Professor Kerry Brown

China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation, and its leader, Xi Jinping, is set to dictate the pace and tone of world affairs for decades to come. In 2017, Xi Jinping became part of the constitution—an honour not seen since Chairman...

The Trouble with Taiwan: a place with its own flag, currency, government, and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a ‘rebellious province’, but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. Now with its neighbour China a major power on the world stage and ally United...

The fourth edition of this concise textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture, and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China’s recent history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fully up to date, this accessible text examines key developments that are shaping China's place in the world today,...

Is the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chinese political culture, as China learned to embrace ours? Here, one of the world's leading voices on China, Kerry Brown, takes us past the...