China category: 3065 books
China's Saints
Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911)
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
While previous works on the history of Christianity in China have largely centered on the scientific and philosophical areas of Catholic missions in the Middle Kingdom, China's Saints recounts the history of Christian martyrdom, precipitated as it was by cultural antagonisms and misunderstanding....
Home Is a Roof Over a Pig
An American Family's Journey in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
“[A] down-to-earth memoir chronicling her family’s stint in the Chinese province of Shandong on the eve of the Beijing Olympics” (Publishers Weekly).
When Aminta Arrington moves with her husband and three young children (including a daughter adopted from China) from suburban Georgia to Tai’an,...
Tourism in China
Destination, Cultures and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
China is forecast to be the primary tourist destination and tourist-generating country by 2020. However, much of the writing on tourism in China has come from people within the English academic world who are not involved in the issues related to Chinese tourism development. This book provides a voice...
Building China
Informal Work and the New Precariat
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half of them. In Building China, Sarah Swider draws on her research in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai between 2004 and 2012, including living...
Living with Reform
China since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. This contemporary history, based on the latest scholarly research, offers a balanced perspective of the continuing legacy of Maoism in the lives not only of China's leaders but China's working...
Chinese Economic Statecraft
Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows what Chinese economic statecraft is, how it works, and why it is more or less effective. Norris provides...
Southeast Asia and the Rise of China
The Search for Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Since the early 1990s and the end of the Cold War, the implications of China's rising power have come to dominate the security agenda of the Asia-Pacific region. This book is the first to comprehensively chart the development of Southeast Asia’s relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
Chaos Under Heaven
The Shocking Story Behind China's Search for Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The story behind the struggle for democracy in China and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, still the subject of widespread government censorship efforts.
The first complete book on the Tiananmen Square tragedy reveals how diplomats from the United States, Britain, and Europe knew exact details...
Twentieth Century Colonialism and China
Localities, the everyday, and the world
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization.
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by Winnie King, Chun-wing Lee, Kai-chi Leung
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Since the Chinese were officially plugged into the virtual community in 1994, the usage of the internet in the country has developed at an incredible rate. By the end of 2008, there were approximately 298 million netizens in China, a number which surpasses that of the U.S. and ranks China the highest...
China Ink
The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
This lively book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth, and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and understanding...
Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship
Mobility, Community and Identity Between China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and upper-classes'...
India, China, and the World
A Connected History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive examination of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. By focusing on material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies, networks of exchange during the colonial period, and little-known facets...
ONE MAN THREE LlIVES
The man who would never give up
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Truth is stranger than fiction.
This moving story of Frederick Cope, an unusual and well-travelled global citizen, reads like the stories of three different characters. It may seem too far-fetched yet it is true.
This well illustrated book is a colourful biography of a Yorkshireman who overcame...