China A to Z
China A to Z

Author: May-lee Chai

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-11-25

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0698141075

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A practical and accessible guide to an ancient but rapidly changing culture—now revised and updated Perfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country. In one hundred brief, reader-friendly essays alphabetized by subject, this fully revised and updated edition provides a crash course in the etiquette and politics of contemporary China as well as the nation’s geography and venerable history. In it, readers will discover: · How the recently selected President and his advisors approach global relations · Why China is considered the fastest growing market for fashion and luxury goods · What you should bring when visiting a Chinese household · What’s hot in Chinese art · How recent scandals impact Chinese society From architecture and body language to Confucianism and feng shui, China A to Z offers accessible and authoritative information about China.

You Don't Know China
You Don't Know China

Author: John Ross

Publisher:

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781910736210

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Informative, entertaining, and sometimes controversial, You Don't Know China is a welcome antidote to the schizophrenic hyperbole surrounding China's supposed rise to global supremacy or, conversely, its eminent collapse. The book is an amusing, eye-opening, and ultimately uplifting shortcut to understanding this complicated country.

When China Rules the World
When China Rules the World

Author: Martin Jacques

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 631

ISBN-13: 1101151455

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Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.

Chinese Whispers
Chinese Whispers

Author: Ben Chu

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0297868462

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'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions. THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH... so why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and lazy? CHINESE PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICAL FREEDOM... so why is the country's internet exploding with anti-regime dissent? CHINA WILL ONE DAY RULE THE WORLD... so why do the country's political leaders feel so insecure? Perhaps it is time to stop engaging in a centuries-old game of Chinese whispers in which the facts have become more and more distorted in the telling. Ben Chu examines the myths that have come to dominate our view of the world's most populous nation, forcing us to question everything we thought we knew about it. The result is a penetrating, surprising and provocative insight into China today.

China Smart
China Smart

Author: Larry Herzberg

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1611729351

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Essential essays on all things Chinese that inform and entertain travelers, students, and anyone working or living in China. How is China organized politically? What are the issues that young people face in today's China? What is China doing about its problem with pollution? Is the Chinese internet like our internet? What's China's role in the world today? And how much do you know about China's great woman emperor or the Chinese explorer whose voyages may have inspired the legend of Sinbad the Sailor? What are the major Chinese holidays, their superstitions regarding numbers, and the true nature of the Chinese written language? In nearly 60 brief essays, long-time China expert Larry Herzberg tackles important facts and myths about China, its history, people, and culture, as well as its contemporary society. Anyone dipping into this book will emerge that much smarter about China, whether visiting, conducting business, studying the language, or simply being fascinated by one of the world's greatest and most influential civilizations.

Rethinking Chinese Politics
Rethinking Chinese Politics

Author: Joseph Fewsmith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-06-17

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1108831257

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A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.

When You Were Born in China
When You Were Born in China

Author: Sara Dorow

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780963847218

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Helping readers to understand Chinese culture, this book is ideal for families of children being adopted from China. It also delves into the adoption process itself and is packed with photos that appeal to both adoptive parents and children.

China Goes West
China Goes West

Author: Joel Backaler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1137293934

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Presenting an unrivalled perspective into the inner-workings of Chinese corporations and their expansion plans for international markets, this book combines executive interviews and first-hand accounts providing the sorely needed context to the rise of Chinese companies in home and overseas markets and how the West can successfully compete.

Wild Swans
Wild Swans

Author: Jung Chang

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-20

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 1439106495

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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Travel to China
Travel to China

Author: Josh Summers

Publisher: Go West Media

Published: 2019-01-18

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781732120419

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What should you expect when you travel to China? Most travel guides tell you where to go, but they don't prepare you well for the journey. Learn everything you need to know BEFORE you step on the plane bound for China, one of the world's most interesting and adventure-filled countries.Expert tips and advice from an expat who has lived in China for more than a decade.