China category: 3065 books
by Alexander Hosie
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
The most interesting part of China, from a geographical and ethnological point of view, is the West—geographically, because its recesses have not yet been thoroughly explored, and ethnologically, because a great part of it is peopled by races which are non-Chinese, and one at least of which, though...
by Rongguang Zhao, Gangliu Wang, Aimee Yiran Wang
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Since the 1980s, China has developed a broader and deeper connection with the world. One of the most intriguing aspects of Chinese culture is its rich cuisine and fascinating cooking.
China is a nation with a long history of food culture, and food has become an essential part of Chinese culture.
This...
The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps
The Republic of China Military, 1942–1955
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The People’s Republic of China is the only large country in the world that does not have a “national” military; its military answers only to a political party, the Chinese Communist Party. For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military...
by Augustin Romaneschi
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Who you are:You are a student and are planning a stay in China? Whether it’s for a long or short stay, you don’t have many clues of what a day in China look like?And, how and from where to start planning this big journey?You are at the right place then!The Exchange Student’s...
Merchants and Society in Modern China
From Guild to Chamber of Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, merchants in China were incorporated into the bourgeoisie and constituted a vital part of the upstart capitalists. The lowermost class in ancient China’s social hierarchy has thus become a strong force of social transformation in the modern...
by Lin Chun
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2021
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2021
A history of revolutionary China in the 20th century
China under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the Belt and Road initiative to its involvement in Great Power struggles with the West, China is facing the world once more in the hope of reclaiming a lost Chinese...
by Victor Cunrui Xiong
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
The crucial period of Chinese history, 168-979, falls naturally into contrasting phases. The first phase, also known as that of 'early medieval China,' is an age of political decentralization. Following the breakup of the Han empire, China was plunged into civil war and fragmentation and stayed divided...
Chasing China
How I Went to China in Search of a Fortune and Found a Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
An astonishing, cautionary tale of how Westerner Mark Kitto built a successful media empire in China, creating and running 3 magazines, only to have the state take his business, and his livelihood, away.
I had fought off attacks from jealous rivals and been investigated by every bureau with...
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American.
General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few...
As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China's competition...
For All the Tea in China
How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China
In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China—territory...
China A to Z
Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
A practical and accessible guide to an ancient but rapidly changing culture—now revised and updated
Perfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country....
The River at the Center of the World
A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China, pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before debouching into the oily swells of the East China Sea. Connecting China's heartland cities with the volatile coastal giant, Shanghai, it has also historically...
Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When...