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Summary: Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.51 JACMcGregor, James
Contents: Introduction: a startup and a turnaround -- The grand bargain -- Same bed, different dreams -- Eating the emperor's grain -- Dancing with the dinosaurs -- Caught in the crossfire -- The truth is not absolute -- The best-laid plans -- Managing the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.18 MCGSummary: In the past 30 years, China has changed from a state-controlled economy to an industrial colossus. The opposition team argues that China's rise benefits the U.S. economically and that they are unlikely to become our enemies or dominate Asia. The proposition team argues that China's military is becoming more dangerous, we cannot be confident in their good intentions, and we will compete with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Dikötter, Frank
Summary: "Through decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. He takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 DIKKingdon, Jessica
Summary: Looks at the social and economic classes in China and explores the pursuit of wealth, progress, and the "Chinese Dream."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Grasshopper Film Llc 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ASCFallows, James M.
Summary: Evaluates China's plan to rival America as a leading aerospace power, revealing the nation's considerable investments in airports and airplane construction while making recommendations for how the United States should respond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.70951 FALSummary: China Rises (a look at this rapidly developing economic power, from a factory to a pop concert and an Olympic volleyball court to the red carpet at the Shanghai Film Festival) and Behind the Great Wall (a look at the world's single greatest structure).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2008