The Mind of Empire

Christopher A Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• With an economy and population that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is emerging as a twenty-first-century global superpower. Even though Chin... Lees meer

Japan After 3/11

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation. Th... Lees meer

Power Versus Law in Modern China

Qiang Fang, Xiaobing Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• Today 700 million Chinese citizens-more than fifty-four percent of the population-live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban cen... Lees meer

North Korea and the World

Walter C Clemens

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• With nearly twenty-five million citizens, a secretive totalitarian dictatorship, and active nuclear and ballistic missile weapons programs, North Kore... Lees meer

Inside China's Grand Strategy

Ye Zicheng

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• China's enormous size, vast population, abundant natural resources, robust economy, and modern military suggest that it will emerge as a great world p... Lees meer

Civil Society and Politics in Central Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• The five Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan constitute an area of increasing importance in globa... Lees meer

Modern Chinese Legal Reform

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• China's rapid socioeconomic transformation of the past twenty years has led to dramatic changes in its judicial system and legal practices. As China b... Lees meer

Contemporary Chinese Political Thought

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• Westerners seem united in the belief that China has emerged as a major economic power and that this success will continue indefinitely. But they are l... Lees meer

The Price of China's Economic Development

Zhaohui Hong

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders... Lees meer

The Mind of Empire

Christopher A Ford

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• The fascinating third book in the Virginia at War series focuses on the Virginia experience at mid-conflict. The collection provides a comprehensive o... Lees meer

Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power-a position it is not likely to relinquis... Lees meer

Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy

• Paperback | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically demonstrated its role as an emerging world power-a position it is not likely to relin... Lees meer

The Future of China-Russia Relations

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• Relations between China and Russia have evolved dramatically since their first diplomatic contact, particularly during the twentieth century. During t... Lees meer

China Looks at the West

Christopher A Ford

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• Chinese leaders have long been fascinated by the United States, but have often chosen to demonize America for perceived cultural and military imperial... Lees meer

The Soldier Image and State-Building in Modern China, 1924-1945

Yan Xu

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• Based on groundbreaking research, this book is the first of its kind to provide a close examination in English of the extensive imagery of the soldier... Lees meer

State Violence in East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• The world was watching when footage of the ""tank man""-the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crac... Lees meer

China's Encounter with Global Hollywood

Wendy Su

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• In recent years, the film industry in the People's Republic of China has found itself among the top three most prolific in the world. When the Chinese... Lees meer

Democracy in Central Asia

Mariya Y Omelicheva

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of... Lees meer

Growing Democracy in Japan

Brian Woodall

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia in the New Millennium
• The world's third largest economy and a stable democracy, Japan remains a significant world power; but its economy has become stagnant, and its respon... Lees meer