China category: 3065 books
Beijing Bastard
Into the Wilds of a Changing China
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider’s perspective to China’s shift from ancient empire to modern superpower
Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed...
by Myra Scovel, Nelle Keys Bell
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The Chinese Ginger Jars is a bright and intimate portrait of the adventures, trials, and achievements of an American housewife who lived through dangerous days in modern China.
When Myra Scovel arrived in Peking in 1930 with her medical missionary husband and infant son, China was a land steeped...
Urbanization and Party Survival in China
People vs. Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing,...
Power versus Law in Modern China
Cities, Courts, and the Communist Party
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Today 700 million Chinese citizens -- more than fifty-four percent of the population -- live in cities. The mass migration of rural populations to urban centers increased rapidly following economic reforms of the 1990s, and serious problems such as overcrowding, lack of health services, and substandard...
Confrontation over Taiwan
Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth Century China and the Powers is a full and detailed account of international relations of Taiwan during the nineteenth century and specifically, the period between 1840 and 1895. During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist designs...
Transforming Patriarchy
Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China�political, cultural, and economic�has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held...
Interpreting Islam in China
Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Several scholar-teachers incorporated tenets from traditional Chinese education into their promotion of Islamic knowledge. As a result, some Sino-Muslims established an educational network...
by M. Avrum Ehrlich
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation...
The Battle for Fortune
State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space...
by George Henry Mason
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Punishments of China is an interesting book which discusses methods of punishment in 19th century China.
Invisible China
A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Fengcheng : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Fengcheng : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Fengcheng : (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 Qinzhou : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qinzhou : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qinzhou : (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 Luoyang : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Luoyang : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Luoyang : (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.