Chinese Politics
Bomb Book and Compass
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist performing research at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist and an ardent member of the local Communist party. In 1937 he was asked to ... More »
Writing On The Wall
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from withi... More »
Will The Boat Sink The Water
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
The controversial bestseller that shocked China.
"We have seen unimaginable poverty, unimaginable evil, unimaginable suffering and desperation, unimaginable resistance and silence. We are not heroes, because we have no p... More »
What Does China Think
$27.99 (Paperback book / Fourth Estate )
We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be rewritten every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backw... More »
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates And The Story Of The New China
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
As one of the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. ... More »
From Comrade To Citizen
$33.95 (Paperback book / Harvard Univ Pr )
A leading scholar of China's modern political development examines the changing relationship between the Chinese people and the state. Correcting the conventional view of China as having instituted extraordinary econo...
China Rising: Peace Power And Order In East Asia
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Columbia Univ Pr )
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nin... More »
Policing Chinese Politics: A History
$54.95 (Paperback book / Duke Univ Pr )
Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores the question of revol... More »
China's Rise And The Balance Of Influence In Asia
$59.95 (Paperback book / Univ. Of Pittsburgh )
A multifaceted examination of China in the areas of economics, trade, investment, politics, diplomacy, technology, and security, affording a greater understanding of what relevant policies the United States must develop ... More »
China Fever
$39.95 (Paperback book / Stonebridge )
China is poised to be the world’s next superpower, but are we really prepared for its dominant role? In engaging, accessible language, Frank S. Fang provides a unique insider’s look at the fundamental “on the ground” iss... More »
Chinas Trapped Transition: The Limits Of Developmental Autocracy
$31.95 (Paperback book / Harvard Univ Pr )
The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, China’s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minx... More »
Three Faces Of Chinese Power: Might, Money And Minds
$37.95 (Paperback book / Univ California Pr )
The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, China’s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minx... More »
Just One Child: Science And Policy In Deng's China
$37.95 (Paperback book / Univ California Pr )
The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, China’s prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to provoke debate, Minx... More »
Rivals: How The Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape Our Next Decade
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Bill Emmott is one of the world's most authoritative international commentators. Fifteen years after The Sun Also Sets predicted the decline of Japan in the 1990s, Emmott returns not only to the Far East but to the wholl... More »
Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History
$39.95 (Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres )
A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966–1976). Through national and l... More »
Chinas New Confucianism: Politics And Everyday Life In A Changing Society
$41.95 (Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press )
What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they ca... More »
China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games And Olympian Human Rights Challenges
$35.00 (Paperback book / Seven Stories Press )
With contributions from some of the most well-respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China today as its government and 1.3 billion peo... More »
Floating City Of Peasants
$70.00 (Hardcover book / New Press )
The largest human migration in history is taking place in China today—incredibly, off the radar of the world’s major media. Since the 1990s, at least 120 million Chinese peasants have left the countryside for big cities ... More »
Empire Of Lies: The Truth About China In The Twenty First Century
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Encounter )
The Western press these days is full of stories on China’s arrival as a superpower, some even warning that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident in China’... More »
Dragon And The Elephant: China, India And The New World Order
$26.95 (Paperback book / Profile )
The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the 21st century, raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and the balance of global geopolitical power. Will China st... More »
Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming The World
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
At the beginning of the 21st century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China's rise, a key aspect of this transformation has gone largely unnoticed: the way that China i... More »