China category: 3065 books
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory
Reimagining a Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2001
These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group...
by Phoebe Chow
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Britain’s relationship with China in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is often viewed in terms of gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, and the unrelenting pursuit of Britain’s own commercial interests. This book, however, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that in Britain...
China
A New Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural...
China Rhymes
Two Classics of Old China Coast Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A collection of poetry-by poet laureate of the China Treaty Ports Shamus A'Rabbit-and cartoons by Sapajou, this compilation offers a fresh perspective on the foreign experience in Old China. From A'Rabbit’s sharp and hilarious portrayals of travelers in the Orient to his bouncy and rhythmic satirical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Relations between China and Russia have evolved dramatically since their first diplomatic contact, particularly during the twentieth century. During the past decade China and Russia have made efforts to strengthen bilateral ties and improve cooperation on a number of diplomatic fronts. The People's...
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped...
A Voluntary Exile
Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were principally denominational. Once they entered China they unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed...
by Wendy Frieman
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
China, Arms Control, and Non-Proliferation is an empirically and conceptually path-breaking book that documents China's participation in international arms control and non-proliferation regimes from 1985 to 2001. The book focuses on the distinction between US expectations of Chinese compliance, which...
Childbirth in Republican China
Delivering Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Delivering Modernity: Childbirth in Republican China (1911-1949) is the study of a pivotal period in which traditional midwifery, marked by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly medicalized and state-sponsored birth model that...
Bound to Emancipate
Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century China society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands the definition of women’s emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women, especially those who were engaged in stigmatized sexualized...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The 1940 battle space between Germany and Great Britain provides a different design perspective for the US A2AD problem. Germany's struggles during Operation SEALION provide insight into...
by Lonely Planet, Damian Harper, Piera Chen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Discover China is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Forbidden City in Beijing, marvel at the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an,...
The Making of the Modern Chinese State
Cement, Legal Personality and Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances...
Mapping China and Managing the World
Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in...