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From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China
BRILL 2005; US$ 146.00This is a study of war between Sung China and Kitan Liao, the treaty at Shan-yüan in 1005 that ended it, and the forms and textures of peaceful diplomatic contact between the two states that prevailed for the rest of the eleventh century. more...
Navigating Sovereignty
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 100.00In this book, the author undertakes a postcolonial analysis of identities the Chinese state uses to confront world politics and globalization. Because these identities are created at the confluence of Western modernity and Confucian tradition, two elements that are continually reinterpreted themselves, the result is an ambiguity regarding the identities... more...
China Stands Up
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 45.95In 1949 Mao Zedong made the historic proclamation that "the Chinese people have stood up". This statement was significant, undoubtedly reflecting the changing nature not only of China?s self-perception, but also of its relationship with the rest of the world. In terms of reducing the imperialist presence of the West and Japan within China, and reasserting... more...
The Man on Mao's Right
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 28.00No other narrative from within the corridors of power has offered as frank and intimate an account of the making of the modern Chinese nation as Ji Chaozhu?s The Man on Mao?s Right . Having served Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in China?s foreign policy, Ji now provides an honest, detailed... more...
Geopolitical Exotica
University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 25.00Dibyesh Anand lays bare the strategies by which ÒExotica TibetÓ and ÒTibetannessÓ have been constructed and investigates the impact these constructions have had on those who are being represented. In this masterfully synthetic work, Anand establishes that postcoloniality provides new insights into themes of representation and identity... more...
Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq
Simon & Schuster 2008; US$ 19.99Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies, about the Iraq War. "Never before has such a... more...
China's Struggle for Status
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 27.00Profiles China's remarkable rise in great power politics following its post-Cold War crisis. more...
Modern Chinas Foreign Policy
University of Minnesota Press 1953; US$ 75.00What are Chinas objectives in world affairs and what course will she pursue to achieve her goals? These are the questions of vital concern to the Western democracies, questions that can be approached intelligently only from a knowledge of how Chinas for more...
Empress Wu the Great
Algora Publishing 2008; US$ 29.95Europe and Great Britain have had many sovereign queens in the course of history. In ancient China, there was none of that. Only one Empress ever ruled China in her own name Empress Wu. Given her startling performance in a world of deadly intrigue and shifting loyalties, Wu is still respected as an effective and clear-sighted ruler. more...
Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95Taiwan's Relations with Mainland China is the first book to deal with the role of Taiwan?s leadership politics, including the personal political styles of Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, in the development of Taiwan?s mainland policy and the consequences for U.S.-Taiwan relations. Including analysis of the critical and volatile 1988-2004 period,... more...









