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Author : Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne
Publisher : London : Seeley, Jackson and Halliday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Impressions of China written by Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne and published by London : Seeley, Jackson and Halliday. This book was released on 1855 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne
Publisher : London : Seeley, Jackson and Halliday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Impressions of China written by Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne and published by London : Seeley, Jackson and Halliday. This book was released on 1855 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Pomfret
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429944129
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom written by John Pomfret and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.
Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214743
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) written by Jing Tsu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Author : Jessie Gregory Lutz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080283180X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Opening China written by Jessie Gregory Lutz and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western evangelists have long been fascinated by China, a vast mission field with a unique language and culture. One of the most intrigued was also one of the most intriguing: Karl F. A. Gützlaff (1803-1851). In this erudite study Jessie Gregory Lutz chronicles Gützlaff's life from his youth in Germany to his conversion and subsequent turn to missions to his turbulent time in Asia. Lutz also includes a substantial bibliography consisting of (1) archival sources, (2) selected books, pamphlets, tracts, and translations by Gützlaff, and (3) books, periodicals, and articles. This is truly an important reference for any student of the history of China or missions.
Author : Christian Henriot
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004228209
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Visualising China, 1845-1965 written by Christian Henriot and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s.
Author : Canada. Library of Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Parliament: General library written by Canada. Library of Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Catalogue de la Bibliothèque du Parlement du Canada written by Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ssu-yü Teng
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171458
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Historiography of the Taiping Rebellion written by Ssu-yü Teng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1962-06-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) was a pivotal event in modern Chinese history.This civil war was fought between the established Manchu Qing dynasty in power and the millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace.
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Middle Kingdom written by Samuel Wells Williams and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004392424
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Representation of External Threats written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats in a multitude of settings across Asia, America, and Europe. The scope ranges from military threats against the Byzantine rulers of the 7th century to the perception of cultural and economic threats in the late 19th century Atlantic, and includes conceptual threats to the construction of national histories. Focussing on the different ways in which such threats were socially constructed, the articles offer a variety of perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to understand the development and representations of external threats, concentrating on the effect of 'threat communication' for societies and political actors. Contributors are Anna Abalian, Vladimir Belous, Eberhard Crailsheim, María Dolores Elizalde, Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Simon C. Kemper, Irena Kozmanová, David Manzano Cosano, Federico Niglia, Derek Kane O’Leary, Alexandr Osipian, Pedro Ponte e Sousa, Theresia Raum, Jean-Noël Sanchez, Marie Schreier, Stephan Steiner, Srikanth Thaliyakkattil, Ionut Untea and Qiong Yu.
Author : Frederic Wakeman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520212398
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Strangers at the Gate written by Frederic Wakeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966, and now available once more, this pioneering work examines the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion--one of the most calamitous events in Chinese history. The book explores the various factors that led to the progression of rebellion and the inevitability of revolution.
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136217312
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Middle Kingdom 2 Vol Set written by Samuel Wells Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year 2006, Middle Kingdom 2 Vol Set is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science and Anthropology.
Author : Frederic E. Wakeman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Strangers at the Gate written by Frederic E. Wakeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Prescott Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000535703
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Western Reports on the Taiping written by Prescott Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1982, collects together a wide range of Western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century China. The extracts are contemporary, from eyewitnesses, and come from diplomatic and missionary reports, from books, newspapers, private journals, travel accounts and diaries. They provide a good overview of the response to this major crisis of Chinese society over a twenty-year period and the Western presence in mid-nineteenth century China.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan D Spence
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393315561
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Gods Chinese Son written by Jonathan D Spence and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of the largest uprising in human history--the Taiping rebellion (1845-64)--in which 20 million Chinese were left dead, God's Chinese Son tells "a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time; a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity" (Washington Post Book World). Photos. Author lectures & tour.
