China category: 3065 books
by 范伟, 何建明
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This non-fiction novel recalls the legendary road to wealth of Huaxi Village, which claims to be the richest in China, under the leadership of village chief Wu Renbao. This reportage reproduces a vivid portrait of the former secretary of Huaxi Village Communist Party Committee, whose up-to-date management...
Imperial Bandits
Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three...
by SIR HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2014
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I Description of China; Her Early History; Tartar Garrisons; Chinese Soldiers; Family Life; Power of Parents; Foot-Binding CHAPTER II Marriage Customs; Ancestral Halls; Official Hierarchy;...
Dancing on the Frontier
Travels by Land Through China and Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
'This is a memoir of a year I spent off the beaten track in China. From the Pacific coast to the dusty heart of Central Asia, I travelled 10,000 miles through virtually every region of that vast country. My backpacking adventures were much more than just a young mans solitary wanderings. I taught...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Dengzhou : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Dengzhou : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Dengzhou : (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 Kaiping : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kaiping : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kaiping : (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.
Owning the Olympics
Narratives of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
"A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of 'media events' by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover."
—Guobin...
by Graham Bond
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Known for years as the sleeping giant of tourism, China has now awakened with a roar, attracting 120 million inbound tourists each year (including two and a half million Americans), and accounting for increasing sales of guidebooks to its three major attractions: Beijing, Xian and Shanghai. Our author...
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy
The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907–1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, Xianyu's father gave his daughter to a Japanese friend who was sympathetic to his efforts to reclaim power. This...
China Days
A Visual Journal from China's Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The nation of China is a constant source of fascination, yet we rarely glimpse life beyond its urban centers. Far west of Beijing and Shanghai, in the remote Chinese province of Yunnan, pioneering artist Henrik Drescher settled over a decade ago. While residing in his adopted home, Drescher records...
China's Green Religion
Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding...
China's Transition to Modernity
The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
The figure of Dai Zhen (1724�1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings....
The "Inscrutably Chinese" Church
How Narratives and Nationalism Continue to Divide Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The first half of the twenty-first century promises to be a time of great change for the Christian church in the PeopleOs Republic of China. The situation is complex and fluid, and the information gap between those on the inside and those outside of China is still significant, though shrinking. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China presents a rogues’ gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, and disloyal officials. It plumbs the dark matter of the human condition, placing front and center transgressive individuals and groups traditionally...