China category: 3065 books
by D. E. Mungello
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500–1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed...
by Qiang Zhai
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
In the quarter century after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Beijing assisted Vietnam in its struggle against two formidable foes, France and the United States. Indeed, the rise and fall of this alliance is one of the most crucial developments in the history of the Cold War...
Triangles, Symbols, and Constraints
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China, 1963-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
In his five-plus years as president of the United States, Lyndon Johnson witnessed dramatic power struggles within and between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and the United States of America. New Soviet leaders were determined to build Soviet power and extend Soviet influence. Mao's...
by Huijie Zhang, Fan Hong, Fuhua Huang
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Despite the popularity of sport in contemporary China, the practice of physical education is not indigenous to its culture. Strenuous physical activity was traditionally linked to low class and status in the pre-modern Chinese society. The concept of modern PE was introduced to China by Western Christian...
The Magic of Concepts
History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In The Magic of Concepts Rebecca E. Karl interrogates "the economic" as concept and practice as it was construed historically in China in the 1930s and again in the 1980s and 1990s. Separated by the Chinese Revolution and Mao's socialist experiments, each era witnessed urgent discussions about how...
Fiery Cinema
The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system of aesthetic code. It was, in Weihong Bao’s term, an affective medium, a distinct notion of the medium as mediating environment with the power...
Television in Post-Reform China
Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book explores the political, economic, and cultural forces, locally and globally that have shaped the evolution of Chinese primetime television dramas, and the way that these dramas in turn have actively engaged in the major intellectual and policy debates concerning the path, steps, and speed...
China's Deep Reform
Domestic Politics in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
China's rapid and complex political and socioeconomic changes provide fertile ground for pioneering analysis, but they also present daunting theoretical and practical challenges. This reader takes up the challenge, offering the most comprehensive assessment of Chinese domestic politics available by...
Maoism
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
'Revelatory and instructive… [a] beautifully written and accessible book’ The Times
For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian...
by Texas John
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The purpose of the book is to help explain Chinese culture for anyone living in, working in, or traveling to China.
This book is a collection of true stories that occurred while Texas John was in eastern China. Together these stories tell the tale of the expat experience as lived by a guy...
by Andrew Jardine
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
China is still staunchly communist, but since it introduced capitalism in special economic zones, its economy has grown to the second largest one in the world after the United States. The new plan was the brainchild of leader Deng Xiaoping, who took part in the Long March from 1934-35. He introduced...
The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little, 1943–54
An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Lester Knox Little kept a detailed journal of his time in China and Taiwan. Covering the years 1943 to 1954 it provides important new insights about some of the most dramatic episodes in China’s mid-twentieth century history: Sino-Japanese military and economic competition, China’s domestic political...
Rise of the Red Engineers
The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, author Joel Andreas chronicles how two mutually hostile groups—the poorly educated peasant revolutionaries who seized power in 1949 and China's old educated...
Behind the Red Door
Sex in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A sexual revolution is underway in China. Traditional morals and behavior are being turned on their head as the country's climb towards economic prosperity brings sex into the open. But it is a revolution distinctly different from the one experienced in the West and has taken unexpected twists and...