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  • City on Fire

    the fight for Hong Kong

    by Antony Dapiran ...
    A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution.Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • City of Protest

    A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

    by Antony Dapiran ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of 2014. What emerges from these grassroots movements is a unique Hong Kong identity, one shaped neither by Britain nor China. An insightful exploration of the historical and social stimuli ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • China Unbound

    A New World Disorder

    by Joanna Chiu ...
    While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power.As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Party

    The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

    by Richard McGregor ...
    "A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China's secretive rulers." —The Economist"Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Concise History of Hong Kong

    by John M. Carroll ...
    When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires arose a city that continues to intrigue observers. Melding Chinese and Western influences, Hong Kong has long defied easy categorization. John M. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Why Taiwan Matters

    Small Island, Global Powerhouse

    by Shelley Rigger ...
    Written by a leading expert on Taiwan, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan became such a key global player, highlighting economic and political breakthroughs so impressive they have been called "miracles." She links these accomplishments ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • China Rises

    How China's Astonishing Growth Will Change the World

    by John Farndon ...
    With a population of 1¼ billion people and the world's second largest economy, China is fast becoming one of the most powerful and important countries in the world. But while it is one of the world's oldest civilisations, China refuses to conform to expectations. The country's controversial policies, ranging from the one child policy to the repression of opposition groups, have placed it at odds ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • A System Apart

    Hong Kong’s Political Economy from 1997 till Now: Penguin Specials

    by Simon Cartledge ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Since 1997, Hong Kong’s economic growth rate has dropped sharply, inequality has increased, and corruption has found its way to the highest levels of government. These developments, Simon Cartledge argues, can be attributed to the city’s ‘pro-business’ constitution, which has held back change and led to the rise of an anti-establishment, localist opposition. A System Apart traces the interplay of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • China Renaissance, The: The Rise Of Xi Jinping And The 18th Communist Party Congress

    by Writers, Artists And Editors Of The South China Morning Post, Jonathan Sharp ...
    Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party's 18th National Congress held in November 2012. While the conclave itself passed off with smoothly choreographed efficiency, the months leading up to this once-a-decade transition were anything but orderly. Intense factional wrangling behind the scenes was accompanied by scandals very much in ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Scattered Sand

    The Story of China's Rural Migrants

    by Hsiao-Hung Pai, Gregor Benton ...
    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance—and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.For two years, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.

    The Dynamics of a New Empire

    by Willem Van Kemenade ...
    On the eve of June 30, Hong Kong was officially passed back to China. This event will mark what Willem van Kemenade sees as the start of an increasingly problematic -- and even dangerous -- reintegration of the old Chinese empire into a new world superpower. Since the early 1980s, investment money has been pouring into China from Hong Kong and trade has escalated at a rocket's pace. A few years ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hong Kong in Revolt

    The Protest Movement and the Future of China

    by Au Loong-Yu ...
    Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to the defeat of the Extradition Bill and beyond, the protestors' demands have become more radical, and their actions more drastic. Their bravery emboldened the labor movement and launched the first successful political strike in half a century, followed by ... Read more

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