China category: 3065 books
You Don't Know China
Twenty-two Enduring Myths Debunked
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
You Don’t Know China takes a wrecking ball to misconceptions old and new. Each of the twenty-two chapters debunks a particular myth on topics ranging from history and economics to language and food. Learn the truth about feng shui and Chinese medicine. Find out whether Marco Polo really went to...
Japan and China
The Meeting of Asia's Economic Giants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Japan and China: The Meeting of Asia’s Two Economic Giants analyzes the new and changing relationship between the two nations and the rest of the world that may shape a new economic landscape for Asia in the 21st century. Managers and employees of multinational firms, as well as students interested...
The Secret War for China
Espionage, Revolution and the Rise of Mao
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek - the head of China's military academy and leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) - began the 'northern expeditions' to bring China's northern territories back under the control of the state. It was during this period that the KMT purged communist activities, fractured the army and...
What Is China?
Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Ge Zhaoguang, an eminent historian of traditional China and a public intellectual, takes on fundamental questions that shape the domestic and international politics of the world’s most populous country and its second largest economy. What Is China? offers an insider’s account that addresses sensitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This excellent 2018 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Pre-World War II Japan, throughout the first half of the twentieth century, was a nation with a strong military force, growing economy, and unique ethnic identity. Contemporary...
Chinese Complaint Systems
Natural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Complaint systems have existed in China for many years, and in 2004, a debate took place in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters and Visits System (xinfang zhidu), which was designed to allow people to register complaints with the upper levels of the government. However, both parties...
When China Ruled the Seas
The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405–1433
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and...
by Edwin Poon
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
The 'Awakening' of China: Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century' explores the reasoning behind the concept of "China's Awakening" at a time when China was weak, divided and dominated by western imperialism. Battered by the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the fall...
by Jonathan D. Spence
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1999
"Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The Letters and Diaries of Colonel John Hart Caughey, 1944–1945
With Wedemeyer in World War II China
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Colonel John Hart Caughey, a US Army war plans officer stationed in the Chinese Nationalist capital of Chungking, was an eyewitness to the battle for China in the final months of the war (1944–45) and beyond, when he rose to become head of the Theater Planning Section. In frequent letters to his...
China
Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
China’s dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. Far from the inward-looking days of the Cultural Revolution, modern China today is the world’s fourth largest economy, with a net product larger than...
A Call to Mission - A History of the Jesuits in China 1842-1954
Volume I: The French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
China has bulked large in the imagination of the Catholic Church for 500 years. It had been central to the missionary dream of the Jesuits for almost as long. However, only with this book's appearance has the detailed focus of attention shifted to the substantial and neglected period of catholic and...