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The Morality of China in Africa
Zed Books 2013; US$ 24.95This unique volume, edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on Chinas place in Africa, analysing the moral aspects of Chinas policies and ensuing migration. The resulting collection touches the issue of racism but also moments of pure... more...
The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India
University of California Press 2013; US$ 85.00This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen?s important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world. Through the conquests of Alexander the Great, his successors and others, Greek and Macedonian culture spread deep into Asia, with colonists settling as far away as Bactria and India. In this book, Cohen provides historical narratives, detailed... more...
Little Green
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books 2013; US$ 17.99I was born in a small city near the East Sea, when the Great Cultural Revolution began. My name is Little Green, my country Zhong Guo, the Middle Kingdom. When I was ten years old, our leader had died and the revolution ended. And this is how I remember it. When Chun Yu was born in a small city in China, she was born into a country in... more...
Little Green
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books 2013; Not AvailableI was born in a small city near the East Sea, when the Great Cultural Revolution began. My name is Little Green, my country Zhong Guo, the Middle Kingdom. When I was ten years old, our leader had died and the revolution ended. And this is how I remember it. When Chun Yu was born in a small city in China, she was born into a country in... more...
Little Green
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books 2013; Not AvailableI was born in a small city near the East Sea, when the Great Cultural Revolution began. My name is Little Green, my country Zhong Guo, the Middle Kingdom. When I was ten years old, our leader had died and the revolution ended. And this is how I remember it. When Chun Yu was born in a small city in China, she was born into a country in... more...
New Qing Imperial History
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese dynasty, but was deeply engaged in Inner Asia... more...
China Threat: Perceptions Myths
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Since the end of the Cold War, one of the most significant debates in international relations has been the question of whether the rise of China as a major economic, political and military power will be a force for stability or instability in the international system and the East Asian region. Forceful arguments have been put forward on both sides.... more...
Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese intellectual activity became more wide-ranging, more independent,... more...
What Remains
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 40.00The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Tens of millions of people lost their lives, as Chinese rebels, imperial armies, and local militias clashed across the Yangzi Delta. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon... more...
China and the International System: Becoming a World Power
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 155.00This book considers the evolving relationship between China and the international system, and the interaction between a China of profound change in its identity, capability, and influence, and an international system that is itself experiencing a process of far-reaching transformation. It develops an analytical framework that allows us to capture,... more...









