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China Against the Tides

Author : Marc Blecher
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826464217
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book China Against the Tides written by Marc Blecher and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China has evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries. Like its predecessor, the book's approach is interdisciplinary and comparative. Professor Blecher analyzes China by introducing appropriate theories and concepts from historical and political sociology, economic development and political science. He explores China from two comparative perspectives: developing countries (including the newly industrializing countries of East Asia) and historical state socialist regimes. The book's chapters cover: imperial collapse, republican failure and communist triumph; a chronological overview since 1949; the state and politics; socialism and society; rural political economy; urban political economy; China and the Pacific Rim; the crisis of reform; and the future of Chinese economic development and politics. From PETRA: Blecher's new edition will revise and update the first, adding a new section on international economic factors to the political economy chapters - to include the WTO, gloablization, foreign investment etc. It will address new policy problems such as the spread of AIDS in China and will look at Hong Kong and Macau's return, and at the relationship with Taiwan. The Chinese diaspora is also covered.

China Against the Tides, 3rd Ed.

Author : Marc Blecher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0826426980
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book China Against the Tides, 3rd Ed. written by Marc Blecher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Against the Tides, 3rd Edition argues that, in both Mao and Deng periods, China evolved in ways quite different from the Soviet model and from other developing countries. Using an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, the book analyzes China by introducing theories and concepts from historical and political sociology, economic development, and political science. It also explores China from two comparative perspectives: developing countries (including the newly industrializing countries of East Asia) and historical state socialist regimes. China Against the Tides, 3rd Edition seeks to combine both the internal perspectives of the actors themselves with the external standpoint of the social scientist. China is, of course, unique; but so are all countries. But, like other countries, its distinctiveness can best be grasped by observing it from outside as well as from within. Every chapter in the third edition as well as the end bibliography has been updated. In addition, a new section examines China's international relations, and new coverage has been added throughout the chapters. For example, the third edition discusses: the Hu-Wen leadership that came to power in 2002, China's economic growth and social development, internet technology, the continued drumbeat of protests of various kinds, the situation in Tibet, the Olympic Games, the May 2008 earthquake, plus smaller but still notable events, such as the 2003 SARS outbreak, the Three Gorges Dam, and the 2005 pollution episode on the Songhua River

China Against the Tides

Author : Marc J. Blecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book China Against the Tides written by Marc J. Blecher and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Against the Law

Author : Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940644
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Against the Law written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Providing a broad political and economic analysis of this labor struggle together with fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the Chinese working class as workers' stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.

Waste Tide

Author : Chen Qiufan
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765389312
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Waste Tide written by Chen Qiufan and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future. Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers. Mimi is drowning in the world's trash. She’s a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics -- from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs — are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end. Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. They're the lifeblood of the island’s economy, but are at the mercy of those in power. A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. American investors, hungry for profit. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots. As these forces collide, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity’s past and its future. Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or change the rules of the game altogether. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain. Chen Qiufan is an astute observer, both of the present world and of the future that the next generation is in danger of inheriting." – David Mitchell, New York Times bestselling author of Cloud Atlas

Against the Tide

Author : Kat Martin
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420133861
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Against the Tide written by Kat Martin and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While running from a dangerous secret in her past, diner owner Liv Chandler gets drawn into investigating a murder in remote Valdez, Alaska with charter boat captain Rafe Brodie.

Tides

Author : Jonathan White
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595348069
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Tides written by Jonathan White and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.

Bringing the World Home

Author : Theodore Huters
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824874013
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Bringing the World Home written by Theodore Huters and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing the World Home sheds new light on China’s vibrant cultural life between 1895 and 1919—a crucial period that marks a watershed between the conservative old regime and the ostensibly iconoclastic New Culture of the 1920s. Although generally overlooked in the effort to understand modern Chinese history, the era has much to teach us about cultural accommodation and is characterized by its own unique intellectual life. This original and probing work traces the most significant strands of the new post-1895 discourse, concentrating on the anxieties inherent in a complicated process of cultural transformation. It focuses principally on how the need to accommodate the West was reflected in such landmark novels of the period as Wu Jianren’s Strange Events Eyewitnessed in the Past Twenty Years and Zhu Shouju’s Tides of the Huangpu, which began serial publication in Shanghai in 1916. The negative tone of these narratives contrasts sharply with the facile optimism that characterizes the many essays on the "New Novel" appearing in the popular press of the time. Neither iconoclasm nor the wholesale embrace of the new could square the contradicting intellectual demands imposed by the momentous alternatives presenting themselves. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.

Against the Tide

Author : Cornelia Dean
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500111
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Against the Tide written by Cornelia Dean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns—we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide, this pattern is leading to the rapid destruction of our coast. But her eloquent account also offers sound advice for salvaging the stretches of pristine American shore that remain. The story begins with the tale of the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900—the deadliest natural disaster in American history, which killed some six thousand people. Misguided residents constructed a wall to prevent another tragedy, but the barrier ruined the beach and ultimately destroyed the town's booming resort business. From harrowing accounts of natural disasters to lucid ecological explanations of natural coastal processes, from reports of human interference and construction on the shore to clear-eyed elucidation of public policy and conservation interests, this book illustrates in rich detail the conflicting interests, short-term responses, and long-range imperatives that have been the hallmarks of America's love affair with her coast. Intriguing observations about America's beaches, past and present, include discussions of Hurricane Andrew's assault on the Gulf Coast, the 1962 northeaster that ravaged one thousand miles of the Atlantic shore, the beleaguered beaches of New Jersey and North Carolina's rapidly vanishing Outer Banks, and the sand-starved coast of southern California. Dean provides dozens of examples of human attempts to tame the ocean—as well as a wealth of lucid descriptions of the ocean's counterattack. Readers will appreciate Against the Tide's painless course in coastal processes and new perspective on the beach.

China’s Good War

Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984269
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book China’s Good War written by Rana Mitter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation’s brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the “victory”—a key foundation of China’s rising nationalism. For most of its history, the People’s Republic of China discouraged public discussion of the war against Japan. It was an experience of victimization—and one that saw Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek fighting for the same goals. But now, as China grows more powerful, the meaning of the war is changing. Rana Mitter argues that China’s reassessment of the war years is central to its newfound confidence abroad and to mounting nationalism at home. China’s Good War begins with the academics who shepherded the once-taboo subject into wider discourse. Encouraged by reforms under Deng Xiaoping, they researched the Guomindang war effort, collaboration with the Japanese, and China’s role in forming the post-1945 global order. But interest in the war would not stay confined to scholarly journals. Today public sites of memory—including museums, movies and television shows, street art, popular writing, and social media—define the war as a founding myth for an ascendant China. Wartime China emerges as victor rather than victim. The shifting story has nurtured a number of new views. One rehabilitates Chiang Kai-shek’s war efforts, minimizing the bloody conflicts between him and Mao and aiming to heal the wounds of the Cultural Revolution. Another narrative positions Beijing as creator and protector of the international order that emerged from the war—an order, China argues, under threat today largely from the United States. China’s radical reassessment of its collective memory of the war has created a new foundation for a people destined to shape the world.

The Coming China Wars

Author : Peter Navarro
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0132703335
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Coming China Wars written by Peter Navarro and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, China has served as the "factory floor" for global production, driving down prices for consumers worldwide. But, unfortunately, China's rapid and chaotic industrialization has put it on a collision course with the rest of the world. The Coming China Wars was the first book to systematically cover all those conflicts: political, economic, and environmental. Now, in this new edition, Dr. Peter Navarro has thoroughly updated the entire book. You'll find new chapters on the danger posed by China's flood of defective products and contaminated food; China's dramatic military expansion and the rising threat of a "hot war"; China's space program and its profound strategic implications; China's growing suppression of human rights and free speech; and much more. The coming China Wars will be fought over everything from decent jobs, livable wages, and advanced technologies to strategic resources...and eventually to our most basic of all needs: bread, water, and air. Unless all nations immediately address these impending conflicts, the results may be catastrophic. Like the First Edition, this book demands that we think much more deeply about how to stop the coming China Wars, laying out hard choices that must be made sooner rather than later. This new edition offers even more policy recommendations, including original contributions from several of the world's most important China experts.

China and Democracy

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317721640
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book China and Democracy written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's dramatic economic growth in the last two decades of the last century and the prospect of its rise as a great power in this new one have greatly increased its weight and importance in world affairs. Consequently the progress, or lack of progress, of China's transition to democracy has become a central concern of the international community. This timely collection brings together many well-known scholars to systematically explore China's current government and assess that transition toward democracy. The contributors seek to bridge the gap between normative theories of democracy and empirical studies of China's political development by providing a comprehensive overview of China's domestic history, economy, and public political ideologies. Overall the volume contends that Chinese culture and Confucianism are not the obstacles to democratic transition that some scholars have said they are, and that the success of market reforms has eroded authoritarian rule. This weakening does not guarantee a successful transition, however, and the contributors show that there are many reasons to be skeptical about the short-term prospects for democracy in China, including historical failures, the underdevelopment of civil society, political apathy, and competing social values. Though China's political culture is essentially neither anti-democratic not pro-democratic, it must still overcome many obstacles in order to achieve democracy.

Going Against the Tide

Author : Göran Leijonhufvud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780700702220
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Going Against the Tide written by Göran Leijonhufvud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1990 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China Against the Tides, a Guangdong Diary 2014

Author : Sam Merry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book China Against the Tides, a Guangdong Diary 2014 written by Sam Merry and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a month's holiday to his flat in subtropical Guangdong Province, Sam Merry and wife discover more about the mysterious country of China where Sam once taught at uniiversities in Beijiing and Qingdao.In a historical perspective from Mao to Deng Xiao Ping, we learn about tensions in its unusual Market Stalinist combination of liberalising capitalism and Party terror which has, enriched the country, while reducing its population to aquiescence and prevented the devopment of civil society. After four years absence, Sam Merry's diary describes his meeting with old friends, including his six-year-old goddaughter, Tong Tong; his wife's mother in her new house; an ex-student after ten years who is now a dissatisfied Party member planning to leave her job; and an artist married to an accountant with a "little emperor" son. We also learn about everyday life in their nineteenth floor flat and the colourfully vibrant 1950's hutong below. Apart from family and marriage, we also learn of attitudes to the One Child Policy and "DIckensian" working conditions.Sam's Hainan holiday and his stay in Hong Kong, teach him something about the politics of both.

Tides from the West

Author : Monlin Chiang
Publisher : Royal Collins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781487804138
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Tides from the West written by Monlin Chiang and published by Royal Collins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume will try to tell the story of what has happened in China during the last hundred years, from the cession of Hongkong in 1842 to the blitzkrieg of Pearl Harbor in 1941, with emphasis on the latter half of that period. An eyewitness account of what has happened in China tracing the trend of events from early days in Chekiang to the social and political upheavals all over China. An acute, perceptive commentary on the transforming of China, and the humble, ordinary memoirs of a life well spent, in this autobiography of historical reminiscences.

China Against the Tides

Author : Sam Merry
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781502799760
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book China Against the Tides written by Sam Merry and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a month's holiday to his flat in subtropical Guangdong Province, Sam Merry and wife discover more about the mysterious country of China where Sam once taught at uniiversities in Beijiing and Qingdao. In a historical perspective from Mao to Deng Xiao Ping, we learn about tensions in its unusual Market Stalinist combination of liberalising capitalism and Party terror which has, enriched the country, while reducing its population to aquiescence and prevented the devopment of civil society. After four years absence, Sam Merry's diary describes his meeting with old friends, including his six-year-old goddaughter, Tong Tong; his wife's mother in her new house; an ex-student after ten years who is now a dissatisfied Party member planning to leave her job; and an artist married to an accountant with a "little emperor" son. We also learn about everyday life in their nineteenth floor flat and the colourfully vibrant 1950's hutong below. Apart from family and marriage, we also learn of attitudes to the One Child Policy and "DIckensian" working conditions. Sam's Hainan holiday and his stay in Hong Kong, teach him something about the politics of both.

US-China Trade Disputes

Author : Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book US-China Trade Disputes written by Gary Clyde Hufbauer and published by Peterson Institute for International Economics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China continues its rise as a great power, The United States Congress and the administration wrestle with one another over the strategies to shape US-China economic relations. What major disputes now, and looming on the horizon, will shape future US-China relations? This book examines these issues and offers suggestions for both sides.