China category: 3065 books
by Reiko Shinno
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Under the rule of the descendants of Chinggis Khan (1167-1227), China saw the development of a new culture in which medical practice came to be considered a highly respected occupation for elite men. During this period, further major steps were also taken towards the codification of medical knowledge...
The Catholic Invasion of China
Remaking Chinese Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The culmination of D. E. Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of poverty, powerlessness, and humiliation, the attitudes...
China and the Long March to Global Trade
The Accession of China to the World Trade Organization
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
On December 11th 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). China and the Long March to Global Trade examines the prolonged negotiations leading up to this historic event. This edited collection assumes little prior knowledge of the Chinese accession process yet provides an in-depth examination of the related issues. It is therefore sui
The New Middle Kingdom
China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
In the imaginations of early Americans, the Middle Kingdom was the wealthiest empire in the world. Its geographical distance did not deter commercial aspirations—rather, it inspired them. Starting in the late eighteenth century, merchants from New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Newport, and...
Brothers in Arms
Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in...
In Eastern Seas
The Commission of H.M.S Iron Duke, Flag-ship in China 1878-83
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The first HMS Iron Duke was a British Audacious-class central battery ironclad. She became the flagship of the China Station on 31 August 1871, one of the first large ships to use the Suez canal to reach the Far Easy. In an age of inefficient engines, her full sailing rig made her particularly suitable...
Women Judges in Contemporary China
Gender, Judging and Living
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This study provides an up-to-date empirical account of Chinese female judges within the context of the Chinese legal system and wider society, revealing a deeper understanding of women in contemporary China. Shen explores the gendered nature of judging in post-Mao China by examining: who female judges...
Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century China
Practicing Law in Republican Beijing (1910s-1930s)
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
"Practicing law"has a dual meaning in this book. It refers to both the occupational practice of law and the practicing of transplanted laws and institutions to perfect them.
The book constitutes the first monographic work on the legal history of Republican Beijing, and provides an...
Evolution of Power
China's Struggle, Survival, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Evolution of Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China’s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture....
The Creation of Modern China, 18942008
The Rise of a World Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
China preoccupies us; yet its recent past is still relatively unfamiliar. No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and turbulent change than China in the twentieth century, but it has emerged again as a leading global power. It is, therefore, more important than ever to understand the...
Ten States, Five Dynasties, One Great Emperor
How Emperor Taizu Unified China in the Song Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Drawn from Chinese classics of history, Hung Hing Ming's biographies introduce China's most emblematic historical figures and the cultural attributes fostered by China's ancient chronicles. This book is about one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history, Zhao Kuang Yin, founder of the Song Dynasty...
The Search for the Beautiful Woman
A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were...
by Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt—a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino-American...
Borders of Chinese Civilization
Geography and History at Empire’s End
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1996
D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented...