Dikötter, Frank
Summary: "Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 DIKSummary: Ye Haiyan is labeled a trouble maker by the Chinese government. Someone who embarrasses the state, for example, with public protests involving the civil rights of sex workers. She travels to Hainan Province to protest a case in which sexual mistreatment of elementary-age school girls by their principal has gone unprosecuted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOOFriedberg, Aaron L.
Summary: "The West's strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China's rulers to relax their grip on political power, abandon their mercantilist economic policies, or accept the rules and norms of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.5101 FRIShum, Desmond
Summary: "After the Communist Revolution, Desmond Shum's grandfather was marked as belonging to a "black category" that included former landlords and rich peasants--meaning the Shums would be stigmatized and impoverished. As Desmond was growing up, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity Shum earned an American college degree and returned to China to establish himself...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.092 SHUChang, Gordon G.
Summary: "China analyst Gordon G. Chang warns of the very real and present dangers posed to the United States and the entire world by a Communist China on the march, led by Xi Jinping"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanix Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 327.51 CHAJacques, Martin.
Summary: Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.51 JACWong, Chun Han
Summary: Party of One shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organizations and its leader. Many observers misread Xi during his early years in power, projecting their own hopes that he would steer China toward more political openness, rule of law, and pro-market economics. Having masked his beliefs while climbing the party hierarchy, Xi has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.06 WONZhang, Lun
Summary: Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident--otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre--from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Idea & Design Works 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.058 ZHASummary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIStarr, John Bryan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill & Wang 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 STAZhao, Ziyang.
Summary: Gives readers a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China's government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and was dethroned for his efforts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.058 ZHAO, ZIYANG ZHAFewsmith, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.059 FEWChang, Gordon G.
Summary: A pessimistic view of China's political and economic future examines the corruption, decay, deflation, insolvency, and other problems that are threatening Chinese society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 CHAFang, Lizhi.
Summary: Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on the country's first nuclear program and later became one of the world's leading astrophysicists. His devotion to science and the pursuit of truth led him to question the authority of the Communist regime. That got him in trouble. In 1957, after advocating reforms in the Communist Party, Fang --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FANG, LIZHI FANSanger, David E.
Summary: "A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.9 SANColl, Steve
Summary: "From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024