China category: 3065 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Through the perspective of Wayne P. Hughes' missile salvo equation, this research examined naval surface forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the United States in order to demonstrate how American surface combatants can defeat PRC anti-access area denial (A2AD) measures in the South...
English Lessons
The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great...
Mr. Selden's Map of China
Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
From the author of the award-winning Vermeer's Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China.
Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects...
China's Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia
Myth or Reality?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
China's Soft Power Diplomacy: Myth or Reality? examines the Chinese version of soft power both in conceptual and operational terms, and explores its myriad implications for India, in particular, and South Asia in general. The book investigates how the institutionalization of cultural soft power would...
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics
China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China’s “long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented...
China A to Z
Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
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....
by Lorien Holland
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
With dozens of stunning photographs and insightful commentary, this China travel pictorial is a colorful guide to this fascinating country.
China is one of the world’s most fascinating destinations, boasting awe-inspiring sights and attractions. From the sheer immensity of the Great Wall...
Charting China's Future
Political, Social, and International Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
China has become an undisputed global phenomenon, yet twenty-five years ago, its remarkable accomplishments were largely unforeseen. In an ambitious effort to predict China's coming decades, this book explores not only the economic development that has been a key indicator of its success but the often...
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Beyond Han Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning...
Sino-Japanese Transculturation
Late Nineteenth Century to the End of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This is a multi-author work which examines the cultural dimensions of the relations between East Asia’s two great powers, China and Japan, in a period of change and turmoil, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. This period saw Japanese invasion of China, the occupation...
The Emperor's River
Travels to the Heart of a Resurgent China
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
A look China's recent cultural reinterpretation of the oldest canal in the world, dug when Confucius was alive, along which has traveled not only cargo but ideas, customs, and dialects
The face of modern China is changing. Liam D'Arcy-Brown travels the length of the Grand Canal,...
China Online
Netspeak and Wordplay Used by over 700 Million Chinese Internet Users
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Dive into China's new web-based subculture of tech-savy, subversive netizens with China Online!
Using Baidu, China's form of Google, young Chinese web-surfers are creating their own language on the Internet. With this book, you can get an insider's view of the way the new wave of Chinese youth...
CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY
Cultureshocking News : A guide to Chinese etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette
A comedy complement to the unconventional CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY, this guide to Chinese etiquette goes pop and punk with stereotypes, images and the fear of using them both. It offers you concrete scenarios in colorful anecdotes....
The Great Wall of Money
Power and Politics in China's International Monetary Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
As an economic superpower, China has become an increasingly important player in the international monetary system. Its foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and its exchange rate policy has become a major subject of international economic diplomacy. The internationalization of the...