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Author : Thomas Wright Blakiston
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Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Five months on the Yang-Tsze written by Thomas Wright Blakiston and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas W. Blakiston
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ISBN 13 : 9783337988777
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Five Months on the Yang-Tsze, with a Narrative of the Exploration written by Thomas W. Blakiston and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wright Blakiston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Five Months on the Yang-Tsze; with a Narrative of the Exploration of Its Upper Waters, and Notices of the Present Rebellions in China written by Thomas Wright Blakiston and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas W. Blakiston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375016131
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Five Months on the Yang-Tsze written by Thomas W. Blakiston and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Author : Thomas Wright Blakiston
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781289451738
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Five Months on the Yang-Tsze written by Thomas Wright Blakiston and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Thomas Wright Blakiston
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340971267
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Five Months on the Yang-Tsze written by Thomas Wright Blakiston and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 444 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.
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Download or read book Manual of the Methodist Episcopal Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wright Blakiston
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Total Pages : 454 pages
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Author : Shih-Wen Chen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066049
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 written by Shih-Wen Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children’s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children’s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children’s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children’s literature.
Author : Arupjyoti Saikia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190990406
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Unquiet River written by Arupjyoti Saikia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-25 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do we know of this river’s rich past? Historian Arupjyoti Saikia’s biography of the Brahmaputra reimagines the layered history of Assam with the unquiet river at the centre. The book combines a range of disciplinary scholarship to unravel the geological forces as well as human endeavour which have shaped the river into what it is today. Wonderfully illuminated with archival detail and interwoven with narratives and striking connections, the book allows the reader to imagine the Brahmaputra’s course in history. This evocative and compelling book will be interesting reading for anyone trying to understand the past and the present of a river confronted by the twenty-first century’s ambitious infrastructural designs to further re-engineer the river and its landscape.
Author : Thomas Wright Blakiston
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Total Pages : 380 pages
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Author : Eric Reinders
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520931084
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies written by Eric Reinders and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression—and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-century Protestant missionary encounters with Chinese religion—are at the center of Eric Reinders's Borrowed Gods and Foreign Bodies, an enlightening look at how missionaries' religious identity, experience, and physical foreignness produced certain representations of China between 1807 and 1937. Reinders first introduces the imaginative world of Victorian missionaries and outlines their application of mind-body dualism to the dualism of self and other. He then explores Western views of the Chinese language, especially ritual language, and Chinese ritual, particularly the kow-tow. His work offers surprising and valuable insight into the visceral nature of the Victorian response to the Chinese—and, more generally, into the nineteenth-century Western representation of China.
Author : British Museum (Natural History). Library
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Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wright Blakiston
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Total Pages : 436 pages
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Author : Tobie Meyer-Fong
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804785597
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book What Remains written by Tobie Meyer-Fong and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events. Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors. Individuals, families, and communities grappled with fundamental questions of loyalty and loss as they struggled to rebuild shattered cities, bury the dead, and make sense of the horrors that they had witnessed. Driven by compelling accounts of raw emotion and deep injury, What Remains opens a window to a world described by survivors themselves. This book transforms our understanding of China's 19th century and recontextualizes suffering and loss in China during the 20th century.
Author : Derek Waller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184290
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Pundits written by Derek Waller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the public documents of the Survey of India. In the closed files of the government of British India, however, they were given their true designation as spies. As they moved northward within the Indian subcontinent, the British demanded precise frontiers and sought orderly political and economic relationships with their neighbors. They were also becoming increasingly aware of and concerned with their ignorance of the geographical, political, and military complexion of the territories beyond the mountain frontiers of the Indian empire. This was particularly true of Tibet. Though use of pundits was phased out in the 1890s in favor of purely British expeditions, they gathered an immense amount of information on the topography of the region, the customs of its inhabitants, and the nature of its government and military resources. They were able to travel to places where virtually no European count venture, and did so under conditions of extreme deprivation and great danger. They are responsible for documenting an area of over one million square miles, most of it completely unknown territory to the West. Now, thanks to Waller's efforts, their contributions to history will no longer remain forgotten.
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307957594
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
