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  • Compass on the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Theory, History and Culture

    by Guozhen Yang ...
    Translated by Guiying Jiang, Suying Li, Peng Chang ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is a theoretical study of China's maritime development and maritime humanities and social sciences, as well as a study of China's maritime historiography. China is a large country with both land and sea, rich in biodiversity, and the ocean is an important environment for the Chinese nation to survive and thrive. In history, the Chinese nation has developed its own maritime economy, ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

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  • Rebel Island

    the incredible history of Taiwan

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its ‘Asian Tiger’ economic miracle — and the looming threat of invasion by China.Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a ‘ball of mud’, Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller than Indiana. It is the last surviving enclave of the Republic of China, a lost colony of Japan, and ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy

    by Edward N. Luttwak ...
    As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Edward Luttwak worries about China’s own future prospects. Applying the logic of strategy for which he is well known, Luttwak argues that the most populous nation on Earth—and its second largest economy—may be headed for a fall.For any country whose rising strength cannot go unnoticed, the universal logic ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • China's Vision of Victory

    by Jonathan D. T. Ward ...
    Someday we may say that we never saw it coming. After seventy-five years of peace in the Pacific, a new challenger to American power has emerged, on a scale not seen in generations. Working from a deep sense of national destiny, the Chinese Communist Party is guiding a country of 1.4 billion people towards what it calls “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” and, with it, the end of an ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Trouble with Taiwan

    History, the United States and a Rising China

    by Kalley Wu Tzu Hui, Professor Kerry Brown ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Taiwan is one of the great paradoxes of the international order. A place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a 'rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States ... Read more

    $21.29 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 Law of the Sea

    The New Rules of Maritime Order

    by Isaac B. Kardon ...
    An in-depth examination of the law and geopolitics of China’s maritime disputes and their implications for the rules of the international law of the seaChina’s Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China’s maritime disputes. It provides a rigorous empirical account of whether and how China is changing “the rules” of international order—specifically, the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • East Asia Before the West

    Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute

    by David Kang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Chinese Among Others

    Emigration in Modern Times

    by Philip A. Kuhn ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration as an integral part of China's modern history. Although emigration has a much longer past, its "modern" phase dates from the sixteenth century, when European colonialists began to collaborate with Chinese emigrants to develop a worldwide trading system. The author explores both ... Read more

    $70.59 CAD

  • China: The Stealth Empire

    Why the World is Not Chinese Yet

    by Edward Burman ...
    China: The Stealth Empire asks why it is that China despite its size and once advanced culture and technology did not become a world power centuries ago Burman traces the answer through Chinese innate sense of superiority which made foreign conquest and trade an irrelevance. This is about to change with the evolution of what is termed the Stealth Empire characterised by world dominance in the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Taiwan

    by Xiaobing Li ...
    Series series The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
    This one-volume handbook explores the history of Taiwan, from its prehistory to its Japanese colonization to its tumultuous relationship with China in the 21st century.This addition to the Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations series focuses on significant events in the history of Taiwan, from ancient history to the present. Following the general series format, the book opens with the series ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD