The Gate To China

Author : Michael Sheridan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197576257
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gate to China written by Michael Sheridan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. Essential reading for anyone wishing to deal with China or to understand the world in which we live. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on documents from archives in China and the West, interviews with key figures and eyewitness reporting over three decades. The story takes the reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century to the age of globalisation, the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, the fight for democracy on the city's streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party. As the West seeks a new China policy, we learn from private papers how Margaret Thatcher anguished over the fate of Hong Kong, sought secret American briefings on how to deal with Beijing and put her trust in a spymaster who was tormented by his own doubts. The Chinese version of history, so often unheard, emerges from memoirs and documents, many of them entirely new to the foreign reader, which reveal China's negotiating tactics. The voices of Hong Kong people eloquent, smart and bold speak compellingly here at every turn. The Gate to China tells how Hong Kong was the gate to China as it reformed its economy and changed the world, emerging to challenge the West with a new order that raised fundamental questions about freedom, identity, and progress. Told through real human stories and a gripping narrative for the general reader, it is also critical reading for all who study, trade or deal with China.

Author : William Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Gate written by William Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth C. Economy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509537511
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World According to China written by Elizabeth C. Economy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world’s population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping’s bold calls for China to “lead in the reform of the global governance system” suggest that he has just such an ambition. But how does he plan to realize it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world? In this compelling book, Elizabeth Economy reveals China’s ambitious new strategy to reclaim the country’s past glory and reshape the geostrategic landscape in dramatic new ways. Xi’s vision is one of Chinese centrality on the global stage, in which the mainland has realized its sovereignty claims over Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the South China Sea, deepened its global political, economic, and security reach through its grand-scale Belt and Road Initiative, and used its leadership in the United Nations and other institutions to align international norms and values, particularly around human rights, with those of China. It is a world radically different from that of today. The international community needs to understand and respond to the great risks, as well as the potential opportunities, of a world rebuilt by China.

Author : Joshua Eisemann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317282930
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and the Developing World written by Joshua Eisemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's relationship with the developing world is a fundamental part of its larger foreign policy strategy. Sweeping changes both within and outside of China and the transformation of geopolitics since the end of the cold war have prompted Beijing to reevaluate its strategies and objectives in regard to emerging nations.Featuring contributions by recognized experts, this is the first full-length treatment of China's relationship with the developing world in nearly two decades. Section one provides a general overview and framework of analysis for this important aspect of Chinese policy. The chapters in the second part of the book systematically examine China's relationships with Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The book concludes with a look into the future of Chinese foreign policy.

Author : Erika Lee
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807863138
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At America's Gates written by Erika Lee and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

Author : Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393307801
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for Modern China written by Jonathan D. Spence and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.

Author : Frederic Wakeman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520212398
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangers at the Gate written by Frederic Wakeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion--one of the most calamitous events in Chinese history. The book explores the various factors that led to the progression of rebellion and the inevitability of revolution.

Author : MICHAEL. SHERIDAN
Publisher : William Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008356224
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gate to China written by MICHAEL. SHERIDAN and published by William Collins. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Ninde Gamewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gateway to China written by Mary Ninde Gamewell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary N. Gamewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780848242077
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gateway to China written by Mary N. Gamewell and published by . This book was released on 1988-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: