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“paul jakov smith”

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  • State Power in China, 900-1325

    Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Paul Jakov Smith ...
    This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and the value of centralization. How was state power exercised? Why did ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

    by Frank Dikötter ...
    A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize–winning Mao's Great Famine.“The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of liberation and the revolution that followed is not one of peace, liberty, and justice. It is first and foremost a story of calculated ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Chinese Civilization

    A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed

    by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzŭ Hsi

    by Edmund Backhouse ...
    The family of Yehonala, one of the oldest of the Manchu clans, traces its descent in direct line to Prince Yangkunu, whose daughter married (in 1588) Nurhachu, the real founder of Manchu rule in China and the first direct ancestor of the Ta Ching Emperors. Yangkunu was killed at Mukden in 1583, in one of his raids upon the territories which still owed allegiance to the degenerate Chinese sovereign ... Read more

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  • China’s Crony Capitalism

    The Dynamics of Regime Decay

    by Minxin Pei ...
    When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” More than three decades later, China’s efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people’s paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Mountain of Fame

    Portraits in Chinese History

    by John E. Wills ...
    Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, ... Read more

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  • Ch'ing-Tsing Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion in China

    by Charles Horne ...
    Charles Horne wrote this essay about the Nestorian Tablet, a 10 foot tall medieval Christian relic in China that shows Christianity flourished in medieval China. Carven dragons and a cross adorn its summit, and its main shaft is completely covered with some two thousand Chinese characters. It stands now in the Peilin or "Forest of Tablets" in Sian-fu, this Peilin being a great hall specially ... Read more

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  • The Religion of Falun Gong

    by Benjamin Penny ...
    In July 1999, a mere seven years after the founding of the religious movement known as the Falun Gong, the Chinese government banned it. Falun Gong is still active in other countries, and its suppression has become a primary concern of human rights activists and is regularly discussed in dealings between the Chinese government and its Western counterparts. But while much has been written on Falun ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • Confucianism and Modern China

    by Reginald Fleming Johnston ...
    In these lectures Johnston endeavours to justify the faith that is in him and to explain the grounds on which he bases his belief that Confucianism is still a living force among the Chinese people and has a message of great value for the China of the present and future and provide and answer to the question 'What is Confucianism?'If we wish to form an adequate idea of Confucianism we must make an ... Read more

    $4.36 USD

  • Scattered Sand

    The Story of China's Rural Migrants

    by Hsiao-Hung Pai, Gregor Benton ...
    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance—and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.For two years, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

    Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire

    by Thomas H. Reilly ...
    Series series China Program Books
    Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism

    by Kwok Bun Chan ...
    Series series Chinese Worlds
    Drawing upon wide-ranging case study material, the book explores the ever-changing personal and cultural identity of Chinese migrants and the diverse cosmopolitan communities they create. The various models of newly-forged communities are examined with the added dimension of personal identity and the individual's place in society.With particular emphasis on the changing face of Chinese ethnicity ... Read more

    $68.99 USD