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Author : Robert Fortune
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese written by Robert Fortune and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fortune
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Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese written by Robert Fortune and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fortune
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108045545
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea written by Robert Fortune and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1857, this is Robert Fortune's account of his fascinating and bizarre 1853-6 expedition to China.
Author : Robert Fortune
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108045544
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (455 download)
Download or read book A Residence among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea written by Robert Fortune and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China was still largely alien territory for westerners in the mid-nineteenth century. In this book, first published in 1857, Robert Fortune (1813-1880) describes his third visit there, but despite his relative familiarity with the country, his account is full of strange and bizarre sights and happenings. Beginning in Shanghai, where he was sent to collect tea samples for the East India Company, he describes an earthquake and the myths of its aftermath, along with his fears of becoming embroiled in the Taiping Rebellion. A keen botanist and entomologist in his own right, he also collected insects (a pastime that led him to become a figure of great hilarity among the locals) and explored the flora of the north. His account of his three-year expedition offers a glimpse of the Chinese language and culture through the lens of Victorian expectations, and is a fascinating resource for students and the general reader.
Author : David Abeel
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Journal of a Residence in China written by David Abeel and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fortune
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Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese written by Robert Fortune and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow CUNYNGHAME
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Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China, a residence in Hong Kong, and visits to other islands in the Chinese seas. With plates written by Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow CUNYNGHAME and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fortune
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Total Pages : 518 pages
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Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea written by Robert Fortune and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fortune
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333874469
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (744 download)
Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese written by Robert Fortune and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Residence Among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea; Being a Narrative of Scenes and Adventures During a Third Visit to China, From 1853 to 1856 Which lie between the coast-line and the points formerly reached. For the talented sketches which illustrate the work I am indebted to my friend Mr. Scarth. 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.
Author : Robert Fortune
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ISBN 13 : 9780461245639
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (456 download)
Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese written by Robert Fortune and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : David Abeel
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Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Journal of a Residence in China and the Neighboring Countries, from 1830 to 1833 written by David Abeel and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book Journal of a Residence in China and the Neighbouring Countries from 1830 to 1833 written by David Abeel and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fortune
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294537885
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book A Residence Among the Chinese written by Robert Fortune and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 482 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 : Haiyan Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804793549
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination written by Haiyan Lee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There has been a pervasive sense of moral crisis in contemporary China, and the new market economy doesn't seem to offer any solutions. This book investigates how the Chinese have coped with the condition of modernity in which strangers are routinely thrust together. Haiyan Lee dismisses the easy answers claiming that this "moral crisis" is merely smoke and mirrors conjured up by paternalistic, overwrought leaders and scholars, or that it can be simply chalked up to the topsy-turvy of a market economy on steroids. Rather, Lee argues that the perception of crisis is itself symptomatic of a deeper problem that has roots in both the Confucian tradition of kinship and the modern state management of stranger sociality. This ambitious work is the first to investigate the figure of the stranger—foreigner, peasant migrant, bourgeois intellectual, class enemy, unattached woman, animal—across literature, film, television, and museum culture. Lee's aim is to show that hope lies with a robust civil society in which literature and the arts play a key role in sharpening the moral faculties and apprenticing readers in the art of living with strangers. In so doing, she makes a historical, comparative, and theoretically informed contribution to the on-going conversation on China's "(un)civil society."
Author : Sebastian Veg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549407
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Minjian written by Sebastian Veg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the marginalized, often proclaiming their independence with a heavy dose of anti-elitist rhetoric. They are proudly minjian—unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people. In this book, Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian intellectuals and how they have profoundly transformed China’s public culture. An intellectual history of contemporary China, Minjian documents how, amid deep structural shifts, grassroots thinker-activists began to work outside academia or policy institutions in an embryonic public sphere. Veg explores the work of amateur historians who question official accounts, independent documentarians who let ordinary people speak for themselves, and grassroots lawyers and NGO workers who spread practical knowledge. Their interventions are specific rather than universal, with a focus on concrete problems among disenfranchised populations such as victims of Maoism, migrant workers and others without residence permits, and petitioners. Drawing on careful analysis of public texts by grassroots intellectuals and the networks and publics among which they circulate, Minjian is a groundbreaking transdisciplinary exploration of crucial trends developing under the surface of contemporary Chinese society.
Author : Andrew S. Erickson
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 161251152X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book China Goes to Sea written by Andrew S. Erickson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In modern history, China has been primarily a land power, dominating smaller states along its massive continental flanks. But China’s turn toward the sea is now very much a reality, as evident in its stunning rise in global shipbuilding markets, its vast and expanding merchant marine, the wide offshore reach of its energy and minerals exploration companies, its growing fishing fleet, and indeed its increasingly modern navy. Yet, for all these achievements, there is still profound skepticism regarding China’s potential as a genuine maritime power. Beijing must still import the most vital subcomponents for its shipyards, maritime governance remains severely bureaucratically challenged, and the navy evinces, at least as of yet, little enthusiasm for significant blue water power projection capabilities. This volume provides a truly comprehensive assessment of prospects for China’s maritime development by situating these important geostrategic phenomena within a larger world historical context. China is hardly the only land power in history to attempt transformation by fostering sea power. Many continental powers have elected or been impelled to transform themselves into significant maritime powers in order to safeguard their strategic position or advance their interests. We examine cases of attempted transformation from the Persian Empire to the Soviet Union, and determine the reasons for their success or failure. Too many works on China view the nation in isolation. Of course, China’s history and culture are to some extent exceptional, but building intellectual fences actually hinders the effort to understand China’s current development trajectory. Without underestimating the enduring pull of China’s past as it relates to threats to the country’s internal stability and its landward borders, this comparative study provides reason to believe that China has turned the corner on a genuine maritime transformation. If that proves indeed to be the case, it would be a remarkable if not singular event in the history of the last two millennia.
Author : Adrienne Berard
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807033537
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Water Tossing Boulders written by Adrienne Berard and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told On September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and considered by the school to be “colored”; the school was for whites. This event would lead to the first US Supreme Court case to challenge the constitutionality of racial segregation in Southern public schools, an astonishing thirty years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Unearthing one of the greatest stories never told, journalist Adrienne Berard recounts how three unlikely heroes sought to shape a new South. A poor immigrant from southern China, Jeu Gong Lum came to America with the hope of a better future for his family. Unassuming yet boldly determined, his daughter Martha would inhabit that future and become the face of the fight to integrate schools. Earl Brewer, their lawyer and staunch ally, was once a millionaire and governor of Mississippi. When he took the family’s case, Brewer was both bankrupt and a political pariah—a man with nothing left to lose. By confronting the “separate but equal” doctrine, the Lum family fought for the right to educate Chinese Americans in the white schools of the Jim Crow South. Using their groundbreaking lawsuit as a compass, Berard depicts the complicated condition of racial otherness in rural Southern society. In a sweeping narrative that is both epic and intimate, Water Tossing Boulders evokes a time and place previously defined by black and white, a time and place that, until now, has never been viewed through the eyes of a forgotten third race. In vivid prose, the Mississippi Delta, an empire of cotton and a bastion of slavery, is reimagined to reveal the experiences of a lost immigrant community. Through extensive research in historical documents and family correspondence, Berard illuminates a vital, forgotten chapter of America’s past and uncovers the powerful journey of an oppressed people in their struggle for equality.
