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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 DIK

McMahon, Dinny

Summary: A stunning inside look at how and why the Chinese economy is barreling towards disaster and the impact its collapse would have on the rest of the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 336 MCM

Summary: From all appearances, China has emerged unscathed from the global economic crisis, in stark contrast to the United States, its biggest debtor. China's admirers point to the government's ability to mobilize state resources, make decisions quickly, and create a business-friendly environment as reasons for the nation's economic ascendency. But can its brand of state-directed capitalism overcome...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012

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Kingdon, 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 ASC

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.18 MCG

Jacques, Martin.

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 JAC

Summary: A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UP
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF UP

Yang, Jisheng

Summary: An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.8 YAN

Arrighi, Giovanni.

Contents: Pt. 1. Adam Smith and the new Asian age -- Marx in Detroit, Smith in Beijing -- The historical sociology of Adam Smith -- Marx, Schumpeter, and the "endless" accumulation of capital and power -- Pt. 2. Tracking global turbulence -- The economics of global turbulence -- Social dynamics of global turbulence -- A crisis of hegemony -- Pt. 3. Hegemony unraveling -- Domination without Hegemony --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.06 ARR

Chang, Gordon G.

Summary: A pessimistic view of China's political and economic future examines the corruption, decay, deflation, insolvency, and other problems that are threatening Chinese society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951 CHA

Fallows, 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 FAL

Summary: At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia's new film is an intensely moving study of how China's economic boom and the culture of materialism it has spawned has affected the bonds of family, tradition, and love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOU

Summary: 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

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHI

Starr, John Bryan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hill & Wang 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.05 STA

Summary: A coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. Eleven-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou Province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school in daily gymnastics, he is told he must wear a clean, new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELE

Summary: 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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