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Writing Early China by Edward L. Shaughnessy 9781438495224
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438495224Author Edward L. ShaughnessyFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China by John R Haddad 9781439911600
RRP: £104.00£90.00As incredible as it may seem, the American missionaries who journeyed to China in 1860 planning solely to spread the Gospel ultimately reinvented their entire enterprise. By 1900, they were modernizing China with schools, colleges, hospitals, museums,... -
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War by Zhuqing Li 9781324064398
RRP: £15.99£11.76Scions 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... -
Modernization and Revolution in China by June Grasso 9781032168623
RRP: £135.00£117.68Extensively revised and fully updated in this sixth edition, this popular textbook conveys the drama of China’s struggle to modernize against the backdrop of a proud and difficult history. Featuring a new analysis of the issues facing China’s fifth... -
Watching the Flag Come Down: An Englishwoman in Hong Kong, 1987-97 by Susanna Hoe 9780954405670
RRP: £12.00£9.77At midnight on 30 June 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty after 150 years of British rule. The moment when the British flag came down was dramatic enough but the ten years leading up to it were full of surprising incident and change. These... -
Women at the Siege, Peking 1900 by Susanna Hoe 9780953773060
RRP: £15.00£12.99On 20 June 1900, Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister, was assassinated in a Peking street. By 4pm the first shots were fired into the legation quarter and the siege of foreigners by Boxers and imperial troops had begun. Among the besieged were 148... -
Voices from Tiananmen Square: Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement by Mok Chiu Yu 9780921689584
RRP: £12.99£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921689584Author Mok Chiu YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
China: A History: A History by Harold M. Tanner 9780872209169
RRP: £64.99£53.37Eminently accessible, yet rigorous, this engaging introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of Chinese civilization tells the story of China--from its beginnings to the present day--in a way that goes beyond simple, misleading... -
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China by Michael Loewe 9780872207592
RRP: £28.99£23.35In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid picture of the lives of peasants working the land, the lives of town inhabitants, and the elaborate hierarchy of institutions and civil... -
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China by Michael Loewe 9780872207585
RRP: £12.99£11.06In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid picture of the lives of peasants working the land, the lives of town inhabitants, and the elaborate hierarchy of institutions and civil... -
Faith, Myth, and Reason in Han China by Michael Loewe 9780872207578
RRP: £45.99£37.39In his classic study of the cultural history of Han China, Michael Loewe uses both archaeological discoveries and written records to sketch the conceptual background of various artifacts of the Han period, and shows how ancient Chinese thought is as much... -
Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific by David C. Gompert 9780833078902
£22.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833078902Author David C. GompertFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint RANDPublisher RAND -
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937 by Maggie Clinton 9780822363620
RRP: £85.00£73.81In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to... -
The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West by Ari Larissa Heinrich 9780822341130
RRP: £20.99£18.37In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of... -
Whither China?: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China by Xudong Zhang 9780822326595
RRP: £95.00£82.73Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of... -
China: Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs by David B. H. Denoon 9780814720004
RRP: £23.99£20.84China's dramatic transformation over the past fifteen years has drawn its share of attention and fear from the global community and world leaders. Far from the inward-looking days of the Cultural Revolution, modern China today is the world's fourth... -
Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives by Xiaobing Li 9780813141206
£36.42Anna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. By the age of twenty-one, she was spending at least six months per year on the road, delivering lectures on abolitionism,... -
Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's <i>Family</i> by Kristin Stapleton 9780804798693
RRP: £99.00£85.74Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his... -
The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China by Xiaowei Zheng 9780804796675
RRP: £108.00£93.40China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local... -
Modern China's Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century by Zhongping Chen 9780804774093
£72.71Chambers of commerce developed in China as a key part of its sociopolitical changes. In 1902, the first Chinese chamber of commerce appeared in Shanghai. By the time the Qing dynasty ended, over 1,000 general chambers, affiliated chambers, and branch... -
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 by Mark R. Peattie 9780804762069
RRP: £124.00£108.04Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US).Most studies of the Sino-Japanese War are presented from the perspective of the West. Departing from this tradition, The Battle for China brings together Chinese, Japanese,... -
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai by Mark Swislocki 9780804760126
RRP: £99.00£85.74Culinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country's many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark... -
Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937 by James Reardon-Anderson 9780804751674
RRP: £70.00£60.31Reluctant Pioneers describes the migration of Chinese to Manchuria, their settlement there, and the incorporation of Manchuria into an expanding China, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The expansion of Chinese state and society from the... -
American Images of China, 1931-1949 by T. Christopher Jespersen 9780804736541
RRP: £23.99£20.84In the 1930's and 1940's, the prevalent American view of China was that of a friendly, democratic, and increasingly Christian state, in many ways akin to the United States. This view was fostered by a wide range of literary, political, and business... -
Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement by Timothy Brook 9780804736381
RRP: £21.99£19.19This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The author focuses on the... -
Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 9780804731669
RRP: £27.99£24.54This is a history of student protests in Shanghai from the turn of the century to 1949, showing how these students experienced and help shape the course of the Chinese Revolution.About the AuthorJeffrey N. Wasserstrom is Associate Professor of History at... -
Culture and State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques by Theodore Huters 9780804728676
RRP: £83.00£72.51Many observers of late imperial China have noted the relatively small size of the state in comparison to the geographic size and large population of China and have advanced various theories to account for the ability of the state to maintain itself in... -
Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945 by Poshek Fu 9780804727969
RRP: £24.99£21.67Focusing 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... -
The Temple of Memories: History, Power, and Morality in a Chinese Village by Jun Jing 9780804727563
RRP: £116.00£100.22This study focuses on the politics of memory in the village of Dachuan in northwest China, in which 85 percent of the villagers are surnamed Kong and believe themselves to be descendants of Confucius. It recounts both how this proud community was... -
American Images of China, 1931-1949 by T. Christopher Jespersen 9780804725965
RRP: £99.00£85.74In the 1930's and 1940's, the prevalent American view of China was that of a friendly, democratic, and increasingly Christian state, in many ways akin to the United States. This view was fostered by a wide range of literary, political, and business... -
Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao by Xiaobing Tang 9780804725835
RRP: £58.00£50.57This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had... -
China's Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy by Yuxing Huang 9780774868112
RRP: £62.00£53.56China is not only a great power but often an opaque one. What does its regional diplomacy tell us about the country's geopolitical position and ambitions, and what patterns does it reveal? Building from international relations theories focused on how... -
Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria by Norman Smith 9780774832908
RRP: £29.99£26.50Since the seventeenth century, Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, Russian, and other imperial forces have defied Manchuria's unrelenting summers and unforgiving winters to fight for sovereignty over the natural resources of Northeast Asia. Until now, historians... -
Healing Henan: Canadian Nurses at the North China Mission, 1888-1947 by Sonya Grypma 9780774814003
RRP: £29.99£26.50While volumes have been written about the Protestant missionary movement in China, scant attention has been paid to the role of nursing and nurses in these missions. Set against a backdrop of war and revolution, Healing Henan brings sixty years of... -
Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937 by Xiaoping Cong 9780774813488
RRP: £29.99£26.50Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern ChineseNation-State is an innovative account of educational and socialtransformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-centuryChina. It focuses on the unique nature of Chinese teachers'schools,... -
Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China by Hsieh Bao Hua 9780739198407
RRP: £56.00£49.29In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the... -
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1928 by Xiaoqun Xu 9780739189146
RRP: £110.00£96.03Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China analyzes important aspects of Chinese intellectual life and cultural practices that formed and informed the historical phenomenon known as the New Culture era. Through examining an... -
Modern China and the New World: The Reemergence of the Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century by Randall Doyle 9780739171875
RRP: £92.00£80.53Modern China and the New World focuses upon a few of the main topics associated with China's recent rise to global prominence. Dr. Randall Doyle discusses the impact that China will have on the geopolitical balance throughout the Asia-Pacific region, as... -
The Emergence of a New Urban China: Insiders' Perspectives by Zai Liang 9780739170113
RRP: £99.00£90.74This book provides first-hand, insiders' perspectives on urban issues in China, aiming to provide a theoretically informed and empirically rich discussion of the new social landscape of urban China in the 21st century. The research reported encompasses... -
Organizing Rural China - Rural China Organizing by Ane Bislev 9780739170090
RRP: £98.00£85.70During the early 1980s China embarked on what can be seen as one of the world's largest social experiments ever. Decollectivization meant much more than the reorganization of agricultural production into family based farming. It signaled significant...