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Ultimate Handbook Guide to Changshu : (China) Travel Guide

by Thelma Axley
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Changshu : (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 Anqing : (China) Travel Guide

by Arlena Stambaugh
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Anqing : (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.

The Culture of China

by Kathleen Kuiper
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Reverberations of China’s diversity and multiethnic heritage are visible in everything from the cuisine and languages to the beliefs and arts of the vast nation. In addition to linking the Chinese to their rich past, a number of these traditions have been absorbed by cultures around the world and...

The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home

True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China

by Melissa Margaret Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

ôThe ugly wife is a treasure at homeö is not just an idle expression in China. For centuries, Chinese marriage involved matchmakers, child brides, dowries, and concubines, until the PeopleÆs Republic of China was established by Mao Zedong and his Communist Party in 1949. Initially encouraging citizens...

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A History of the Laws, Manners and Customs of the People

by John Henry Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013

This highly readable history of the world's most populous country dates from the late nineteenth century, when its author, John Henry Gray, served as the Archdeacon of Hong Kong. His two-volume study, here bound into a single volume, begins with the earliest known legends of China as the "Middle Kingdom,"...

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Guangzhou : (China) Travel Guide

by Wallace Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Guangzhou : (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 Guilin : (China) Travel Guide

by Felicia Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Guilin : (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 Jingmen : (China) Travel Guide

by Julian Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Jingmen : (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 Leqing : (China) Travel Guide

by Katherine Jimenez
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Leqing : (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 Lanxi : (China) Travel Guide

by Conrad Aguilar
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Lanxi : (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.

Wuhu Diary

On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

by Emily Prager
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates....

What Remains

Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China

by Tobie Meyer-Fong
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013

The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon...

Filming the Everyday

Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

This cutting-edge book examines the rapidly developing scene of Chinese independent documentary, arguably the most courageous intervention in contemporary Chinese visual culture. The authors explore two areas that are of special interest to China studies and film studies, respectively: (1) filming...

Space, Politics, and Cultural Representation in Modern China

Cartographies of Revolution

by Enhua Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016

Regarding revolution as a spatial practice, this book explores modes of spatial construction in modern China through a panoramic overview of major Chinese revolutionary events and nuanced analysis of cultural representations. Examining the relationship between revolution, space, and culture...

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