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  • Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics, Third Edition

    Edited by Lam Wai-man, Percy Luen-tim Lui, Wilson Wong ...
    In the third edition of Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics, Lam Wai-man, Percy Luen-tim Lui, Wilson Wong, and various contributors provide the latest analyses in many aspects of Hong Kong’s government and politics, such as political institutions, mediating institutions, and political actors. They also discuss specific policy areas such as political parties and elections, civil society, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Better out of the China ??????

    Works Collection of World Chinese Writers, #33

    by Lam Wai Tsang ...
    Series Book 33 - Works Collection of World Chinese Writers
    As a oversea Chinese writer, the book author Hue-Zeng Lin observes a lot of historical document from China. He is not just stay watching, but also visiting China and gives us indepth of thoughts and recommendations. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Information Retrieval Technology

    15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2019, Hong Kong, China, November 7–9, 2019, Proceedings

    Edited by Fu Lee Wang, Haoran Xie, Wai Lam, Aixin Sun, Lun-Wei Ku, Tianyong Hao, Wei Chen, Tak-Lam Wong, Xiaohui Tao ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Information Retrieval Technology Conference, AIRS 2019, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2019.The 14 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    How Reform Revived Totalitarianism

    by Minxin Pei ...
    A provocative book that demystifies China’s great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country’s embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and one-man rule instead of democracy as many in the West had hopedWhen China embarked on its transformative journey of modernization in 1979, many believed the country’s turn toward capitalism ... Read more

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  • Xi Jinping

    Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953-2018

    by Alfred L. Chan ...
    Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the village level, he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and China's paramount leader in 2012. Few expected what would come next: a sweeping restructuring of China's political economy and political culture which included anti-corruption ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • China in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges

    by Robert S. Ross, Jo Inge Bekkevold, Zhiyue Bo, Yongnian Zheng, Cuifen Weng, Barry Naughton, Joseph Fewsmith, Stig Stenslie, Gang Chen0, Linda Jakobson1, Andrew Nathan2, Helge Hveem3, T J. Pempel4, Mingjiang Li5 ...
    Since becoming president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping has emerged as China's most powerful and popular leader since Deng Xiaoping. The breathtaking economic expansion and military modernization that Xi inherited has convinced him that China can transform into a twenty-first-century superpower.In this collection, leading scholars from the United States, ... Read more

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  • City on the Edge

    Hong Kong under Chinese Rule

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handover period. Through careful analysis of vast economic data, a myriad of political events, and intricate networks of actors ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Poverty in the Midst of Affluence

    How Hong Kong Mismanaged Its Prosperity

    by Leo F. Goodstadt ...
    Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping

    Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

    by Willy Wo-Lap Lam ...
    Renowned for his coverage of China's elite politics and leadership transitions, veteran Sinologist Willy Lam has produced the first book-length study in English of the rise of Xi Jinping--General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since November 2012. With rare insight, Lam describes Xi's personal history and his fascination with quasi-Maoist values, the factional politics through ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Taiwan's China Dilemma

    Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy

    by Syaru Shirley Lin ...
    "Examines the complicated, dynamic relations between these two regions [and] offers a new perspective to understand the root cause of the dilemma." — China ReviewChina and Taiwan share one of the world's most complex international relationships. Although similar cultures and economic interests promoted an explosion of economic ties between them since the late 1980s, these ties have not led to an ... Read more

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  • Difficult Choices

    Taiwan's Quest for Security and the Good Life

    by Richard C. Bush ...
    How Taiwan can overcome internal stresses and the threat from ChinaTaiwan was a poster child for the third wave of global democratization in the 1980s. It was the first Chinese society to make the transition to democracy, and it did so gradually and peacefully. But Taiwan today faces a host of internal issues, starting with the aging of society and the resulting intergenerational conflicts over ... Read more

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  • China and Taiwan

    by Steven M. Goldstein ...
    Series series China Today
    Relations between Taiwan and the People�s Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago seceded from the Communist mainland over six decades ago. While the mainland has long coveted the island, Taiwan has resisted - aided by the United States which continues to play a decisive role in cross-strait relations today.In this comprehensive ... Read more

    $22.00 USD