China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
By: Yuen Yuen Ang
4.18
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen A…
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1. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
By: Paul French
3.85
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superst… read more
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2. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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3. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
By: Philip A. Kuhn
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
Midway through the reign of the Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China… read more
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4. Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
By: Graham Allison
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap… read more
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5. From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, A translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo
By: None , None , None
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and… read more
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6. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
8. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
10. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
By: Matthew C. Klein
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests… read more
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11. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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12. Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
By: Desmond Shum
3.91
Format: None pages, Audiobook
This “powerful and disturbing” (Bill Browder, author of Red Notice) New York Times bestseller is na… read more
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13. Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
By: Ian Johnson
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Using history to challenge Communist Party rule. China's Underground Historians and their Battl… read more
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14. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more
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15. Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
By: Howard W. French
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European histor… read more
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16. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
By: Chun Han Wong
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more
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17. China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
By: Yuen Yuen Ang
4.18
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen A… read more
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18. Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
By: Scott Rozelle
4.24
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from … read more
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19. The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
By: Yasheng Huang
4.22
Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition
The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its … read more
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20. The Mountains Are High
By: Alec Ash
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just… read more
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21. From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia
By: Dan Slater
3.97
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Why some of Asia’s authoritarian regimes have democratized as they have grown richer―and why others… read more
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