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Dictators and Autocrats : Securing Power across Global Politics
In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more moder…
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Russia-China Relations
This open access book examines Russia-China relations across a variety of civilian and military areas of cooperation. Leading experts in the field present empirical case studies covering a wide range of strategic cooperation areas between Russia and China, such as technological, military, economic and political cooperation. The contributing authors shed new light on Chinese and Russian strategi…
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- 978-3-030-97012-3
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Chinese macrosecuritization: China's alignment in global security discourses
Introduction: Securitizing global concerns -- From Securitization to macrosecuritization -- Security in China -- The Cold War then and now -- Anti-nuclear discourse in China -- Climate security with Chinese characteristics -- China's War on Terror -- Potential Chinese
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The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies: Cases of 20 Chinese Chang…
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to…
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- 978-981-19-7281-2
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Self as Method
Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xi…
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- VII, 268
Self as Method
Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xi…
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"Learn!"
ANG CHIH-TUNG, the Viceroy of Hupeh and Hunan, occupies a unique place among the officials of China at this time. He is a man of profound scholarship, wide information, great mental energy and restless activity. He is endowed with a strong will and no little courage and daring. As a public officer he is distinguished for his loyally, his purity, and unselfish devotion to the good of the peop…
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The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to…
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How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market
A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The evolving role of China in the global economy
Title from title screen.Experts analyze four factors in China's economic growth: exchange rate policy, savings and investments, monetary policy, and foreign direct investments. China is now the world's second largest economy and may soon overtake the United States as the world's largest. Despite its adoption of some free-market principles, China considers itself a "socialist-market economy," su…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 457 pages) :illustrations.
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