China category: 3065 books
by Ernest J. Eitel
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Feng Shui, or, The Rudiments Of Natural Science In Chinaby Ernest J. Eitel
Feng Shui is much more than a way of arranging furniture for good luck. The Chinese geomancers have a very intricate set of beliefs with roots in Animism, Taoism and Confucianism. Feng shui teaches that the earth has...
The Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, 1945-49
An Analysis of Communist Strategy and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
This book examines the Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War of 1945–1949, which resulted in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over Chiang Kaishek and the Guomindang (GMD) and the founding of The People’s Republic of China in 1949. It provides a military and strategic history of...
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China
Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.
The Longevity Plan
Seven Life-Transforming Lessons from Ancient China
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From a renowned Johns Hopkins- and Stanford-educated cardiologist at Intermountain Medical Center—a hospital system that President Obama has praised as an "island of excellence"—comes the story of his time living in Longevity Village in China, and the seven lessons he learned there that...
Russia and Its Northeast Asian Neighbors
China, Japan, and Korea, 1858–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
As a result of the Aigun (1858) and Beijing Treaties (1860) Russia had become a participant in international relations of Northeast Asia, but historiography has underestimated the presence of Russia and the USSR in this region. This collection elucidates how Russia's expansion affected early Meiji...
by David J. Silbey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The year is 1900, and Western empires—both old and new—are locked in regional entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific...
Ancient China on Postmodern War
Enduring Ideas from the Chinese Strategic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular relevance...
White Ghosts, Yellow Peril
China and NZ 1790–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
White Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during the seven or so generations after they initially came into contact. The Qing Empire and its successor states from 1790 to 1950 were vast, complex and torn...
Shanghai Lawyer
The Memoirs of America's China Spymaster, Annotated, Illustrated and Embellished by Douglas Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Diplomat, lawyer, judge, soldier, spy, spymaster – just some of the positions American Norwood Allman, held in his 30 plus years in China. Shanghai Lawyer is Allman's first-hand account of his amazing life, from his arrival as a student interpreter during WWI, to serving as a Chinese and Mexican...
Shadow Dancing
$elling $urvival in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Award winning author Dr Kathryn Waddell Takara provides a compelling and intimate traveling stage through her pictorial poems that witness her impressions of the waking of a sleeping dragon - the New China, including the startling successes and disquieting obstacles and corruption. She likewise illuminates...
by Zhongjing Liu
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
If you know how to come up with the right questions, you may or may not be able to find the correct answer. But if you insist on refusing to ask real questions and instead put forward some false questions that don't originally exist, then you certainly won't get the right ones. Therefore, I suggest...
by George Du Bois Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The United States has been the worlds dominant super power for the last 70 years. It sets the rules for international relations and seeks to maintain the status quo. That situation is changing. China is expected to equal the United States in power within two decades, and relations between the two...
Land Reform in China and North Vietnam
Consolidating the Revolution at the Village Level
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological imperatives. Moise argues that the violence associated with land reform was as much a function of the...
Revolutionary Committees in the Cultural Revolution Era of China
Exploring a Mode of Governance in Historical and Future Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book analyzes Revolutionary Committees during the Cultural Revolution period in the People’s Republic of China. It aims to draw serious scholarly attention to, and bring about an impartial assessment of, the events in this period independent of partisan hysteria. The project explains what...