China category: 3065 books
Three months in Mao's China
between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar,...
Carl Crow—A Tough Old China Hand
The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2008
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government,...
by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What...
China Only Yesterday, 1850–1950
A Century of Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A fascinating journey through 100 years of Chinese history, beginning with the historic Treaty of Nanking and ending with Mao Tse-tung’s creation of the Chinese People’s Republic, by the the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China from 1935 to 1941
For centuries, China’s...
Red China Blues
My Long March From Mao to Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool...
by Matt Green
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Mao Zedong was one of the greatest leaders of China's history.By the time he died in 1976, he had profoundly changed the course of history.In this eBook you will learn more interesting facts about the revolution in China.Many people says that he was responsible for the deaths of perhaps 60 million...
China in the 21st Century
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric...
A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world
China's Struggle with the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world....
China in Transformation
1900-1949
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
In the first half of the twentieth century, China moved from a millennium of imperial rule to the Communist Party-led People’s Republic of China which remains today. China in Transformation argues that this enormously significant period in Chinese history saw wrenching change throughout Chinese...
One Child
The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
An intimate investigation of the world’s largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world
When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birth-rates...
Everything Under the Heavens
How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.
For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained...
Restless Empire
China and the World Since 1750
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
"A fascinating book and a pleasure to read.... Full of interesting details and insights." --Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy,...
A Force So Swift
Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
**New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award
A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues...
by James Z. Gao
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
The Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) offers a concise but comprehensive examination of the political, military, economic, social, and cultural development of modern China. Instead of focusing merely on the political elites of China, this reference covers a variety of significant persons,...