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  • Transnational Taiwan

    Crossing Borders into the 21st Century

    par David Pendery ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a study of transnationalism, focusing on experience of migrants, immigrants, travelers, expatriates, aliens, evacuees, refugees, and nomads in the world, broadly, and Taiwan, particularly. Offering an entirely new framework for what Taiwan as a contested transnational space means for Asia—a heterotopia, in which multiple visions of politics and society can flourish—Dr. Pendery's ... En savoir plus

    $57.69 CAD

  • Taiwan—A Light in the East

    A Personal and Analytical Taiwan Study

    par David Pendery ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is an analytical of study of Taiwan interspersed with personal elements from the author's life there in the last 20 years. Taiwan's unique confluence of colonial histories, Chinese nationalism and democratization offers a tangible alternative to the status quo in mainland China, albeit one that is becoming more marginal with time. With this in mind, the author offers a concise ... En savoir plus

    $64.09 CAD

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  • Oil and Water

    Being Han in Xinjiang

    par Tom Cliff ...
    For decades, China’s Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, much scholarly attention has been paid to state actions and the Uyghur’s efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. This has left the other half of the puzzle—the motivations and ambitions of Han settlers themselves—sorely understudied.With Oil and Water, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    par Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... En savoir plus

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  • Prisoner of the State

    The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

    par Zhao Ziyang ...
    Traduit par Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu, Renee Chiang ...
    Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    par Philipp Lottholz ...
    Collections series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... En savoir plus

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  • City of Protest

    A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

    par Antony Dapiran ...
    Collections series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of 2014. What emerges from these grassroots movements is a unique Hong Kong identity, one shaped neither by Britain nor China. An insightful exploration of the historical and social stimuli ... En savoir plus

    $10.19 CAD

  • Knowing China

    A Twenty-First Century Guide

    par Frank N. Pieke ...
    Contemporary China appears both deceptively familiar and inexplicably different. China is a cauldron of forms of entrepreneurship, social organization, ways of life and governance that are at once new and unique, recognizably Chinese and generically modern. In analyzing and interpreting these developments, Frank N. Pieke adopts a China-centric perspective to move beyond western preoccupations, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • China: Fragile Superpower : How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise

    How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise

    par Susan L. Shirk ...
    Once a sleeping giant China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones laptop computers and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: The Fragile Superpower Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies elsewhere--not in China's astonishing growth but in the deep ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD

  • Sinicization and the Rise of China

    Civilizational Processes Beyond East and West

    Modifié par Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    China’s rise and processes of Sinicization suggest that recombination of new and old elements rather than a total rupture with or return to the past is China’s likely future. In both space and time, civilizational politics offers the broadest social context. It is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

    par Willy Wo-Lap Lam ...
    Renowned for his coverage of China's elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping--General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November 2012. With rare insight, Lam describes Xi's personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • Living with Reform

    China since 1989

    par Timothy Cheek ...
    Collections series Global History of the Present
    China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lives not only of China's leaders but China's working people. It outlines the ambitious economic reforms taken since the 1980s and shows the complex ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD