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  • Resigned Activism, revised edition

    Living with Pollution in Rural China

    by Anna Lora-Wainwright ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.Residents of rapidly industrializing rural areas in China live with pollution every day. Villagers drink obviously tainted water and breathe visibly dirty air, afflicted by a variety of ailments—from arthritis to nosebleeds—that they ascribe to the effects of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    by Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Soft Power

    China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics

    by Jianfeng Chen, Xiaohe Cheng Xiaogang Deng, Yong Deng, Zhongying Pang, Ignatius Wibowo, Lening Zhang, Yongjin Zhang, Gang Chen, Joshua Kurlantzick, Suisheng Zhao, Zhiqun Zhu ...
    Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • International Aid and China's Environment

    Taming the Yellow Dragon

    by Katherine Morton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.Using case studies, Morton analyzes the relationship between international and local responses to ... Read more

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  • Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China

    Chinese and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Errol P. Mendes, Sakunthala Srighanthan ...
    Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Toxic Politics

    China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State

    by Yanzhong Huang ...
    Environmental degradation in China has not only brought a wider range of diseases and other health consequences than previously understood, it has also taken a heavy toll on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. In Toxic Politics, Yanzhong Huang presents new evidence of China's deepening health crisis and challenges the widespread view that China is winning the war ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China

    Environmental Values and Civil Society

    by Bryan Tilt ...
    Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends. Capturing the consequences of this reality, Bryan Tilt conducts an in-depth, ethnographic study of Futian Township, a rural community reeling from pollution.The industrial ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Red China's Green Revolution

    Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune

    by Joshua Eisenman ...
    China’s dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced widespread famine. In this revisionist study, Joshua Eisenman marshals previously inaccessible data to overturn this narrative, showing that the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Civil Society under Authoritarianism

    The China Model

    by Jessica C. Teets ...
    Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the ... Read more

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  • China's Environmental Challenges

    by Judith Shapiro ...
    Series series China Today
    China’s huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet.In this trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China’s struggle to achieve sustainable development against a backdrop of acute rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption. Using five ... Read more

    $23.75 USD

  • Environmental Litigation in China

    A Study in Political Ambivalence

    by Rachel E. Stern ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Global Rise of China

    by Alvin Y. So, Yin-Wah Chu ...
    Series series China Today
    This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world’s core economic powerhouses. Exactly how did this Chinese developmental miracle happen?Focusing on the key historical turning point in China’s post-socialist development, the book examines the ... Read more

    $19.00 USD