China category: 3065 books
by Joel Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Searching for the dao of China, the author also explores the concepts of te ('innate power') and wu wei ('effortlessness') as they apply to the ancient and modern culture, as well as to one's daily life. As a teenager, Schwartz became so fascinated with Chinese philosophy...
by Adam Bright
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
(Approx 70 Pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features the very best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet...
The Brilliant Reign of the Kangxi Emperor
China's Qing Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The Manchu people, a nomadic tribe from the northeast, rose up in 1616 and took the lead for the new era. The great leader Nurhaci step by step took control of the weakened empire. His successors went on to drive away Russian incursions, to re-unite with Taiwan, and to settle unrest in the regions....
by David A. Pietz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In the Maoist years the North China Plain was re-engineered to use every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectricity. As David Pietz shows, China’s urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification rested on compromised water resources, with effects that cast a long shadow over China’s future course as a global power.
Inheritance of Loss
China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
How do contemporary generations come to terms with losses inflicted by imperialism, colonialism, and war that took place decades ago? How do descendants of perpetrators and victims establish new relations in today’s globalized economy? With Inheritance of Loss, Yukiko Koga approaches these questions...
by Adam Bright
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet access when traveling can be a...
Beijing & Shanghai Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
The city of Beijing has been the capital of China for over 800 years and shows many aspects of China’s imperial past. Beijing offers many of the nation’s most significant sites including the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven—just to name a few. Shanghai...
Poisonous Pandas
Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts...
Striking to Survive
Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Workers in the export-processing zones of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) could be regarded as representatives of tChina's new working class. The author has conducted continuous observation, documentation and analysis of this population’s conditions and struggles for many years. Due to the unevenness...
China and Iran
Economic, Political, and Military Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The partnership between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People's Republic of China presents a unique challenge to U.S. interests and objectives, including dissuading Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability. This paper examines factors driving Chinese-Iranian cooperation, potential tensions...
by Minxin Pei
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
China’s efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized by corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional platitudes about the resilience of Party rule, Minxin Pei gathers unambiguous evidence that beneath China’s facade of ever-expanding prosperity and power lies a Leninist state in an advanced stage of decay.
Prosperity's Predicament
Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that...
The Party Forever
Inside China's Modern Communist Elite
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A century after its underground beginnings, the Chinese Communist Party today exerts far-reaching control over every aspect of private life. Beyond its legendary control of the internet within China's borders, even seemingly non-political domains are subject to its authority: routine business deals...
Natural Resources and the New Frontier
Constructing Modern China's Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
China’s westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes and political disputes. In Natural Resources...