China category: 3065 books
by Michel Cormier
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question...
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.
During the summer of 1972—a few short months after Nixon’s legendary visit to China—master historian...
Conservatism and the Kissinger–Mao Axis
Development of the Twin Global Orders
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Kissinger’s dual-purpose instrument of the US-China and US-Soviet détente was devised to achieve a stable balance of power in the contemporary world in the second half of the 1960s. Stimulated by both Kissinger’s doctrine and the historical novel, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mao’s global...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chongqing : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chongqing : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chongqing : (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 Hefei : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hefei : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hefei : (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.
Revolutionary Nativism
Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to China from Europe or Japan; rather it emerged...
The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions
The Legacy of the Jewish Community in Ancient China
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2006
Points East, A Publication of the Sino-Judaic Institute, Vol. 23 No. 2, July 2008 The Covenant and the Mandate of Heaven: An In-depth Comparative Cultural Study of Judaism and China. By Tiberiu Weisz (iUniverse, 2007) Reviewed by Vera Schwarcz, Director/Chair, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies,...
by Eugene Bach, Brother Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The Chinese house church is one of the most misunderstood and controversial subjects in Christian world missions today. Questions about it abound, such as…
How did it start?
How does it work?
How is it led?
Why does it continue to experience revival?
Is it necessary, now that China has extended...
by Wensheng Wang
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796-1820 CE) has occupied an awkward position in studies of China's last dynasty, the Qing. Conveniently marking a watershed between the prosperous eighteenth century and the tragic post-Opium War era, this quarter century has nevertheless been glossed over as an unremarkable...
Meet Me in Venice
A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far...
Leadership Secrets of Liu Bang
The Emperor of China’s Han Dynasty with a Surprising Connection with Steven Spielberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Liu Bang, also known as Gaozu, began from humble peasant roots and served as a police officer under the Qin dynasty. He rose through the ranks, first receiving control of western China, and eventually becoming the ruler of China as the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE)....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household...
China and India, 2025
A Comparative Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
China and India, the world's two most populous countries, will exercise increasing influence in international affairs in the coming decades. This document assesses the relative prospects of China and India through 2025 in four domains: demography, macroeconomics, science and technology, and defense spending...
State and Society in 21st Century China
Crisis, Contention and Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include:
the legitimacy...