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• Publisher : Ecco
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 June 2008

Clear and engaging, this is the definitive history of China, one of the most important political, economic, and cultural players in the modern world. 8-page color photo insert.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 46,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 February 2008

China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 44,5 Mb
• Release Date : 21 May 2024

Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise A Sociology of Modern China wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society, all the while avoiding clichés and

• Publisher : W. W. Norton
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 May 1999

This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts with pieces reflecting everyday

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 2019

Amid early twentieth-century China’s epochal shifts, a vital and prolific commercial publishing industry emerged. Recruiting late Qing literati, foreign-trained academics, and recent graduates of the modernized school system to

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 25,7 Mb
• Release Date : 21 August 2013

The past hundred years in China have seen almost continuous transformation and upheaval. From Confucianist monarchy to warlordism, from fanatically doctrinaire socialist tyranny to almost doctrineless social-capitalism, China has experienced

• Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
• File Size : 41,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 1992

This book is a study of a topic that is both extremely important and highly sensitive: how the Chinese have viewed other ethnic groups across time. The issue of racial

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 42,9 Mb
• Release Date : 15 March 2011

Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 20,7 Mb
• Release Date : 21 May 2024

This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese historiography on modern China. It examines the major master narratives and modes of narration in representing the events and overarching themes in

• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• File Size : 55,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 March 2006

Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China is not simply a survey of sixteenth-century images, but rather, a thorough and thoughtful examination of visual culture in China's Ming Dynasty, one