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China by Henrietta Harrison 9780340741344
Booksplease Price: $85.89Both Western historians and Chinese nationalists have argued that from early times China had the features of a nation state: a common language, culture, and bureaucracy. This argument is important... -
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village by Henrietta Harrison 9780520273122
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35"The Missionary's Curse" tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the... -
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village by Henrietta Harrison 9780520273115
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $91.45"The Missionary's Curse" tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the... -
The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942 by Henrietta Harrison
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by Henrietta Harrison 9780691225463
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.76A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught... -
Althea Vernon; Or, the Embroidered Handkerchief: to Which Is Added, Henrietta Harrison; Or, the Blue Cotton Umbrella by Eliza Leslie 9780371726549
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371726549Author Eliza LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta Harrison
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.28A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught... -
The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942 by Henrietta Harrison 9780804750684
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $51.15In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the... -
Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception by David Faure 9780333945957
Booksplease Price: $116.82The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. In 1500, such distinctions were insignificant and it was the... -
Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception by David Faure 9781349662982
Booksplease Price: $116.82The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. In 1500, such distinctions were insignificant and it was the... -
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang 9781108746878
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.65Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back... -
The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
RRP: $107.07Booksplease Price: $102.37Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back... -
Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China: Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720-1850 Lars Peter Laamann 9780415558914
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.24Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian... -
The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism Jack Neubauer 9780231218030
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35During the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War, new global humanitarian ideas and practices coalesced around the cause of saving the children in China. How did China's children become... -
Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's <i>Family</i> by Kristin Stapleton
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Historical 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... -
The Adoption Plan: China and the Remaking of Global Humanitarianism Jack Neubauer 9780231218023
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $118.19During the tumultuous years of World War II and the Cold War, new global humanitarian ideas and practices coalesced around the cause of saving the children in China. How did China's children become... -
At the Frontier of God's Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China by Ji Li
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $72.78To a lively cast of international players that shaped Manchuria during the early twentieth century, At the Frontier of God's Empire adds the remarkable story of Alfred Marie Caubriere (1876-1948). A... -
The Beggar Lama: The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap by Jinba Tenzin 9780231209342
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $118.19The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century. Born in 1930 in... -
The Beggar Lama: The Life of the Gyalrong Kuzhap by Jinba Tenzin 9780231209359
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.35The Beggar Lama is the story of the Gyalrong Kuzhap, a Tibetan Buddhist polymath and reincarnated lama who has led a remarkable life through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century. Born in 1930 in... -
The Boxers, China, and the World by Robert Bickers 9780742553941
Booksplease Price: $145.91In 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... -
The Boxers, China, and the World by Robert Bickers 9780742553958
Booksplease Price: $57.74In 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... -
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924 by Peter G. Zarrow 9780804778688
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $108.30From 1885-1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people... -
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924 by Peter G. Zarrow
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.66From 1885-1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people... -
Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922-1952 by Thomas H. Reilly
RRP: $132.23Booksplease Price: $93.99While Protestant Christians made up only a small percentage of China's overall population during the Republican period, they were heavily represented among the urban elite. Protestant influence was... -
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949 by Di Wang 9781503604834
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen... -
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949 by Di Wang 9781503605305
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teenage daughter. Six years later, Shen... -
Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China by Michelle T. King
RRP: $72.24Booksplease Price: $59.52Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son... -
The Suicide of Miss XI: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic by Bryna Goodman
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $28.65A suicide scandal in Shanghai reveals the social fault lines of democratic visions in China's troubled Republic in the early 1920s.On September 8, 1922, the body of Xi Shangzhen was found hanging in... -
Dreaming the New Woman: An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China Jennifer Bond 9780197654798
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $70.47Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth... -
Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People's Republic of China by Jeremy Brown 9780674047020
Booksplease Price: $41.00This illuminating work examines the social, cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Communist takeover of China. Instead of dwelling on elite politics and policy-making processes,... -
Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989 by Jennifer Altehenger 9780674251243
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $22.56The popularization of basic legal knowledge is an important and contested technique of state governance in China today. Its roots reach back to the early years of Chinese Communist Party rule. Legal... -
Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution by Elizabeth McGuire
RRP: $31.59Booksplease Price: $29.40Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century...