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Interesting Times

China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige

by Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

When President Richard Nixon held his meetings with Chairman Mao in Beijing in February 1972, at his side was a young U.S. diplomat serving as his principal interpreter: Chas W. Freeman, Jr. Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige presents Ambassador Freeman's most...
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Chinese History and Culture

Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century

by Ying-shih Yü
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016

The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers....
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The Age of Irreverence

A New History of Laughter in China

by Christopher Rea
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." In the first years of the Republic,...
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by Peter Nancarrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition• to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization• to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time• to recognize...
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China on Film

A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy

by Paul G. Pickowicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

Leading scholar Paul G. Pickowicz traces the dynamic history of Chinese filmmaking and discusses its course of development from the early days to the present. Moving decade by decade, he explores such key themes as the ever-shifting definitions of modern marriage in 1920s silent features, East-West...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018

This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as...
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by Kang Zhengguo
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008

"A mesmerizing read…A literary work of high distinction.” —William Grimes, New York Times This “gripping and poignant memoir” (New York Times Book Review) draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of “Liberation” in 1949 through the...
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace

The Chinese and Their Revolution

by Jonathan D. Spence
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1982

 “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)   In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists...
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by Guobin Yang
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016

Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang...
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China Unbound

Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past

by Paul A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent...
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by Lawrence Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012

Leadership and Authority in China examines the "constitutional" conflict in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chinese society over two diametrically opposed concepts of leadership and authority. Behind the façade of political and ideological unity lay a titanic struggle between a model...
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by John Lord
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016

About one hundred years after the great religious movement in India under Buddha, a man was born in China who inaugurated a somewhat similar movement there, and who impressed his character and principles on three hundred millions of people. It cannot be said that he was the founder of a new religion,...
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by Herbert G. Giles
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008

A History of Chinese Literature is THE classic introduction to Chinese literature, which has given to the world exquisite poetry and such classics as Monkey, The Analects of Confucius, the works of Chuang Tzu, and other writings over a time span of 2,500 or more years. Author, Professor Giles,...
Cover of 8-in-1 Chinese Classics: Art of War; Analects of Confucius; Sayings of Mencius; Shi Ching (Book of Songs); Travels of FaHien; Sorrows of Han; Tao Te Ching; Myths and Legends of China
by Confucius, Laozi, Mencius
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012

The 8-in-1 CHINESE CLASSICS brings together in one volume some of the greatest Chinese clazzical writings of all time. Here, in full, are: 1. THE ART OF WAR (the full 13 chapters) 2. THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS (the full 20 chapters) 3. THE SAYINGS OF MENCIUS (the full 28 chapters) 4. THE SHI CHING...
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