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  • Women and the Family in Chinese History

    de Patricia Ebrey ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time. The essays cover topics ranging from dowries and the sale ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • Peking Story

    The Last Days of Old China

    de John Lanchester, David Kidd ...
    For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Silk Road - China and the Karakorum Highway

    A Travel Companion

    de Jonathan Tucker ...
    Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge, religion, philosophy, disease and war. From the East came silk, precious stones, tea, jade, paper ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi

    Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi

    de Jonathan D. Spence ...
    A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Rare Breed: A Chinese Jewish Quest

    de Irene Chu ...
    We, as readers, even as historians, too often assume that the Jewish experience unfolded only in the Middle East and in Europe and North America. In this we are missing an entire page of Jewish history. We in the West are blinded by the experiences – often not happy ones – of Jews in the West. The time has come that we look to the East. The time has come to fill in this missing page, to publish ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Shanghai Homes

    Palimpsests of Private Life

    de Jie Li ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private life—territories, artifacts, and gossip—Li re ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China

    Siping, 1946

    de Harold M. Tanner ...
    Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
    "A well-organized and excellently researched work" ( H-War) on one of the crucial battles of China's civil war.In the spring of 1946, Communists and Nationalist Chinese were battled for control of Manchuria and supremacy in the civil war. The Nationalist attack on Siping ended with a Communist withdrawal, but further pursuit was halted by a ceasefire brokered by the American general, George ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China

    The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948

    de Harold M. Tanner ...
    Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
    "A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China." —Steven I. Levine author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948)The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to U.S. interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • In the Circle of White Stones

    Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet

    de Gillian G. Tan, Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan’s story, based on her own experience of living through seasonal cycles with the people of Dora Karmo between 2006 and 2013, examines the community ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Thought Reform and China's Dangerous Classes

    Reeducation, Resistance, and the People

    de Aminda M. Smith ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Thought reform is arguably China’s most controversial social policy. If reeducation’s critics and defenders agree on little else, they share the conviction that ideological remolding is inseparable from its Mao-era roots. This is the first major English-language study to explore one of the most important aspects of those origins, the essential relationship between thought reform and the “dangerous ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China

    Fostering Talent

    de Lisa M. Hoffman ...
    Series series Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
    In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China, Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital” is seen as fundamental for economic growth and national progress. She examines these new ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • China's Southern Tang Dynasty, 937-976

    de Johannes L. Kurz ...
    Series series Asian States and Empires
    The Southern Tang was one of China’s minor dynasties and one of the great states in China in the tenth century. Although often regarded as one of several states preceding the much better known Song dynasty (960-1279), the Southern Tang dynasty was in fact the key state in this period, preserving cultural values and artefacts from the former great Tang dynasty (618-907) which were to form the basis ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD