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China and the West
The twenty-fourth semi-annual Munk Debate tackles the threat of China to the liberal international order.
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Beijing is now leaping over national borders to surveil and punish anyone who threatens its ambitions. Chiu’s book is essential to understanding the fragility of peace in the twenty-first century.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJan Wong, author of Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Jan Wong, author of Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e“By taking the China story global, Chiu shows how an increasingly powerful China is challenging not only our economies, but our institutions, our principles, and our communities. Reporting from the frontlines of China’s influence operations from Australia, Canada, and the United States to Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Russia, Chiu reveals embattled diasporas and critics under pressure as hypocrisy runs rampant in business and government, and a new world order begins to form. \u003cem\u003eChina Unbound\u003c\/em\u003e is a vital, illuminating read.” — \u003cstrong\u003eMadeleine O’Dea, author of The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Madeleine O’Dea, author of The Phoenix Years: Art, Resistance, and the Making of Modern China","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e“China Unbound gives an eye-opening global tour of the growing influence of the new superpower. 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This is the deeply informed account of a talented reporter from a middle power, Canada; one that explores a rising China’s fitful relations with a wide range of countries, and reveals what’s left of its domestic reforms as being driven by an obsession with ever greater control. \u003cem\u003eChina Unbound\u003c\/em\u003e delivers, at the same time, an urgent and much-needed caution against xenophobia toward Chinese people at a time of growing tensions with a new superpower.” — \u003cstrong\u003eHoward W. French, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and author of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_6_Auth":"Howard W. French, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and author of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe rise of China’s economy has been one of the major topics of the last decade.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eJoanna Chiu is a highly experienced international foreign correspondent.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eChiu is the founder and chair of the NüVoices editorial collective, which celebrates the creative and academic work of women.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe book touches on the abuses against Muslim Uyghurs in China.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eChiu is currently a senior journalist covering China-related topics\u003cstrong \u003e \u003c\/strong\u003efor the \u003cem \u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e and speaks frequently at major events and conferences. \u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe rise of China’s economy has been one of the major topics of the last decade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoanna Chiu is a highly experienced international foreign correspondent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChiu is the founder and chair of the NüVoices editorial collective, which celebrates the creative and academic work of women.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe book touches on the abuses against Muslim Uyghurs in China.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChiu is currently a senior journalist covering China-related topics for the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e and speaks frequently at major events and conferences. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Quote_from_review_0":"\u003cp\u003eDoggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing’s “aims and activities.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“Joanna Chiu, a reporter for the \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e, provides a powerful, heartfelt account of Chinese immigrants and their fraught encounters with Beijing’s United Front Work Department, a lavishly funded government agency that works with the Ministry of State Security. Chiu tells gripping stories of influence operations in such disparate places as Australia, Canada, the US, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Russia … Chiu’s stories demonstrate in human terms just how formidable a task it will be to put the US and China on any kind of cooperative path.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Review of Books","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Chiu’s book is very well written and researched, with plenty of firsthand accounts from the author. I recommend the book for everyone interested in China.” — \u003cstrong\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1_Auth":"Los Angeles Review of Books","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Brilliantly researched and beautifully written.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Auth":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eChina Unbound\u003c\/em\u003e reveals Chiu to be an intrepid reporter and cogent analyst of Chinese politics and society … She has produced a valuable contribution to public debate, illuminating the enigmatic Chinese state which is characterized by repression at home and an ambitious agenda abroad.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Doggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing’s 'aims and activities.'” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Publishers Weekly","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power.\u003c\/p\u003e","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeName_0":"Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing","PrizeYear_0":"2022","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2021-09-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003eWhile the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power.\u003c\/p\u003e","Subtitle":"A New World Disorder","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
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While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power.
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Chinatown Vancouver
An illustrated history of the buildings in Vancouver’s Chinatown, celebrating the vibrancy of the Chinese community.
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Chrysalis
Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community.
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This thought-provoking book in the Groundwork Guides series considers the enormous implications of the mass migration away from rural regions.
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City of Water
The second book in the ThinkCities series explores water as a precious, finite resource, tracing its journey from source, through the city, and back again.
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A List edition of Dennis Lee's Civil Elegies, with an introduction by Nick Mount.
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ages 13
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Cleaning Up
Cleaning houses is just a way for Jess to earn money for college – until she finds a hidden diary in the trashed bedroom of a fancy country house.
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NASA is again forecasting crewed missions, with plans for an asteroid landing by 2025 and a Mars orbit by 2035.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eThe story reflects Arno’s obsession with all things space-related and is packed with fascinating space information and fun facts, told from a kid’s point of view. The text has been vetted by astronomy experts and scientists.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAftermatter includes an afterword and a space-exploration timeline. Astronomy activities (building a to-scale model of the solar system, drawing a paper model to understand just how far planets actually are from the sun, instructions on how to make a homemade telescope, a guide to identifying stars in the night sky) will be included on the author’s and Groundwood’s websites.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eEach chapter opens with a facsimile of a page from Arno’s notebook, in which he keeps his “Deep Thoughts” and astronomy sketches.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eSet in an anonymous American suburb in the sixties, this story subtly and authentically challenges gender stereotypes and the fascination with modernization and space-age technology. Arno’s friend Mindy is an intrepid young scientist, happily wreaking havoc with her home chemistry set. Arno’s idol, Jean Slayter-Appleton, is modeled on renowned astronomer and columnist Helen Sawyer Hogg, who believed that the stars belong to everyone. And Arno’s father, who runs a cloth diaper service called Stinky’s, assures Arno that disposable diapers will not be a threat to his business (“More garbage can’t be good for the Earth. I think my service will stand the test of time.”).\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eAn accessible, wholesome, fast-paced “boy book” laced with humor (Arno’s friend Buddy tries to develop his astronaut readiness with his own homespun endurance and aptitude tests).\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eJessica Scott Kerrin is a seasoned and engaging presenter and in high demand for school visits, conferences and mentorships.\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eCurriculum connections: Earth science \/ astronomy; Science and technology \/ understanding space systems, rockets and satellites; Health and daily living \/mental health, anxiety, claustrophobia\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eThe jarring music, which seemed to be coming from every direction at once, bounced off the vaulted ceiling and came down on Arno’s head. He felt as if the black theater walls were pressing in and the giant statues were in danger of toppling over, crushing those in the first row.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArno gripped the armrests and squeezed his eyes shut, trying to catch his breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlease, no\u003c\/em\u003e, he thought. \u003cem\u003eNot now. Not a giant panic attack in front of all these people.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it was happening. The dizziness, the tightness in his chest, the frantic thoughts of being trapped, of smothering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he braved a look at the screen, a colossal asteroid was hurtling toward him, end over end, symphony horns bellowing. It was deafening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was too much.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJuly 20, 2019, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which will throw the media spotlight on space exploration. 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Astronomy activities (building a to-scale model of the solar system, drawing a paper model to understand just how far planets actually are from the sun, instructions on how to make a homemade telescope, a guide to identifying stars in the night sky) will be included on the author’s and Groundwood’s websites.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEach chapter opens with a facsimile of a page from Arno’s notebook, in which he keeps his “Deep Thoughts” and astronomy sketches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet in an anonymous American suburb in the sixties, this story subtly and authentically challenges gender stereotypes and the fascination with modernization and space-age technology. Arno’s friend Mindy is an intrepid young scientist, happily wreaking havoc with her home chemistry set. Arno’s idol, Jean Slayter-Appleton, is modeled on renowned astronomer and columnist Helen Sawyer Hogg, who believed that the stars belong to everyone. And Arno’s father, who runs a cloth diaper service called Stinky’s, assures Arno that disposable diapers will not be a threat to his business (“More garbage can’t be good for the Earth. 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ages 8
to 11
/ grades 3
to 6
Clear Skies
As the US/Soviet Space Race heats up in 1961, eleven-year-old Arno finds his dreams of becoming an astronomer exploding like an extragalactic supernova.
