China category: 3065 books
Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait
In the shadow of China
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This book presents an interdisciplinary examination of cross-Taiwan Strait relations and the complex dynamics at play in the region.
Since the election of Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan’s president in 2008, the relationship across the Taiwan Strait—long viewed as one of Asia’s most volatile potential...
Heaven in Conflict
Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
One of the most violent episodes of China’s Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural...
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in...
by László Krasznahorkai
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its...
China’s Last Jesuit
Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
This pivot chronicles the life of Charles McCarthy, a San Francisco native and Jesuit missionary to China, and tells the unique and compelling story of a young man who experienced confinement under the Japanese occupation, followed shortly by imprisonment by the Chinese Communists in the 1950’s....
"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!"
China Encounters the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
This vivid, prophetic book on China’s magnetic attraction to the West is the perfect introduction to China in the eighties.
Days Like Floating Water
A Story of Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Gold Winner of the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards for Adult Nonfiction, Days Like Floating Water follows a retired American couple as they volunteer to teach English to college students of a rural village in communist China. In the emerging, but still somewhat primitive city, readers are...
Little Emperors
A Year with the Future of China
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2008
Much has been made about how the New China has become an economic juggernaut in today's world while civil liberties and basic freedoms remain constricted. We know where the aging leadership has taken and is taking China, but what about the very young? What are they like?
When JoAnn Dionne arrived...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
The history of China, environment, people, culture and developments. Chinese civilization, as described in mythology, begins with Pangu, the creator of the universe, and a succession of legendary sage-emperors and culture heroes who taught the ancient Chinese to communicate and to find sustenance,...
The Opium War, 1840-1842
Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century...
Collecting China
The Memoirs of a Hong Kong Art Addict
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But in his spare time, he also put together one of the most comprehensive collections of East Asian antiques in the world, many of them spotted by him amongst the knick-knacks...
by B. L. Putnam Weale
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Putnam Weale's work "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" is widely cited as an eyewitness account of the events during the siege of the Foreign Legations in Peking (modern day Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877–1930) was a British author who...
Mulberry and Peach
Two Women of China
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
This extraordinary novel, winner of a 1990 American Book Award, recounts the story of two women-Mulberry and Peach-who are really one. Mulberry is a young woman who has fled the turmoil of postwar China to settle in the United States. Unable to forget the terrors she has witnessed or resolve the conflicts...
The Crafting of the 10,000 Things
Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?),...