McGregor, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.18 MCGYang, Dali L.
Summary: "Dali L. Yang's Fateful Choices offers a penetrating study of China's management of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, a momentous event that has reverberated globally as the severe pandemic in a century. Yang's work sheds light on the advantage Chinese health decision-makers had, including access to the novel coronavirus's genomic sequences from several laboratories, as early as the end of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 YANFallows, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.70951 FALKostigen, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 KOSQuartey, Kwei.
Summary: Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital, out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUAAllen-Ebrahimian, Bethany
Summary: "Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief that free-trade capitalism is a democratizing force--the assumption underlying much of American and Western policy since World War II--is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "Trade allows us to sell what we produce at home and purchase what we don't. It lowers prices and gives us greater variety and innovation. Yet understanding our place in the global trade network is rarely so simple, and today's workers are wary of being taken advantage of. Trade has become an easy excuse for struggling economies, a scapegoat for our failures to adapt to a changing world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 382.3 HOCSummary: An undercover policeman infiltrates a major drug ring and works his way to the position of heir apparent. When the leader of the syndicate becomes ill, the lure of power and money cause him to question his true identity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROFarrell, Henry
Summary: "A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe--spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America's security state first started to weaponize these channels after 9/11, when they seemed like necessities to combat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 337.73 FARLi, Zhuqing
Summary: "Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty years, while one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LIMoyo, Dambisa.
Summary: Discusses the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades and, in particular, the implications of China's rush for resources across all regions of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7095 MOYFewsmith, Joseph
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.059 FEWSpalding, Robert S.
Summary: "Many Americans are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war on the United States and puzzling over how to push back against its insidious infiltration. What few realize is that we have one real advantage in this war: the Chinese Communist Party strategy for total war has been written out in Unrestricted Warfare, the Chinese book, well known there, that has become their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 SPASummary: "Gripping saga of two rival moles--played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah--who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong's police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state's handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 SCHSummary: Panoramic illustrations and fascinating text reveal the story of the Great Wall and the individuals who helped build it, bringing to life key periods and turning points in the Great Wall's history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Oversize, Call number: J 951 GREQiu, Xiaolong
Summary: In line for the top position of the Shanghai Police Department, Chief Inspector Chen Cao is drawn into the investigation of a major party member's son, whose suspicious suicide in the face of corruption charges forces Chen to make a difficult choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QIUBradley, James
Summary: A vast history of American-Chinese relations from its missionary origins to the eve of WWII. Dark portraits of those whom conventional history has acclaimed, potent in its critique of the missionary instinct, and brilliant in its exploration of the power of myth and mirage to convince men and women and nations that destiny is on their side, this is James Bradley's most intrepid work yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.730 BRAPolly, Matthew.
Summary: Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies, Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become a fighter like in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Later, Matthew decided to pursue this quixotic dream: he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism. Expecting to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.8155 POLPaulson, Henry M.
Summary: "Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs, delivers a behind-the-scenes account of China's rise as an economic superpower. When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs played in helping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.951 PAURoberts, Dexter
Summary: "The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg. In his book, The Myth ofChinese Capitalism, Roberts shows readers the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.951 ROBEvans, Polly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 EVARoberts, Dorothy E.
Summary: "An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change. Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.7 ROBDikotter, Frank.
Summary: ""Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake Britain in less than fifteen years. The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikotter's astonishing, riveting, magnificently detailed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2010