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  • China’s Vernacular Responses to the Pandemic and Its Aftermath

    by Tianyang Liu ...
    Rather than focusing solely on government policy, the book explores everyday life in urban and rural China during the pandemic. It shows how people navigated uncertainty and how those experiences continue to shape daily practices after the crisis. It also explores how large-scale public health measures were interpreted and adapted.Drawing on interviews, digital diaries, and fieldwork conducted ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Chinese Geography of Ordinary Security

    by Tianyang Liu, Zhenjie Yuan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the geographies of (in-)security for ordinary Chinese. It advocates for a critical examination of the geography of Chinese school violence, arguing that schools are not simply containers for state policy but active channels through which spatial securitization and everyday violence converge. By analyzing the pervasive fear in schools, the analysis unravels the spatial dimensions ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • China’s Soft War on Terror

    Space-Making Processes of Securitization

    by Tianyang Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
    This book explores how the Chinese government reasserts its control and management of public spaces as part of its overall counter-terrorism strategy.The work focuses primarily on the banal and alternative forms that China’s ‘war on terror’ takes: the everyday, non-military, socio-economic and spatio-material. It presents three different cases of control associated with the state’s effort to ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Chinese Paradiplomacy at the Peripheries

    Beyond the Hinterland

    by Yao Song, Tianyang Liu ...
    Series series Rethinking Asia and International Relations
    This book explores how Chinese border provinces have become actors in international relations.Through an analysis of the international actorness – the inherent characteristics of a subnational entity as an international player – of Yunnan and two other geographically peripheral provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi, the domestic, economic, and legislative circumstances that motivated these provinces to ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Growing Moral

    A Confucian Guide to Life

    by Stephen C. Angle ...
    Series series Guides to the Good Life
    Ancient and enduring, rich and wide-ranging, the tradition of Confucianism offers profound insights into how we can lead good lives--lives built on understanding that we are deeply connected to one another. For thousands of years, Confucian thinkers have carefully honed a philosophy for living fully, passing that knowledge along to their students over generations. Kongzi, also known as Confucius ... Read more

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  • Overreach

    How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

    by Susan L. Shirk ...
    Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They ... Read more

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  • Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 1: AS and 1st-Year A Level

    by Ken Browne ...
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  • Encountering China

    Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Michael J. Sandel, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
    In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the ... Read more

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  • Terrorist Assemblages

    Homonationalism in Queer Times

    by Jasbir K. Puar, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next wave
    In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, through developments including the legal recognition inherent in ... Read more

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  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

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  • Advanced Ethics for Addiction Professionals

    by Michael J. Taleff, PhD, CSAC, MAC ...
    "The aspects of the book related to the philosophy of science and cognitive science (inductive and deductive reasoning, biases, and heuristics) are distilled in reasonable and useful ways. I recommend this book to those addiction professionals who want to create their own framework for ethical decision making."--PsycCRITIQUESEthical decision-making is required in many of the difficult situations ... Read more

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