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  • Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History

    A Research Guide

    Edición de Thomas David DuBois, Jan Kiely ...
    Series series The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society Series
    This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the future. It introduces the previous generations of scholars who ventured out of the archive to conduct local investigations in Chinese cities, villages, farms and temples. It goes on to present the techniques of historical fieldwork, providing guidance on how to ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Compelling Ideal

    Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956

    de Jan Kiely ...
    In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China’s prison system, Kiely’s thought-provoking work ... 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

  • 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

  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    de Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Phoenix Years

    Art, resistance and the making of modern China

    de Madeleine O'Dea ...
    'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/ history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the one thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years.' Tom Keneally, author of AustraliansThe Phoenix Years tells the riveting story ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • 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

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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