Spotlight on China | Yavapai Library Network

1) Power and restraint in China's rise

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Huang, Chin-Hao

2) The war on the Uyghurs: China's internal campaign against a Muslim minority

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Roberts, Sean R

3) China's leaders: from Mao to now

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Shambaugh, David L

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"A world-renowned Sinologist explores China's modern history through the lives of its leaders"--

4) China's strategic arsenal: worldview, doctrine, and systems

5) The party and the people: Chinese politics in the 21st century

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Dickson, Bruce J

6) Citizens and the state in authoritarian regimes: comparing China and Russia

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"This volume compares the most powerful authoritarian states in global politics today: Russia and China. For all their power and money, both regimes have faced difficult tradeoffs in seeking both political stability and reliable information about society while confronting the West and its international influence. They have also made different choices: Russia today is a competitive authoritarian regime, while China is a non-competitive authoritarian...

7) The return of great power rivalry: democracy versus autocracy from the ancient world to the U.S. and China

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Kroenig, Matthew

8) Active defense: China's military strategy since 1949

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Fravel, M. Taylor

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Since the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the People's Liberation Army (PLA) calls strategic guidelines. What accounts for these numerous changes? Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of threats that China has faced, M. Taylor Fravel illuminates the nation's past and present military...

9) China and the Middle East: venturing into the maelstrom

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Dorsey, James M

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"This book explores China's significant economic and security interests in the Middle East and South Asia. To protect its economic and security interests, China is increasingly forced to compromise its long-held foreign policy and defence principles, which include insistence on non-interference in the domestic affairs of others, refusal to envision a foreign military presence, and focus on the development of mutually beneficial economic and commercial...

10) Chinese Communist Espionage: an intelligence primer

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Mattis, Peter L

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"This is the first book of its kind that employs hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and important operations in the history of China's espionage organs, and links to an extensive online glossary of Chinese language intelligence and security terms. This work allows the reader an unprecedented view into the murky world of Chinese espionage...

11) Chinese spies: from Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping

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Faligot, Roger

12) Democracy in China: the coming crisis

Author

Ci, Jiwei

13) Making China modern: from the Great Qing to Xi Jinping

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Mühlhahn, Klaus

14) Maoism: a global history

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Lovell, Julia

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"Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim. Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his ideas remain central to the People' Republic and the legitimacy of its communist government. As disagreements and conflicts between China and the West are likely to mount, the need to understand the political legacy...

15) Censored: distraction and diversion inside China's great firewall

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Roberts, Margaret E

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As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy to circumvent can still be enormously effective. Taking advantage of digital data harvested from the Chinese Internet and leaks...

16) China questions: critical insights into a rising power

17) China's global identity: considering the responsibilities of great power

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Hoo, Tiang Boon

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What kind of great power will China become? It is uncertain how or if China's growing power, interests, and ambitions can be successfully accommodated within the current American dominated international order. Tiang Boon Hoo has undertaken the most in-depth examination to date of how Chinese elites view China's future role in the world. Without being blind to the potential dangers of China's rise, Hoo's findings force a reexamination of assumptions...

18) Terrorism and counter-terrorism in China: domestic and foreign policy dimensions

19) The next factory of the world: how Chinese investment is reshaping Africa

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Sun, Irene Yuan

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China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa: largest trade partner, largest infrastructure financier, and fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into Africa, investing in long-term assets, such as factories and heavy equipment. The fact that China sees Africa not for its poverty but for its potential wealth is a striking departure from the attitude of the West, in particular the United States....

20) The specter of global China: politics, labor, and foreign investment in Africa

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Lee, Ching Kwan

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China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign investment from around the world, China has stirred the most fear, hope, and controversy. Yet global debates about China in Africa have been based more on rhetoric than empirical evidence. Ching Kwan...