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  • Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China

    by Glen Peterson ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Overseas Chinese in the People’s Republic of China examines the experiences of a group of persons known officially and collectively in the PRC as "domestic Overseas Chinese". They include family members of overseas migrants who remained in China, refugees fleeing persecution, and former migrants and their descendants who "returned" to the People’s Republic in order to pursue higher education and ... Read more

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    The Journey that Changed the World

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    "I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." — John Fusco, Creator of the Netflix original series Marco PoloGo behind the Netflix original series Marco Polo with the true story of the world’s most famous traveler.In 1271, a ... Read more

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  • The Opium War

    Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

    by Julia Lovell ...
    This "crisp and readable account" of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through "a heartbreaking story of war" ( The Wall Street Journal).In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in ... Read more

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  • Jesus in Beijing

    How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power

    by David Aikman ...
    This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant, its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity, and what this change means to the global balance of power. ... Read more

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  • Vanishing into Things

    Knowledge in Chinese Tradition

    by Barry Allen ...
    Vanishing into Things explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia, from Confucius to Wang Yangming (ca. 1500 CE), and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought. Challenging the hyperspecialized epistemology of modern philosophy in the West, Barry Allen urges his readers toward an ethical appreciation of why knowledge ... Read more

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  • Browning FN Hi-Power: An Engraved Mystery

    Continuing Education, #8

    by TK Rolland ...
    Series Book 8 - Continuing Education
    In 2009 an engraved 1935 Browning FN Hi-Power in perfectly preserved condition appeared for sale online. Purportedly a personal gift from Chiang Kai-shek, the gun had been carefully stored away until finally sold as part of an estate. This article looks into the mystery of the gun's provenance. How had this Browning passed from a once powerful Asian leader to an American soldier during WWII? ... Read more

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  • Wares of the Ming Dynasty

    by R. L. Hobson ...
    This book explains and illustrates as many varieties of Ming ceramics as possible. The text is based primarily on information obtained from Chinese sources and the occasional notes made by Europeans who visited China in Ming times. To these, Mr. Hobson has added his own penetrating deductions, made after careful study of well-authenticated specimens and of observation by earlier scholars. His ... Read more

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  • Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

    by Justin M. Jacobs ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the ... Read more

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  • After Empire

    The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924

    by Peter Zarrow ...
    From 1885–1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian political orthodoxy and the struggle among competing definitions of modern citizenship and the state. What made it ... Read more

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  • Lu Xun's Revolution

    by Gloria Davies ...
    Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place. ... Read more

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  • Staging Chinese Revolution

    Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda

    by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, demonstrating how, in a socialist state with "capitalist ... Read more

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  • Chinese History and Culture

    Seventeenth Century Through Twentieth Century

    by Ying-shih Yü ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Read more

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