China category: 3065 books
by Chloe Piper
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
(Approx 105 Pages)
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.
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China’s Christian Colleges
Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these campuses,...
by Jian Chen
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Based on extensive original economic analysis, Chen examines key questions relating to corporate governance in China, including the relationship between ownership structure and corporate performance, the determinants of capital structure, and the nature of contemporary governance structures. It concludes...
A Frontier Made Lawless
Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first English-language history of Liangshan, A Frontier Made Lawless...
by Felix Wemheuer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin...
Academic Nations in China and Japan
Framed by Concepts of Nature, Culture and the Universal
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how academics...
Reshaping the Chinese Military
The PLA's Roles and Missions in the Xi Jinping Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
This edited volume examines the recalibration of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) roles and missions in China’s domestic and foreign policymaking since Xi Jinping’s ascension to power in late 2012.
This book explores how China’s growing military prowess, along with Beijing’s...
Information Fantasies
Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
A groundbreaking, alternate history of information technology and information discourses
Although the scale of the information economy and the impact of digital media on social life in China today could pale that of any other country, the story of their emergence in the post-Mao sociopolitical...
On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger
War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China during the Ming-Qing Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China’s long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for the notorious leader Zhang Xianzhong...
by Margaret C. Collier
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Dear Diana:Travel with me to China! was wriiten for students with a 4th to 6th grade reading level. It is a picture book highlighting interesting places see by the author, a geography teacher, while visiting for nearly three weeks. Since it is a personalized account, it focuses on places that were...
Gendered Words
Sentiments and Expression in Changing Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China, this book explores the world's only gender-defined and now disappearing "women's script" known as nüshu. What drove peasant women to create a script of their own and write, and how do those writings throw new...
Captain Elliot and the Founding of Hong Kong
Pearl of the Orient
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
An in-depth look at the life of Captain Charles Elliot—from his Royal Navy career to his controversial role in establishing Hong Kong as a British colony.
On January 26, 1841, the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuenpi was immediately repudiated by both...
China: Up Close and Personal
A Conversation with Karl Gerth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Karl Gerth is the Hwei-Chich and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies and Professor of History at UC San Diego. In this in-depth conversation with Howard Burton, Karl relays his personal and professional perspectives of China in a deliberate attempt to bring us a more nuanced and balanced picture of how the country has arrived at its present state and what the future might hold.
Ballads of the East
With Illustrations by Sapajou
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A collection of poetry—by poet laureate of the China Treaty Ports Shamus A'Rabbit—and cartoons by Sapajou, This compilation offers a fresh perspective on the foreign experience in Old China. From A'Rabbit’s sharp and hilarious portrayals of travelers in the Orient to his bouncy and rhythmic...