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  • The Road Taken

    China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition

    by Sung Hee Ru ...
    Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism.As Europe's colonial powers reached China in the nineteenth century, they became so strong that China could no longer ignore them. Given that the unprecedented geographical expansion of the European system undermined a China ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

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  • The Oxford History of Modern China

    Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series The Oxford History of...
    'excellent' LSE Review of Books China is the world's most populous country and newest superpower, whose place on the international stage can only be understood through the lens of its modern history. The Oxford History of Modern China is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising power in what promises to be the 'Chinese century'. Covering the period of dramatic shifts and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China

    Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series Oxford Illustrated History
    This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese ... Read more

    $21.49 CAD

  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    by Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic ... Read more

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  • China's Last Empire

    The Great Qing

    by William T. Rowe, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 6 - History of Imperial China
    In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • 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

  • Taiwan: A New History

    A New History

    by Murray A. Rubinstein ...
    This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume "Cambridge History of China". ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping

    by Michael E. Marti ...
    China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping documents a turning point in the Chinese communist revolution that elevates Deng to a role equal to that of Mao. Dr. Marti explores post-Tiananmen domestic political wrangling and offers the first documentation of Dengs efforts to link all the major elements of societythe PLA, the Party, the revolutionary elders, and the regional governorsinto a coalition ... Read more

    $27.42 CAD

  • Politics in China

    An Introduction, Second Edition

    Edited by William A. Joseph ...
    On October 1, 2009, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous six decades it had been. During that time, under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), China was transformed from one of the world's poorest countries into the world's fastest growing major economy, and from a weak state barely able to govern ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • Protest with Chinese Characteristics

    Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends.Hung samples from mid ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Modern Chinese History

    Revised and Expanded Second Edition

    by David Kenley ...
    From the beginning of the Qing Dynasty in the middle of the 17th century to the present time, this compact volume guides the reader through the social, political, and economic vicissitudes of the Chinese nation. Two outstanding features of this work are its emphasis on cross-cultural contacts and the attention it pays to men and women from various walks of life, not merely the well-known figures ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • After Tiananmen

    The Rise of China

    by Vijay Gokhale ...
    On a snowy day in January 1998 Xu Zengping, a Chinese businessman based out of Hong Kong, stood on the deck of the Varyag*, a partially constructed aircraft carrier that was being built by the Soviet Union at a shipyard on the Black Sea. Six years later, Xu had apparently bought it for US$ 20 million. It was reported that his firm had no licence, no real address and assets of only US$ 125,000, so ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD