China category: 3065 books
Luxurious Networks
Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between...
by John Langellier
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
This volume reveals the little-known story of the 90-year presence of American forces in China until the fall of Peking in 1941. Included is coverage of the first operations on the Pearl River in 1856 as well as US involvement in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. As China entered a chaotic period in her...
The Price of China's Economic Development
Power, Capital, and the Poverty of Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The People's Republic of China has experienced significant transformations since Deng Xiaoping instituted economic reforms in 1978. Subsequent leaders continued and often broadened Deng's policies, shifting the nation from agrarianism to industrialism, from isolation to internationalism, and from...
by Edward A. McCord
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The China we know today emerged at the end of a long period of internal rebellions, civil wars, foreign invasions, and revolutionary insurrections that stretched across the nineteenth century to the mid-point of the twentieth. This book explores one important consequence of this situation—the increased...
China's Soviet Dream
Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People’s Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda...
Museums in China
The Politics of Representation after Mao
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number...
China's Communist Revolutions
Fifty Years of The People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
During its fifty years of existence the People's Republic of China has seen dramatic changes, from the proclamation of the independent state through the period of the Communist Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, the Reform Period. These changes are analysed from the political, economic and social...
China's Quest for Political Legitimacy
The New Equity-Enhancing Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
This book examines the new equity-enhancing politics in China in the context of Chinese traditional cognitive patterns of political legitimacy and its implication for Chinese political development in the near future. Based on an analysis of the new governing philosophy, the generation of political...
Film Studies in China
Selected Writings from Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Film Studies in China is a collection of specially selected articles chosen from issues of the Contemporary Cinema journal published throughout the year. Contemporary Cinema is one of the most prestigious academic film studies journals in China. Recently, this journal has been active not only in publishing...
Producing Guanxi
Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Throughout China the formation of guanxi, or social connections, involves friends, families, colleagues, and acquaintances in complex networks of social support and sentimental attachment. Focusing on this process in one rural north China village, Fengjia, Andrew Kipnis shows what guanxi production...
by Yung Wing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book, first published in 1909, in the autobiography of a man who witnessed and played a key role in 19th century China. Remarkably, the book was written in English Yung Wing, born in 1828, was the first Chinese person ever to graduate from a major US college. He then returned to his own world,...
Chinese Public Diplomacy
The Rise of the Confucius Institute
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of Confucius Institutes (CIs), situating them as a tool of public diplomacy in the broader context of China’s foreign affairs.
The study establishes the concept of public diplomacy as the theoretical framework for analysing CIs. By applying...
China and the United States
A New Cold War History
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
This essay collection presents a new examination and fresh insight into Sino-American relations from the end of World War II to the 1960s. The compilation breaks new ground by exploring some of the untouched Chinese and Soviet Communist sources to document the major events and crises in East Asia....
The Marshall Mission to China, 1945–1947
The Letters and Diary of Colonel John Hart Caughey
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
This book breaks new ground in our understanding of a pivotal period in the history of American foreign policy, the early Cold War, and the struggle for dominance in China between the Nationalists and Communists. The famous Marshall Mission to China has been the focus of intense scrutiny ever since...