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Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China?
A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership
that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese
political culture, as China learned to embrace ours? Here, one of
the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the
tired cliches and inside the Chinese leadership - as they lay out a
roadmap for working in a world in which China shares dominance with
the West. From how, and why, China as a dominant superpower has
been inevitable for many years, to how the attempts to fight the
old battles are over, Brown digs deeper into the problematic nature
of China’s current situation - its treatment of dissent, of
Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and the severe limitations on its management
of relations with other cultures and values. These issues impact
the way the West sees China, China sees the West, and how both see
themselves. There are obstacles to the West accepting a more
prominent place for China in the world – but just because this
will be a difficult process does not mean that it should not
happen. As Kerry Brown writes: history is indeed ending, but not
how the West thought it would.
The full beauty and depth of 500 years of Sikh culture is explored
in this lavishly illustrated collection of essays on the religion's
art and literature. The collection is accompanied by more than 100
black-and-white photos and 24 color plates depicting the finest
Sikh art, some of it reproduced for the first time.
Sikh culture emerged with the dawn of the modern age in a land
that was a thoroughfare of invading armies, ideas, religions, and
arts from the East and West. The poetry of scriptures, the
illustrated life stores of Guru Nanak, the paintings from various
early artistic schools and regions, the dazzling treasures of the
Sikh Kingdoms, the romantic artworks of visiting European
dignitaries, and the serenity of Sikh sacred architecture all
provide doorways to this heroic and revolutionary faith. Journal
excerpts, new translations of early twentieth-century poetry,
popular poster art, and a depiction of the 1984 storming of the
Golden Temple, add depth and originality to this fully accessible
volume. Often overlooked, the importance of art, poetry and
literature is crucial to our understanding of Sikh religions.
Together this collection of remarkable essays and exquisite art
illustrates the impact and value of Sikh culture-with its blend of
tolerance, egalitarianism and rational mysticism-in the Modern Age.
The context and environment of public services is becoming
increasingly complex and the management of change and innovation is
now a core task for the successful public manager. This text aims
to provide its readers with the skills necessary to understand,
manage and sustain change and innovation in public service
organizations. Key features include:
- the use of figures, tables and boxes to highlight ideas and
concepts of central importance
- a dedicated case study to serve as a focus for discussion and
learning, and to marry theory with practice
- clear learning objectives for each chapter with suggestions for
further reading.
Providing future and current public managers with the understanding
and skills required to manage change and innovation, this
groundbreaking text is essential reading for all those studying
public management, public administration and public policy.
The context and environment of public services is becoming
increasingly complex and the management of change and innovation is
now a core task for the successful public manager. This text aims
to provide its readers with the skills necessary to understand,
manage and sustain change and innovation in public service
organizations. Key features include:
- the use of figures, tables and boxes to highlight ideas and
concepts of central importance
- a dedicated case study to serve as a focus for discussion and
learning, and to marry theory with practice
- clear learning objectives for each chapter with suggestions for
further reading.
Providing future and current public managers with the understanding
and skills required to manage change and innovation, this
groundbreaking text is essential reading for all those studying
public management, public administration and public policy.
Sikh Art and Literature traverses the 500-year history of a religion that dawned with the modern age in a land that was a thoroughfare of invading armies, ideas and religions and arts of the East and West. Essays by art curators, historians and collectors and religion and literary scholars are illustrated with some of the earliest and finest Sikh paintings. Sikh modernism and mysticism is explored in essays on the holy Guru Granth Sahib; the translations and writings of the British Raj convert, M.A. Macauliffe; the fathers of modern Punjabi literature, Bhai Vir Singh and Puran Singh; and the 20th century fiction writers Bhai Mohan Vaid Singh and Khushwant Singh. Excerpts from journals of visitors to the court of the diminutive and new translations of early twentieth century poetry add depth and originality to this beautiful and accessible introduction to the art, literature, beliefs and history of the Sikhs. Illustrated throughout with 42 colour and 92 black and white images, Sikh Art and Literature is a colourful, heartfelt, and informative introduction to the Sikh culture.
Taiwan: 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, by Cold
War intrigue and the rise of its neighbour as a global power,
explaining how this tiny island, caught between the agendas of two
superpowers, is attempting to find its place in a rapidly changing
world order.
From Africa to the Arctic, Central Asia and beyond, China's foreign
policy will affect us all. Here, noted China expert Kerry Brown
guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with
US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with
Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and its increased displays of
military prowess - including huge investments in cyber warfare.
Brown also assesses China's extraordinary plan to create a `New
Silk Road' across Central Asia - one of the biggest infrastructure
projects in modern history. In doing so he seeks to answer a simple
question: what does China want? The answer lies in the unique way
China thinks about the world. A comprehensive analysis by one of
the world's most recognized and respected authorities, and based
upon unparalleled research into Chinese leaders, their beliefs and
their instincts, China's World is an essential read.
In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect
us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on
the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more
assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us
through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy
destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over
the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and its increased displays of military
prowess - including huge investments in cyber warfare. Brown also
assesses China's extraordinary plan to create a `New Silk Road'
across Central Asia - one of the biggest infrastructure project in
modern history. In doing so he seeks to answer a simple question:
what does China want? The answer lies in the unique way China
thinks about the world. A comprehensive analysis by one of the
world's most recognised and respected authorities, and based upon
unparalleled research into Chinese leaders, their beliefs and their
instincts, China's World is an essential read for the Western
world.
'Kerry Brown's Xi is the perfect primer for understanding Xi
Jinping's status as China's greatest ruler since Mao and as this
century's least assailable statesman' John Keay, author of China: A
History 'A valuable primer for anyone looking to get up to speed on
Xi Jinping's rise to global power' Jeff Wasserstrom, Guardian
'Offers a nuanced and thorough explanation of Xi's China and why
the Communist Party, for all its flaws, has long life in it' Oliver
Farry, Irish Times Although Xi Jinping came to power a decade ago,
he remains an enigmatic figure in the West. His priority has always
been to keep Chinese society as stable as possible, steering a
course through a period of astounding economic growth, while
ensuring that nothing challenges the political status quo. But with
unrest stirring in Hong Kong, reports of human rights abuses taking
place in the Xinjiang region and, devastatingly, the outbreak of a
virus that would change the world, suddenly understanding Xi's
China is more important than ever before. In this short and timely
book, academic and author Kerry Brown examines the complexities
behind the man, explaining the impact that his rule is already
having on the West. But who is Xi really, and what is his vision
for China's future? And, crucially, what does that mean for the
rest of the world?
Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive,
figure in contemporary China. Though he retains an immense symbolic
importance within China's national mythology, the rise of a
capitalist economy has seen the ruling class become increasingly
ambivalent towards him. And while he continues to be a highly
visible and contentious presence in Chinese public life, Mao's
enduring influence has been little understood in the West. In China
and the New Maoists, Kerry Brown and Simone van Nieuwenhuizen look
at the increasingly vocal elements who claim to be the true
ideological heirs to Mao, ranging from academics to cyberactivists,
as well as at the state's efforts to draw on Mao's image as a
source of legitimacy. This is a fascinating portrait of a country
undergoing dramatic upheavals while still struggling to come to
terms with its past.
China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing
underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the
fastest rate of any nation and its leader - Xi Jinping - is to set
the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. In 2017 Xi Jinping
became part of the constitution - an honour not seen since Chairman
Mao. Here, China expert Kerry Brown guides us through the world
according to Xi: his plans to make China the most powerful country
on earth and to eradicate poverty for its citizens. In this
captivating book we discover Xi's beliefs, how he thinks about
communism, and how far he is willing to go to defend it.
No one knows what happened to Lear's Fool. He appeared in the
story, and then as quickly as he had come he vanished. Did he die.
Did he live on. If he did, where did he go. Or where was he sent.
After all that he had seen and witnessed, life had to be different
once he left the court. But the Play is silent. He just goes. We
know his story though, whatever we may pretend. We know what
happened to him. Even if it was never written. He speaks to us if
we listen. So listen. This is the story, forever known, never
before written. Here it is set down. The story of the Fool. Kerry
Brown is an academic. He has written largely on China. His website
is www.kerry-brown.co.uk
This book gives an overview of key themes domestically and
internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in
Beijing in October 2017, setting out the main policy priorities for
the Xi government in China as the country moves towards fulfillment
of the first Centenary Goal, the hundredth anniversary of the
Communist Party of China in 2021.Written as the first full length
analysis by an international group of authors of different aspects
of the Congress, making it perfect for graduate students and
researchers, as well as individuals interested in China Studies.
This book presents eight separate essays and provides the reader
with a unique perspective and objective judgement of where China
will stand by the end of the current decade. It is suitable reading
for foreign policy practitioners, academics and anyone interested
in one of the world's fastest-developing countries. The eight
essays cover the following topics: China's internal politics;
China's military; China's economy; China's international image and
its international relations; China's legal development and China's
western regional development plans. China 2020 assesses where these
issues stand today and highlights their likely trajectory over the
following decade. A unique feature of this book is that it looks in
particular at the policy impact, both for China and other
countries, and all the most and least likely outcomes for China's
development in these areas.
Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models, is the
second volume of the Engineering Asset Management Review Series.
The manuscripts provide examples of implementations of asset
information systems as well as some practical applications of
condition data for diagnostics and prognostics. The increasing
trend is towards prognostics rather than diagnostics, hence the
need for assessment and decision models that promote the conversion
of condition data into prognostic information to improve life-cycle
planning for engineered assets. The research papers included here
serve to support the on-going development of Condition Monitoring
standards. This volume comprises selected papers from the 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd World Congresses on Engineering Asset Management, which
were convened under the auspices of ISEAM in collaboration with a
number of organisations, including CIEAM Australia, Asset
Management Council Australia, BINDT UK, and Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. Asset
Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models will be of
particular interest to finance, maintenance, and operations
personnel whose roles directly affect the capability value of
engineering asset base, as well as asset managers in both industry
and government.
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