China

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647482626Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through...

Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity-and futility-of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In...

This is the first book-length study of the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service between 1854 and1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. In doing so it...

The Han dynasty was the first to forge a stable empire governing all of China. It ruled during a golden age that shaped much of the nation's cultural history and development. In an effort to preserve their legacy of beauty and power, the Han created...

A Financial Times "Summer Books" Selection"Will become required reading."-Times Literary Supplement"Elegantly written...with a confidence that comes from decades of deep research on the topic, illustrating how influence and power have waxed and waned...

When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the...

This book is one of the first wide-ranging surveys of China's foreign policy and practice from the 16th century to the present day from a Chinese perspective. A modern history of China's interaction with major powers, it throws new light on the events...

The turn of the third century CE-known as the Jian'an era or Three Kingdoms period-holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and...

Illusion and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age seeks to understand, expand, and challenge the boundaries of the modern travelogue across several literary traditions. Through an engaging cast of characters-China-bound missionaries, an...

Defections from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were an important part of the narrative of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan during the Cold War, but their stories have previously barely been told, less still examined, in English.During the...

Chinese Asianism examines Chinese intellectual discussions of East Asian solidarity, analyzing them in connection with Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations. Beginning with texts written after the first Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and concluding...

This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China's rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782824862Author Charles C DixFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881998248Author Jonathan CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Earnshaw Books LimitedPublisher Earnshaw Books Limited

Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of...

Based on a wide variety of unusual and only recently available sources, this book covers the entire Cultural Revolution decade (1966-76) and shows how the Cultural Revolution was experienced by ordinary Chinese at the base of urban and rural society. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780734310484Author William LindesayFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

In 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People's Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC's response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804700740Author Chalmers A. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950834211Author Ganyuan ChengFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Citizen Power Initiatives for ChinaPublisher Citizen Power Initiatives for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881762146Author Peter HibbardFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint China Economic Review PublishingPublisher China Economic Review...

Focusing on the responses of writers in Shanghai to the Japanese occupation, this book corrects the postwar conception of occupied China as a field of conflict between selfless resisters and shameless collaborators by showing a complexity and ambiguity...

This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government,...

William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China: War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports,1860-1904 looks at the late Qing dynasty through the eyes of a British-American who spent most of his adult life in China in the late nineteenth century, fighting in four...

Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China's GDP, but is an unorganized...

Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world today. In China, a country with a vast array of regional and local vernaculars, how was this “common language” forged? How did people learn to speak Mandarin? And what does a focus on...

In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's preeminent technological and security power. This examination of the means and ends of China's quest for...

"Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions... Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower...

Lintong County, People's Republic of China, March 1974Three farmers are digging a well when suddenly their shovels hit something hard. It is a clay head of a mad who stares back at them, open-eyed and amazingly real looking. The farmers have never seen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881762115Author Graham EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint China Economic Review PublishingPublisher China Economic Review Publishing

"The relationship between China and Korea is one of the most important, and least understood, in Asia. With the wisdom and clarity we have come to expect from Westad, this book illuminates the long history of these two neighbors."-Rana Mitter, author of...

Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindroeling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldroen (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to...

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 *...

This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220-589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409426Author Val WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g

The history of the Russian fascist movement in Harbin, Manchuria during the 1930s has become increasingly relevant to our understanding of modern Russia. As a railway junction and an important centre of the Jewish Diaspora, the city of Harbin became a...

Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Baillie Gifford Prize 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780345803023Author Stephen R. PlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Scions of a once-great southern Chinese family that produced the tutor of the last emperor, Jun and Hong were each other's best friends until, in their twenties, they were separated by chance at the end of the Chinese Civil War. For the next thirty...