China category: 3065 books
by Manling Luo
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in diverse forms, including narrative poems, “tales of the marvelous,” “records...
Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China
Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In 1898, Qing dynasty emperor Guangxu ordered a series of reforms to correct the political, economic, cultural, and educational weaknesses exposed by China's defeat by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War. The "Hundred Day's Reform" has received a great deal of attention from historians...
by Dr. Yijie Sung
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
In the West, the story of Ancient China is less familiar to us than that of Ancient Egypt or Rome, but it is no less absorbing, and its rollcall of achievements is easily as impressive. 30-Second Ancient China unlocks the secrets of its Bronze Age glories and offers summaries of everything from the...
Taiwan Straits
Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
In Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy, historian Bruce Elleman surveys the situation that has led to the current tensions between China and Taiwan. Starting in 1949, the final phase of the civil war in China, which ended with Communist rule of the mainland and nationalist...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Dali : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Dali : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Dali : (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 Rizhao : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Rizhao : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Rizhao : (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 Kunshan : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kunshan : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kunshan : (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.
Life and Death in the Garden
Sex, Drugs, Cops, and Robbers in Wartime China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This compelling book provides a rare glimpse into the heart of wartime China. Kathryn Meyer draws us into the perilous world of the Garden of Grand Vision, a ramshackle structure where a floating population of thousands found shelter from the freezing Siberian winter. They had come to the northern...
by Xiaowei Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Macheng : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Macheng : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Macheng : (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 Pulandian : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Pulandian : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Pulandian : (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.
Shanghai Faithful
Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
In this deeply researched, vividly written history, a veteran journalist puts her investigative skills to work uncovering her family’s hidden past. Her multigenerational saga is also a microcosm of China’s turbulent, transformative history from imperialism, nationalism, and communism, through...
by Lee Chin-Chuan
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Virtually every major media, information and telecommunications enterprise in the world is significantly tied to China. This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market. As the...
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaoan : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaoan : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaoan : (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.