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Book Synopsis China, the UN, and Human Protection by : Rosemary Foot
Download or read book China, the UN, and Human Protection written by Rosemary Foot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) embrace of the UN, and what does its engagement mean in larger terms? This study focuses directly on Beijing's involvement in one of the most contentious areas of UN activity — human protection — contentious because the norm of human protection tips the balance away from the UN's Westphalian state-based profile, towards the provision of greater protection for the security of individuals and their individual liberties. The argument that follows shows that, as an ever-more crucial actor within the United Nations, Beijing's rhetoric and some of its practices are playing an increasingly important role in determining how this norm is articulated and interpreted. In some cases, the PRC is also influencing how these ideas of human protection are implemented. At stake in the questions this book tackles is both how we understand the PRC as a participant in shaping global order, and the future of some of the core norms which constitute that order.
Book Synopsis Across China on Foot by : Edwin John Dingle
Download or read book Across China on Foot written by Edwin John Dingle and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China on Foot written by Edwin Dingle and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Across China On Foot by : Edwin John Dingle
Download or read book Across China On Foot written by Edwin John Dingle and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an extraordinary trek through the diverse landscapes and ancient cultures of China with Edwin John Dingle in 'Across China on Foot.' In this compelling travel narrative, Dingle shares his remarkable journey, covering vast distances on foot to explore the heart of China during a time of great change. With vivid descriptions and keen observations, he takes readers through bustling cities, tranquil countryside, and remote regions, providing an intimate glimpse into the people and customs of early 20th-century China. 'Across China on Foot' is more than a travelogue; it's an immersive adventure that captures the essence of a nation in transition. Join Dingle on this literary expedition where each step reveals a new facet of China's beauty and complexity, making it an indispensable read for those seeking a firsthand account of a bygone era and an unparalleled exploration of the Middle Kingdom.
Download or read book Aching for Beauty written by Ping Wang and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the history and cultural practice of footbinding in China reveals the traditions that contributed to and surrounded its thousand-year enforcement, as well as its related literature, music, contests, and rewards.
Book Synopsis Bound Feet, Young Hands by : Laurel Bossen
Download or read book Bound Feet, Young Hands written by Laurel Bossen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands. Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.
Download or read book Aching for Beauty written by Wang Ping and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Wang Ping was nine years old, she secretly set about binding her feet with elastic bands. Footbinding had by then been outlawed in China, women’s feet “liberated,” but at that young age she desperately wanted the tiny feet her grandmother had–deformed and malodorous as they were. By first examining the root of her own girlhood desire, Wang unleashes a fascinating inquiry into a centuries-old custom. Aching for Beauty combines Wang’s unique perspective and remarkable literary gifts in an award-winning exploration of the history and culture surrounding footbinding. In setting out to demystify this reviled tradition, Wang probes an astonishing range of literary references, addresses the relationship between beauty and pain, and discusses the intense female bonds that footbinding fostered. Her comprehensive examination of the notions of hierarchy, femininity, and fetish bound up in the tradition places footbinding in its proper context in Chinese history and opens a window onto an intriguing culture.
Book Synopsis The Great Walk of China by : Graham Earnshaw
Download or read book The Great Walk of China written by Graham Earnshaw and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How long would it take to walk across the worlds most populous country?
Book Synopsis Across China on Foot by : Edwin Dingle
Download or read book Across China on Foot written by Edwin Dingle and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Across China on Foot by : Edwin John Dingle
Download or read book Across China on Foot written by Edwin John Dingle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement To travel in China is easy. To walk across China, over roads 'acknowledgedly worse than are met with in any civilised country in the two hemispheres, and having accommodation unequalled for crudeness and insanitation, is not easy. In deciding to travel in China, I determined to cross overland from the head of the Yangtze Gorges to British Burma on foot; and, although the strain nearly cost me my life, no conveyance was used in any part of my journey other than at two points described in the course of the narrative. For several days during my travels I lay at the point of death. The arduousness of constant mountaineering - for such is ordinary travel in most parts of Western China - laid the foundation of a long illness, rendering it impossible for me to continue my walking, and as a consequence I resided in the interior of China during a period of convalescence of several months duration, at the end of which I continued my cross-country tramp. Subsequently I returned into Yun-nan from Burma, lived again in Tong-ch'uan-tu and Chao-t'ong-ia, and travelled in the wilds of the surrounding country. Whilst travelling I lived on Chinese food. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Across China on Foot by : Edwin John Dingle
Download or read book Across China on Foot written by Edwin John Dingle and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Three-Inch Golden Lotus by : Feng Jicai
Download or read book The Three-Inch Golden Lotus written by Feng Jicai and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beguiling story is woven around the life of Fragrant Lotus, who has her feet bound in the supreme Golden Lotus style when she is six years old. Events in Fragrants Lotus’ life twist and unfold in a series of witty and often wicked ironies, obliterating easy distinctions between kindness and cruelty, history and fable, forgery and authentic work. The novel’s waggish narrator exists in the tension between judgement and description, wryly deflating his reader’s certainties along the way. Written in 1985, The Three-Inch Golden Lotus is a deeply affecting, thoroughly enjoyable literary revelation.
Book Synopsis ACROSS CHINA ON FOOT by : EDWIN JOHN. DINGLE
Download or read book ACROSS CHINA ON FOOT written by EDWIN JOHN. DINGLE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Footbinding by : Howard Seymour Levy
Download or read book Chinese Footbinding written by Howard Seymour Levy and published by New York : W. Rawls. This book was released on 1966 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under Red Skies written by Karoline Kan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower. Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they navigated their way in a country beset by poverty and often-violent political unrest. As the Kans move from quiet villages to crowded towns and through the urban streets of Beijing in search of a better way of life, they are forced to confront the past and break the chains of tradition, especially those forced on women. Raw and revealing, Karoline Kan offers gripping tales of her grandmother, who struggled to make a way for her family during the Great Famine; of her mother, who defied the One-Child Policy by giving birth to Karoline; of her cousin, a shoe factory worker scraping by on 6 yuan (88 cents) per hour; and of herself, as an ambitious millennial striving to find a job--and true love--during a time rife with bewildering social change. Under Red Skies is an engaging eyewitness account and Karoline's quest to understand the rapidly evolving, shifting sands of China. It is the first English-language memoir from a Chinese millennial to be published in America, and a fascinating portrait of an otherwise-hidden world, written from the perspective of those who live there.
Download or read book Bound written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND. Bound to her father's second wife and daughter after Xing Xing's father has passed away. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where the life of a woman is valued less than that of livestock. Bound to be alone and unmarried, with no parents to arrange for a suitable husband. Dubbed "Lazy One" by her stepmother, Xing Xing spends her days taking care of her half sister, Wei Ping, who cannot walk because of her foot bindings, the painful but compulsory tradition for girls who are fit to be married. Even so, Xing Xing is content, for now, to practice her gift for poetry and calligraphy, to tend to the mysterious but beautiful carp in her garden, and to dream of a life unbound by the laws of family and society. But all of this is about to change as the time for the village's annual festival draws near, and Stepmother, who has spent nearly all of the family's money, grows desperate to find a husband for Wei Ping. Xing Xing soon realizes that this greed and desperation may threaten not only her memories of the past, but also her dreams for the future. In this searing story, Donna Jo Napoli, acclaimed author of Beast and Breath,delves into the roots of the Cinderella myth and unearths a tale as powerful as it is familiar.
Download or read book China on Foot written by Edwin Dingle and published by Sheba Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Dingle's book China on Foot details his trip through Hong Kong and Shanghai, and finally into Tibet, where he would be one of the first Westerners to enter a Tibetan Monastery. There he learned certain advanced spiritual forms of yogic breathing and meditation, which later inform his spiritual practices. Later Dingle would change his name (who wouldn't?) to "Ding Le Mei," which was given to him by his spiritual guide in Tibet. This book is a recount of his trip through China in the early 1900s, and is good as a travelogue for that period: it's entertaining, has a solid amount of detail about cities and villages, contains elements of China's geography, politics, religion, native peoples, animals, and the difficulty of traveling through such unforgiving territory. Dingle falls into the category of gentleman explorers of China for whom the journey was far greater than the destination, preparation was minimal, and caution was ultimately thrown to the wind.
