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  • War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait

    by Scott L. Kastner ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    As tensions continue to rise between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, numerous analysts and officials have warned of a growing risk of military conflict, which could potentially draw in the United States. How worried should we be about a war in the Taiwan Strait?Scott L. Kastner offers a comprehensive analytical account of PRC-Taiwan relations that sheds new light on the prospects for ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait

    by Scott L. Kastner ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    As tensions continue to rise between the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan, numerous analysts and officials have warned of a growing risk of military conflict, which could potentially draw in the United States. How worried should we be about a war in the Taiwan Strait?Scott L. Kastner offers a comprehensive analytical account of PRC-Taiwan relations that sheds new light on the prospects for ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • China's Strategic Multilateralism

    Investing in Global Governance

    by Scott L. Kastner, Margaret M. Pearson, Chad Rector ...
    China sometimes plays a leadership role in addressing global challenges, but at other times it free rides or even spoils efforts at cooperation. When will rising powers like China help to build and maintain international regimes that sustain cooperation on important issues, and when will they play less constructive roles? This study argues that the strategic setting of a particular issue area has ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait

    In the shadow of China

    Edited by Ming-chin Monique Chu, Scott L. Kastner ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of cross-Taiwan Strait relations and the complex dynamics at play in the region.Since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan’s president in 2008, the relationship across the Taiwan Strait—long viewed as one of Asia’s most volatile potential flashpoints—has experienced a remarkable détente. Whether the relationship has been truly transformed, ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Incurable: Stories from the World of Cure

    by Neepa Sarkar, Patrick Scott, Jerry Purdon, Katie Ness, Keith Raymond, Benjamin White, Deborah Sullivan Brennan, Cris Morris, Trevor Abbud, Christopher Pender, Scott Chaddon ...
    This anthology brings together eleven stories from the authors, Jerry Purdon, Trevor Abbud, Benjamin B. White, Patrick Scott, Keith Raymond, Katie Ness, Deborah Sullivan Brennan, Christopher Pender, Neepa Sarkar, Scott Chaddon, and Cris Morris. For those who might have never heard of the World of CURE, this is an excellent introduction to the vastness and ways in which so much has changed from the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Everything Under the Heavens

    How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

    by Howard W. French ...
    From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Modern China: All That Matters

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series All That Matters
    In Modern China: All That Matters, Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see it. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform. Clements offers a Chinese perspective on such events as the Handover of Hong Kong, and chronicles the historical events that continue to resonate ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Thirst for Empire

    How Tea Shaped the Modern World

    by Erika Rappaport ...
    How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies—the effects of which are with us ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • China's World

    The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • China at War 1901-1949

    by Edward L. Dreyer ...
    Series series Modern Wars In Perspective
    Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, through anarchy, civil war and invasion, to the final triumph of the Communists in 1949 - yet few periods are as little known by the wider world, and so little understood. Professor Dreyer's impressive account of ... Read more

    $157.99 CAD

  • China and the West

    Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia

    by Fokke Obbema ...
    China sees its relations with the West as absolutely crucial to its future. This wider relationship, between the new world and the old, is changing the global political and economic landscape. But can Europe and China overcome their cultural and political differences to develop a relationship of trust? Here, experienced journalist Fokke Obbema travels through Europe and China and speaks with ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Surviving the Dragon

    A Tibetan Lama's Account of 40 Years under Chinese Rule

    by Arjia Rinpoche ...
    On a peaceful summer day in 1952, ten monks on horseback arrived at a traditional nomad tent in northeastern Tibet where they offered the parents of a precocious toddler their white handloomed scarves and congratulations for having given birth to a holy child—and future spiritual leader.Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD