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  • CHINA IN THE AGE OF XI JINPING
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    CHINA IN THE AGE OF XI JINPING
    MICHAEL DILLON
    This book presents a concise introduction to China in the Xi Jinping era. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics, and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; ...

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  • CHINESE MINORITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD
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    CHINESE MINORITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD
    MICHAEL DILLON
    The classification of ethnic identities (minzu) remains controversial in China. Categories established in the 1950s are still used by the state to administer minority areas, despite the existence of a complicated web of subjective identities which potentially undermines efforts to use these categories effectively. This book offers a new, and sometimes unusual, perspective on et...

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  • XINJIANG IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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    XINJIANG IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    MICHAEL DILLON
    There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority population, feel themselves displaced and discriminated against by the growing in-migrat...

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  • BIOPOLITICS OF SECURITY
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    BIOPOLITICS OF SECURITY
    MICHAEL DILLON
    Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of time, the work shows how, during the course of the 17th century, the problematisation of government and rule became newly enf...

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  • XINJIANG AND THE EXPANSION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST POWER
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    XINJIANG AND THE EXPANSION OF CHINESE COMMUNIST POWER
    MICHAEL DILLON
    Xinjiang, China's far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uyghurs, was for most of its history contested territory. On the Silk Road, a region of overlapping cultures, the province was virtually independent until the late nineteenth century, nominally part of the Qing Empire, with considerable interest taken in it by the British and the Russian...

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  • DICTIONARY OF CHINESE HISTORY
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    DICTIONARY OF CHINESE HISTORY
    MICHAEL DILLON
    First Published in 1979. This title is intended as a guide to personalities, events, ideas and institutions in China from earliest times right up to the present day. The dictionary should be particularly useful to anyone interested in Chinese history for its own sake, or in contemporary China, where today's events are so often seen in terms of the past. It should also help anyo...

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  • CHINA'S MUSLIM HUI COMMUNITY
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    CHINA'S MUSLIM HUI COMMUNITY
    MICHAEL DILLON
    This is a reconstruction of the history of the Muslim community in China known today as the Hui or often as the Chinese Muslims as distinct from the Turkic Muslims such as the Uyghurs. It traces their history from the earliest period of Islam in China up to the present day, but with particular emphasis on the effects of the Mongol conquest on the transfer of central Asians to C...

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  • SELF
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    SELF
    MICHAEL DILLON
    SELF: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology considers the psycho-physical mechanisms and reactions in human nature and destiny. This book is composed of seven chapters and begins with a description of the complexity of human body and mind, specifically their physical basis and nature of functioning. These topics are followed by a presentation on the issues of homosexuality and he...

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  • CHINA
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    CHINA
    MICHAEL DILLON
    Compiled by specialists from the University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies, this new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Chinese civilisation from Peking Man to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, literature, etc. The Dictionary is intended for students, teachers and researchers, and will also be of interest...

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  • DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
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    DECONSTRUCTING INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
    MICHAEL DILLON
    Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not only in challenging traditional scholarship and addressing contemporary politics...

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  • THE LIBERAL WAY OF WAR
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    THE LIBERAL WAY OF WAR
    MICHAEL DILLON / JULIAN REID
    The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live, liberalism is committed to waging war on behalf of life, specifically to promote the biopolitical life of species being; what the book calls 'the biohuman'. Tracking the advent of the age o...

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  • CONTEMPORARY CHINA - AN INTRODUCTION
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    CONTEMPORARY CHINA - AN INTRODUCTION
    MICHAEL DILLON
    This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and international relations; China's history, especially the twentieth century; and Taiwan...

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  • XINJIANG
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    XINJIANG
    MICHAEL DILLON
    Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous region in China's far northwest, is of increasing international strategic and economic importance. With a population which is mainly non-Chinese and Muslim, there are powerful forces for autonomy, and independence, in Xinjiang. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's history, economy and society, an...

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  • POLITICS OF SECURITY
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    POLITICS OF SECURITY
    MICHAEL DILLON
    In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Politics of Security establishes the r...

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