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  • Chiang Kaishek's Last Ambassador to Moscow

    The Wartime Diaries of Fu Bingchang

    by Yee Wah Foo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This fascinating study examines wartime Chinese-Soviet relations from a Moscow-based, Chinese perspective at the ambassadorial level. The book includes descriptions of everyday life in Moscow, of embassy business, of contemporary events and diplomacy, of intelligence operations, of meetings with Stalin, and of communications to and from Chongqing. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People

    Enriched edition. An Insider's Look at Chinese Court Culture and Society

    by Isaac Taylor Headland, Alexis Newton ...
    In "Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People," Isaac Taylor Headland offers an intricate exploration of the social and political frameworks of late Qing dynasty China. Through a keen observational lens, Headland delves into the intricate dynamics of the imperial court, detailing the roles and behaviors of officials, the rituals of governance, and the everyday lives of the people ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China’s Search for Security

    by Andrew Scobell, Andrew J. Nathan ...
    Despite its impressive size and population, economic vitality, and drive to upgrade its military, China remains a vulnerable nation surrounded by powerful rivals and potential foes. Understanding China's foreign policy means fully appreciating these geostrategic challenges, which persist even as the country gains increasing influence over its neighbors. Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell analyze ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Red at Heart

    How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution

    by Elizabeth McGuire ...
    Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance. This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Uyghur Nation

    Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

    by David Brophy ...
    The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Corporal and the Celestials: In North China with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1909-1912

    by Bill Jackson ...
    Some of the most creative of human expression has originated in the collision of cultures. So it is with this extraordinary archive. The Corporal and the Celestials publishes for the first time a truly absorbing collection of photographs of China in the early years of the twentieth century, taken by a young corporal of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, James Hutchinson, when stationed there from ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guilty of Indigence

    The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953

    by Janet Y. Chen ...
    In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, Guilty of Indigence examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Internet Environments for Science Education

    Edited by Marcia C. Linn, Elizabeth A. Davis, Philip Bell ...
    Internet Environments for Science Education synthesizes 25 years of research to identify effective, technology-enhanced ways to convert students into lifelong science learners--one inquiry project at a time. It offers design principles for development of innovations; features tested, customizable inquiry projects that students, teachers, and professional developers can enact and refine; and ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • China in Transformation

    1900-1949

    by Colin Mackerras ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    In the first half of the twentieth century, China moved from a millennium of imperial rule to the Communist Party-led People’s Republic of China which remains today. China in Transformation argues that this enormously significant period in Chinese history saw wrenching change throughout Chinese society amounting to a social, cultural and political transformation. This new, fully revised and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Guan Yu

    The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero

    by Barend J. ter Haar ...
    Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Ethnographic Plague

    Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier

    by Christos Lynteris ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD