China's economy has grown remarkably quickly in recent decades and is now the second largest in the world-but prosperity has come at great environmental cost. Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) examines the nature of the country's pollution crisis, the Chinese people's[...]

With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. This book examines these profound changes and not only provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of China's demographic reality, but also looks at how Ch[...]

Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive or is it being challenged by growing inequality and unrest? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? In this highly rea[...]

This concise overview of China's development since Mao's death in 1976 has been substantially expanded for the new edition to take into account the dramatic changes of recent years. Special attention is paid in this edition to recent student protests; the social effects of Deng Xiaoping's 'capitali[...]

A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the edge of the world's 'four corners.' It was a [...]

Hailed as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war" by acclaimed author Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed remains the most powerful and moving account of the U.S. Marines in World War II. Now, with his long-awaited sequel, China Marine, E. B. Sledge continues his story where With the Old Bre[...]

Music in China is one of many case-study volumes that can be used along with Thinking Musically, the core book in the Global Music Series. Thinking Musically incorporates music from many diverse cultures and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the [...]

Sixty years ago, China was one of the poorest countries in the world, populated mostly by rural peasants, and still suffering from more than a century of internal turmoil and international humiliation. Today, China is a rapidly modernizing economic dynamo with growing global influence. Politics in[...]

Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chin[...]

For analysts China presents a conundrum. It is clear that China has made rapid progress, and the landscape of the world is changing due to China's unique position. Yet for decades, many have questioned this phenomenon, showing concern about cooked data, asset bubbles about to burst, and so on. Yet t[...]