50 Shades of China
50 Shades of China

Author: Jiu Ling

Publisher: Global Citizen EpubVerlag

Published: 2015-02-03

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 3956940040

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50 Shades of China This bundle features the two titles CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY and CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY and includes a bundle-exclusive additional chapter. Combine the BEST and the MOST to discover Chinese etiquette in all its 50 Shades! CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette This is Cultureshocking News: China is the BEST behaved country in the world. How is it possible? Why is it BEST? And how we gonna deal with that? The intercultural encounter with China is a challenge. Prime your pump in your business, travel, study or politics mission. This book is for the noob all the way to the expert, offering enlightening insight on Chinese etiquette ("The China Sparkle", "China: A Maze")hands-on examples ("The story of the wedding couple's gift", "The story of the couple who got drunk")and expert solutions ("Pro Mode", "Pro Mode 2") Learn why it's best to know that you don't know... and still go pro. Boost your Three T's as in Talks, Trust & Timing with a focus chapter on communication. This guide to Chinese etiquette gives you all the essentials from a fresh and entertaining perspective. Check out the preview for more! (The preview of the stand-alone version offers an even closer glimpse of the content; also available in this store) CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette A comedy complement to the unconventional CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY, this guide to Chinese etiquette goes pop and punk with stereotypes, images and the fear of using them both. It offers you concrete scenarios in colorful anecdotes. Check out the preview for more! (The preview of the stand-alone version offers an even closer glimpse of the content; also available in this store) Other titles by Jiu Ling @ GooglePlay CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRYCHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY

Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States
Chinese Foreign Relations with Weak Peripheral States

Author: Jeffrey Reeves

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1317486501

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This book examines China’s relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical lens of structural power and structural violence. China’s foreign policy concepts toward its weak neighbouring states, such as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ strategy, are premised on the assumption that economic exchange and a commitment to common development are the most effective means of ensuring stability on its borders. This book, however, argues that China’s overreliance on economic exchange as the basis for its bilateral relations contains inherently self-defeating qualities that have contributed and can further contribute to instability and insecurity within China’s periphery. Unequal economic exchange between China and its weak neighbours results in Chinese influence over the state’s domestic institutions, what this book refers to as ‘structural power’. Chinese structural power, in turn, can undermine the state’s development, contribute to social unrest, and exacerbate existing state/society tensions—what this book refers to as ‘structural violence’. For China, such outcomes lead to instability within its peripheral environment and raise its vulnerability to security threats stemming from nationalism, separatism, terrorism, transnational organised crime, and drug trafficking, among others. This book explores the causality between China’s economically-reliant foreign policy and insecurity in its weak peripheral states and considers the implications for China’s security environment and foreign policy. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, Asian security studies, international political economy and IR in general.

Where Great Powers Meet
Where Great Powers Meet

Author: David Shambaugh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0190914998

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After the end of the Cold War, it seemed as if Southeast Asia would remain a geopolitically stable region within the American-led order for the foreseeable future. In the last two decades, however, the re-emergence of China as a major great power has called into question the geopolitical future of the region and raised the specter of renewed great power competition. As the eminent China scholar David Shambaugh explains in Where Great Powers Meet, the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In this book, Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence across this enormously significant area--and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global "power transition" occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their competition. The United States continues to possess a depth and breadth of security ties, soft power, and direct investment across the region that empirically outweigh China's. For its part, China has more diplomatic influence, much greater trade, and geographic proximity. In assessing the likelihood of a regional power transition, Shambaugh examines how ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and its member states maneuver and the degree to which they align with one or the other power.

The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Last Kings of Shanghai

Author: Jonathan Kaufman

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0735224439

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"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.

Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism
Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism

Author: Angela Zhang

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0192561197

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China's rise as an economic superpower has caused growing anxieties in the West. Europe is now applying stricter scrutiny over takeovers by Chinese state-owned giants, while the United States is imposing aggressive sanctions on leading Chinese technology firms such as Huawei, TikTok, and WeChat. Given the escalating geopolitical tensions between China and the West, are there any hopeful prospects for economic globalization? In her compelling new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism, Angela Zhang examines the most important and least understood tactic that China can deploy to counter western sanctions: antitrust law. Zhang reveals how China has transformed antitrust law into a powerful economic weapon, supplying theory and case studies to explain its strategic application over the course of the Sino-US tech war. Zhang also exposes the vast administrative discretion possessed by the Chinese government, showing how agencies can leverage the media to push forward aggressive enforcement. She further dives into the bureaucratic politics that spurred China's antitrust regulation, providing an incisive analysis of how divergent missions, cultures, and structures of agencies have shaped regulatory outcomes. More than a legal analysis, Zhang offers a political and economic study of our contemporary moment. She demonstrates that Chinese exceptionalism-as manifested in the way China regulates and is regulated, is reshaping global regulation and that future cooperation relies on the West comprehending Chinese idiosyncrasies and China achieving greater transparency through integration with its Western rivals.