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China Unbound
- Author
- Joanna Chiu
- Narrator
- Nancy Wu
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 4 January 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Geopolitics
What to expect
While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become the world’s dominant power.
As the second-largest economy, China is now extending its influence across the globe. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the complicity of democratic nations, to a new colonialism coming from its multibillion-dollar “New Silk Road” initiative, to its growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions.
Chiu transports readers to protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uighur communities in Turkey, exposing Beijing’s use of high-tech police surveillance and aggressive human-rights violations against those who challenge its power. With increasingly close ties between authoritarian states, the new world order documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for prosperity and freedom everywhere.
Critics Review
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“Doggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing’s ‘aims and activites.’”
Publishers Weekly
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“An eye-opening global tour of the growing influence of the new superpower. A fascinating, illuminating book.”
Rob Gifford, Senior Editor, Economist
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“A devastating analysis of the Chinese police state gone global. China Unbound is essential to understanding the fragility of peace in the twenty-first century.”
Jan Wong, author of Red China Blues
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“A sweeping, timely, and nuanced read for anyone who cares about the global rise of authoritarianism.”
Leta Hong Fincher, author of Betraying Big Brother
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“A vivid, perspicacious, and ultimately disillusioned book about the current direction of China that delivers an urgent and much-needed caution against xenophobia toward Chinese people at a time of growing tensions with a new superpower.”
Howard W. French, author of Born in Blackness
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Details
- Author
- Joanna Chiu
- Narrator
- Nancy Wu
- Duration
- 10 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 January 2022
- ISBN
- 9798200735433
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Geopolitics
Synopsis
While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become the world’s dominant power.As the second-largest economy, China is now extending its influence across the globe. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the complicity of democratic nations, to a new colonialism coming from its multibillion-dollar “New Silk Road” initiative, to its growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions.Chiu transports readers to protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uighur communities in Turkey, exposing Beijing’s use of high-tech police surveillance and aggressive human-rights violations against those who challenge its power. With increasingly close ties between authoritarian states, the new world order documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for prosperity and freedom everywhere.
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