[PDF] Smokeless War eBook

Author : Manoj Kewalramani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9354350968

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In January 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak in China was viewed as a black swan event, threatening the Communist Party's rule. Two short months later, however, China appeared to have controlled the virus, while the rest of the world struggled to respond. As country after country imposed lockdowns of varying strictness and the human cost began to rise, geopolitical frictions flared up over the origins of the virus, along with Beijing's early failures, diplomacy and discourse. Smokeless War: China's Quest for Geopolitical Dominance offers a gripping account of the Communist Party of China's political, diplomatic and narrative responses during the pandemic. Drawing on the latest academic research and Chinese language sources, it discusses the Party–State's efforts to achieve greater discourse power and political primacy, as it sought to convert a potentially existential crisis into a historic opportunity. In doing so, the author provides an insightful account of the Communist Party of China's approaches to cultivating sources of strength and exercise of power.

Author : Emily M. Hill
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0774816538

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Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, Smokeless Sugar traces the formation of a national economy in China through an intriguing investigation of the 1936 execution of an allegedly corrupt Cantonese official. Feng Rui, a Western-educated agricultural expert, introduced modern sugar milling to China in the 1930s as a key component in a provincial investment program. Before long, however, he was accused of colluding with smugglers to pass foreign sugar off as a domestic product. Emily Hill makes the case that Feng was, in fact, a scapegoat in a multi-sided power struggle in which political leaders vied with commercial players for access to China's markets and tax revenues.

Author : Keith Neilson
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1988-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 088920957X

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Essays presented at the Eleventh Military History Symposium held at the Royal Military College of Canada on March 22-23, 1984.

Author : Roy MacLeod
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,88 MB
Release : 2007-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402054904

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This book represents a first considered attempt to study the factors that conditioned industrial chemistry for war in 1914-18. Taking a comparative perspective, it reflects on the experience of France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Britain, Italy and Russia, and points to significant similarities and differences. It looks at changing patterns in the organisation of industry, and at the emerging symbiosis between science, industry and the military.