'Kerry Brown's Xi is the perfect primer for understanding Xi Jinping's status as China's greatest ruler since Mao and as this century's least assailable statesman' John Keay, author of China: A History'A valuable primer for anyone looking to get up to speed on Xi Jinping's rise to global power' Jeff Wasserstrom, Guardian'Offers a nuanced and thorough explanation of Xi's ...

Xi Jinping – der mächtigste Mann in China seit Mao – höchste Zeit zu wissen, was er denkt!Er ist der mächtigste Mann der Welt: Chinas Staatschef hat eine Machtfülle erreicht wie vor ihm nur Mao Zedong, er ist Staatschef auf Lebenszeit. Sein »Gedankengut für das neue Zeitalter des Sozialismus chinesischer Prägung« ist die neue Leitlinie, Kritik an Xi gilt als verfassungswidrig. Sicher ist: Xi Jinping wird nicht nur China in den nächsten Dekaden lenken und leiten, er wird unser aller ...

Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities.Taiwan is now a flourishing democracy and an economic suc...

Apesar de ter chegado ao poder há uma década, Xi Jinping permanece uma figura enigmática no Ocidente. A sua prioridade sempre foi manter a sociedade chinesa o mais estável possível, navegando um percurso de espantoso crescimento económico, enquanto assegura que nada ameaça o status quo político.Mas com agitação crescente em Hong Kong, relatos de violação de direitos humanos na região de Xinjiang, e, devastadoramente, o surto de um vírus que alteraria o mundo, compreender a China de ...

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A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the presentThe relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while the long history of British exploitation is still bitterly remembered in China today. But how has their interaction changed over time?From the early days of the East India Company through the violence of the Opi...

Mao Zedong lived one of the most epic and influential lives of the twentieth century. His impact on the People’s Republic of China was vast. Half a century after his passing, he remains a divisive and controversial figure. This book gives an accessible narrative of his life, from the fall of the Qing dynasty in the early part of the twentieth century to the long years in which he struggled not only to ensure the Communist Party of China survived but that it then came to power after a civil...

Con un settore manifatturiero che sostiene l'intera economia globale e un esercito in crescita come nessun altro, la Cina è forse oggi il paese più potente del mondo. Tuttavia la nazione cinese, divisa tra modernità e tradizione, tra innovazione senza pari e fedeltà ai vecchi dettami comunisti, rappresenta ancora, per molti aspetti, un grande enigma. Con L'amministratore del popolo Kerry Brown ricostruisce la storia, le idee e il percorso politico di Xi Jinping, l'uomo che, partit...

This book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in October 2017, setting out the main policy priorities for the Xi government in China as the country moves towards fulfillment of the first Centenary Goal, the hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party of China in 2021.Written as the first full length analysis by an international group of authors of different aspects of the Congress, making it perfect for gr...

China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Western ideas into the country two centuries ago, China's long march to global primacy has been above all an epic fight to renew an ancient country and culture.Leading Sinologist Kerry Brown traces this quest for renewal through the major moments of China’s modern history. Taking the read...

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this resilience, or, for that matter, what the Party itself stands for.China’s Dream is the first book to explore the Communist Party as a cultural, rather than a political, entity. It looks at the narratives the Party has created to re...

With Foreword by John KeaneThe era of the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was one in which China became richer, more powerful, more prominent and more vexed. This series of essays, originally published on the Open Democracy website between 2006 and 2013, attempts to make sense of the cultural, political and economic dynamics within which China operates. They deal with internal and external matters, and cover a range of topics, from the fall out over the award of the 2010 Nobel Pea...