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The Dragon and the Foreign Devils

Author : Harry Gelber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719414
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Harry Gelber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is the most exciting rising power in the world today. The fact that China may be the next superpower attracts endless interest from all quarters-yet China is still utterly inscrutable to most outsiders. In The Dragon and the Foreign Devils, Harry Gelber illuminates China's present by looking at the broad sweep of foreign relations in its past. From the incursions by the steppe horsemen and the Mongol conquests to the first arrival of European travelers, foreign fascination with China has followed certain patterns: curiosity, admiration, and greed for trade or territory. But, as China gradually rises from the turbulence in the wake of Mao Zedong to the economic growth and political stability of the twenty-first century, the dynamic between East and West has slowly shifted. Essential reading for anyone interested in China and its evolving relations with foreigners, The Dragon and the Foreign Devils breaks down the walls between East and West and shines a light on the recurring cycles of Chinese history.

The Dragon and the Foreign Devils

Author : Harry G. Gelber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802715915
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Harry G. Gelber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the present and future of China from the perspective of its past foreign relations, ranging from the invasions of the steppe horsemen and Mongol conquests to its fluid modern-day dynamic with the East and rapid economic growth.

The Dragon and the Foreign Devils

Author : Johan Gunnar Andersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Johan Gunnar Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Partly a characterization of the Chinese temperament and culture, partly an outline of China's difficult task in fitting herself to the industrial life of western machinery."--Preface.

The Dragon and the Foreign Devils

Author : Johan Gunnar Andersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Johan Gunnar Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Partly a characterization of the Chinese temperament and culture, partly an outline of China's difficult task in fitting herself to the industrial life of western machinery."--Preface.

The Dragon and the Foreign Devils

Author : Harry Gregor Gelber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Harry Gregor Gelber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is the most exciting rising power in the world today. The explosive growth of its economy and the possibility that it might soon become the next superpower, dominant in East Asia and influential in every part of the world, has attracted universal interest, admiration and envy. Most histories of China approach that huge and populous country through the story of its dynasties, its struggle to defend its borders and its internal politics. Harry Gelber's The Dragon and the Foreign Devils is the first history for the general reader to tell the story of China from the outside as well as from the inside. It explores the relationships involved, from the incursions into China of steppe horsemen around 200 BC to the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century AD, from the first arrival of European travellers to China's decline, after 1911, into an object of the policies of the major powers, and on to the Revolution on 1949 and the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989. It explains what moved these minor and major foreign societies and how concerns with China fitted into their own major interests and views of the world. And it outlines the recurring cycles of Chinese history, from turmoil and disorder to strong central government and back to turmoil. Informative text boxes elaborate on particular people, topics or key moments to complement the main narrative. These mini-essays deal with a wide range of topics from 'Confucius' and 'Concubines' to 'Tea' and 'Silk', and from the debilitating influence of the last nineteenth-century empress, 'Cixi' through to 'Mao's Sexual Habits'.

The Scramble for China

Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141983507
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Scramble for China written by Robert Bickers and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly enough to maintain their independence? This important and compelling book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West by illuminating a dramatic, colourful and sometimes shocking period of the country's history.

Ghost Ship

Author : Andrew Cartmel
Publisher : TELOS
ISBN 13 : 9781903889336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Andrew Cartmel and published by TELOS. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China and English

Author : Joseph Lo Bianco
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847693865
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book China and English written by Joseph Lo Bianco and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said there are more Chinese learning English than there are Americans. We all have a sense that the first decades of the third millennium, including the effects of the global financial recession, signal dramatic changes to the shape of the world to come. China’s emergence as a superpower is one of the few certainties in this rapidly changing world. What is less well realised is the critical role which China’s decisions about English will play in the world’s communication profile. This unique volume explores this question looking at the debates on identity, cultural values and communication practices. Taking a wide-ranging view and uniquely blending both Chinese and Western perspectives the volume explores the critically important cultural consequences of mass English learning in today’s world.

ThirdWay

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.

Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom

Author : Carl Crow
Publisher : Earnshaw Books
ISBN 13 : 9889963337
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (899 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom written by Carl Crow and published by Earnshaw Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1940, this is Carl Crow’s entertaining autobiography, the story of his more than 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century. This book is a tale of East meets West set in the wild and heady days of inter-war China. It is an account of how two cultures clashed, bickering over business deals and social norms as they tried to find a way to live with each other.

China and English

Author : Joseph Lo Bianco
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847692281
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book China and English written by Joseph Lo Bianco and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has become the world's largest English learning society, and China's decisions in relation to English will directly affect its fortunes into the future. This unique volume explores the prospects of English in relation to the debates on identity and cultural values that mass English teaching in China have stimulated.

Foreign Devil

Author : Richard Hughes
Publisher : 1500 Books LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Devil written by Richard Hughes and published by 1500 Books LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 30 years Hughes wrote newspaper stories for The Sunday Times and the Economist from and about Southeast Asia. Followed by readers around the globe, his reports were often harbingers of momentous events to come. In addition Hughes teases the reader with was or wasn't he-a spy, a double-agent and, most important, for whom? This is a rollicking read by a seasoned veteran who keeps his cards close and his enemies closer.

Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture

Author : Anthony Bak Buccitelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440840636
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture written by Anthony Bak Buccitelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented study, leading scholars and emerging voices from around the world consider how race and ethnicity continue to shape our everyday lives, even as digital technology seems to promise a release from our "real" social identities. How do people use the new expressive features of digital technologies to experience, represent, discuss, and debate racial and ethnic identity? How have digital technologies or digital spaces become racialized? How have the existing vernacular traditions, or folklore, surrounding identity been reshaped in digital spaces? And how have new traditions emerged? This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores the role of traditional culture in the evolving expressions, practices, and images of race and ethnicity in the digital age. The work examines cultural forms in exclusively digital environments as well as in the hybrid environments created by mobile technologies, where real life becomes overlaid with digital content. Insights from academics across disciplines—including anthropology, communications, folkloristics, art, and sociology—consider the interplay between race/ethnicity, everyday vernacular culture, and digital technologies. Six sections explore traditional cultural affordances of technology, folklore and digital applications, visual cultures of race and ethnicity, racism and exclusion online, political activism and race, and concluding observations. The book covers technologies such as vlogs, video games, digital photography, messaging applications, social media sites, and the Internet.

Bulletin

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Open Society and its Enemies in East Asia

Author : Gregory G. C. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317811674
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Open Society and its Enemies in East Asia written by Gregory G. C. Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas contained in Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies—one of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth century—are relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies. Even though Popper wrote his tract to provide an explanation for both the rise and objectionable nature of totalitarian regimes in Europe in the twentieth century, many of the arguments that he advanced in this European context also explain the social, political and economic relationships that are seen in modern South Eastern Asian economies. The narrative of this book is driven by a research agenda that is inter-disciplinary in nature, since to make the link between the Popperian framework and East Asian socio-economic relationships the contributing authors needed to draw upon research fields as far apart as political philosophy and East-Asian studies. With one or two exceptions, however, nearly all of the contributing authors have a background in economics, and this background is reflected in the way that they have sought to tackle the research question. This book is, in short, an inter-disciplinary exercise undertaken from an economics perspective, and hence it may best be described as an exercise in political economy rather than pure analytical economics. The novelty of juxtaposing Popperian ideas with a discussion of social, political and economic development in South East Asia makes this narrative of interest to both political philosophers and specialists in South East Asian economies. The key insight drawn from the analysis is that although Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies was a product of a European time and place, it is also relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies.

In the Dragon's Wake

Author : Paul E. Selinger
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469107678
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book In the Dragon's Wake written by Paul E. Selinger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final years of the 19th century violence and turmoil led to the collapse of Chinas Qing Dynasty. Valeda Duval, a beautiful and independent French colonialist, and Kyung-su. Lee, a Korean minister stationed in Peking, fall in love after he saves her life during the bloody Boxer Rebellion. Breaking racial and societal taboos on both sides they remain together and have a son. Throughout Asia, European and Japanese imperialism reaches its height. Japan occupies Korea, brutally snuffing out its independence while advancing into Manchuria as its first step in conquering all of China. Minister Lee, suddenly a man without a country, must go into exile. In the Dragons Wake is the story of how he transforms himself from a traditional aristocrat, a Confucian-trained royalist and servant of his king, into a radical leader of the anti-Japanese resistance and secret arms buyer for the liberation movement. All the while Lee raises his mixed-race son to be a patriot and future leader of the resistance. But conflict threatens his family: Valeda doesnt want her son to be a fighter. Around them the dynasty collapses. Sun Yat-sen tries to replace it with a republic, but the northern warlords want a new empire. Anarchy cripples China as the boy grows to manhood in the midst of this chaos and bloodshed. His story is told in book two.

Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai

Author : Lisa Bernstein
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438479255
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai written by Lisa Bernstein and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai provides international and interdisciplinary perspectives on representations of Shanghai, a contested location within political discourse and cultural imagination. Shanghai's complex history as a quasi-colonial city, and its contradictory identity as the birthplace of Communist China and the epitome of twenty-first-century capitalism, make it an especially fascinating subject. Contributors examine representations of Shanghai in film, art, literature, memoir, theater, and mass media from the past one hundred years. They address the ways in which texts from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have rewritten past and present Shanghai to reflect our own wishes and anguishes, show how the city resists static interpretations, and challenge notions of authentic representation and identity. By revealing and questioning persistent stereotypes and constructed versions of East and West, the essays offer diverse views so as to create a genuine exchange with contemporary global audiences. A wide variety of texts are discussed, including the films Street Angel (1937) and The White Countess (2005), and the novels The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1996) and Shanghai Baby (1999).