China

In this original exploration of the dynamic and potent interface between Chinese culture and politics, Richard Kraus examines the impact of the market on the once-comprehensive system of state patronage of the arts in the PRC. The author uses all genres...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887340302Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961217140Author Ahoy PublicationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Legerum ABPublisher Legerum ABWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914312304Author History Brought AliveFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Fortune PublishingPublisher Fortune PublishingWeight(grams) 213g

The China Primer is a compact but comprehensive review of China's history, the cultural traits of that country motivating its domestic and international conduct, its historical experiences of the last two centuries which shape its current worldview, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393499400Author Edwin J DingleFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Vij Books IndiaPublisher Vij Books IndiaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662409271Author Peter ThalheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013293146Author Eddy UFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

In this first comprehensive analysis of biological science in modern China, Laurence Schneider traces its troubled development from the 1920s, across the 1949 boundary, and into contemporary post-socialist China. Schneider uses his detailed portrayals of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804173391Author Ian JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774855768Author Jerry ArnoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ryan PrincetonPublisher Ryan PrincetonWeight(grams) 195g

Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502632395Author Falaq KagdaFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Cavendish Square PublishingPublisher Cavendish Square PublishingWeight(grams) 635g

The Chinese Civil War, which lasted several years or several decades, depending on how you define it, was one of the most momentous wars of the 20th century for it determined the fate of the world's most populous country, and was bitterly fought with...

This book explores the rise of Shanghai-based popular magazines produced by the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School” in early twentieth-century China. It examines the national, gender, family, and social imaginaries constructed and negotiated through...

Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and...

In the spring of 1738, Fr. Bernardino Bevilacqua was hustled out of Shandong to quiet the uproar over his sexual seduction of young Chinese converts. Fr. Alessio Randanini followed him to Macau in 1741. The story of this scandal has remained largely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606335857Author Chunwen HaoFormat HardbackImprint Sino United PubPublisher Sino United PubWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 145mm * 33mm

In this first comprehensive analysis of biological science in modern China, Laurence Schneider traces its troubled development from the 1920s, across the 1949 boundary, and into contemporary post-socialist China. Schneider uses his detailed portrayals of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867972340Author Francesco SisciFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint GowarePublisher GowareWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933782201Author Haiwang YuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Berkshire Publishing GroupPublisher Berkshire Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 333g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354208539Author Robert Coltman, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 236g

The culmination of D. E. Mungello's forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888552450Author Frances WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Earnshaw Books LimitedPublisher Earnshaw Books Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791041983520Author Roy Chapman AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint CultureaPublisher CultureaWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887340258Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Mingmandarin.comPublisher Mingmandarin.comWeight(grams) 95g

Thought reform is arguably China's most controversial social policy. If reeducation's critics and defenders agree on little else, they share the conviction that ideological remolding is inseparable from its Mao-era roots. This is the first major...

This engaging translation presents an authentic period document that reflects aspects of Chinese life and society as seen through contemporary eyes. Portraying a "phony" reformer who rode the tide of the Qing court's post-Boxer reform...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839383250Author A J KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Pastor Publishing LtdPublisher Pastor Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 327g

This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap in sensory research while offering new approaches to Chinese Studies.Bringing together 12 chapters by literary scholars and historians, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984877406Author Edward WongFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781893075634Author David G GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint One Spirit PressPublisher One Spirit PressWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839384417Author A J KingstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Pastor Publishing LtdPublisher Pastor Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887340371Author Jia Ming WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Ming MandarinPublisher Ming MandarinWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947766310Author Luke Diep-NguyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Pacific Atrocities EducationPublisher Pacific Atrocities EducationWeight(grams)...

This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science dissemination materials and technical handbooks, as well as mass media products of the...

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century. This book studies various...

“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987821703Author Feng ZhaoFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Royal Collins Publishing CompanyPublisher Royal Collins Publishing Company

Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik...