China category: 3065 books
by W.A.P. Mart
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
China is the theatre of the greatest movement now taking place on the face of the globe. In comparison with it, the agitation in Russia shrinks to insignificance; for it is not political, but social. Its object is not a changed dynasty, nor a revolution in the form of government; but, with higher...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this study examines the shifts in Taiwan's independence policy since 1991 to determine whether Taipei has been more restrained at times of military vulnerability. The objective is to determine whether Taipei's...
China
An Introduction to the Culture and People
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
It's time we got to know a little more about the Chinese. Did you know they don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads but in their hearts? Or that white is their colour of mourning? This guide to avoiding...
by Kathy Krejados
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In this first installment of The Vagabond Chronicles, we explore China beyond Beijing and the Great Wall. We travel to out-of-the-way places, talk with the locals, eat their food and learn their customs. This is a very personal narrative, from the perspective of a long-time traveler with a thirst...
by Felicity Lufkin
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Folk art is now widely recognized as an integral part of the modern Chinese cultural heritage, but in the early twentieth century, awareness of folk art as a distinct category in the visual arts was new. Internationally, intellectuals in different countries used folk arts to affirm national identity...
The Limits of Westernization
American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The rise of East Asia from the ashes of World War II in the late twentieth century has led to searching questions about the role the region will play in the world. The possibility that China will overtake the United States as a super power suggests the twenty-first century could become an Asian century....
National Past-Times
Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1997
In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
The resurgence of modern China has generated much interest, not only in the country’s present day activities, but also in its long history. As the only uninterrupted ancient civilization still alive today, the study of China’s past promises to offer invaluable insights into understanding contemporary...
by Hsieh Bao Hua
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude...
HIV in China
Understanding the Social Aspects of the Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The result of collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, this unique chronicle maps some of the most important social, political, and cultural characteristics of the HIV epidemic in China. Demonstrating that the epidemic was propelled by three main...
The Diplomacy of Migration
Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
During the Cold War, both Chinese and American officials employed a wide range of migration policies and practices to pursue legitimacy, security, and prestige. They focused on allowing or restricting immigration, assigning refugee status, facilitating student exchanges, and enforcing deportations....
by Richard Cobden
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
China and the Attack on Canton is an address given to the House of Commons, in response to a Chinese attack that preceded the Second Opium War.
by George Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Describing a journey across China to Burma, this vivid and precise account follows Australian-born foreign correspondent George Morrison on his travels beginning in 1894. Dressed in Chinese garb and engaging guides and servants as needed, Morrison traveled by riverboat, sedan chair, mule, pony, and,...
The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872–1937
On a Cross-Cultural Frontier of Gender, Race, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
This is the first full-length study of the medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, who graduated from the medical school at the University of Michigan in 1896 and then ran dispensaries, hospitals, and nursing schools in China from the 1890s to the 1930s. Known in English-speaking countries...