China category: 3065 books
Chinese Lessons
Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's
hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."—The New York Times Book Review
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to...
by April Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Hong Kong, China, asia, beijing, shanghai, singapore, australia =========== Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Hong Kong, China.
Hong Kong (Heūng góng in Cantonese, meaning fragrant harbour) is a place with multiple personalities, as a result of being both Cantonese Chinese...
by Evan Osnos
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.
An Economist Best Book of 2014.
A vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation
From abroad, we often see China as a...
An American in Shanghai
Reflections on Living in New China
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
For almost three tumultuous decades, insurance and investment fund executive Russell R. Miller, plied his trade in China and Southeast Asia. Buying and selling companies, setting up new ones and moving into public service by creating cultural and educational organizations — all the while witnessing...
The Silk Road
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed...
China’s Wars
Rousing the Dragon 1894-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
China is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will. China's Wars describes the series of conflicts from 1894 to 1949 that forged modern China,...
Tibet's Last Stand?
The Tibetan Uprising of 2008 and China's Response
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book offers a definitive account of the origins and events of the 2008 Tibetan uprising, which began with peaceful demonstrations by monks of Lhasa's great monasteries on the anniversary of the 1959 revolt. Noted expert Warren W. Smith Jr. argues that the uprising was a widespread response to...
China's Second Continent
How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book
Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China,...
Out of Mao's Shadow
The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable transformation.
Philip P. Pan's groundbreaking...
by Thomas P. Bernstein, Tina Mai Chen, Izabella Goikhman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism. What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only to the Soviet economic model but also...
The United States and China
A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Combining original research with contemporary scholarship, The United States and China re-examines over two centuries of interaction between the United States and China in a changing world. It explains the foundations and character of their political, economic, military, social, and cultural relations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
This lively and engaging text offers a panorama of modern Chinese history through compelling biographies of the famous and obscure. Spanning five hundred years, they include a Ming dynasty medical pioneer, a Qing dynasty courtesan, a nineteenth-century Hong Kong business leader, a Manchu princess,...
by Yu Hua
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country’s meteoric economic and social transformation.
Framed...
Lianda
A Chinese University in War and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
In the summer of 1937, Japanese troops occupied the campuses of Beijing’s two leading universities, Beida and Qinghua, and reduced Nankai, in Tianjin, to rubble. These were China's leading institutions of higher learning, run by men educated in the West and committed to modern liberal education....