Analyzes China's economic rise and its impact on global affairs, assessing China's weaknesses--environmental pollution, crisis in social trust, and faltering go

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

Previously published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, [2014]

Mao Zedong's political career spanned more than half a century. The ideas he championed transformed China and inspired revolutionary movements across the world.

This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential inf

Uses the concept of family, both literally and metaphorically to provide an introduction to Chinese culture.

This book mobilises the theory of uneven and combined development to uncover the geopolitical economic drivers of China’s rise. The purpose is to explain the