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The Party
In this provocative and illuminating account, Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China’s Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future. China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. In The Party, Richard McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military and keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party’s decisions have a global impact, yet the CCP remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law and unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world’s only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is primed to think the worst of the West.
Xi Jinping: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
Xi Jinping has transformed China at home and abroad with a speed and aggression that few foresaw when he came to power in 2012. Finally, he is meeting resistance, both at home among disgruntled officials and disillusioned technocrats, and abroad from an emerging coalition of Western nations that seem determined to resist China’s geopolitical and high-tech expansion. With the United States and China at loggerheads, Richard McGregor outlines how the world came to be split in two.
Asia's Reckoning
China, red or green -- Countering Japan -- Five ragged islands -- The golden years -- Japan says no -- Asian values -- Apologies and their discontents -- Yasukuni respects -- History's cauldron -- The Ampo mafia -- The rise and retreat of great powers -- China lays down the law -- Nationalization -- Creation myths -- Freezing point -- Afterword
China’s Good War
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year “Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history.” —Foreign Affairs “A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in conceptualizations about the past and the present in contemporary China.” —Peter Frankopan, The Spectator For most of its history, China frowned on public discussion of the war against Japan. But as the country has grown more powerful, a wide-ranging reassessment of the war years has been central to new confidence abroad and mounting nationalism at home. Encouraged by reforms under Deng Xiaoping, Chinese scholars began to examine the lo...
Islam and the Devotional Object
A new history of Islamic practice told through the aesthetic reception of medieval religious objects.
Summary of Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In August 1971, Henry Kissinger greeted Tokyo’s ambassador to the United States, Nobuhiko Ushiba, in his office in the western White House in San Clemente. The meeting was to mend fences with the Japanese, but all of Kissinger’s frustrations about dealing with Tokyo tumbled out anyway. #2 The opening to China was a moment of rupture for the United States as well, as it saw its strategic and economic preeminence begin to wither. #3 The Nixon-Kissinger partnership on China policy was very successful, and they decided to keep it that way by unveiling their plans for the secret trip to Beijing in July 1971. #4 China and Japan had developed largely in isolation from each other until the late nineteenth century. But when both were forced to open up under economic and military threat from the West in the mid-nineteenth century, Japan was transformed from a feudal society into a modern industrial state able to compete with the West.
Summary of Richard McGregor's The Party
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 At the 2007 Chinese Communist Party congress, which was held in Beijing, China, nine men were elected to lead the country for the next five years. The key thing was not how they walked on to the stage, but the order in which they appeared. #2 The Chinese government maintains a national petitions office in the capital, where citizens can complain about official misconduct. Ahead of the party congress, Beijing threatened to mark down the careers of local leaders if residents from their cities made it to the capital to use this office. #3 The Party has unveiled its new leadership, and by definition, the l...
Japan Swings
A smart, accessible and dryly humorous look at a remarkable nation. An engrossing read.
The Shortest History of China
"‘A fascinating, enormously dynamic portrait of a superpower. Essential reading’ JULIA LOVELL ‘A fast-paced and witty survey of China’s past ... Iconoclastic, informative and more attentive to female figures than comparable works’ JEFFREY WASSERSTROM ‘Succinct, lucid and with a keen eye for detail, this slim book is an indispensable primer on China’ LOUISA LIM A PACY HISTORY OF CHINA THAT CAN BE READ IN AN AFTERNOON, BUT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR PERSPECTIVE FOR A LIFETIME. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has inf luenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese history is sprawling...
NO ANCIENT WISDOM, NO FOLLOWERS
In the past three decades, China has risen from near collapse to a powerhouse -- upending nearly every convention on the world stage, whether policy or business. China is now the globe’s second largest economy, second largest exporter, a manufacturing machine that has lifted 500 million of its citizens from poverty while producing more than one million US dollar millionaires. Then why do China’s leaders describe the nation’s economic model as “unstable and unsustainable”? Because it is. James McGregor has spent 25 years in China as a businessman, journalist and author. In this, his latest highly readable book, he offers extensive new research that pulls back the curtain on China’...
