Kerry Brown

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful leaderships modern China has ever seen. In CEO China, the noted China expert Kerry Brown reveals the hidden story of the rise of the man dubbed the 'Chinese Godfather'. Brown investigates his relationship with his revolutionary father, who was expelled by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, his business dealings and allegiances in China's regional power struggles and his role in the internal battle raging between the old men of the Deng era and the new super-rich 'princelings'. Xi Jinping's China is powerful, aggressive and single-minded and this book will become a must-read for the Western world.

The Rise of Xi Jinping

CEO, China

Everything You Need to Know About the New China

The World According to Xi

A gorgeous, fluffy baby owl is looking for someone to cuddle. He makes some unusual suggestions-the sun, the stars, the moon-while wise mother owl looks on, offering advice. A gentle, playful story that concludes with the very best type of cuddle-one from Mum! Lisa Stewart's stunning collage illustrations make this a book to be treasured.

Can I Cuddle the Moon?

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Emperors, the noted China expert Kerry Brown journeys deep into the heart of the secretive Communist Party. China's system might have its roots in peasant rebellion but it is now firmly under the control of a power-conscious Beijing elite, almost half of whose members are related directly to former senior Party leaders. Brown reveals the intrigue and scandal surrounding the internal battle raging between two China's: one founded by Mao on Communist principles, and a modern China in which 'to get rich is glorious'. At the centre of it all sits the latest Party Secretary, Xi Jinping - the son of a revolutionary, with links both to big business and to the People's Liberation Army. His rise to power is symbolic of the new emperors leading the world's next superpower.

Power and the Princelings in China

The New Emperors

Coralie Berry

Suzie the Thumb Sucker

Joseph Mathew

Joe E. Amadi-Echendu

Roger Willett

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.

Asset Condition, Information Systems and Decision Models

Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management, the first volume in this new review series, seeks to minimise ambiguities in the subject matter. The ongoing effort to develop guidelines is shaping the future towards the creation of a body of knowledge for the management of engineered physical assets. Increasingly, industry practitioners are looking for strategies and tactics that can be applied to enhance the value-creating capacities of new and installed asset systems. The new knowledge-based economy paradigm provides imperatives to combine various disciplines, knowledge areas and skills for effective engineering asset management. 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. Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management will be of interest to researchers in engineering, innovation and technology management, as well as to managers, planners and policy-makers in both industry and government.

Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management

Gemma Chenger Deng

China Through European Eyes provides a reader's perspective on the conceptualisation of China by Europeans over the last 800 years. With annotated excerpts of their key China related writings by influential figures such as Voltaire, Ricci, Leibniz, Montesquieu, Marx, Weber, Hegel, Barthes and Kristeva, this collection brings together the visions and ideas of individuals who had a unique impact upon European culture. The views within range wildly as the authors wrestle with what sense to make of China's cultural and social difference to their lives in the West, conceptualising China as a place of threat, otherness, exoticism, but also inspiration.This important selection allows for comparison of perspectives across different times in Europe, allowing readers to map out continuities and evolutions of attitudes towards China. It shows that contemporary European attitudes towards China have deep roots. With an extensive introduction, full bibliography and widespread annotations on original texts, this book will be of interest to anyone engaged with the role of China in the world today, particularly those interested in how the crucial relationship between China and Europe developed over time.Related Link(s)

China Through European Eyes: 800 Years Of Cultural And Intellectual Encounter

Jedda Robaard

Abby was very kissable. When she was a baby, her mummy would kiss her goodnight on the end of her button nose. When she was one, her daddy would kiss her goodnight on the end of each of her fingers and each of her toes... A delightful picture book manuscript about a little girl who receives too many kisses - and what she decides to do with the overflow... Abby was very kissable. Every night she would be kissed - once on the end of her nose, twice on her forehead, and countless times all over the bottom of her feet ... Abby adores her kisses so much that she keeps them all safe in a special bucket. They're too precious to pass around at Show and Tell. And too fragile to send to Grandma for her birthday. But what happens to kisses when they're not shared? A gorgeous picture book about giving and receiving love, from rising star Kerry Brown and bestselling illustrator Jedda Robaard. Ages: 2-5

All My Kisses

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.

Sikh Art and Literature

'Struggling Giant' explores the future of this emerging economic powerhouse and what the next two decades might bring in the critical areas of the environment, economy and political stability.

China in the 21st Century

Struggling Giant

Established as a nature reserve in 1897, Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand's longest and most exciting restoration stories. In this text, 19 specialists who have worked on the project relay the inspiring tale of its rehabilitation -- the restoration of the land, sea, and birds; the Island's past; and its future. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, charts, and maps, the text is academic but accessible to the general reader.

Nature's Second Chance

Restoring Kapiti

With Foreword writer John Keane The era of the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was one in which China became richer, more powerful, more prominent and more vexed. This series of essays, originally published on the Open Democracy website between 2006 and 2013, attempts to make sense of the cultural, political and economic dynamics within which China operates. They deal with internal and external matters, and cover a range of topics, from the fall out over the award of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo to the build-up in 2008 to the Beijing Olympics. Furnished with a comprehensive introduction which sets out an assessment of where China was heading in the first and second decades of the 21st century, the essays encompass voices from the political elite, the migrant labourers and the complex patchwork of groups, people and interests that constitute a rising China whose influence is now felt across the world. Carnival China is a celebration of the confusion, dynamism and colour of China, presented through short essays which were written at the time key events happened and which capture and analyse the country's contradictions and complexities. Contents:IntroductionThe Context: Governing ChinaSociety in Carnival China: The Beautiful, the Damned and the OlympicsChina and the Outside WorldThe Road to 2012: The Leadership TransitionThe Enemies Within: Separatists, Dissidents, and the ProtestorsFollowing the Money: The Chinese EconomyAfter Hu Jintao Readership: Social science students and individuals interested in Chinese politics. Key Features:Captures the feelings and impact of key events in China and its repercussions across the world as they happenedCovers a critical period in China's developmentAddresses some of the major themes of modern China — the way it relates to the world, its political elite and their intentions, its sense of self and identity and how this is often contestedKeywords:China;Politics;Hu Jintao;Politburo;Communist PartyReviews: “Fascinating and pleasurable to read in equal measure, it is a political anthropology of contemporary China that represents much more than an alluring chest of treasured observations of the bamboozling ins and outs of social and political trends in contemporary China. His smart and discerning study of the carnival called China spotlights the many ways China's global ambitions are held back by confusions and contradictions at home.” The Conversation “The tone and layout of Carnival China works well for the non-specialist reader. For those who want a quick fix of knowledge, filtered through the mind of an astute political pundit, passionate Sinophile and Mandarin-speaking specialist, Carnival China definitely deserves a quick read.” New Welsh Review

China in the Era of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping

Carnival China

Brings together the research of world-class commentators on China from across Europe to explore the policy aspects of the China-EU relationship. Aimed at practitioners, this book shows how to relate to China practically and understand its complexities for business purposes, including investment, social unrest, and China's five-year program.

Insights for Business and Investors

China and the EU in Context

Abby was very kissable. When she was a baby, her mummy would kiss her goodnight on the end of her button nose. When she was one, her daddy would kiss her goodnight on the end of each of her fingers and each of her toes... A delightful picture book manuscript about a little girl who receives too many kisses - and what she decides to do with the overflow... Abby was very kissable. Every night she would be kissed - once on the end of her nose, twice on her forehead, and countless times all over the bottom of her feet ... Abby adores her kisses so much that she keeps them all safe in a special bucket. they're too precious to pass around at Show and tell. And too fragile to send to Grandma for her birthday. But what happens to kisses when they're not shared? A gorgeous picture book about giving and receiving love, from rising star Kerry Brown and bestselling illustrator Jedda Robaard. Ages: 2-5

Simone van Nieuwenhuizen

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 and the New Maoists

Xi Jinping – der mächtigste Mann in China seit Mao – höchste Zeit zu wissen, was er denkt! Er ist der mächtigste Mann der Welt: Chinas Staatschef hat eine Machtfülle erreicht wie vor ihm nur Mao Zedong, er ist Staatschef auf Lebenszeit. Sein »Gedankengut für das neue Zeitalter des Sozialismus chinesischer Prägung« ist die neue Leitlinie, Kritik an Xi gilt als verfassungswidrig. Sicher ist: Xi Jinping wird nicht nur China in den nächsten Dekaden lenken und leiten, er wird unser aller Zukunft bestimmen. Höchste Zeit also, uns mit seiner Sicht auf die Welt vertraut zu machen! Der langjährige China-Experte Kerry Brown erklärt kompakt auf 160 Seiten, was und wie Xi Jinping denkt: wie er die Armut bekämpfen, den Klimawandel abwenden, mittels Big Data, die Überwachung vervollständigen will, und was er von China erwartet – und wie weit er gehen würde, um dieses zu verteidigen. Kurz: alles, was wir über das neue China und seinen Herrscher Xi Jinping wissen müssen.

Alles, was man über das neue China wissen muss

Die Welt des Xi Jinping

Bestselling Australian picture book creators Kerry Brown and Lucia Masciullo join forces to bring us a brilliant new rhyming adventure, perfect for fans of The Gruffalo. Ages 2+ If you were walking through the woods and a hole you came upon, would you stop and take a look? Or simply carry on? One by one, a group of animals come upon a strange black holein the middle of the woods. What is lurking down below? And is that its tummyrumbling? Read on to find out ... A mysterious, thrilling and funny new adventure frombestselling Australian picture book creators Kerry Brown and Lucia Masciullo.

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