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  • Recovering Buddhism in Modern China

    Edición de Jan Kiely, J. Brooks Jessup ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, creative role of religion in postimperial China. It shows how urban Buddhist elites jockeyed for cultural dominance in the early Republican era, how Buddhist intellectuals reckoned with science, and how Buddhist media contributed to modern print cultures. It recognizes the political importance of sacred Buddhist relics ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

    China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

    de Stephen R. Platt ...
    A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Manchu Decadence

    de Edmund Backhouse ...
    In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China's last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi. The man was Sir Edmund Backhouse, and his controversial memoirs, Décadence Mandchoue, were published for the first time by Earnshaw Books in 2011. This edition, renamed Manchu Decadence, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Stilwell and the American Experience in China

    1911-1945

    de Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American.General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Barbara W. Tuchman’s groundbreaking narrative follows Stilwell from the time he arrived in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • As China Goes, So Goes the World

    How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

    de Karl Gerth ...
    In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China's competition for manufacturing jobs and energy resources, they have overlooked an even bigger story: China's ... Leer más

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  • Korea and Her Neighbours - A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country

    de Isabella Bird Bishop ...
    This antiquarian volume contains a vivid description of nineteenth century Korea written by Isabella Bird Bishop. This account comprises an interesting and insightful narrative of travel, with an account of the vicissitudes and contemporary state of society in the country. This text is as much of an exploration of Victorian mindsets as it is an exploration of foreign lands, and will be of ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dragon and Kangaroo

    Australia and China's Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day

    de Robert Macklin ...
    The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right through to the present day, with Chinese activities ranging from being the main customer for our iron ore, to ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942

    de Daniel Ford ...
    Early in the Second World War, in the skies over Rangoon, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the Japanese Army Air Force, winning immortality as the "Flying Tigers." Arguably America's most famous combat unit, they were hired to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month, plus $500 for each Japanese plane shot down--fantastic money in 1941, when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Writing on the Wall

    Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy

    de Will Hutton ...
    Evaluating China’s economic and military presence in the twenty first century, critically acclaimed author of The World We’re In Will Hutton discusses why it is crucial for the United States to embrace the powerful country as a partner or face it as an enemy.In this provocative and stimulating book, critically acclaimed author Will Hutton warns that China is running up against a set of daunting ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Dragon Rampant

    de Robin Hyde ...
    Follow this distinguished author down the rabbit hole as she discovers the barbaric realities of the Japanese occupation of China in the late 1930s.  A war that would eventually merge with World War Two is painted with the lyrical prose that only Robin Hyde could deliver. Hyde is a lone female journalist desperately evading the Japanese censors to send her accounts to Woman To-Day. She was the ... Leer más

    $4.08 USD

  • An Uprising on a Voyage in the Coolie Trade. Illustrated.

    de Edgar Holden ...
    The tale of a voyage from Macao to Havana of a shipment of Mutinous Chinese Coolies. Written at a time (1864) when the Chinese were being considered as replacements for the soon to be freed American Slaves. ... Leer más

    $1.49 USD

  • China's Ascent

    Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics

    Edición de Robert S. Ross, Zhu Feng ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China's increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China's rise, including its economic might and the continuing modernization of its military. This book offers multiple analytical perspectives—constructivist, liberal, neorealist—on the significance of the many dimensions of China's regional ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD