Free China Review
Download Free China Review full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Free China Review ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Shanghai Free Taxi
Author | : Frank Langfitt |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610398157 |
As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So, when a long-time NPR correspondent wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab--and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change. China--America's most important competitor--is at a turning point. With economic growth slowing, Chinese people face inequality and uncertainty as their leaders tighten control at home and project power abroad. In this adventurous, original book, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt describes how he created a free taxi service--offering rides in exchange for illuminating conversation--to go beyond the headlines and get to know a wide range of colorful, compelling characters representative of the new China. They include folks like "Beer," a slippery salesman who tries to sell Langfitt a used car; Rocky, a farm boy turned Shanghai lawyer; and Chen, who runs an underground Christian church and moves his family to America in search of a better, freer life. Blending unforgettable characters, evocative travel writing, and insightful political analysis, The Shanghai Free Taxi is a sharply observed and surprising book that will help readers make sense of the world's other superpower at this extraordinary moment.
The Trouble with Taiwan
Author | : Kerry Brown |
Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786995247 |
‘Fresh and authoritative, written with brio and precision.’ Thomas Plate, author of Yo-Yo Diplomacy ‘An important and timely guide to one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for future conflict between the West and China.’James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China ‘Brown and Wu Tzu-hui help situate a Taiwan whose “place” in the world is otherwise plagued by uncertainty.’ Benjamin Zawacki, author of Thailand
China
Author | : Thomas Orlik |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0190877405 |
A provocative perspective on the fragile fundamentals, and forces for resilience, in the Chinese economy, and a forecast for the future on alternate scenarios of collapse and ascendance.
A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America
Author | : Haihui Zhang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780924304729 |
A vital resource for non-Asia specialists in the fields of history, literature, music, economics, sociology, and art looking for a comparative or world-historical perspective on particular questions, including the nature of early modernity, the development of science, or recent trends in the study of early and medieval arts and letters.
Mao's China and After
Author | : Maurice Meisner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1999-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0684856352 |
Presents a revised account of the revolution of 1966-1969 - Examines the social and political consequences of the upheaval - Deng Xiaoping - Democracy movement - Tienamnen Incident - Mao Zedong - The hundred flowers - Great Leap Forward.
Getting China Wrong
Author | : Aaron L. Friedberg |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2022-03-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509545131 |
The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of the existing international system. To the contrary: China today is more repressive at home, more aggressive abroad, and more obviously intent on establishing itself as the world’s preponderant power than at any time since the death of Chairman Mao. What went wrong? Put simply, the democracies underestimated the resilience, resourcefulness, and ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party. For far too long, the United States and its allies failed to take seriously the Party's unwavering determination to crush opposition, build national power, and fulfill its ideological and geopolitical ambitions. In this timely and powerfully argued study, Aaron Friedberg identifies the assumptions underpinning engagement, describes the counterstrategy that China's Communist Party rulers devised in order to exploit the West's openness while defeating its plans, and explains what the democracies must do now if they wish to preserve their prosperity, protect their security, and defend their common values.