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“byron marshall”

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  • Learning To Be Modern

    Japanese Political Discourse On Education

    by Byron Marshall ...
    Emphasizing the political discourse and conflict that have surrounded Japanese education, this book focuses on the three main issues of central versus local control, elitism versus equality, and nationalism versus universalism. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Everything Under the Heavens

    How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

    by Howard W. French ...
    From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • China Wakes

    The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky."Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. ... Read more

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  • Intimate Rivals

    Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China

    by Sheila Smith ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    No country feels China's rise more deeply than Japan. Through intricate case studies of visits by Japanese politicians to the Yasukuni Shrine, conflicts over the boundaries of economic zones in the East China Sea, concerns about food safety, and strategies of island defense, Sheila A. Smith explores the policy issues testing the Japanese government as it tries to navigate its relationship with an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Confucianism as a World Religion

    Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities

    by Anna Sun ...
    Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion.The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when ... Read more

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  • Cracking the China Conundrum

    Why Conventional Economic Wisdom Is Wrong

    by Yukon Huang ...
    China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media and academic scrutiny, the conventional wisdom about China's economy is often wrong. Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues. Yukon Huang trenchantly addresses ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • The Cultural Revolution at the Margins

    Chinese Socialism in Crisis

    by Yiching Wu ...
    Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to "wreak havoc under the heaven" when he launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. But as radicalized Chinese youth rose up against Party officials, events quickly slipped from the government's grasp, and rebellion took on a life of its own. Turmoil became a reality in a way the Great Leader had not foreseen. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins recaptures ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Leverage of the Weak

    Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea

    by Hwa-Jen Liu ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?Despite their apparent resemblance—a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities—Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Dictators Without Borders

    Power and Money in Central Asia

    by Alexander A. Cooley, John Heathershaw ...
    A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • Zhu Rongji on the Record

    The Road to Reform 1991-1997

    by Rongji Zhu ...
    China's explosive transformation from a planned economy to a more market-oriented one over the past three decades owes much to the charismatic reformer Zhu Rongji. His pragmatism and strong work ethic have been key forces in China's drive to greater modernization and global stature. He served as the mayor and party chief in Shanghai from 1987 to 1991, as vice premier of China from 1991 to 1998, ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • My First Impression of China

    Washingtonians’ First Trips to the Middle Kingdom

    by Wendy Liu ...
    Praise for My First Impression of ChinaToday, the sense of distance between China and the U.S. has greatly diminished. We remain different societies with at least partially different values and expectations, with each countrys citizens feeling pride in their national accomplishments and each government looks on the other with what appears to be growing concern and perhaps fear. But these accounts ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Exodus to North Korea

    Shadows from Japan's Cold War

    by Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a humanitarian venture and conducted under the supervision of the International Red Cross, the scheme was ... Read more

    $46.99 USD