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1. Encyclopedia of Chinese History

   Edited by Michael Dillon

   China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese...

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
2. Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century

   A Political Analytic of Finitude

   By Michael Dillon

   Series: PRIO New Security Studies

   This book is a volume of essays on the Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century, by Professor Mick Dillon. It is at first of its kind in that no other study currently available covers the same field of research with the same degree of innovation. There is clearly growing attention to biopolitics...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power

   Kashghar in the Twentieth Century

   By Michael Dillon

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   Xinjiang, China’s far northwestern province where the majority of the population are Muslim Uighurs, 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...

   To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Dictionary of Chinese History

   By Michael Dillon

   First published in 1979...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

   Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals

   The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment,...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Deconstructing International Politics

   By Michael Dillon

   Series: Interventions

   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...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Xinjiang

   China's Muslim Far Northwest

   By Michael Dillon

   Series: Durham East Asia Series

   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...

   Published August 20th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Liberal Way of War

   Killing to Make Life Live

   By Michael Dillon, Julian Reid

   Series: Global Horizons

   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...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
9. Contemporary China - An Introduction

   By 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...

   Published November 18th 2008 by Routledge
10. China's Muslim Hui Community

    Migration, Settlement and Sects

    By 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...

    Published July 25th 1999 by Routledge