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Author : Lawrence Gardella
Publisher : Worldwide Library
ISBN 13 : 9780373621040
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book China Maze written by Lawrence Gardella and published by Worldwide Library. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Maze by Lawrence Gardella released on Mar 25, 1987 is available now for purchase.
Author : Donna Brunero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134340931
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China written by Donna Brunero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an in-depth account of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a uniquely cosmopolitan institution established in the wake of China's defeat in the Opium Wars (1842 to 43), and a central feature of the Treaty Port system. The British-dominated service was headed by the famous Robert Hart who founded a far-reaching customs administration that also encompassed other responsibilities such as marine and harbour maintenance, quarantine, anti-piracy patrols and postal services. This institution sat at a crucial juncture between Chinese and foreign interests, and was intimately linked to British interests and fortunes in the Far East. Following the establishment of the Republic in 1911 there were grave misgivings as to whether the foreign element of the Service would survive. Yet the Service grew in influence and strength, ensuring the foreign inspectorate a continued role in China's affairs. Delivering an overview of the Service, its bureaucracy, fiscal responsibilities and life for foreigners in its employ, focusing especially on the later years of the Service, Donna Brunero draws on the experiences of the foreign administration of the Service as it attempted to negotiate between Chinese and foreign expectations and interests.
Author : Robert Hans van Gulik
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486235025
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders written by Robert Hans van Gulik and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Haunted Monastery', Judge Dee and his wives seek refuge from a violent mountain storm and are plunged into a bizarre series of interrelated crimes. Three women have been murdered in the monastery; Dee has seen something impossible, perhaps supernatural, and inexplicable events flash forth in the dark tangle of corridors and the Taoist Hell - a hall filled with statuary showing realistically the torments of Hell.
Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510527
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Breaking with the Past written by Hans van de Ven and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chinese coast. It funded and oversaw the Translator's College, which trained Chinese diplomats while its staff translated Chinese classics, novels, and poetry and wrote important studies on the Chinese economy, its financial system, its trade, its history, and its government. It organized contributions to international exhibitions, developed its own shadow diplomacy, pioneered China's modern postal system, and even maintained its own armed force. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency became deeply involved in the management of China's international loans and domestic bond issues. In other words, the Customs Service was pivotal to China's post-Taiping integration into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance. If the Customs Service introduced the modern governance of trade to China, it also made Chinese legible to foreign audiences. Following the activities of the Inspectors General, who were virtual autocrats within the service and communicated regularly with senior Chinese officials and foreign diplomats, this history tracks the Customs Service as it transformed China and its relationship to the world. The Customs Service often kept China together when little else did. This book reveals the role of the agency in influencing the outcomes of the Sino-French War, the Boxer Rebellion, and the 1911 Revolution, as well as the rise of the Nationalists in the 1920s, and concludes with the Customs Service purges of the early 1950s, when the relentless logic of revolution dismantled the agency for good.
Author : Jiu Ling
Publisher : Global Citizen EpubVerlag
ISBN 13 : 3956940040
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (569 download)
Download or read book 50 Shades of China written by Jiu Ling and published by Global Citizen EpubVerlag. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Shades of China This bundle features the two titles CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY and CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY and includes a bundle-exclusive additional chapter. Combine the BEST and the MOST to discover Chinese etiquette in all its 50 Shades! CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette This is Cultureshocking News: China is the BEST behaved country in the world. How is it possible? Why is it BEST? And how we gonna deal with that? The intercultural encounter with China is a challenge. Prime your pump in your business, travel, study or politics mission. This book is for the noob all the way to the expert, offering enlightening insight on Chinese etiquette ("The China Sparkle", "China: A Maze")hands-on examples ("The story of the wedding couple's gift", "The story of the couple who got drunk")and expert solutions ("Pro Mode", "Pro Mode 2") Learn why it's best to know that you don't know... and still go pro. Boost your Three T's as in Talks, Trust & Timing with a focus chapter on communication. This guide to Chinese etiquette gives you all the essentials from a fresh and entertaining perspective. Check out the preview for more! (The preview of the stand-alone version offers an even closer glimpse of the content; also available in this store) CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette A comedy complement to the unconventional CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY, this guide to Chinese etiquette goes pop and punk with stereotypes, images and the fear of using them both. It offers you concrete scenarios in colorful anecdotes. Check out the preview for more! (The preview of the stand-alone version offers an even closer glimpse of the content; also available in this store) Other titles by Jiu Ling @ GooglePlay CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRYCHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY
Author : Susan Brownell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226076461
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Training the Body for China written by Susan Brownell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competing in the 1986 National College Games of the People's Republic of China, Susan Brownell earned both a gold medal in the heptathlon and fame throughout China as "the American girl who won glory for Beijing University." Now an anthropologist, Brownell draws on her direct experience of Chinese athletics in this fascinating look at the culture of sports and the body in China. Training the Body for China is the first book on Chinese sports based on extended fieldwork by a Westerner. Brownell introduces the notion of "body culture" to analyze Olympic sports as one element in a whole set of Chinese body practices: the "old people's disco dancing" craze, the new popularity of bodybuilding (following reluctant official acceptance of the bikini), mass calisthenics, martial arts, military discipline, and more. Translating official and dissident materials into English for the first time and drawing on performance theory and histories of the body, Brownell uses the culture of the body as a focal point to explore the tensions between local and global organizations, the traditional and the modern, men and women. Her intimate knowledge of Chinese social and cultural life and her wide range of historic examples make Training the Body for China a unique illustration of how gender, the body, and the nation are interlinked in Chinese culture.
Author : Isidore Cyril Cannon
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622099610
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Public Success, Private Sorrow written by Isidore Cyril Cannon and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an Englishman who lived through the last years of the Qing dynasty, was trapped in the British Legation during the Boxer uprising and went on to occupy a number of senior positions in the Imperial Customs as Commissioner of Customs in various ports, Shanghai Postmaster and first Director of the important Customs College.
Author : Gulbahar Haitiwaji
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1644211491
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)
Download or read book How I Survived a Chinese "Reeducation" Camp written by Gulbahar Haitiwaji and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first memoir about the "reeducation" camps by a Uyghur woman. “I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.” — Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang region of China to “reeducation camps.” The brutal repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide, and reported widely in media around the world. The Xinjiang Papers, revealed by the New York Times in 2019, expose the brutal repression of the Uyghur ethnicity by means of forced mass detention—the biggest since the time of Mao. Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman to write a memoir about the 'reeducation' camps. For three years Haitiwaji endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, and nights under blinding neon light in her prison cell. These camps are to China what the Gulags were to the USSR. The Chinese government denies that they are concentration camps, seeking to legitimize their existence in the name of the “total fight against Islamic terrorism, infiltration and separatism,” and calls them “schools.” But none of this is true. Gulbahar only escaped thanks to the relentless efforts of her daughter. Her courageous memoir is a terrifying portrait of the atrocities she endured in the Chinese gulag and how the treatment of the Uyghurs at the hands of the Chinese government is just the latest example of their oppression of independent minorities within Chinese borders. The Xinjiang region where the Uyghurs live is where the Chinese government wishes there to be a new “silk route,” connecting Asia to Europe, considered to be the most important political project of president Xi Jinping.
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Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book China written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Kirchberger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662471272
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Assessing China's Naval Power written by Sarah Kirchberger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the rise of China’s naval power and its possible strategic consequences from a wide variety of perspectives – technological, economic, and geostrategic – while employing a historical-comparative approach throughout. Since naval development requires huge financial resources and mostly takes place within the context of transnational industrial partnerships, this study also consciously adopts an industry perspective. The systemic problems involved in warship production and the associated material, financial, technological, and political requirements currently remain overlooked aspects in the case of China. Drawing on first-hand working experience in the naval shipbuilding industry, the author provides transparent criteria for the evaluation of different naval technologies’ strategic value, which other researchers can draw upon as a basis for further research in such diverse fields as International Security Studies, Naval Warfare Studies, Chinese Studies, and International Relations.
Author : Catherine Ladds
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611822X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Empire careers written by Catherine Ladds and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service between 1854 and1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. In doing so it highlights the vast range of people – British and non-British, elite and non-elite – for whom the empire world spoke of opportunity. Empire careers considers the professional triumphs and tribulations of the foreign staff, their social activities, their private and family lives, and how all of these factors were influenced by the changing political context in China and abroad. Contrary to the common assumption that China was merely an ‘outpost’ of empire, exploration of the Customs’ cosmopolitan personnel encourages us to see China as a place where multiple imperial trajectories converged, overlapped and competed. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of imperial history and the political history of modern China.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The China Weekly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chihyun Chang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113498667X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little, 1943–54 written by Chihyun Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lester Knox Little kept a detailed journal of his time in China and Taiwan. Covering the years 1943 to 1954 it provides important new insights about some of the most dramatic episodes in China’s mid-twentieth century history: Sino-Japanese military and economic competition, China’s domestic political struggle between the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and the Chinese Communist Party, and the post-war/Cold War balance of power in Southeast and East Asia. It also contains rich first-hand materials for understanding conditions in Chongqing and post-war Shanghai, the last years of the Republic of China on the Chinese mainland and its early years in Taiwan, and a new inner history of his beloved Chinese Maritime Customs Service. Little’s account, with his insightful comments and explicit descriptions, provides us with a continuous record from the viewpoint of a capable American citizen in Chinese employ who felt responsible for his Chinese and foreign colleagues and for the modernisation of ‘Free China’, as well as allowing a unique insight into the heart of government during a time of intense social and political change. In addition to the original texts, this edition includes extensive explanatory notes providing detailed contextual information regarding the people and places mentioned.
Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119609
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Britain in China written by Robert Bickers and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.
Author : Julia Kirch Kirkegaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351849883
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Wind Power in China written by Julia Kirch Kirkegaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst China’s growing economy is widely regarded as being responsible for severe environmental degradation and a high reliance on energy from fossil fuels, China is emerging as a potential leader in new green energy technologies. Outlining the extraordinary growth in China’s wind power capacity since 2005, this book explores the deliberate creation of a whole industry and the strategy of transitioning the power sector to renewable energy by accelerated experimentation and through literally pushing the emerging wind power sector to its limits. Investigating how wind power may not always be considered as sustainable in a wider Chinese developmental context, the book traces the struggle China has had in getting this high technology sector to qualify as truly Chinese scientific development, whilst often being opaquely at the mercy of foreign expertise, technology, and certification. The book furthermore exposes the surprising nuances, dynamics, and potency of unexpected players in Chinese wind power marketisation. Complex interplays are revealed between wind turbine control systems, algorithms in critical software technology, relationships between suppliers, wind farm developers, financiers, the electrical grid itself, the coal lobby, the broader Chinese state, and much more. The book has important implications far beyond wind power and contemporary China studies, highlighting the much wider story of China’s fragmented and experimental style of innovating, upgrading, and greening.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book North China Hong-list written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
