The Global Rise of China

Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to sh...

Reducere. As China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence, great power conflict looms. Yet few studies have looked to the...

China's rapid rise is doubtless the most significant economic and geopolitical event in the 21st century. What has led to its rise? What does it me...

The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standard...

Ever since China's rise to global power status, a strong narrative has emerged to explain and assess the impact of the return of this once Middle K...

DescriptionFrom a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed. A rapid rise in living standards in China has hel...

This book explores the clash between antitrust, a body of law designed to address market failures in Western democracies, and China, an economic su...

DescriptionThe truth behind the rise of China and whether or not it will be able to maintain itHow did China transform itself so quickly? In Red Ca...

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "copycat" pr...

Why and when does China exercise restraint-and how does this aspect of Chinese statecraft challenge the assumptions of international relations theo...

This co-authored book examines the implications of the global ascent of China on cross-Strait relations and the identity of Taiwan as a democratic ...

Reducere. Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; ...

Contributor(s): Author: Tonio AndradeThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries befo...

Reducere. One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced in...

Reducere. A critical look at how the world is responding to China's rise, and what this means for America and the world. China is advancing its own interests...

This book sets out the impressive rise of Tiens Group, which started locally, expanded nationally, and now operates globally from its headquarters ...

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This lavishly illustrated book is the history of China, spanning the pre-revolutionary years to China’s present day rise as a global power as told ...

China's nouveau riche are purchasing billions of dollars of furniture built from endangered African rosewood. Responding to Western powers' attempt...

The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya generates a fresh landscape. This book shows how the West must...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fei-Ling WangWhat does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rer...

DescriptionA discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent China's rise has upse...

Reducere. The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promi...

The global art market has recently been valued at close to $50bn - a rise of over 60% since the global financial crisis. These figures are driven b...

Major shifts in economic power, marked by the rise of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and other emerging economies, have recently affected key mul...

Reducere. Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company names Xiaomi (which means "little rice" in Mandarin) ...

The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community. In 19...

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West sti...

Reducere. Increasingly in the West, China is being characterized as a threat to the liberal international order, one that must be overcome through economic, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice MeisnerIn this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverag...

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the history of the modern global eco...

Reducere. Recent events in the US--high unemployment, record federal deficits, and unprecedented financial distress--have raised serious doubts about the fut...

The radical change coming to the global economy--and the investments you need to make sure you stay ahead of the curve China's growing role in the ...

In this expansive historical synthesis, Richard Butsch integrates social, economic, and political history to offer a comprehensive and cohesive exa...

It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of China's founding...

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that...

DescriptionThis thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security d...

Reducere. We live in a period of great uncertainty about the fate of America's global leadership. Many believe that Donald Trump's presidency marks the end o...

DescriptionEssential reading for understanding the international economy--now thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroug...

Reducere. DescriptionHow does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the wo...

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the...

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globaliz...

Reducere. As a new president takes office in 2021, America is deeply divided politically and socially, while the economy seems precariously balanced on incre...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott C. LeviThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth an...

Reducere. A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 2...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has...

Reducere. Christianity is the most global of religions. However, most books on the subject fail to do justice to the history of Christianity outside Europe a...

Reducere. After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise o...

Description"A passionate, important study of the current affairs of a volatile region."-- Kirkus Reviews starred review The rise of Hong Kong is th...

Reducere. 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, o...

Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. Witness our incredible human story unfold - from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond - exquisitely charted map ...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work--and how they fail. The...

Contributor(s): Author: Hal BrandsLooking beyond the headlines to address the enduring grand strategic questions facing the United States todayAmer...

Reducere. From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Nethe...

On December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn became the most famous fugitive on the planet when the former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance...

In the final days of 2019, a new and deadly virus was quietly spreading through the city of Wuhan, China. Within six months it would kill half a mi...

DescriptionAimed at undergraduate-level courses, this brand-new textbook provides an overview of Middle Eastern politics, offering in-depth examina...

Reducere. In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism w...

DescriptionThe first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most sign...

Reducere. DescriptionDistinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military, and political - this series traces their interrelations througho...

Reducere. A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Bi...

DescriptionA riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American mala...

Highlights the commonalities between Indigenous nations, while calling for global recognition and respect of their rights and spirituality. As a fo...

Reducere. Highlights the commonalities between Indigenous nations, while calling for global recognition and respect of their rights and spirituality. As a fo...

Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they ...

An eye-opening account of the informal economy around the globe, Stealth of Nations traces the history and reach of unregulated markets, and explai...

Reducere. In the twenty-first century, soccer commands the allegiance, interest, and engagement of more people in more places than any other phenomenon in th...

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