China category: 3065 books
De keizerin
het verhaal van de vrouwn die bijna vijftig jaar over China heerste
Language: Dutch
Release Date: December 20, 2013
In De keizerin vertelt Jung Chang het dramatische levensverhaal van Cixi, een sterke, eigenzinnige vrouw die bijna vijftig jaar lang China regeerde, voor en achter de schermen. Een vrouw die begon als nederige concubine, maar uiteindelijk eeuwenlange tradities en formaliteiten overboord gooide en...
by Adam Bright
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
(Approx 75 Pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
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Deng Xiaoping's Long War
The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities,...
by Jean-Louis Rocca
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise A Sociology of Modern China wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society, all the while avoiding clichés and simplifications. He delves into China's history and examines the country's many different social strata...
A Chinese Economic Revolution
Rural Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
This powerful and meticulously researched study explores the role of rural industry and entrepreneurship in the Chinese economic miracle. Linda Grove considers especially the development of the Gaoyang industrial district, China's best-known rural industrial district of the pre–World War II period....
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qingzhou : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qingzhou : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Qingzhou : (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 iTravel
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This is a wonderful collection of 30 high-quality amazing images produced by a series of today's top professional photographers. Enjoy and be inspired!
China and New Left Visions
Political and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development....
by Hans van de Ven
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to transform China into an independent and modern nation; yet this image was quickly tarnished. The Nationalists were soon denounced as militarily incompetent,...
The Rural Modern
Reconstructing the Self and State in Republican China
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Discussions of China’s early twentieth-century modernization efforts tend to focus almost exclusively on cities, and the changes, both cultural and industrial, seen there. As a result, the communist peasant revolution appears as a decisive historical break. Kate Merkel-Hess corrects that misconception...
Chasing the Chinese Dream
Stories from Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the 'Chinese Dream', the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country...
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain
The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen Baoyuan, a sociology student at Yenching University, arrived in the town to conduct fieldwork on the society...
Dear China
Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times.
Dear China is the...
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes
Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious relationship...