China

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851245522Author Bertrand RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013562686Author Central Intelligence AgencyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 104g

Guangzhou, or Canton as it is sometimes known, is the major urban settlement in south China. Guangdong is the province of which Guangzhou is the capital. Guangzhou and Guangdong have a long settlement history that can be traced to the Zhou dynasty, eight...

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...

Imperialism, pernicious as it was in most respects, served as the prime catalyst for social change in China throughout the turbulent period from 1895 to 1913. Starting with this premise, Edward Rhoads traces the social, political, and economic history of...

The essays in this volume tell the stories of Chinese Muslim intellectuals trying to create satisfying, safe and coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures.About the AuthorJonathan N. Lipman is Felicia Gressitt Bock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998361987Author Thomas P LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Personal History PressPublisher Personal History PressWeight(grams)...

"Where is the market?" inquires the tourist one dark, chilly morning. "Follow the ghosts," responds the taxi driver, indicating a shadowy parade of overloaded tricycles. "It's not called the ghost market for nothing!" And indeed, Beijing is nothing if...

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By the author of the highly acclaimed China's Imperial Past and written in the same lively style, this is a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization. It weaves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547053509Author Oliver AugustFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388537Author XinranFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 422g

China's rapid economic growth during the past two decades has occurred without the systematic privatization programs once urged upon the former Communist regimes of Europe and the USSR. Some observers have argued that this shows that changes in property...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991608256Author Stanley CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Eye Soar, Inc. Soaring ImagesPublisher Eye Soar, Inc. Soaring ImagesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985785086Author William John CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Mindkind PublicationsPublisher Mindkind PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692026724Author Edward D WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Qilin PublishingPublisher Qilin PublishingWeight(grams) 553g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595156900Author Wang LiangbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646849072Author Selina CoFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Selina CoPublisher Selina CoWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to...

This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological imperatives. Moise argues that the violence associated...

This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century. It is a study in Russian economic and entrepreneurial history, focusing on Russian state...

Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century. He concludes that the Protestant missionary movement was welcomed by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993758904Author Chunqing WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Chunqing WangPublisher Chunqing WangWeight(grams) 290g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981549965Author Amy S KweiFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Tats Publishing, Cambridge, MassachusettsPublisher Tats Publishing, Cambridge,...

One of the first detailed studies of a local economy in the PRC, this book traces the development of a poverty-stricken county through the Maoist era and the first fifteen years of the post-Mao reforms, showing how central and provincial policy impinged...

One of the first detailed studies of a local economy in the PRC, this book traces the development of a poverty-stricken county through the Maoist era and the first fifteen years of the post-Mao reforms, showing how central and provincial policy impinged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866382335Author James LeiboldFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint East-West CenterPublisher East-West CenterWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873864800Author Rebecca StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint January Productions, IncorporatedPublisher January Productions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981954318Author Facing History and OurselvesFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Facing History & Ourselves National Foundation,...

The studies in this collection re-examine the role of the Qing state in the private economy. They show in a variety of cases how the interaction between the two helped the state achieve its goals of social stability and security while enhancing the...

First printed in 1979, this series of illuminating letters was written between April and August, 1949, describing Nanking before, during and immediately after the Communist takeover. The author was in China on a research fellowship at the time of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898755312Author Wu YuzhangFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692482117Author James FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint James FitzgeraldPublisher James FitzgeraldWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595149070Author George K F WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578415598Author Mark Chuanhang ShanFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Chinese Christian Theological Association (Boston)Publisher Chinese Christian...

In his first collection of writings to be published in English, Fang Lizhi, the world-renowned Chinese astrophysicist and human rights activist, speaks out on science, culture, and the future of democracy in China. Here is a rare glimpse into the...

The Canton trade for almost a century had been the sole regulated channel between China and the Western world; as such, it had become the focus of many conflicts. Mr. Chang examines the development of this trading system and the British trade in China--a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228895077Author Pao ChinFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991608225Author Caroline Maddock HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Eye Soar, Inc. Soaring ImagesPublisher Eye Soar, Inc. Soaring...

In BIG DRAGON, Dan Burstein joins with China specialist Arne de Keijzer to offer a comprehensive look at China and its future. They suggest that no other country poses such significant business and political questions for the West and therefore the...