Author: Robert L. Downen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Tattered China Card
Author: Robert L. Downen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
China Stands Up
Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134142846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134142846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Pacific Passage
Author: Warren I. Cohen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A study of relations between America and East Asia on the eve of the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A study of relations between America and East Asia on the eve of the twenty-first century.
The Language of Foreign Affairs
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780941375115
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780941375115
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Playing the Identity Card
Author: Colin J Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134038046
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the quest for more stable identity systems. Commercial pressures mix with security rationales to catalyze ID development, aimed at accuracy, efficiency and speed. New ID systems also depend on computerized national registries. Many questions are raised about new IDs but they are often limited by focusing on the cards themselves or on "privacy." Playing the Identity Card shows not only the benefits of how the state can "see" citizens better using these instruments but also the challenges this raises for civil liberties and human rights. ID cards are part of a broader trend towards intensified surveillance and as such are understood very differently according to the history and cultures of the countries concerned.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134038046
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features high-tech IDs with built-in biometrics and RFID chips. Both long-term trends towards e-Government and the more recent responses to 9/11 have prompted the quest for more stable identity systems. Commercial pressures mix with security rationales to catalyze ID development, aimed at accuracy, efficiency and speed. New ID systems also depend on computerized national registries. Many questions are raised about new IDs but they are often limited by focusing on the cards themselves or on "privacy." Playing the Identity Card shows not only the benefits of how the state can "see" citizens better using these instruments but also the challenges this raises for civil liberties and human rights. ID cards are part of a broader trend towards intensified surveillance and as such are understood very differently according to the history and cultures of the countries concerned.
Strange Stones
Author: Peter Hessler
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062206249
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions. This unusual perspective distinguishes Strange Stones, which showcases Hessler’s unmatched range as a storyteller. “Wild Flavor” invites readers along on a taste test between two rat restaurants in South China. One story profiles Yao Ming, basketball star and China’s most beloved export, another David Spindler, an obsessive and passionate historian of the Great Wall. In “Dr. Don,” Hessler writes movingly about a small-town pharmacist and his relationship with the people he serves. While Hessler’s subjects and locations vary, subtle but deeply important thematic links bind these pieces—the strength of local traditions, the surprising overlap between apparently opposing cultures, and the powerful lessons drawn from individuals who straddle different worlds.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062206249
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions. This unusual perspective distinguishes Strange Stones, which showcases Hessler’s unmatched range as a storyteller. “Wild Flavor” invites readers along on a taste test between two rat restaurants in South China. One story profiles Yao Ming, basketball star and China’s most beloved export, another David Spindler, an obsessive and passionate historian of the Great Wall. In “Dr. Don,” Hessler writes movingly about a small-town pharmacist and his relationship with the people he serves. While Hessler’s subjects and locations vary, subtle but deeply important thematic links bind these pieces—the strength of local traditions, the surprising overlap between apparently opposing cultures, and the powerful lessons drawn from individuals who straddle different worlds.
Dictionary of International Relations Terms
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
China Diplomacy
Author: John F. Copper
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429715196
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book, examining the process that created the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), endeavors to assess the TRA in terms of its role in guiding or determining U.S. China policy, in preserving the sovereignty of Taiwan, in promoting democracy there, and in resolving the "Taiwan issue."
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429715196
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book, examining the process that created the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), endeavors to assess the TRA in terms of its role in guiding or determining U.S. China policy, in preserving the sovereignty of Taiwan, in promoting democracy there, and in resolving the "Taiwan issue."
A Unique Relationship: The United States and the Republic of China under the Taiwan Relations Act
Author: Ramon Hawley Myers
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817988739
Category : Taiwan
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817988739
Category : Taiwan
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
China Card
Author: Thomas Blood
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780843947823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
With the Russian economy in a shambles, and the hard-line leaders in power, renegade KGB operatives steal the classified dossier on the Kremlin's most carefully guarded operation, known as the "Red Locust" file. This ultra-secret document details the exact locations of over one hundred tactical nuclear weapons, or "suitcase bombs," secretly placed in the U.S. during the height of the Cold War. Thousands of miles away, in Washington D.C., in the final weeks of the presidential election, a young prostitute is found brutally murdered in a luxury hotel. The only clue--a single cufflink bearing the seal of the President of the United States. These seemingly unrelated events will soon reveal not only a sinister connection but a twisting trail of conspiracy and espionage, power brokers and assassins. It's a trail that leads from mainland China to the seamy underbelly of the Washington power-structure ... to the Oval Office itself
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780843947823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
With the Russian economy in a shambles, and the hard-line leaders in power, renegade KGB operatives steal the classified dossier on the Kremlin's most carefully guarded operation, known as the "Red Locust" file. This ultra-secret document details the exact locations of over one hundred tactical nuclear weapons, or "suitcase bombs," secretly placed in the U.S. during the height of the Cold War. Thousands of miles away, in Washington D.C., in the final weeks of the presidential election, a young prostitute is found brutally murdered in a luxury hotel. The only clue--a single cufflink bearing the seal of the President of the United States. These seemingly unrelated events will soon reveal not only a sinister connection but a twisting trail of conspiracy and espionage, power brokers and assassins. It's a trail that leads from mainland China to the seamy underbelly of the Washington power-structure ... to the Oval Office itself