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Author : Ronald Stanley Suleski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University written by Ronald Stanley Suleski and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul A Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537298
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book History and Popular Memory written by Paul A Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular retellings modified the original story so that what people believed took place in the past was often quite different from what actually occurred. Paul A. Cohen identifies this interplay between story and history as a worldwide phenomenon, found in countries of radically different cultural, religious, and social character. He focuses here on Serbia, Israel, China, France, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, all of which experienced severe crises in the twentieth century and, in response, appropriated age-old historical narratives that resonated with what was happening in the present to serve a unifying, restorative purpose. A central theme in the book is the distinction between popular memory and history. Although vitally important to historians, this distinction is routinely blurred in people's minds, and the historian's truth often cannot compete with the power of a compelling story from the past, even when it has been seriously distorted by myth or political manipulation. Cohen concludes by suggesting that the patterns of interaction he probes, given their near universality, may well be rooted in certain human propensities that transcend cultural difference.
Author : Mark C. Elliott
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804746847
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Manchu Way written by Mark C. Elliott and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, This book supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation.
Author : Ethan Michelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487858
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Decoupling written by Ethan Michelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how China's divorce courts have generally done less to protect abused women than to empower and enable their abusers.
Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171237
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Fairbank Remembered written by Paul A. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was best known to the public as the dean of Chinese studies in the United States. John Hersey, Hanu Reischauer, Harrison Salisbury, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., are among the more than 125 friends, students, and colleagues to contribute to this volume. Each author attempts to capture the essence of the Fairbank he or she knew. The resulting pieces are alternately incisive, affectionate, intimate, deeply affecting, and hilariously funny. Fairbank Remembered is an endearing and moving portrait of America's doyen on China.
Author : Victor Seow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826554
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Carbon Technocracy written by Victor Seow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavored to unearth Fushun’s purportedly “inexhaustible” carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. In Carbon Technocracy, Victor Seow uses the remarkable story of the Fushun colliery to chart how the fossil fuel economy emerged in tandem with the rise of the modern technocratic state. Taking coal as an essential feedstock of national wealth and power, Chinese and Japanese bureaucrats, engineers, and industrialists deployed new technologies like open-pit mining and hydraulic stowage in pursuit of intensive energy extraction. But as much as these mine operators idealized the might of fossil fuel–driven machines, their extractive efforts nevertheless relied heavily on the human labor that those devices were expected to displace. Under the carbon energy regime, countless workers here and elsewhere would be subjected to invasive techniques of labor control, ever-escalating output targets, and the dangers of an increasingly exploited earth. Although Fushun is no longer the coal capital it once was, the pattern of aggressive fossil-fueled development that led to its ascent endures. As we confront a planetary crisis precipitated by our extravagant consumption of carbon, it holds urgent lessons. This is a groundbreaking exploration of how the mutual production of energy and power came to define industrial modernity and the wider world that carbon made.
Author : Arunabh Ghosh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691179476
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Making It Count written by Arunabh Ghosh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2014, titled Making it count: statistics and state-society relations in the early People's Republic of China, 1949-1959.
Author : Harvard University. Center for International Affairs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674149007
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Communist China 1955-1959 written by Harvard University. Center for International Affairs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years 1955-1959 in Communist China included striking fluctuations and successes for Mao Tse-tung's Party, and the working out of the first Five-Year Plan for economic and agricultural development. This newly integrated picture of five crucial years pioneers the use of documentation for dealing with Communist China.
Author : Ruth W. Dunnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134362218
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book New Qing Imperial History written by Ruth W. Dunnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese dynasty, but was deeply engaged in Inner Asia not only militarily, but culturally, politically and ideologically. Emphasizing the diverse range of peoples in the Qing empire, this book analyzes the importance to Chinese history of Manchu relations with Tibetan prelates, Mongolian chieftains, and the Turkic elites of Xinjiang. In offering a new appreciation of a culturally and politically complex period, the authors discuss the nature and representation of emperorship, especially under Qianlong (r. 1736-1795), and examine the role of ritual in relations with Inner Asia, including the vaunted (but overrated) tribute system. By using a specific artifact or text as a starting point for analysis in each chapter, the contributors not only include material previously unavailable in English but allow the reader an intimate knowledge of life at Chengde and its significance to the Qing period as a whole.
Author : Dong Wang
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739112083
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book China's Unequal Treaties written by Dong Wang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese and English historiographies, this is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of China's encounters with the outside world as manifested in the rhetoric surrounding the Unequal Treaties. Author Dong Wang argues that competing forces within China have narrated and renarrated the history of the treaties in an effort to consolidate national unity, international independence, and political legitimacy and authority. In the twentieth century, she shows, China's experience with these treaties helped to determine their use of international law. Of great relevance for students of contemporary China and Chinese history, as well as Chinese international law and politics, this book illuminates how various Chinese political actors have defined and redefined the past using the framework of the Unequal Treaties.
Author : John King Fairbank
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674018280
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (182 download)
Download or read book China written by John King Fairbank and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
Author : John King Fairbank
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674036654
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book China written by John King Fairbank and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-30 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674030756
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book America's China Trade in Historical Perspective written by Ernest R. May and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1986 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores commercial relations between the United States and China from the eighteenth century until 1949, fleshing out with facts the romantic and shadowy image of "the China trade." These nine chapters by specialists in the field have developed from papers they presented at a conference supported by the national Committee on American-East Asian Relations. The work begins with an Introduction by John K. Fairbank, then moves on to analysis of the old China trade up to the American Civil War, centering on traditional Chinese exports of tea and silk. A second section deals with American imports into China--cotton textiles and textile-related goods, cigarettes, kerosene. Finally, the impact of the trade on both countries is assessed and the operations of American-owned and multinational companies in China are examined. For both the United States and China, the economic importance of the trade proves to have been less than the legend might suggest.
Author : Maria Adele Carrai
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674270339
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The China Questions 2 written by Maria Adele Carrai and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US–China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of cooperation. Rejecting a new Cold War mindset, the authors call for dealing with the world’s most important bilateral relationship on its own terms.
Author : John King Fairbank
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674924383
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The United States and China written by John King Fairbank and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on China during the last twenty-five years, the author illuminates the country's traditions, customs, political structure, and economy.
Author : Ssu-yü Teng
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674120259
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book China's Response to the West written by Ssu-yü Teng and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.
Author : Sarasin Viraphol
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172071
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Tribute and Profit written by Sarasin Viraphol and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tribute and Profit illuminates the conduct and maintenance of maritime trade under Siam’s tributary relationship with imperial China, and scrutinizes the momentous role of the Chinese in Siam’s overseas trade and domestic economy. Based substantially on historical Chinese, Siamese, and European sources, Sarasin Viraphol’s reconstruction of the tributary trade pinpoints the creative subversions, calculated risks, and clever contrivances that kept the wheels of the Siamese economy turning for centuries. Eventually, tribute missions and the junk trade were supplanted by European-style maritime commerce, free trade, and open markets. Nevertheless, the influences of these bygone relations are still present in Thailand today.
