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How many members of the Communist Party of China reside in the U.S.?

My guess is quite a few. Do they tend to pocket in certain areas of the US? What industries are they associated with?

Data information and electronics, and any missile or defence spending regions or space areas,

No numbers have been established but a few cases have already taken place of ethnic Chinese spying and prosecutions have also happened where American born Chinese have passed missile info to the Chinese government, at least four are currently in US jails for this and federal charges relating to intelligence information being handed over to the Chinese government.

For all that America wants to be a melting pot in ethnic terms, there is a real risk that ethnicity will be the real cause of many events that are of real concern, and not the question of nationality, that determines behaviour, or loyalty,

The area of most concern currently, is that of industrial espionage ( Silicon Valley, California, Nasa’s Jet propulsioon laboratory , Pasadena, and Naval and Airforce bases in particular, ) are areas of high concentration of chinese personnel, and as a result areas where there are opportunities for agents to make themselves invisble to any searcher

A bigger concern is the level of cyber attacks directly on the US, from mainland China, and the mass immigration taking place into some African nations from the Chinese ( over 1 and a 1/2 million in the last 10 years , all into areas of high mineral wealth and slowly displacing the native populations, the intent is clear, that these nations will become majority Chinese within a generation or two, and the wealth of these lands will be exploited against the best interests of the USA, in the long term, a fact that America ought not to ignore

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Ode To The Communist Party: 1921 – 2001 (Dang De Song Ge Te Ji: Yi Jiu Er Yi – Er Lin Lin Yi) $8.99 …

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The Heart of the Dragon: A Rare Portrait of How Life Is Lived in China Today [Episode 11: Creating] $39.99 Episode 11: Creating. This episode looks at contemporary Chinese art, studying the philosophical and historical influences that shape it. This series presents a rare portrait of how life is lived in China today, exploring the contrasts and contradictions of the oldest continuous civilization on earth as it comes to terms with the modern world. Each episode focuses on a universal activity and profi…

The Heart of the Dragon: A Rare Portrait of How Life Is Lived in China Today [Episode 8: Marrying] Episode 8: Marrying. Examining the central role of the family, the changing status of women, and the reactions of a rural community to the government’s population control policy, this episode focuses on the activities of a marriage broker in the village of Maoping. This series presents a rare portrait of how life is lived in China today, exploring the contrasts and contradictions of the oldest con…

Blood Alley $5.23 John Wayne is at his two-fisted best as a seafaring tough guy who leads a group of Red Chinese villagers through the Straits of Formosa to freedom in Hong Kong. William Wellman directed; with Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix and Anita Ekberg. 115 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround stereo; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; featurettes; newsreel footage; theatrical trai…

Blood Alley $4.65 John Wayne is at his two-fisted best as a seafaring tough guy who leads a group of Red Chinese villagers through the Straits of Formosa to freedom in Hong Kong. William Wellman directed; with Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix and Anita Ekberg. 115 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital Surround stereo; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French; featurettes; newsreel footage; theatrical trai…

The Cold War: Fighting for American Freedom – The History of Anti Communism & Pro Capitalism Propaganda $12.99 Table of Contents: (1) The Magic Bond (1955) – A rare Robert Altman directed film from his early days which is riddled with anti-communist propaganda and tells the story of how the Veterans of Foreign Wars helps to strengthen the community with various programs. – 17 minutes (2) Don’s Be A Sucker (1947) – Odd film that aims to strengthen the American community by explaining that fanaticism and ha…

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A Tibetan Revolutionary $24.21 These extraordinary memoirs dictated by a key figure in the history of 20th century Sino-Tibetan relations are essential reading for all interested in understanding this important subject. The founder of the Tibetan Communist Party recalls vividly his personal role in the epic struggle of the Tibetan people over tradition and modernity, and the hopes, betrayals and tragedies that have marked it. The idealism, honesty and courage that have defined his life are in full evidence in this gripping personal narrative. –John L. Holden, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations This is one of the great untold stories of modern Tibet. Phuntso Wangye is a man who has never stopped fighting for his people, and the story of his life is both heartbreaking and inspiring, and essential for understanding what has happened in Tibet since the 1930s. Tibetan history has never before been as exciting to read as it is here. –John Ackerly, President, International Campaign for Tibet

Anatomy of the Jakarata Coup: October 1, 1965: The Collusion with China Which Destroyed the Army Command, President Sukarno and the Communist Party of $31.9 Anatomy of the Jakarata Coup: October 1, 1965: The Collusion with China Which Destroyed the Army Command, President Sukarno and the Communist Party of

Before Mao: The Untold Story of Li Lisan and the Creation of Communist China $107.99 The first biography of Li Lisan, the first head of China’s Communist party whose fiery independence led to forced exile under Stalin and eventual execution at the hands of Mao.

Bloody Harvest $19.95 Falun Gong is a modern day spiritual/exercise movement which began in China in 1991 drawing on and combining ancient Chinese traditions. The Chinese Communist Party, alarmed at the growth of the movement and fearing for its own ideological supremacy banned the movement in 1999. Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in the hundreds of thousands and asked to recant. If they did not, they were tortured. If they still did not recant, they disappeared. Allegations surfaced in 2006 that the disappeared were being killed for their organs which were sold for large sums mostly to foreign transplant tourists. It is generally accepted that China kills prisoners for organs. The debate is over whether the prisoners who are killed are only criminals sentenced to death or Falun Gong practitioners as well. The authors produced a report concluding that the allegations were true. Bloody Harvest sets out the investigations and conclusions of the authors.

Changing Of The Guard $25 This report details the major generational changes that will take place in the party-and-state leadership at the 18th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress set for October 2012. While Fifth Generation leaders like Vice-President Xi Jinping remain poised to accede to the position of general secretary and state president, and First Vice-Premier Li Keqiang will succeed Wen Jiabao as premier, General Secretary and President Hu Jintao has been personally overseeing the transition of power to-Fifth- and-Sixth-Generation cadres, a reference to officials born respectively in the 1950s and 1960s. With this report, JTF examines elite Chinese politics, especially factional intrigue and the grooming of China”s next leadership corps, in the run-up to and after the 18th Party Congress.

Charting China’s Future $39.73 China has scored huge successes during the last quarter century and has already become a global phenomenon. Twenty-five years ago, however, China”s remarkable accomplishments were largely unforeseen. This volume, consisting of nine essays based on ”best informed guesses” that are guided by the contributors” concrete understanding of current trends, posits that the future of China is an open-ended question that may not be answered with either a threat or a collapse. All of the contributors provide a set of scenarios and order them in terms of likelihood, including the seven factors they have identified as central to charting China”s future: the Communist Party, local electoral reforms and rule of law, the federalist possibility, social unrest, foreign policy orientations, Sino-American relations, and the Taiwan conundrum. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand China as it rises in power on the world stage.

Charting China’s Future: Political, Social, and International Dimensions $98.92 China has scored huge successes during the last quarter century and has already become a global phenomenon. Twenty-five years ago, however, China”s remarkable accomplishments were largely unforeseen. This volume, consisting of nine essays based on ”best informed guesses” that are guided by the contributors” concrete understanding of current trends, posits that the future of China is an open-ended question that may not be answered with either a threat or a collapse. All of the contributors provide a set of scenarios and order them in terms of likelihood, including the seven factors they have identified as central to charting China”s future: the Communist Party, local electoral reforms and rule of law, the federalist possibility, social unrest, foreign policy orientations, Sino-American relations, and the Taiwan conundrum. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand China as it rises in power on the world stage.

China $22.16 China’s dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. Far from the inward-looking days of the Cultural Revolution, modern China today is the world’s fourth largest economy, with a net product larger than that of France and the United Kingdom. And China’s dynamism is by no means limited to its economy: enrollments in secondary and higher education are rapidly expanding, and new means of communication are vastly increasing information available to the Chinese public. In two decades, the Chinese government has also transformed its foreign relations–Beijing is now consulted on virtually every key development within the region. However, the Communist Party of China still dominates all aspects of political life. The Politburo is still self-selecting, Beijing chooses province governors, censorship is widespread, and treatment of dissidents remains harsh. In China, leading experts provide an overview of the region, highlighting key issues as they developed in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Edited with an introduction by David B. H. Denoon, an authority on China, this volume of articles covers recent events and key issues in understanding this growing superpower. Organized into three thematic sections–foreign policy and national security, economic policy and social issues, and domestic politics and governance–the essays cover salient topics such as China’s military power, de-communization, growing economic strength, nationalism, and the possibility for democracy. The volume also contains current maps as well as a Recent Chronology of Events which provides a decade’s worth ofinformation on the region, organized by year and by country.Contributors: Liu Binyan, David B.H. Denoon, Bruce J. Dickson, June Teufel Dreyer, Michael Dutton, Elizabeth Economy, Barry Eichengreen, Edward Friedman, Dru C. Gladney, Paul H. B. Godwin, Merle Goldman, Richard Madsen, Barry

China Rising $42.96 This authoritative book provides a unique exploration of the complex and dynamic motivations behind Beijing”s foreign policy. The authors focus on China”s choices and calculations on issues such as the ruling Communist party-regime”s interests, international status and image, nationalism, Taiwan, human rights, globalization, U.S. hegemony, international institutions, and the war on terrorism. Taken together, the chapters offer a comprehensive diagnosis of the emerging paradigms in Chinese foreign policy, illuminating especially China”s struggle to engineer and manage its rise in light of the opportunities and perils inherent in the post-cold war and post-9/11 world.

China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy $111.83 This authoritative book provides a unique exploration of the complex and dynamic motivations behind Beijing”s foreign policy. The authors focus on China”s choices and calculations on issues such as the ruling Communist party-regime”s interests, international status and image, nationalism, Taiwan, human rights, globalization, U.S. hegemony, international institutions, and the war on terrorism. Taken together, the chapters offer a comprehensive diagnosis of the emerging paradigms in Chinese foreign policy, illuminating especially China”s struggle to engineer and manage its rise in light of the opportunities and perils inherent in the post-cold war and post-9/11 world.

China at the Crossroads $11.04 This concise and timely book, written by one of the world”s leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead. A concise and timely book about China and its future, which argues that the country it at a crossroads in its development. Written by one of the world”s leading authorities on China. Explores the challenges facing China”s leadership in the 21st Century, including poverty and inequality, the global business revolution, the environment, the capability and role of the state, international relations, the communist party, and the economy. Puts forward a concrete view about the course China should follow in the coming decades.

China at the Crossroads $71.45 This concise and timely book, written by one of the world”s leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead. A concise and timely book about China and its future, which argues that the country it at a crossroads in its development. Written by one of the world”s leading authorities on China. Explores the challenges facing China”s leadership in the 21st Century, including poverty and inequality, the global business revolution, the environment, the capability and role of the state, international relations, the communist party, and the economy. Puts forward a concrete view about the course China should follow in the coming decades.

China’s Democratic Future $43.67 An eminent China expert considers how the Chinese Communist Party will be removed from power and democratic transition will take place.

China’s New Rulers $1.04 China’s New Rulers, based on leaked secret Communist Party files that were compiled in choosing China’s Fourth Generation of leaders, offers an unprecedented glimpse into the most orderly transition in the history of the People’s Republic. It reveals the backgrounds, characters, and visions for the future of the men who will rule China for the next five years, profiles other key figures in the party, government and military, and provides new perspectives on Jiang Zemin’s 13 years in power.

Chinese Cyberspaces $45.91 The internet is developing more extensively in China than any other country in the world. Chinese Cyberspaces provides multidisciplinary perspectives on recent developments and the consequences of internet expansion in China. Including first-hand research and case studies, the contributors examine the social, political, cultural and economic impact of the internet in China. The book investigates the political implications of China”s internet development as well as the effect on China”s information policy and overall political stability. The contributors show how although the digital divide has developed along typical lines of gender, urban versus rural, and income, it has also been greatly influenced by the Communist Party”s attempts to exert efficient control. This topical and interesting text gives a compelling overview of the current situation regarding the Chinese internet development in China, while clearly signalling potential future trends.

Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition $36.89 Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and particularly after the opening brought about by economic reforms roughly thirty years thereafter, China has become an influential player in regional and global affairs. Increasingly, both American and European policymakers examine Chinese foreign policy as a flexible, pragmatic, and significant element in world affairs. This has accelerated in the middle of the new first decade of this century, as business firms and political officials have developed interests in the sources, processes, and significance of China’s reemergence as a global force. This volume examines how, in conjunction with rapid economic growth and profound social transformation, China’s foreign policy is experiencing significant transition. The purpose of this truly deep and probing collection is to deepen Western understanding of the sources, substance, and significance of Chinese foreign policy–with a focus on the post Cold War environment. Contributors include academic specialists, area researchers, and distinguished journalists, all with firsthand experience in the field of China studies. The volume is divided into four parts: (I) theory and culture; (2) perspective and identity; (3) bilateral relationships; and (4) retrospective and prospective essays on Chinese policy concerns. The volume is sensitive to changes in national leadership and Communist Party structure as well as continuity and change in foreign policy. As Lowell Dittmer of the University of California notes in his Foreword, precisely because it is so difficult to do well, the analysis of foreign policy is often conducted rather tritely. Thus it is a real pleasure to findassembled here a treasure trove of some of the finest work by some of the field’s most penetrating minds. This is fortunate, for at the core of this volume is one of the biggest and most portentous questions to confront the world at the outset of the twenty-first century. That question is: in

Chinese Politics $48.46 Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China.Despite the continuing economic successes and rising international prestige of China there has been increasing social protests over corruption, land seizures, environmental concerns, and homeowner movements. Such political contestation presents an opportunity to explore the changes occurring in China today what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy today and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People ”s Republic? Key subjects covered include: the legitimacy of the Communist Party internet censorshipethnic resistancerural and urban contentionnationalismyouth culturelabour relations.Chinese Politics is an essential read for all students and scholars of contemporary China as well as those interested in the dynamics of political and social change.

Coming to Terms With the Nation $61.94 China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of the most sweeping attempt to sort and categorize the nation”s enormous population: the 1954 Ethnic Classification project ( minzu shibie ). Thomas S. Mullaney draws on recently declassified material and extensive oral histories to describe how the communist government, in power less than a decade, launched this process in ethnically diverse Yunnan. Mullaney shows how the government drew on Republican-era scholarship for conceptual and methodological inspiration as it developed a strategy for identifying minzu and how non-Party-member Chinese ethnologists produced a scientific survey that would become the basis for a policy on nationalities.

Creating Market Socialism $52.17 Based on interviews with ordinary Chinese citizens, this work examines how people, as opposed to Communist Party elites, are establishing the new economic order in China.

Decentralized Authoritarianism in China $103 Landry examines how the Chinese Communist Party”s management of local officials perpetuates a decentralized authoritarian regime.

Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927 $146.01 During the Soviet period the USSR conducted diplomatic relations with incumbent regimes while simultaneously cultivating and manipulating communist movements in those same countries. The Chinese case offers a particularly interesting example of this dual policy, for when the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, their discovery of the nature of Moscow’s imperial designs on Chinese territory sowed distrust between the two revolutionary powers and paved the way to the Sino-Soviet split.Drawing on newly available documents from archives in China, Taiwan, Russia, and Japan, this study examines secret agreements signed by Moscow and the Peking government in 1924 and confirmed by a Soviet-Japanese convention in 1925. These agreements essentially allowed the Bolsheviks to reclaim most of tsarist Russia’s concessions and privileges in China, including not only Imperial properties but also Outer Mongolia, the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Boxer Indemnity, and the right of extraterritoriality. Each of these topics is analyzed in this volume, and translations of the secret protocols themselves are included in a documentary appendix. Additional chapters discuss Sino-Soviet diplomacy and the parallel history of Soviet relations with the Chinese Communist Party as well as the origins and purpose of the United Front policy.

Education in Tibet: Policy and Practice Since 1950 $169.48 This is the first book in English, or any other Western language, to give a comprehensive overview of education provision and policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) during the half century since China asserted control over the region. The author sets her modern history of education in the TAR against the wider context of the political and educational shifts which have taken place in China since the Communist Party came to power in 1949. Catriona Bass presents the best information available about each educational sector, focusing on issues such as access, funding, quality of provision, the little-known role of the monasteries in education and the controversial issue of the medium of instruction.

Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China $199.19 This book studies the rulers of China – its top political leaders. It seeks to understand who they are, what the major criteria in elite recruitment are, how job assignment in high politics is determined, and how the Chinese leadership is stratified. Using a data set on top Chinese leaders in the reform era Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China shows that political development in the reform era has mandated the division of labour between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the government in governance, leading to two distinctive career paths in the two political systems respectively. These two paths diverge mainly in their different emphases on the role of political and human capital in career trajectory. Specifically, all candidates for elite positions are screened for human capital and political credentials. But those on paths to the CCP hierarchy are evaluated more vigorously for political loyalty. This book will be used by both undergraduate and graduate courses on China or comparative politics. It will also be used by researchers, political commentators, statesmen and China watchers.

Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a China Village $28.76 More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton’s Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China’s continuous process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshen is a revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the years since the Chinese Communist Party first came to power. Fanshen continues to offer profound insight into China as it prepares to enter the twenty-first century, and will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China’s complex social processes or who wish to rediscover this classic volume.

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Governance in China $106.91 Crucial to the success of any further economic reform, good governance is the Chinese Communist Party”s greatest challenge as it plans for the future. This groundbreaking book explores the key dimensions of governance in China. These include the prospects for political reform; the processes of institution-building, such as strengthening state capacity and improving the legislative framework; enhancing regime legitimacy through local elections; and managing social discontent. Drawing on original fieldwork, the international group of authors provides a systematic analysis of the complex causes underlying China”s governance problems and reflects on the prospects for future social and political change.

Governance in China $37.58 Crucial to the success of any further economic reform, good governance is the Chinese Communist Party”s greatest challenge as it plans for the future. This groundbreaking book explores the key dimensions of governance in China. These include the prospects for political reform; the processes of institution-building, such as strengthening state capacity and improving the legislative framework; enhancing regime legitimacy through local elections; and managing social discontent. Drawing on original fieldwork, the international group of authors provides a systematic analysis of the complex causes underlying China”s governance problems and reflects on the prospects for future social and political change.

How China’s Leaders Think $139.05 A brain scientist, investment banker, and bestselling author on how and why China is remaking itself The author of China”s million-copy bestseller The Man Who Changed China, Robert Lawrence Kuhn has had rare access to China”s secretive power elite for 20 years. As complex and contradictory as the nation whose inner workings he”s come to know so well, Kuhn examines China”s 30-year struggle toward economic and social reform in How China”s Leaders Think. With access to recently declassified Communist Party material, Kuhn provides an intimate look at China”s leaders and leadership structure, visionary principles, and convulsive past, while tracing the nation”s earliest reform efforts and its ongoing reforms in the media, military, banking, healthcare, film, the Internet, and science and technology. Robert Lawrence Kuhn (Beijing, China) is the author or editor of 25 books and is chairman of the Kuhn Foundation.

Iron Pants: Oregon’s Anti-New Deal Governor, Charles Henry Martin $1.21 In 1934, Oregon’s newly-elected governor was a conservative anti-New Deal Democrat in a party dominated by President Roosevelt and his reformers. Here was a volatile combination certain to involve Charles Henry Martin in major political controversy. Governor Martin quickly turned his formidable talents to the destruction of labor unions and reformers in Northwest industries. He formed a secret Red Squad within the Oregon State Police bureaucracy, which operated up and down the West Coast. In addition to spying and using disruptive tactics, the Red Squad was linked to the framing and conviction of union activists in California.Martin earlier had served two terms as a U.S. Representative. Contemporaries, including his political enemy Richard Neuberger, gave Martin considerable credit for the authorization of Bonneville Dam when he lobbied and cajoled FDR and congressional colleagues. Though Martin fought vigorously for the project, he also waged a struggle against the proponents of public power , who Martin believed wanted the dam’s output socialized . Martin concealed the fact that public electrical distribution could harm his regional stock and real estate holdings. After political defeat in 1938, Martin blamed much of his troubles on the National Labor Relations Board, accused FDR of being a Communist and Fascist, and counseled appeasement with Hitler.The author also explores Martin’s equally intriguing military career (1887-1927). A graduate of West Point, Martin was at center stage in a number of remarkable events — frontier garrison duty, chasing elements of Coxey’s Army, The Philippines acquisition, China’s Forbidden City and the Boxer Rebellion, commanding the all-Black92nd Division during World War I, the Panama Canal Zone, and perpetuating the Army’s discriminatory policies of the 1920s.

Leadership in a Changing China $174.57 Scholars from China, Singapore, and the U.S. use the opportunity of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to explore the issue of leadership change in China and its impact on institution building and Beijing”s foreign policy.

Linguistic Engineering $9.18 When Mao and the Chinese Communist Party won power in 1949, they were determined to create new, revolutionary human beings. Their most precise instrument of ideological transformation was a massive program of linguistic engineering. They taught everyone a new political vocabulary, gave old words new meanings, converted traditional terms to revolutionary purposes, suppressed words that expressed incorrect thought, and required the whole population to recite slogans, stock phrases, and scripts that gave correct linguistic form to correct thought. They assumed that constant repetition would cause the revolutionary formulae to penetrate people’s minds, engendering revolutionary beliefs and values. In an introductory chapter, Dr. Ji assesses the potential of linguistic engineering by examining research on the relationship between language and thought. In subsequent chapters, she traces the origins of linguistic engineering in China, describes its development during the early years of communist rule, then explores in detail the unprecedented manipulation of language during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976. Along the way, she analyzes the forms of linguistic engineering associated with land reform, class struggle, personal relationships, the Great Leap Forward, Mao-worship, Red Guard activism, revolutionary violence, Public Criticism Meetings, the model revolutionary operas, and foreign language teaching. She also reinterprets Mao’s strategy during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution, showing how he manipulated exegetical principles and contexts of judgment to frame his alleged opponents. The work concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of linguisticengineering and an account of how the Chinese Communist Party relaxed its control of language after Mao’s death.

Managing Sino-American Crises: Case Studies and Analysis $24.95 The Taiwan Strait. The Korean War. Vietnam. The bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. The Sino-U.S. aircraft collision incident. U.S.-China relations have witnessed significant tensions and conflict over the years. Sensitivities and suspicions between Washington and Beijing have heightened as Chinas global power and influence have grown. Arguably, this new international order could increase the chances of a political-military crisisor perhaps outright conflictbetween the two powers. Managing Sino-American Crises brings together Chinese and American officials and participants in past confrontations, as well as scholars from both countries, to explore the changing features of crisis behavior and their implications for defusing future encounters. Using both conceptual analysis and historical case studies, this authoritative volume identifies specific problems and opportunities that will likely confront both countries in the future. The authors propose recommendations that will improve the effectiveness of U.S.-China crisis management skills. Contributors include Wang Jisi (Peking University), Zhang Baijia (Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party), Richard Weitz (Hudson Institute), Robert L. Suettinger (Technology, Inc.), Dennis C. Blair (Institute for Defense Analyses), David V. Bonfili (Institute for Defense Analyses), Xu Hui (National Defense University), Kurt M. Campbell (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Jonathan Wilkenfeld (University of Maryland), Xia Liping (Shanghai Institute for International Studies), Allen S. Whiting (University of Arizona), Wu Baiyi (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Niu Jun (Peking University), and Zhang Tuosheng (ChinaFoundation for International and Strategic Studies).

Managing The China Challenge $26.95 In this work, Lieberthal summarizes key challenges businesses face in doing business in China; discusses the roles of the state, including the Communist Party, and local officials in business ventures; and frames issues related to corporate strategy such as branding, human resources, government relations, product development, marketing, corporate social responsibility, and risk mitigation.

Managing Transitions $166.51 Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China”s minor parties and groups (MPG”s) in the Chinese Communist Party”s (CCP) united front between the 1930”s and 1990”s using Antonio Gramsci”s principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a war of position, the building of political alliances to isolate existing state powers and win consent for revolutionary rule and transform society. Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is adjusting the united front and the MPGs to co-opt their representatives and deliberately forestall the evolution of an autonomous civil society and middle class which could challenge CCP rule. This has resulted in a new and expanding role for the united front, the MPGs and organisations representing the new interest groups.

Mao $35.8 Mao was instrumental in shaping the modern world Examines Mao as a revolutionary general and founder of the leader of the world’s largest nation. Explores Mao’s career as an astute and often brutal political manipulator . Looks at how Mao became a victim of his own obsession with power. Shaun Breslin explores the career of Mao Zedung (1892-1976) from a number of angles, as revolutionary general, as founder and leader of the world’s largest nation for almost thirty convulsive years, as ideologist, as astute and often brutal political manipulator and ultimately as a victim of his own obsession with power. There are two stories here, how Mao established a communist party state in mainland China and what he accomplished as its leader. The triumph of 1949 was won after a quarter-century of epic struggle. Not only did Mao and the Communists withstand the attacks of the ruling nationalists party and Japanese invasion in 1937, But Mao also had to wage his own battle within the movement against those who looked to Moscow to show the way forward. To survive such circumstances was achievement enough and Mao’s overwhelming victory helps us understand his subsequent status in the China he created. But after establishing a new regime, Mao embarked on a number of radical experiments to transform China and classless society. Even after failures, he was determined to ensure that his revolutionary radicalism would outlive him. Ironically, his extreme actions undermined it and Maosim, and Mao’s China, died wit him in 1976. Mao is a crisply written and very interesting appraisal of one of the most controversial shapers of the modern world. And, as the othertitles in the Profiles in Power series, it is not a biography, though inevitably it contains much biographical material, it instead analyzes the major features, achievements and failures of Mao’s career.

Mao Zedong $22.88 Born in Southern China in 1893, this farmer’s son would rule the world’s most populous country. The young Mao Zedong grew up in a world desperate to break with the ancient rules of the Qing dynasty. Mao challenged convention early in life, and was expelled from school. He joined China’s new Communist Party, and led China’s historic revolution. Hailed by many as a truly liberating hero, others demonized him as a brutal monster. This biography outlines the revolutionary life of the first leader of the People’s Republic of China and sets his march to power in the context of world history.

Mao Zedong and China’s Revolutions $19.2 Whether one views Mao Zedong as a hero or a demon, the Great Helmsman was, undoubtedly, a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century China, a man whose life and writings provide a fascinating window on the Chinese experience from the 1920s onward. Part Mao biography, part historical overview of the turbulent story of China”s Communist revolutions, the introductory essay traces the history of twentieth-century China, from Mao”s early career up to the Chinese Communist Party”s victory in 1949, through three decades of revolution to Mao”s death in 1976. The second half of the volume offers a selection of Mao”s writings — including such seminal pieces as On New Democracy and selections from the Little Red Book — and writings about Mao and his legacy by both his contemporaries and modern scholars. Also included are headnotes to the documents, a chronology, Questions for Consideration, 12 images, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Marketing Dictatorship $35.75 After a period of self-imposed exclusion, Chinese society is in the process of a massive transformation in the name of economic progress and integration into the world economy, yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is seeking to maintain its rule over China indefinitely. Examining Chinese propaganda and thought work in the current period offers readers a unique understanding of how the CCP will address real and perceived threats to stability and its continued hold on power.

Marketing Dictatorship $84.43 After a period of self-imposed exclusion, Chinese society is in the process of a massive transformation in the name of economic progress and integration into the world economy, yet the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is seeking to maintain its rule over China indefinitely. Examining Chinese propaganda and thought work in the current period offers readers a unique understanding of how the CCP will address real and perceived threats to stability and its continued hold on power.

One Country, Two Systems in Crisis $31.61 ”One Country, Two Systems” in Crisis elucidates how China”s intervention in Hong Kong after the British handover in 1984 has curtailed Hong Kong”s civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how deception has turned the ”Pearl of the Orient” into the rubber stamp of the Chinese Communist Party.

Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China $45.97 Essays by twelve leading scholars give readers insight into the workings of politics in Communist China.

Qigong Fever $40 Qigong & mdash; a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercisesmdash; was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth-century urban China. The practice was promoted by senior Communist Party leaders as a uniquely Chinese healing tradition and as a harbinger of a new scientific revolution, yet the movement’s mass popularity and the almost religious devotion of its followers led to its ruthless suppression. In this absorbing and revealing book, David A. Palmer relies on a combination of historical, anthropological, and sociological perspectives to describe the spread of the qigong craze and its reflection of key trends that have shaped China since 1949, including the search for a national identity and an emphasis on the absolute authority of science. Qigong offered the promise of an all-powerful technology of the body rooted in the mysteries of Chinese culture. However, after 1995 the scientific underpinnings of qigong came under attack, its leaders were denounced as charlatans, and its networks of followers, notably Falungong, were suppressed as evil cults. According to Palmer, the success of the movement proves that a hugely important religious dimension not only survived under the CCP but was actively fostered, if not created, by high-ranking party members. Tracing the complex relationships among the masters, officials, scientists, practitioners, and ideologues involved in qigong, Palmer opens a fascinating window on the transformation of Chinese tradition as it evolved along with the Chinese state. As he brilliantly demonstrates, the rise and collapse of the qigong movement is key to understanding the politics and cultureof post-Mao society.

Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change $32.99 This book looks at the evolving relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and private entrepreneurs.

Red Scarf Girl $17.99 I have never doubted what I was told: Heaven and earth are great, but greater still is the kindness of the Communist Part; father and mother are dear, but dearer still is Chairman Mao. In 1966 Ji-li Jian was 12 years old. And oustanding student and a leader of her class, she had everything: brains, ability, the admiration of her peers– and a shining future in Chairman Mao’s New China. But all that changed with the advent of the Cultural Revolution, when intelligence became a crime and a wealthy family background invited persecution or worse. For the next few years Ji-li and her family were humilated and reviled by their former friends, neighbors and colleagues and lived in constant terror of arrest. At last, with the detention of her father, Ji-li was faced with the most dreadful decision of her life: denounce him, or refuse to testify and sacrifice her future in her beloved Communist Party. Told with simplicity, innocence and grace, this unforgettable memoir gives a child’s-eye view of a terrifying time in 20th-century history– and of one family’s indomitable courage under fire.

Redeemed by Fire $45 This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources–including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and interviews–Lian Xi traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered missionary church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationalism and millenarianism. Lian shows that, with a current membership that rivals that of the Chinese Communist Party, and the ability to galvanize China”s millions into apocalyptic convulsion and messianic exuberance, the popular Christian movement channels the aspirations and the discontent of the masses and will play an important role in shaping the country”s future.

Revolution in the Highlands $89.71 This extensively researched and elegantly written study offers a fine-grained analysis of the origins of the Chinese communist revolution in the countryside. Building on decades of research in newly available sources and multiple trips to Jiangxi, Stephen Averill provides a definitive local perspective on the rise of a revolution that reshaped China and the world. A rich work of social history, it goes beyond conventional Mao-centered narrative to explore the social cleavages that enabled the revolution to grow and dramatically influenced the structure of conflict within the party itself. Posthumously published with an introduction by Joseph W. Esherick and Elizabeth J. Perry, this book will stand as a memorial to the remarkable scholarship of a pioneer researcher on the social history of the Chinese revolution. Students and scholars interested in modern China and in the social origins of revolution will find it essential reading.

Revolutionary Discourse in Mao’s Republic $44.62 What does the Chinese Communist Revolution teach us about the relationship between political discourse and real experiences and events? This unique interpretation of the revolutionary process in China uses empirical evidence as well as concepts from contemporary cultural studies to probe this significant question. David Apter and Tony Saich base their analysis on recently available primary sources on party history, English- and Chinese-language accounts of the Long March and Yan”an period, and interviews with veterans and their relatives.Written by an eminent political theorist well seasoned in comparative development and an internationally recognized China scholar, and abounding in new approaches to central issues, this incisive analysis will be welcomed by social theorists and China scholars alike.

Social and Political Change in Revolutionary China $45.11 This seminal history provides the first book-length study and the first county-level analysis of social and political change in the Taihang Base Area during the key years of the War of Resistance to Japan, which was instrumental to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. David S. G. Goodman explores revolution as process, arguing that the Chinese Communist Party was so successful because of its management of revolutionary incrementalism. In particular, he examines the roles and interactions of a variety of groups, highlighting the activities of urban intellectuals, teachers, and peasant small-holders as agents of change.

The Aftermath of the Chinese Nationalist Revolution $38.6 For the first time in history, an inglorious bondage is transformed into inspiring freedom. With these words, Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen spoke to the hopes of the Chinese people, who just the year before, in the uprising of 1911, had thrown off more than two hundred years of oppressive rule under the Manchus (Qing dynasty). Yet in the aftermath of the nationalist revolution, the nation was thrown into decades of turmoil. Years of struggle among China”s warlords???as well as war against expansionist Japan, the rising power of the Chinese communist party, and the eventual outbreak of World War II in 1939???led to civil war. Out of this historic struggle emerged the People”s Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong. Follow the dramatic story of a great nation”s struggle for freedom, the emergence of Chinese communism, and the epic suffering of its people through years of war.

The Chinese Filmography $200.07 The founding of the People”s Republic of China in 1949 marked the end of an era of Chinese filmmaking, an era marked by a high level of artistic and technical development. Since that time, it has been impossible to separate filmmaking from politics. When the Chinese Communist Party has loosened controls and encouraged art and culture, the film industry has prospered.From A to Z this comprehensive reference work provides filmographic data on 2,444 Chinese features released since the formation of the People”s Republic of China. The films reflect the shifting dynamics of the Chinese film industry, from sweeping epics to unabashedly political docudramas, although straight documentaries are excluded from the current work. The entries include the title in English, the Chinese title, year of release, studio, technical information (e.g., black and white or color, letterboxed or widescreen), length, technical credits, literary source (when applicable), cast, plot summary, and awards won.

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