China

In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact...

This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He...

At the outset of the Nanjing decade (1928-1937), a small group of Chinese legal elites worked to codify the terms that would bring the institutions of marriage and family into the modern world. Their deliberations produced the Republican Civil Code of...

In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech...

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...

In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech...

Emancipation, a defining feature of twentieth-century China society, is explored in detail in this compelling study. Angelina Chin expands the definition of women's emancipation by examining what this rhetoric meant to lower-class women, especially those...

On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured China's former capital, Nanjing. The events that followed became known as the Rape of Nanking, or the Nanjing Massacre, which, with its magnitude and brutality, shocked the civilized world. Mass executions,...

Weapons in Late Shang (c.1250-1050 BCE) China: Beyond Typology and Ritual explores the large quantities of bronze and jade weapons, such as dagger-axes, spears and arrows, found at the World Heritage site of Yinxu, the late Shang capital located near...

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians of science, the Chinese imperial Astronomical Bureau, which for two millennia observed, recorded, interpreted and predicted the movements of...

When the first Westerners reached China, they described it as a land of unusual wealth, but by the 1850s, the country had become very poor. This is a comprehensive history of exploration and trade in China between Westerners and Chinese, including a...

A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong.British sports were in many respects more meaningful in the empire than literature, music, art, or religion. They served as an instrument of cultural association and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434916228Author Franz KratschmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 95g

In South China Sea: Energy and Security Conflicts, foreign policy analyst Christopher L. Daniels analyzes the core causes of the dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea, which separates some of the world's fastest-growing economies...

The foreign relations of the People's Republic of China have gone through dramatic change since 1949. The strong-man rule of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party leader's dominance of Chinese foreign policy decision making for three decades...

The Chinese Communist Party, as the political leader of the world's largest country and second largest economy, plays an undeniably important role in global politics. Founded in a boarding school in Shanghai in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party is one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781396319914Author Granville G LochFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 204g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997566925Author Dave GlantzFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Baronet World WidePublisher Baronet World WideWeight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987473301Author Rhonda ChangFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Maninriver PressPublisher Maninriver PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

On the night of September 12-13, 1971, Lin Biao, Mao Zedong's officially recognized closest comrade-in-arms and chosen successor, was killed in a mysterious plane crash in Mongolia. The Chinese government did not issue an announcement of Lin's death, and...

China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health...

Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, jewelry,...

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Liu Kang argues that globalization is not simply a new conceptual framework through which cultural change in China can be understood; it is a historical condition in which the country's ""gaige kaifang"" (reform and opening up) has...

China has the largest education system in the world. This text examines the education system in post-Mao China from 1976 to the start of the 21st century. It explores how the Chinese government treats education within the nation's broader social,...

In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break...

In view of the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution and Sun Yat-sen's relations with the Nanyang communities, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and the Chinese Heritage Centre came together to host a two-day bilingual conference on the...

Crisis & Reform in ChinaBook InformationISBN 9781560724162Author E. BlineyFormat HardbackPage Count 159Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 380g

The development of modern China's most important export commodity, silk, is traced from the opening of the treaty ports to the 1930s. This study examines the silk industry, one of China's most advanced traditional economic enterprises, as it moved into...

By the end of the eighth century A.D., imperial China had established a system of administrative and penal law, the main institutions of which lasted until the collapse of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1911. The Spirit of Traditional Chinese Law studies the...

This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged...

Through Chinese Eyes tells the sweeping story of Chinese history, politics and culture - from ancient China to the turbulent transformation of the last thirty years - through the eyes of its own citizens. Speeches and writings from Chinese leaders and...

Opening with a summary of the political and social role of the literate in traditional China, this study includes detailed biographical information on many of those whose careers affected the process by which China assimilated Western thought. It deals...

In the first systematic study of its kind, Hua-yu Li tackles one of the most important unresolved mysteries of the early history of the People's Republic of China_the economic policy shift of 1953. As a result of this policy shift, the moderate economic...