China category: 3065 books
by Edward Harper Parker
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
This is an easy to read yet highly informative history of ancient China. It is a classic in the field and covers all aspects of ancient Chinese life and culture. From the dynasties of the kings to the occupations and entertainments of the people, including ancient Chinese religions, sports, literature...
The Cultural Revolution
A People's History, 1962—1976
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
**The concluding volume--following Mao's Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation--in Frank Dikötter's award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1958–1962, an aging...
Mao, Stalin and the Korean War
Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War.
This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua’s best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing...
by Justus Doolitte
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Written by a missionary during the mid nineteenth century this is a brief sketch of some social customs of Mid Nineteenth Century China.
Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes
The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
When an earthquake of historic magnitude leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in the summer of 1976, killing more than a half-million people, China was already gripped by widespread social unrest. As Mao lay on his deathbed, the public mourned the death of popular premier Zhou Enlai. Anger toward...
by Xun Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more...
Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace
China's Youth in the Rustication Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace, Yihong Pan tells her personal story, and that of her generation of urban middle school graduates sent to the countryside during China's Rustication Movement. Based on interviews, reminiscences, diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts, the work examines the...
by Joanna Waley-Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
This powerful work puts to rest the long-held myth that Chinese civilization is monolithic, unchanging, and perennially cut off from the rest of the world.
An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged...
by giovanni messina
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
An amazing collection of weird and funny stories from China.
Kuan-yin
The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of the Common Era. While he was closely identified...
A Cowherd in Paradise
From China to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada’s head tax laws in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story...
Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era
The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book gives also new and interesting...
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY - 1912 - Volume 1
PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA. 1906-1909.
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY (Published 1912) PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXPLORATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND WESTERNMOST CHINA IN 1912 BY M. AUREL STEIN. WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, COLOUR PLATES, PANORAMAS, AND MAPS FROM ORIGINAL SURVEYS IN TWO VOLUMES - VOL. 1
This is the complete and unabridged...
by Peter Lorge
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2006
This comprehensive survey of Chinese military history is the only book in English to span the significant years from 900 – 1795. Peter Lorge questions current theories on China’s relationship to war, and argues that war was the most important tool used by the Chinese in building and maintaining...