China and Her Neighbours
James Griffiths
Michael Tai, University of Cambridge, UK
How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet As the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and attempts to organise outside the official Communist Party are quickly stamped out. But the effects of the Great Firewall are not confined to China itself. Through years of investigation James Griffiths gained unprecedented access to the Great Firewall and the politicians, tech leaders, dissidents and hackers whose lives revolve around it. As distortion, post-truth and fake news become old news James Griffiths shows just how far the Great Firewall has spread. Now is the time for a radical new vision of online liberty. UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 400 pages • Maps PB 9781786995360 • £9.99 / $12.95 Previously published in HB 9781786995353 ePub 9781786995384 • £18.00 / $23.40 ePdf 9781786995377 • £18.00 / $23.40 Zed Books
Asian Diplomacy from Ancient History to the Present Countries across the Asian continent are facing an uncertain future. Does China’s rise threaten its neighbours? And what, ultimately, is its end goal? Nowhere are these questions more pressing than in the Pacific, where China’s maritime neighbours find themselves directly in the path of the country’s expanding territorial claims. In this rich historical exploration, Michael Tai finds answers to these and other questions through an in depth exploration of China’s past. Spanning thousands of years of Chinese and Asian history, China and Her Neighbours looks at China’s evolving relations with Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. UK June 2021 • US June 2021• 216 pages PB 9781786997777 • £10.99 / $14.95 Previously published in HB 9781786997760 ePub 9781786997791 • £22.50 / $28.32 ePdf 9781786997807 • £22.50 / $28.32 Zed Books
The Trouble with Taiwan
Paper Dragons
History, the United States and a Rising China
China and the Next Crash
Kerry Brown, King's College London, UK & Kalley Wu Tzu Hui
Walden Bello, Binghamton University, USA
Taiwan is a place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a ‘rebellious province’, but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United States looking increasingly inward, Taiwan’s position has never been more precarious. Kerry Brown and Kalley Wu Tzu-hui reveal how the island’s shifting fortunes have been shaped by centuries of conquest and by a cast of dynamic characters, explaining how this tiny island, caught between the agendas of two superpowers, is finding its place in a rapidly changing world order.
Walden Bello traces our recent history of financial crises – from the bursting of Japan’s ‘bubble economy’ in 1990 to Wall Street in 2008 – taking in their political and human ramifications such as rising inequality and environmental degradation. He not only predicts that China might be the site of the next crash, but that under neoliberalism this will simply keep happening. The only way that we can stop this cycle, Bello argues, is through a fundamental change in the ways that we organise: a shift to cooperative enterprise, respectful of the environment, and which fractures the twin legacies of imperialism and capitalism. Insightful, erudite and passionate, Paper Dragons is a must-read for anyone wishing to prevent the next financial meltdown.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 288 pages PB 9781786995216 • £9.99 / $12.95 Previously published in HB 9781786995223 ePub 9781786995247 • £17.09 / $22.16 ePdf 9781786995230 • £17.09 / $22.16 Series: Asian Arguments • Zed Books
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 320 pages PB 9781786995971 • £9.99 / $12.95 Previously published in HB 9781786995964 ePub 9781786995995 • £17.09 / $22.16 ePdf 9781786995988 • £17.09 / $22.16 Zed Books
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The Great Firewall of China
Africa's Shadow Rise
China and the Mirage of African Economic Development Pádraig Carmody, Trinity College Dublin, Peter Kragelund, Roskilde University, Denmark & Ricardo Reboredo, Trinity College Dublin This book argues that Africa’s economic ‘rise’ is a mirage, driven by developments elsewhere - particularly China's economic expansion. While many African countries have high growth rates, these may prove unsustainable, and contribute to environmental destruction and worsening inequality. Similarly, new economic relationships have produced new forms of dependency, as African nations are tied to the fortunes of China and other emerging powers. Drawing on in-depth fieldwork in southern Africa, this book reveals how the shifting balance of global power is transforming Africa’s economy and politics, and what this means for regional development efforts. UK September 2020 • US August 2020 • 240 pages HB 9781786994783 • £65.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781786994813 • £58.50 / $72.68 ePdf 9781786994806 • £58.50 / $72.68 Series: Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa • Zed Books
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