China category: 3065 books
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader’s personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution....
by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
**An Economist Best Book of 2018
New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick
“Gripping [and] splendid.… An enormous contribution to our understanding of Marshall.”—Washington Post**
At the end of World War II, General George Marshall took on what he thought was a final mission—this...
The Long March
The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek...
Modern China's Ethnic Frontiers
A Journey to the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The purpose of this book is to examine the strategies and practices of the Han Chinese Nationalists vis-à-vis post-Qing China’s ethnic minorities, as well as to explore the role they played in the formation of contemporary China’s Central Asian frontier territoriality and border security.
The...
by Dan Marson
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
After living in China for over 10 years of my life, teaching, learning Kung Fu, and sharing experiences with the locals, I have collected a huge amount of information about the people and the culture, as well as the wonderful and unique cities of this very special country. This book describes the...
by Dolly Beil
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A colorful memoir of Jewish life in China during the first half of the twentieth century.
Dolly Beil spent the first part of her life in the Chinese cities of Tsingtao (Qingdao), Mukden (Shenyang), Harbin, and Tientsin (Tianjin). Her father, owner of a jewellery store and a businessman, descended...
by Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Just seventeen when they became lovers, Mao's second wife, He Zizhen was condemned to a life of loneliness after he tired of her. A strong young peasant who only wanted to be a soldier, Kang Keqing was called the Girl Commander. Married at seventeen to a man she didn't know, the illiterate peasant...
China Wakes
The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work of reportage. 16 pages of photos.
The People's Republic of Amnesia
Tiananmen Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of the Year, 2014 A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "One of the best analyses of the impact...
The Dragon Delusions
Confronting the myths and exploring the implications of a rapidly rising China
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
China’s meteoric rise to become the new economic and geopolitical superpower of the 21st century has astonished and baffled Western observers. Despite its ever-growing importance on the world stage there is still so much we don’t know about this great nation. It is a topic that is still very much...
China's Philological Turn
Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship...
South of the Clouds
Exploring the Hidden Realms of China
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
South of the Clouds offers a fascinating, intimate portrait of China by telling the story of an American man who ventures into its hidden realms---romance, politics, the criminal underworld, and Tibet. As he matures from a wide-eyed student into a journalist and a seasoned observer, he develops a...
by Richard Curt Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion....
by Peter Zarrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite...