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  • China Fights for the World

    de J. Gunnar Andersson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book, first published in 1939, is an account of J. Gunnar Andersson’s travels in China from 1914 to 1927 while he was serving as a mining advisor to the Chinese government. Andersson discusses China’s political and economic situation at the time, including the fight for unity, and the future of the region. This book will be of interest to students of history and Asian Studies. ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • Midnight in Peking

    The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China

    de Paul French ...
    January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock is ticking down on all of it.In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreigners are jumpy. Japanese troops are poised to attack, and word has it the Chinese government is about to cut a deal with Tokyo, leaving Peking to its fate. Fear ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Destined For War

    Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

    de Graham Allison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER | NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR.From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the geopolitical conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and China—and how it might be prevented.China and the United States are heading toward a war neither wants. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap: when a rising power ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    de Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Age of Openness

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China’s modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness. Frank Dikötter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with the world, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Puer Tea

    Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic

    de Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi

    Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

    de Jonathan D. Spence ...
    A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • China as a Sea Power, 1127–1368

    A Preliminary Survey of the Maritime Expansion and Naval Exploits of the Chinese People During the Southern Song and Yuan Periods

    de Jung-pang Lo ...
    Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties), coastal states took the initiative at a time when China was divided, maritime trade and exploration subsequently peaked when China was strong and unified, and declined as Chinese power ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The History of China

    de Kenneth Pletcher ...
    Series series Understanding China
    China’s unmatched ability to reinvent itself over the centuries is perhaps its most timeless asset. Even in the wake of violent civil wars, Mongol invaders, and turbulent governance, China has endured and, in recent times, achieved a level of prosperity rivaled by few other countries in the world. The events that transformed China from an imperial nation to a superpower are chronicled in this ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Imperial Women

    de Edwin Ng / Fu Chunjiang, Victor Petersen / Li En, Lim SK ...
    Series series History Express
    This book depicts the stories of the outstanding, outrageous, glorious and the tragic Empresses and concubines of the Chinese palace. ... Leer más

    $4.50 USD

  • Women in Imperial China

    de Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This accessible text offers a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the end of the Qing dynasty in the early twentieth century. Rather than providing an exhaustive chronicle of this vast subject, Bret Hinsch pinpoints the themes that characterized distinct periods in Chinese women’s history and delves into the perception of female identity in each era. ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market

    Edición de Merle Goldman, Edward Gu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese intellectual activity became more wide-ranging, more independent, more professionalized and more commercially ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD