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The History of China in 50 Events
History by Country Timeline, #2
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
As one of the oldest civilizations in the world, China has a vast, rich history. In order to assist with the study of Chinese history, this book has been broken down into a series of straightforward, easy-to-read vignettes.
Inside you will read about...
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by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. A word of explanation may help to an understanding of this record of a brief journey in China, in 1911, in the last quiet months before the revolution.
China Coast Ballads
With Illustrations by Sapajou
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 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...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
The relationship between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China is regarded as a very serious potential source of conflict in East Asia, especially now that the questions of Hong Kong and Macau have been settled, and increased democratisation in Taiwan is seen as a threat by mainland China. This...
Revolution and Its Past
Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018.
A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of...
Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors
Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other.
The Confucian-Legalist State
A New Theory of Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
In The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic empire under the Qin dynasty...
The Buddha Party
How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed...
Red Revolution, Green Revolution
Scientific Farming in Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more “red,” or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could...
by Jian Chen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says....
by Jonathan D. Spence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1996
"A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World
Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing...
Republican Lens
Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China’s 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded...
The Retreat of the Elephants
An Environmental History of China
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people...
by Ai Jing, Gangliu Wang, Aimee Yiran Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Great Wall of China is the world's largest military defense structure. It towers and meanders along mountain ranges, constructed more than 2,000 years ago. It was made more brilliant by the numerous wars, power struggles, successive dynasties, political and economic historical events influencing...