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| Author | : Sam Okello |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 90 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9789966152978 |
Bio Sam Okello is a best-selling author. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his best friend, Hellen, and their two rambunctious sons, Garrie and Prince Sam Okello Jr. Synopsis Luo Nation Rising is a response to a conversation I had with Uncle Paul Oyoyo under the cool shade of a mango tree in Yimbo Usenge. On that sizzling December afternoon, the miffed Oyoyo wanted to know why the book Luo Kitgi Gi Timbegi remained the most authoritative guide on Luo ways in spite of the passage of time-which had rendered most cultural practices irrelevant and unhelpful. But was Uncle Paul really right? Reading Luo Kitgi Gi Timbegi afresh, I was blindsided by the enormous burden Luos of the past had to endure to live in harmony with the Ruoth, Ogayi, Joyath, Jonawi, Jondagla and other crazy folks in the community . Indeed, the Luo were in a situation worse than the Israelites under the punishing Levitical Laws and Islamic women and the dominant Sharia. In this riveting, politically-incorrect volume, I go to war with cultural practices that continue to hinder the emergence of a unified Luo Nation and call on the community to go back to the path charted by Ker Paul Mboya, Ker Joel Omer, Pastor Isaac Okeyo and Jaduong Joshua Rume. The hour of Luo greatness has come!
| Author | : Jilin Xu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2018-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108621678 |
China's rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century, and this volume offers a contemporary view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside. Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin, a popular historian and one of China's most prominent public intellectuals, critique China's rejection of universal values and the nation's embrace of Chinese particularism, the rise of the cult of the state and the acceptance of the historicist ideas of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss. Xu's work is distinct both from better-known voices of dissent and also from the 'New Left' perspectives, offering instead a liberal reaction to the complexity of China's rise. Yet this work is not a shrill denunciation of Xu's intellectual enemies, but rather a subtle and heartfelt call for China to accept its status as a great power and join the world as a force for good.
| Author | : Jennifer A. Widner |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2023-04-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520911857 |
Although Kenya is often considered an African success story, its political climate became increasingly repressive under its second president, Daniel arap Moi. Widner charts the transformation of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) from a weak, loosely organized political party under Jomo Kenyatta into an arm of the president's office, with "watchdog" youth wings and strong surveillance and control functions, under Moi. She suggests that single-party systems have an inherent tendency to become "party-states," or single-party regimes in which the head of state uses the party as a means of control. The speed and extent of these changes depend on the countervailing power of independent interest groups, such as business associations, farmers, or professionals. Widner's study offers important insights into the dynamics of party systems in Africa.
| Author | : Chun-shu Chang |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : China |
| ISBN | : 9780472115334 |
The second and first centuries B.C. were a critical period in Chinese history—they saw the birth and development of the new Chinese empire and its earliest expansion and acquisition of frontier territories. But for almost two thousand years, because of gaps in the available records, this essential chapter in the history was missing. Fortunately, with the discovery during the last century of about sixty thousand Han-period documents in Central Asia and western China preserved on strips of wood and bamboo, scholars have been able, for the first time, to put together many of the missing pieces. In this first volume of his monumental history, Chun-shu Chang uses these newfound documents to analyze the ways in which political, institutional, social, economic, military, religious, and thought systems developed and changed in the critical period from early China to the Han empire (ca. 1600 B.C. – A.D. 220). In addition to exploring the formation and growth of the Chinese empire and its impact on early nation-building and later territorial expansion, Chang also provides insights into the life and character of critical historical figures such as the First Emperor (221– 210 B.C.) of the Ch’in and Wu-ti (141– 87 B.C.) of the Han, who were the principal agents in redefining China and its relationships with other parts of Asia. As never before, Chang’s study enables an understanding of the origins and development of the concepts of state, nation, nationalism, imperialism, ethnicity, and Chineseness in ancient and early Imperial China, offering the first systematic reconstruction of the history of Chinese acquisition and colonization. Chun-shu Changis Professor of History at the University of Michigan and is the author, with Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang, ofCrisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century ChinaandRedefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P’u Sung-ling’s World, 1640–1715. “An extraordinary survey of the political and administrative history of early imperial China, which makes available a body of evidence and scholarship otherwise inaccessible to English-readers. The underpinning of research is truly stupendous.” —Ray Van Dam, Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan “Powerfully argues from literary and archaeological records that empire, modeled on Han paradigms, has largely defined Chinese civilization ever since.” —Joanna Waley-Cohen, Professor, Department of History, New York University
| Author | : Chin-Hao Huang |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2022-07-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0231555628 |
Honorable Mention, 2024 T.V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations, Global International Relations Section, International Studies Association Conventional wisdom holds that China’s rise is disrupting the global balance of power in unpredictable ways. However, China has often deferred to the consensus of smaller neighboring countries on regional security rather than running roughshod over them. Why and when does China exercise restraint—and how does this aspect of Chinese statecraft challenge the assumptions of international relations theory? In Power and Restraint in China’s Rise, Chin-Hao Huang argues that a rising power’s aspirations for acceptance provide a key rationale for refraining from coercive measures. He analyzes Chinese foreign policy conduct in the South China Sea, showing how complying with regional norms and accepting constraints improves external perceptions of China and advances other states’ recognition of China as a legitimate power. Huang details how member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have taken a collective approach to defusing tension in maritime disputes, incentivizing China to support regional security initiatives that it had previously resisted. Drawing on this empirical analysis, Huang develops new theoretical perspectives on why great powers eschew coercion in favor of restraint when they seek legitimacy. His framework explains why a dominant state with rising ambitions takes the views and interests of small states into account, as well as how collective action can induce change in a major power’s behavior. Offering new insight into the causes and consequences of change in recent Chinese foreign policy, this book has significant implications for the future of engagement with China.
| Author | : Yinghong Cheng |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2019-02-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030053571 |
This book is a critical study of the development of a racialised nationalism in China, exploring its unique characteristics and internal tensions, and connecting it to other forms of global racism. The growth of this discourse is contextualised within the party-state’s political agenda to seek legitimacy, in various groups’ efforts to carve their demands in a divided national community, and has directly affected identity politics across the global diasporic Chinese community. While there remains considerable debate in both academic literature and popular discussion about how the concept of ‘race’ is relevant to Chinese expressions of identity, Cheng makes a forceful case for the appropriateness of biological and familial narratives of descent for understanding Chinese nationalism today. Grounded in a strong conceptual framework and substantiated with rich materials, Discourses of Race and Rising China will be an important contribution to international studies of racism, and will appeal to academics and students of contemporary China, historians of modern China, and those who work in the fields of critical race, ethnicity, and cultural studies.
| Author | : Shakhar Rahav |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199386102 |
The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan. Current narratives of May Fourth focus on the ideological development of intellectuals in the seaboard metropoles of Beijing and Shanghai. And although scholars have pointed to the importance of the many cultural-political societies of the period, they have largely neglected to examine these associations, seeing them only as seedbeds of Chinese communism and its leaders, like Mao Zedong. This book, by contrast, portrays the everyday life of May Fourth activists in Wuhan in cultural-political societies founded by local teacher and journalist Yun Daiying (1895-1931). The book examines the ways by which radical politics developed in hinterland urban centers, from there into a nation wide movement, which ultimately provided the basis for the emergence of mass political parties, namely the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The book's focus on organizations, everyday life, and social networks provides a novel interpretation of where mechanisms of historical change are located. The book also highlights the importance of print culture in the provinces. It demonstrates how provincial print-culture combined with small, local organizations to create a political movement. The vantage point of Wuhan demonstrates that May Fourth radicalism developed in a dialogue between the coastal metropoles of Beijing and Shanghai and hinterland urban centers. The book therefore charts the way in which seeds of political change grew from individuals, through local organizations into a nation-wide movement, and finally into mass-party politics and subsequently revolution. The book thus connects everyday experiences of activists with the cultural-political ferment which gave rise to both the Chinese Communist party and the Nationalist Party.
| Author | : PJ S Sandhu |
| Publisher | : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2010-12-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9381411883 |
The book is covered under four chapters: - A) Rise of China B) China's Employment of Soft Power C) Strategic Capability and D) Regional Implications of China's Rise The book is based on the USI National Security Seminar with contributions from some of the well known experts on China from India & abroad. The contributors to the book are as follows:- Indian Shri M K Rasgotra Prof Srikant Kondapalli Shri Mohan Guruswamy Lt Gen V R Raghvan V Adm K K Nayar Rear Adm K R Menon Brig Subodh Kumar Shri Sujit Datta Shri Jayadeva Ranade, IPS Shri K Raghunath, IFS From Abroad Prof Zhang Guihong,China Lt Gen Masahiro Kunimi, Japan Ms Bethany Danyluk, USA Prof Aileen Baviera, Philippines Prof Han Hua, China Prof Michael Pillsbury, USDoD Mr Yung Sheng Chao, Taipei Lt Gen Takayoshi Ogawa, Japan Vice Admiral Hideaki Kaneda,Japan Prof Jaeho Hwang,Korea
| Author | : Henry Gee |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2001-11 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0226284913 |
Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal Nature.Rise of the Dragon gathers together sixteen of these original reports, some augmented with commentaries originally published in Nature's "News and Views" section. Perhaps the best known of these new Chinese fossils are the famous feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning Province, which may help end one of the most intense debates in paleontology—whether birds evolved from dinosaurs. But other finds have been just as spectacular, such as the minutely preserved (to the cellular level) animal embryos of the 670 million-year-old Duoshantuo phosphorites, or the world's oldest known fish, from the Chengjiang formation in southwestern Yunnan Province. Rise of the Dragon makes descriptions and detailed discussions of these important finds available in one convenient volume for paleontologists and serious fossil fans.
| Author | : Cheng Li |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2017-03-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9813100257 |
China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world community. This book focuses on China's major think tanks where policies are initiated, and on a few prominent thinkers who influence the way in which elites and the general public understand and deal with the various issues confronting the country.The book examines a number of factors contributing to the rapid rise of Chinese think tanks in the reform era. These include the leadership's call for 'scientific decision-making,' the need for specialized expertise in economics and finance as China becomes an economic powerhouse, the demand for opinion leaders in the wake of a telecommunication revolution driven by social media, the accumulation of human and financial capital, and the increasing utility of the 'revolving door' nature of think tanks.It has been widely noted that think tanks and policy advisors have played an important role in influencing the strategic thinking of the top leadership, including the formation of ideas such as the 'Three Represents,' 'China's peaceful rise,' 'One Belt, One Road,' and the founding of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). In 2014, President Xi Jinping made think tank development a national strategy, and he claimed that 'building a new type of think tank with Chinese characteristics is an important and pressing mission.'Though the media outside China has often reported on this important development, it has all but escaped rigorous scholarly scrutiny. This book will categorize Chinese think tanks by their various forms, such as government agencies, university-based think tanks, private think tanks, business research centers or consultancies, and civil society groups. It will not only analyze the problems and challenges in China's think tank development, but also reveal the power of ideas.
