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 DIKJacques, 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 JACKingdon, Jessica
Summary: Looks at the social and economic classes in China and explores the pursuit of wealth, progress, and the "Chinese Dream."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film Llc 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ASCMcGregor, James
Contents: Introduction: a startup and a turnaround -- The grand bargain -- Same bed, different dreams -- Eating the emperor's grain -- Dancing with the dinosaurs -- Caught in the crossfire -- The truth is not absolute -- The best-laid plans -- Managing the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.18 MCGSummary: In the past 30 years, China has changed from a state-controlled economy to an industrial colossus. The opposition team argues that China's rise benefits the U.S. economically and that they are unlikely to become our enemies or dominate Asia. The proposition team argues that China's military is becoming more dangerous, we cannot be confident in their good intentions, and we will compete with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Fallows, James M.
Summary: Evaluates China's plan to rival America as a leading aerospace power, revealing the nation's considerable investments in airports and airplane construction while making recommendations for how the United States should respond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.70951 FALSummary: China Rises (a look at this rapidly developing economic power, from a factory to a pop concert and an Olympic volleyball court to the red carpet at the Shanghai Film Festival) and Behind the Great Wall (a look at the world's single greatest structure).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHIChang, 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 CHAStarr, 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 STAZhang, 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 ZHAWong, Edward
Summary: "The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in Chinese restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People's Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and the Communist revolution, when he fell under the spell of Mao's promise of a powerful China....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WONOsnos, Evan
Summary: "A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation From abroad, we often see China as a caricature: a nation of pragmatic plutocrats and ruthlessly dedicated students destined to rule the global economy--or an addled Goliath, riddled with corruption and on the edge of stagnation. What we don't see is how both powerful and ordinary people are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014