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Author : Robert William Swallow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Sidelights on Peking Life written by Robert William Swallow and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Swallow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Sidelights on Peking Life written by Robert W. Swallow and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Macgowan
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Sidelights on Chinese Life written by J. Macgowan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of Chinese life and customs in the early twentieth century was written by the Reverend Macgowan who was a missionary. He covers several subjects including the Chinese people, Chinese Customs, Religious life, Schooling, and so on. The text is detailed and contains much information.
Author : Susan Naquin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520923454
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Peking written by Susan Naquin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Author : Haiyin Lin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789622014527
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Memories of Peking written by Haiyin Lin and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In five stories with a continuing cast of characters and many of the qualities of a novel, Memories of Peking: South Side Stories portrays Peking of the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a little girl. These stories differ greatly from many other books on life in China -- whether about past times or the present day -- in that they neither dwell on politics nor try to propound beliefs of any kind. The stories are simple, direct, and personal. The reader experiences life in Peking through the eyes and innocent mind of the child. The author is well known for her perception and humor. She handles with great sensitivity and lyricism the sense of loss and bewilderment that arouses the child's awareness of the uncertainties of human relationships, even of life itself, and which finally catapults her away from childhood joys into the sorrows of the adult world.
Author : Greg King
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806535210
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Duchess Of Windsor written by Greg King and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sympathetic and believable portrait” of the American woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the throne, with photos included (Christian Science Monitor). A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. It was the love story of the century—the king and the commoner. In December 1936, King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry “the woman I love,” Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American who quickly became one of the twentieth century's most famous personalities, a figure of intrigue and mystery, both admired and reviled. Wrongly blamed for the abdication crisis, Wallis suffered hostility from the Royal Family and much of the world. Yet interest in her story has remained constant, resulting in a small library of biographies that convey a thinly veiled animosity toward their subject. The truth, however, is infinitely more fascinating than the shallow, pathetic portrait that has often been painted. Using previously untapped sources, acclaimed biographer Greg King presents a complete and, for the first time, sympathetic portrait of the Duchess that sifts the decades of rumor and accusation to reveal the woman behind the legend. From her birth in Pennsylvania during the Gilded Age to her death in Paris in 1986, King takes the reader through a world of privilege, palaces, high society, and love with the accompaniment of hatreds, feuds, conspiracies, and lies. The cast of characters is vast: politicians and presidents, dictators and socialites. Twenty-four pages of photographs reveal the life of the Duchess in all its incomparable glamour and romance. “A wide, absurd cast of characters—led by the British royal family . . . Wallis’ lavish decorati
Author : Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Monograph Series written by Statens etnografiska museum (Sweden) and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Millard's Review of the Far East written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 34 includes "Special tariff conference issue" Nov. 6, 1925.
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Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scottish Geographical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Luzac & Co.'s Oriental List written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Asiatic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ma Zhao
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175593
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 written by Ma Zhao and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1937 to 1949, Beijing was in a state of crisis. The combined forces of Japanese occupation, civil war, runaway inflation, and reformist campaigns and revolutionary efforts wreaked havoc on the city’s economy, upset the political order, and threatened the social and moral fabric as well. Women, especially lower-class women living in Beijing’s tenement neighborhoods, were among those most affected by these upheavals. Delving into testimonies from criminal case files, Zhao Ma explores intimate accounts of lower-class women’s struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife. By uncovering the set of everyday tactics that women devised and utilized in their personal efforts to cope with predatory policies and crushing poverty, this book reveals an urban underworld that was built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks. Where necessary, women relied on customary practices, hierarchical patterns of household authority, illegitimate relationships, and criminal entrepreneurship to get by. Women’s survival tactics, embedded in and reproduced by their everyday experience, opened possibilities for them to modify the male-dominated city and, more importantly, allowed women to subtly deflect, subvert, and “escape without leaving” powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics during and beyond wartime Beijing.
Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779123
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Old Beijing written by Michael Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
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Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Asian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
Author : Lillian M. Li
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230605273
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Beijing written by Lillian M. Li and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of Beijing from its earliest days to the twenty-first century, discussing how economic growth as well as preparations for the 2008 Olympics have affected the city.
Author : Richard Belsky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174252
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Localities at the Center written by Richard Belsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " A visitor to Beijing in 1900, Chinese or foreign, would have been struck by the great number of native-place lodges serving the needs of scholars and officials from the provinces. What were these native-place lodges? How did they develop over time? How did they fit into and shape Beijing’s urban ecology? How did they further native-place ties? In answering these questions, the author considers how native-place ties functioned as channels of communication between China’s provinces and the political center; how sojourners to the capital used native-place ties to create solidarity within their communities of fellow provincials and within the class of scholar-officials as a whole; how the state co-opted these ties as a means of maintaining order within the city and controlling the imperial bureaucracy; how native-place ties transformed the urban landscape and social structure of the city; and how these functions were refashioned in the decades of political innovation that closed the Qing period. Native-place lodges are often cited as an example of the particularistic ties that characterized traditional China and worked against the emergence of a modern state based on loyalty to the nation. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native-place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century. "
Author : Lao She
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824845145
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Rickshaw written by Lao She and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
