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“paul jakov smith”

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  • State Power in China, 900-1325

    Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Paul Jakov Smith ...
    This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

    by Frank Dikötter ...
    A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao's Great Famine.“The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Chinese Civilization

    A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed

    by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    This updated version of a fantastic account of Chinese culture and civilization provides analysis of notable historical documents, social records, and laws.Setting the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses, the newly expanded edition of Chinese Civilization includes coverage of personal documents, social records, laws, and previously ignored reports.With insight to the ... Read more

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  • China Under The Empress Dowager: Being The History of The Life And Times of Tzŭ Hsi

    by J. O. P. Bland and Sir E. Backhouse ...
    China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzŭ Hsi by J. O. P. Bland and Sir E. Backhouse offers a comprehensive and detailed account of one of the most influential figures in late Qing Dynasty China. Published in 1911, this historical work provides an in-depth look at the life and reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, a key player in China's political and social ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives of the Family

    Stories of Fate and Circumstance

    by Denise Chong ...
    International bestselling author of The Concubine's Children, Denise Chong returns to the subject of her most beloved book, the lives and times of Canada's early Chinese families.In 2011, Denise Chong set out to collect the history of the earliest Chinese settlers in and around Ottawa, who made their homes far from any major Chinatown. Many would open cafes, establishments that once dotted the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Egg on Mao

    The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship

    by Denise Chong ...
    Denise Chong, the beloved author of The Concubine’s Children, tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this day.Despite his family’s impeccable Communist roots, Lu Decheng, a small town bus mechanic, grew up intuiting all that was wrong with Mao’s China. As a young man he believes truth ... Read more

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  • China’s Crony Capitalism

    The Dynamics of Regime Decay

    by Minxin Pei ...
    When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” More than three decades later, China’s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people’s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing ... Read more

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  • Mountain of Fame

    Portraits in Chinese History

    by John E. Wills ...
    Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, ... Read more

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  • Ch'ing-Tsing Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion in China

    by Charles Horne ...
    Charles Horne wrote this essay about the Nestorian Tablet, a 10 foot tall medieval Christian relic in China that shows Christianity flourished in medieval China. Carven dragons and a cross adorn its summit, and its main shaft is completely covered with some two thousand Chinese characters. It stands now in the Peilin or "Forest of Tablets" in Sian-fu, this Peilin being a great hall specially ... Read more

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  • The Religion of Falun Gong

    by Benjamin Penny ...
    In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights activists and is regularly discussed in dealings between the Chinese government and its Western counterparts. But while much has been written on Falun ... Read more

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  • Confucianism and Modern China

    by Reginald Fleming Johnston ...
    In these lectures Johnston endeavours to justify the faith that is in him and to explain the grounds on which he bases his belief that Confucianism is still a living force among the Chinese people and has a message of great value for the China of the present and future and provide and answer to the question 'What is Confucianism?'If we wish to form an adequate idea of Confucianism we must make an ... Read more

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  • Scattered Sand

    The Story of China's Rural Migrants

    by Hsiao-Hung Pai, Gregor Benton ...
    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 workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance—and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.For two years, the ... Read more

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