China category: 3065 books
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Pingxiang : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Pingxiang : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Pingxiang : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Celestial Women
Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Song to Qing
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers,...
China on the Move
Migration, the State, and the Household
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
China on the Move offers a new and more thorough explanation of migration, which integrates knowledge from geography, population studies, sociology and politics; to help us understand the processes of social, political, and economic change associated with powerful migration streams so essential to...
Essential Chinese
Speak Chinese with Confidence! (Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook)
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
This portable, user–friendly Chinese language guide, phrasebook and dictionary is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Chinese before and during your trip.
If you only want one Chinese language book—Essential Chinese is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Phrasebooks Series,...
by Aldo A. Quintana
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In July 2013, five days after his commencement ceremony from graduate school, he was on an airplane to the People's Republic of China (PRC). Aldo worked for a Chinese corporation and was an English teacher at a five-employee startup. Also, he traveled to cities throughout the country, which included...
by Bertrand Russell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Though it was penned nearly a century ago, current-day readers will find that Bertrand Russell's insightful critique of China is still surprisingly accurate. The important British philosopher based his arguments on his own extended stay in China, and the resulting analysis of the conflict between traditional culture and the rise of capitalism in the country is keen and multi-dimensional.
Wang the Ninth
The Story of a Chinese Boy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
"Wang the Ninth" , first published in 1919 , is a stylized account written by B.L. Putnam Weale of the Boxer Rebellion in China told through the experiences of a young Chinese boy , the eighth child - known as "Wang the Ninth".
Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877–1930) was...
From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy
The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier"...
by Stephen G. Haw
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Stephen Haw sets out the history of the city of Beijing, charting the course of its development from its early roots before 2000 BC to its contemporary position as capital of the People’s Republic of China.
Stephen Haw, a well-established author on China, outlines the establishment of the...
Better out of the China ??????
Works Collection of World Chinese Writers, #33
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
As a oversea Chinese writer, the book author Hue-Zeng Lin observes a lot of historical document from China. He is not just stay watching, but also visiting China and gives us indepth of thoughts and recommendations.
Afrasia
A Tale of Two Continents
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Is there a new scramble for Africa involving China, Japan, and India in competition with each other and with the Western world? In the second half of the twentieth century, Mao’s China and Jawaharlal Nehru’s India were political players in Africa, while Japan limited itself to trade and investment...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qinhuangdao : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qinhuangdao : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qinhuangdao : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Mianyang : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Mianyang : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Mianyang : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Liuyang : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Liuyang : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Liuyang : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.