Revisited

    by Mobo C. F. Gao ...
    The personal stories of the Gao villagers demonstrate and are related to changes in China.This is a close study of Gao Village twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao village, wrote his original ethnography Gao Village. It combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories, which presents a convincing yet complex picture of how Gao ... Read more

    $59.79 CAD

  • Different Histories, Shared Futures

    Dialogues on Australia-China

    Edited by Mobo Gao, Justin O’Connor, Baohui Xie, Jack Butcher ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book delves into the Australia-China relationship, which is currently at its worst since 1972, when the two countries first established a diplomatic relationship. Australia is seen by the US as its front-line ally in its fight in containing China. Derived from an international symposium organized by the editorial team and held in Adelaide, South Australia in September 2021, these essays are ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Media Transparency in China

    Rethinking Rhetoric and Reality

    by Baohui Xie ...
    This book argues that the gap between the official transparency rhetoric and the censorship reality has demonstrated the discrepancy between what the Party is and what it claims to be. Such a discrepancy is manifested by the reality that the reformed news industry, a hybrid of market-oriented commercialization and party-state control, has largely failed to deliver either the voice of the ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

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  • The New Emperors

    Power and the Princelings in China

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Emperors, the noted China expert Kerry Brown journeys deep into the heart of the secretive Communist Party. China's ... Read more

    $64.49 CAD

  • The Writing On The Wall: China And The West In The 21St Century

    by Will Hutton ...
    China constitutes a fifth of the world's population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled to make it the fifth largest economy in the world; if the pace is repeated over the next twenty it is set to become second only to the US. The speed of its development is stunning, a combination of cheap labour and commitment to science and technology that has never been matched by a developing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Struggle for Development

    by Benjamin Selwyn ...
    The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic?In this hard-hitting analysis Benjamin Selwyn shows how capitalism generates widespread poverty, gender discrimination and environmental ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Unlikely Partners

    Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

    by Julian Gewirtz ...
    Unlikely Partners recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country’s borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation’s tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng Xiaoping era, bringing to light China’s productive exchanges ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Xi Jinping

    Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018

    by Alfred L. Chan ...
    Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the village level, he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and China's paramount leader in 2012. Few expected what would come next: a sweeping restructuring of China's political economy and political culture which included anti-corruption ... Read more

    $46.79 CAD

  • China Since 1949

    by Linda Benson ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    Exploring the remarkable story of China’s rise to global prominence, China since 1949 provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the events that have shaped the country since the middle of the twentieth century.Covering the Maoist era through the Reform period to the present day, this book addresses subjects such as China’s position as a world economic power, the Chinese Communist Party’s ... Read more

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