China category: 3065 books
Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China
Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own devices,...
Baudelaire in China
A Study in Literary Reception
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Baudelaire's work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a "literary revolution" that called for classical models and modes of expression to be replaced by vernacular language and contemporary content. Chinese writers welcomed their meeting with...
Confucianism in China
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This accessible history of Confucianism, or the 'Way of the Ru', emphasizes the religious dimensions of the tradition. It clearly explains the tradition's unique and subtle philosophical ideals as well as the 'arts of the Ru' whereby seemingly simple acts such as reading, sitting quietly, good manners,...
Panda Nation
The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds little notable historical significance in China. Although it has existed in the territory of present-day...
Imperial Twilight
The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War...
Privatizing China
Socialism from Afar
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Everyday life in China is increasingly shaped by a novel mix of neoliberal and socialist elements, of individual choices and state objectives. This combination of self-determination and socialism from afar has incited profound changes in the ways individuals think and act in different spheres of society.
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by Francesco Sisci
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
How the Chinese look at themselves, the world, and the challenges of the future.
Where is China, What is China: Where are the traditional pigtails of the old mandarins, the Mao’s bicycles and his suits? Where are the large families with the many concubines? The stuff that made China for centuries...
by Kerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2019
The third edition of this concise core textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China’s recent history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Fully up to date, this...
Media in China
Consumption, Content and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Multinational media companies increasingly look to China as a highly important market for the future, but with what degree of confidence should they do so? Media in China is about a new kind of revolution in China - a revolution in which rapidly commercializing media industries confront slow-changing...
China's Rising Sea Power
The PLA Navy's Submarine Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century.
China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities between China’s strategic outlook today and that of earlier continental powers whose submarine...
The China Problem in Postwar Japan
Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The 1970s were a period of dramatic change in relations between Japan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The two countries established diplomatic relations for the first time, forged close economic ties and reached political agreements that still guide and constrain relations today. This book...
The Road to Sleeping Dragon
Learning China from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition.
In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society...
China's Agrarian Transition
Peasants, Property, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
More than thirty years ago the political turn that brought the dismantling of agricultural collectives and exclusive rights to small plots of farmland for rural families initiated a historic return to smallholding in the People’s Republic of China. Today, agriculture in China is changing again....