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“megan ferry”

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  • China and New Left Visions

    Political and Cultural Interventions

    by Xiaomei Chen, Daniel F. Vukovich, Xueping Zhong, Megan Ferry, Lisa Rofel, Aili Mu, Haomin Gong, Hai Ren, Arif Dirlik ...
    Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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  • One Child

    The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment

    by Mei Fong ...
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers an intimate investigation of China's one-child policy and its consequences for families and the nation at large.For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel

    Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China

    by Pin Ho, Wenguang Huang ...
    The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family -- the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo's secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo's supporters ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Red Star over China

    The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

    by Edgar Snow ...
    "A historical classic" that brings Mao Tse-tung, the Long March, and the Chinese revolution to vivid life ( Foreign Affairs).Journalist Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936—and out of his up-close experience came this historical account, one of the most important books about the remarkable events that would shape not only the future of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stumbling Giant

    The Threats to China's Future

    by Timothy Beardson ...
    "A thoughtful reconsideration of China's actual place in the new world order, based on reality rather than fanciful speculation." —Kirkus ReviewsCan anything prevent China surpassing the United States and becoming the world's top superpower? While predictions that China's rise to global supremacy is a near-certainty have resulted in this belief becoming almost conventional wisdom, this book boldly ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

    by Michel Cormier ...
    With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question the decisions of the governing party are strictly forbidden. In this fascinating account, Cormier ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Bully of Asia

    Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order

    by Steven W. Mosher ...
    The Once and Future HegemonIn a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country-that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago-whose economic power rivals our own-that believes its superior race and culture give it the right to universal deference ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Killing Wind

    A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution

    by Tan Hecheng, Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian ...
    Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known as the Daoxian massacre, the killings were one of many acts of so-called mass dictatorship and armed factional ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Tibet on Fire

    Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule

    by Tsering Woeser ...
    Translated by Kevin Carrico ...
    Why Tibetan monks are setting themselves on fireSince the 2008 uprising, nearly 150 Tibetan monks have set fire to themselves in protest at the Chinese occupation of their country. Most have died from their injuries. Author Tsering Woeser is a prominent voice of the Tibetan movement, and one of the few Tibetan authors to write in Chinese. Her stirring acts of resistance have led to her house ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • China's Rise in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Brantly Womack ...
    China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels—communist, non-Western, developing country—but whose internal logic remains a mystery to us. Arguing that it would be a major step forward in our genuine knowledge of China if we understood its internal dynamic, this innovative book considers China ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Imperial Bandits

    Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands

    by Bradley Camp Davis, Charles F. Keyes, Laurie J. Sears, Vicente Rafael ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three empires (the Qing empire in China, the Vietnamese empire governed by the Nguyen dynasty, and, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Accidental State

    Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan

    by Hsiao-ting Lin ...
    The existence of two Chinese states—one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan—is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war. Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the “Two Chinas” dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Accidental State ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD