The Global Rise of China

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...

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

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

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

In the world, there are twenty countries that use Spanish as their official language, including Mexico, Colombia, and Spain. There are 400 million ...

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...

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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...

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

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

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

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...

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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...

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...

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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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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The nine core strategies that will help companies keep customers, attract quality talent, generate revenue, and improve the communities around them...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

DescriptionThis clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike...

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

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

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...

Reducere. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the rig...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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

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...