China category: 3065 books
by Edward L. Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Few phases of history were as heavy with implications for the world at large than the turbulent years through which China moved from the overthrow of the last imperial dynasty in 1911, through anarchy, civil war and invasion, to the final triumph of the Communists in 1949 - yet few periods are as...
by Emily Hahn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong Sisters: Eling, Chingling and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the...
Influential Women
Two Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Portraits of pivotal American feminists and three of the most powerful women in twentieth-century China by the “quintessential New Yorker narrator” (The New York Times).
Once Upon a Pedestal: After living an unconventional and exotic life for decades, New Yorker writer Emily Hahn was in her...
Out of China
How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
China’s new nationalism is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted by foreign powers in the past, China looks out at the twenty-first century through the lens of the past two centuries. History matters deeply to Beijing’s current rulers, and Robert Bickers explains why.
Shadow Cold War
The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the Balkans to the Korean coast. His...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chengdu : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chengdu : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chengdu : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Beijing : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Beijing : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Beijing : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Harbin : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Harbin : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Harbin : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
by Bill Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Some of the most creative of human expression has originated in the collision of cultures. So it is with this extraordinary archive. The Corporal and the Celestials publishes for the first time a truly absorbing collection of photographs of China in the early years of the twentieth century, taken...
by Kirwan Ward, Graham Earnshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed and inscrutable. Emerging from the writings of Kirwan Ward and the drawings of Paul Rigby is a picture of China at a key moment in its history—still...
The Opium War
Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in tragicomedy, The Opium War explores the disastrous British foreign-relations move that...
by Rana Mitter
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities,...
New China
Reflections, Analysis and Conclusions of a Layman
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
One has to marvel at the tremendous material progress of China under the New China concept. The sweeping skyscrapers, the architectural creations of the Olympics and space successes are a wonder to behold! But there are other criteria by which a nation should be judged. Shouldnt the spiritual and...