China category: 3065 books
Confucianism as a World Religion
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism...
China Under Mao
A Revolution Derailed
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.
Tibetan Environmentalists in China
The King of Dzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection (as well as a host of secondary characters): Tashi Dorje, a well-known and celebrated environmentalist; Karma Samdrup, a philanthropist, businessman, and environmentalist; Rinchen...
Xi Jinping
Red China, The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
With the rise to power of the fifth generation in 2012, Xi Jinping became the undisputed leader of China. For the first time, the descendant of a Communist hero, a “red princeling,” has reached the highest rungs of power in the Middle Kingdom. His personality a study in contrasts, Xi is the archetypal...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
This study analyzes Chinese investment in the Northern Territory Government's Port of Darwin in Australia and the Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka. It examines whether...
The Imperial Capitals of China
A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
From the third century B.C. Shang Emperor's obsessive—and fatal—attempts to engage the Immortals with cosmologically pleasing urban planning, Chinese emperors have designed their imperial capitals in ways that reveal the heart of their dynasty. In a history peopled with countless races, nationalities,...
The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet
Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history...
Reisherinneringen uit Korea en China (Geïllustreerd)
De Aarde en haar Volken, 1904
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Het was op een helderen voorjaarsdag in ’t begin van Mei, toen de heesters op de berghellingen hun nieuw groen kleed hadden aangetrokken, azalea’s in vroolijke tinten hun sierlijke bloesems ontplooiden, en de zon niettegenstaande de opstijvende voorjaarsbries weldadig tintelde, dat de Genkai-Maru,...
The Eurasian Way of War
Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of...
The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing
Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
The education implementation process in China remains uncharted by researchers. The Implementation of Inclusive Education in Beijing: Exorcizing the Haunting Specter of Meritocracy puts forth a general theory on China’s education programs, encompassing policy processes, actions, and interactions...
by Edward Burman
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China, exploring what we now know about it, what remains hidden, and the fascinating theories that surround its creation.
Exciting investigations in northwest China are about to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin...
Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921-1949
Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This book originally examines how prominent communist intellectuals in China during the revolutionary period (1921 to 1940) constructed and presented identities for themselves and how they narrated their place in the revolution.
Big trouble in the East China Sea
Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Outside East Asia, very few people know where the Senkaku islands are. But inside East Asia, the Senkaku prompt great bitterness between Japan, China and Taiwan. At stake is the national pride of each country, which believes that it alone owns them. At stake also are each country’s hopes that it...
None but the Nightingale
An Introduction to Chinese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1996
This classic introduction to the Chinese literature is a fundamental step towards the West's understanding of the rich literary legacy of China.
Readable, condensed, entertaining, the selections contained in this book belong to enduring world literature; the "Great Society" envisioned...