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  • Stumbling Giant

    The Threats to China's Future

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ageing Giant

    China's Looming Population Collapse

    par Timothy Beardson ...
    Before the end of the present century the population of China currently around 1.4 billion -- is forecast to drop to around half that level as a major and unprecedented demographic crisis begins to bite. Its working-age population has already stopped growing and is now well into a process of contraction. Increasing longevity means that by the 2050s there will be more than 400 million Chinese ... En savoir plus

    $14.89 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel

    Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • No Wall Too High

    One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison

    par Xu Hongci ...
    Traduit par Erling Hoh ...
    "The gripping and deeply moving account of a man's lifelong struggle to reach freedom, driven by an indomitable will to survive in Mao's China." —Xiaolu Guo, author of Nine ContinentsXu Hongci was a bright young student at the Shanghai No. 1 Medical College, spending his days studying to be a professor and going to the movies with his girlfriend. He was also an idealistic and loyal member of the ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Demokrasi

    Indonesia in the 21st Century

    par Hamish McDonald ...
    Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has presided over 6 per cent average yearly growth of its economy, to surpass $1 trillion. If this rate continues, Indonesia will join the world's ten biggest economies in a decade or so, just behind the so-called BRIC ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Murder in the High Himalaya

    Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet

    par Jonathan Green ...
    On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering community, it offers a straightforward summit -- a warm-up climb to her formidable sister. To Tibetans, Cho Oyu promises a gateway to ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Jesus in Beijing

    How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power

    par David Aikman ...
    This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Killing Wind

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $33.59 CAD

  • Wild Grass

    Three Stories of Change in Modern China

    par Ian Johnson ...
    In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize—winning journalist Ian Johnson tells the stories of three ordinary Chinese citizens moved to extraordinary acts of courage: a peasant legal clerk who filed a class-action suit on behalf of overtaxed farmers, a young architect who defended the rights of dispossessed homeowners, and a bereaved woman who tried to find out why her elderly mother had been beaten to death ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Confucianism as a World Religion

    Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

    par Anna Sun ...
    Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion.The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when ... En savoir plus

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  • China Under Mao

    A Revolution Derailed

    par Andrew G. Walder ...
    China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.“Walder ... En savoir plus

    $34.09 CAD