China category: 3065 books
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
China is the great economic success story of the past 30 years. Since the “reform and opening-up” policy was introduced in 1978, China has changed beyond recognition. A Soviet-styled planned economy has transformed into a vibrant market-oriented economy and 400 million people have been lifted out of poverty.
Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese...
A Season in Red
My great leap forward into the new China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
By 2.30 a.m. I was in Poachers, where tabletop dancing and swinging off the stair rails were obligatory at this kind of hour. A hundred arms thrusting into the air with the techno beat, sweaty bodies twitching as if it were an electric current, not music, coursing through their veins. But the tall...
Four Sisters of Hofei
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin.
Now in their late eighties and early nineties,...
by Carl F. Kupfer
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Sacred Places in China
by Carl F. Kupfer
This is a travelogue by a 19th century Christian missionary who visited several sacred locations in China, including places holy to all three of China's principal religions: Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. The writer is not exactly neutral, but he...
Mao's Great Famine
The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China.
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy...
China
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
An authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history
Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and...
China - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Culture Smart! China puts the latest dramatic changes into a historical context, explains deep-seated cultural attitudes, and guides the visitor through a maze of unfamiliar social situations. It will enable you to discover for yourself the warmth, intelligence, humor, and humanity of this extraordinary...
by Alex Rooth
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 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...
Forgotten Ally
China's World War II, 1937–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: “Superb” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War...
Sun Yat Sen and the birth of modern China
20th Century China: Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
As the increasingly powerless Qing Dynasty in 19th Century China struggled to defend itself from European, American and Japanese colonial control, and bloody civil wars and rebellions fought by an angry and desperate people raged, a new revolutionary force emerged.Sun Yat Sen's Tongmenghui, later known...
The Killing Wind
A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "class enemies"--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province. The killings spread to surrounding counties, resulting in a combined death toll of more than 9,000. Commonly known...
The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China
Siping, 1946
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
“A well-organized and excellently researched work” (H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China’s civil war.
In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist...
Mao
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surprising details about Mao’s rise to power and his leadership in China.
Mao Zedong was one of the most important figures of the twentieth century, the most important in the history...