China category: 3065 books
Chinese Blockbuster 2
Chinese Blockbuster, #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese
With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing the Chinese language gives you a tremendous advantage. Yet, most...
Don't Joke on the Stairs
How I Learned to Navigate China by Breaking Most of the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Learn Chinese the natural way - from a Norwegian! Join Cantonese fundamentalist Cecilie Gamst Berg as she journeys through the non-stop surrealism that is today's China. Traveling by camel, sleeper bus and train across the deserts of Xinjiang, through the backwoods of Tibet, over the mountains of Sichuan...
by Neil Mars
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Teaching in China is surely one of the most surreal experiences anyone can have. When I arrived in this country I had no idea what I would encounter. I knew nothing about the culture, the people, the costumes or even the political and economical situation. I had never visited Asia before and never...
Traces of the Sage
Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) in Qufu is the definitive monument to the world's greatest sage. From its humble origins deep in China's past, the home of Confucius grew in size and stature under the auspices of almost every major dynasty until it was the largest and most richly endowed temple...
The Long March 1934–35
The rise of Mao and the beginning of modern China
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek routed the Chinese Communists and some 80,000 men, women and children left their homes to walk with Mao Zedong into the unknown. Mao's force had to endure...
Pacific America
Histories of Transoceanic Crossings
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical trend and making Asian Americans...
by Tommy Tong
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This historically accurate educational series on China for Children continues with a look at some of the most famous leaders of Chinas past. From the first emperor who was buried in a city of clay and ten thousands terracotta soldiers to protect him over 2000 years ago to the last emperor deposed...
by Jun Teng
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book traces back to the history of Japanese civilization, clarifies the unique thinking mode of Japanese nation, analyses the unique aesthetic viewpoints. It also describes the communication history of culture between China and Japan from BC 3rd century to the Late Qing Dynasty. Taking the communication...
Sexuality in China
Histories of Power and Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
What was sex like in China, from imperial times through the post-Mao era? The answer depends, of course, on who was having sex, where they were located in time and place, and what kind of familial, social, and political structures they participated in. This collection offers a variety of perspectives...
by Bettine Vriesekoop
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Tafeltennis is jouw sport. Je bent de nummer twee van Europa, achttien jaar oud en zit barstensvol ambitie. Dus wil je naar China, het Mekka van het `ping pang qiu . Duizenden profs die het spel tot in de perfectie beheersen.
Bettine Vriesekoop reisde in 1980 onder barre omstandigheden naar...
Unknotting the Heart
Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of...
Silk Riders
Jo and Gareth Morgan's Incredible Journey on the Trail of Marco Polo
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Marco Polo’s legendary journey overland from Xanadu in China to his home in Italy has fired the imaginations of travellers for 700 years. Even today, traversing the 20,000km Silk Road between Europe and the Far East is a perilous undertaking. But it sounded like just the challenge for Wellington economist...
Chinese Blockbuster 3
Chinese Blockbuster, #3
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese
With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing the Chinese language gives you a tremendous advantage. Yet, most...
Bitter and Sweet
Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Less than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. As a result, older people in rural areas have experienced in their lifetimes both extreme deprivation and relative abundance of food. Young people, on the other hand, have a...