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  • Rural Origins, City Lives

    Class and Place in Contemporary China

    by Roberta Zavoretti ...
    A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Religions of Ancient China

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Spiritual Tapestry of Ancient China

    by Herbert Allen Giles, Liam Hightower ...
    In "Religions of Ancient China," Herbert Allen Giles offers a comprehensive examination of the complex tapestry of spiritual traditions that shaped pre-modern Chinese society. With a scholarly yet accessible style, Giles navigates through historical texts, philosophical treatises, and archaeological findings to explore how various religious practices'—Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism' ... Read more

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  • China in the 21st Century

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In the fully revised and updated second edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, China expert Jeffrey ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • A Bitter Revolution : China's struggle with the modern world

    China's Struggle with the Modern World

    by Rana Mitter ...
    Series series Making of the Modern World
    China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social turmoil and political promise, the devastating war ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Phoenix Years

    Art, resistance and the making of modern China

    by Madeleine O'Dea ...
    'Amidst all the chatter about China lies this rock of a book, a magnificent memoir/ history from the very core of modern Chinese society and history. It's a wonderful thing where the essential book and the delightful book are, as in this case, the one thing. Let no one speak of China who has not read The Phoenix Years.' Tom Keneally, author of AustraliansThe Phoenix Years tells the riveting story ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Complete Wing Chun

    The Definitive Guide to Wing Chun's History and Traditions

    by Robert Chu, Rene Ritchie, Y. Wu ...
    Series series Complete Martial Arts
    Master the many styles of Wing Chun Kung Fu with this expert martial arts guide.With the fame of Bruce Lee, the conditions in Hong Kong, and the hard work and effort of many of his classmates, the Wing Chun of the late master Yip Man became one of the most well-known and popular Chinese martial arts in the world. Although this gave Wing Chun international recognition, it also led to a lot of ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Call to Arms

    by Lu Xun ...
    Call to Arms is a collection of revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun’s most famous and most important short stories. Featuring “A Madman’s Diary,” a scathing attack of traditional Confucian civilization and “The True Story of Ah Q,” a poignant satire about the hypocrisy of Chinese national character and the first work written entirely in the Chinese vernacular. Together this collection exposes a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962

    An Oral History

    by Xun Zhou ...
    In 1958, China’s revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s grand scheme—like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century—proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mass destruction of China’s agriculture, industry, and trade while leaving large portions of the countryside forever ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Chinese Theology

    Text and Context

    by Chloë Starr ...
    This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloë Starr explores key writings of Chinese Christian intellectuals, from philosophical dialogues of the late imperial era to sermons and micro blogs of theological educators and pastors in ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Imperial to International

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Founded in 1849, St John’s Cathedral is the oldest neogothic cathedral in East Asia and China’s oldest surviving Anglican church still in operation. In its early decades it was a centre of colonial life in Hong Kong. More recently, it has opened itself widely to other communities in Hong Kong, becoming a truly international church with services held in several languages. Drawing on extensive ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Chinese Women - Living and Working

    by Anne McLaren ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • SOCIAL LIFE OF THE CHINESE, with some accounts of their religious, governmental, educational and business customs and opinions Volume I

    by Justus DOOLITTLE ...
    This book contains a dynamic table of contents. Preview: The population of the city and suburbs has never been accurately, and therefore satisfactorily ascertained. The inhabitants of the seven suburbs are believed to be as numerous as the inhabitants of the city itself. The population of both has been estimated by residents and visitors at all figures, from 600,000 to 1,250,000. Including the ... Read more

    $1.18 USD