China category: 3065 books
Empires of Coal
Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing...
by Sarah Pike Conger
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
"When I went to Brazil in 1890, I was always comparing and contrasting that country and her people with my country and my people; and to me, mine were always superior...the attitude of superiority I had taken made it impossible to accumulate anything [of value].
When Sarah Pike Conger and...
Paper Tiger
Inside the Real China
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society.
Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages upon which China's great transformation is...
My China Experience
Living, Working, Studying, Teaching And Marrying in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Offered a position in a garment factory in a small town in southern China the author had no idea what to expect. Would it be the start of a brilliant career in the Chinese fashion industry? Would he become a key negotiator for the company in mega-deals with the Chinese government? Would he ever have...
Challenge to China
How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor draws attention to an underappreciated aspect of legal reforms in Taiwan, and asks how Taiwan's experience might be relevant to its giant neighbor across the Taiwan Strait. This timely book by Jerome A. Cohen,...
Britain, France, West Germany and the People's Republic of China, 1969–1982
The European Dimension of China's Great Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the People’s Republic of China. Inspired by the economic and political signifance of Sino-European relations, this book shows how the China policies of...
Property Ownership and Private Higher Education in China
On What Grounds?
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation in China of huge numbers of private universities and colleges in response to a wide-ranging spectrum of socio-economic and political demands under the country's flourishing market economy and its wholesale pursuit of decentralization. This book explores...
The Economics of Air Pollution in China
Achieving Better and Cleaner Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Suffocating smog regularly envelops Chinese metropolises from Beijing to Shanghai, clouding the future prospect of China's growth sustainability. Air pollutants do not discriminate between the rich and the poor, the politician and the "average Joe." They put everyone's health and economic...
The United States and China Since World War II: A Brief History
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book surveys the complicated history of U.S.-Chinese relations. After two brief chapters providing historical context, the focus shifts to the mid-twentieth century, the wartime alliance, the war's bitter aftermath, and the decades since World War II, including the path from normalisation to...
The Reluctant Dragon
Crisis Cycles in Chinese Foreign Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Chinese foreign economic policy before 1978 has been considered isolationist and centered on Maoist self-reliance. In this revisionist analysis, Lawrence Reardon argues that China was not out of touch with the global marketplace during the 1949-78 period and that Deng Xiaoping’s heralded liberalizations...
Contemporary China
The Dynamics of Change at the Start of the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
With a large and growing economy and a leadership dedicated both to domestic reform and the further integration into international society and the world economy, China is facing and posing important challenges at the local, national, regional and wider international level. This book analyses the developmental...
by Paul S. Reinsch
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
When we ask ourselves what are the elements which may constitute China's contribution to the future civilization of the world, what are the characteristics which render her civilization significant to all of us, we enter upon a subject that would in itself require a volume merely to present in outline....
Thirteen Months in China
A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World: An Annotated Translation of Thakur Gadadhar Singh’s Chīn Me Terah Mās
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The China Relief Expedition, an eight-nation military effort, was organized to rescue foreign nationals in the country during the Boxer Uprising (1899–1901). In Thirteen Months in China, Thakur Gadadhar Singh, a British Indian soldier of the 7th Rajput Regiment, recounts his experiences as he set...
China’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century
Victory at Full Moon
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
This is the first book to comprehensively cover the historical process leading to Taiwan’s integration with Mainland China in the seventeenth century. As such, it addresses the Taiwan question in the seventeenth century, presenting for the first time the process leading to the island’s integration...