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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of China's War with Japan
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The Making of China's War with Japan


Mayumi Itoh


This cutting edge study examines the career of Chinese politician and diplomat Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) and assesses his leadership role in the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) strategy against the Japanese invasion of China which established the foundation for post-World...

Parution : 2016-10-03
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Buddha Party
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The Buddha Party


John Powers


The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad.The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John...

Parution : 2016-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China


Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom


This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to...

Parution : 2016-06-16
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Island of Guanyin
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Island of Guanyin


Marcus Bingenheimer


Among Chinese religious sites, Mount Putuo, the "Island of Guanyin," stands out as a fascinating embodiment of China's vibrant Buddhist tradition. A small island in the East China Sea, it has been the single most important pilgrimage site for the worship of Guanyin, the...

Parution : 2016-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Scramble for China
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The Scramble for China


Robert Bickers


In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest...

Parution : 2016-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Modern China
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Modern China


Rana Mitter


China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...

Parution : 2016-02-25
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Modern China
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Modern China


Rana Mitter


China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...

Parution : 2016-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 6,38€
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China
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The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China


Alice Yao


Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie...

Parution : 2015-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Confucian-Legalist State
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The Confucian-Legalist State


Dingxin Zhao


In The Confucian-Legalist State, Dingxin Zhao offers a radically new analysis of Chinese imperial history from the eleventh century BCE to the fall of the Qing dynasty. This study first uncovers the factors that explain how, and why, China developed into a bureaucratic...

Parution : 2015-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
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A Brief History of Khubilai Khan


Jonathan Clements


His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of authority, Khubilai snatched the position of Great Khan, becoming the overlord of a Mongol federation that stretched from the...

Parution : 2015-05-21
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Robinson
Collection : Brief Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Buy Me the Sky
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Buy Me the Sky


Xinran


'Fast-paced and punchy ... accomplished' Independent With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the...

Parution : 2015-05-07
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Ebury Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Dealing with China
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Dealing with China


Hank Paulson


DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role in opening...

Parution : 2015-04-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Headline
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals
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The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals


H. Miller


This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the Chinese state of Lu from 722 to 481 BCE, annotated so as to highlight the moral philosophy of its supposed writer, Confucius.

Parution : 2015-03-18
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China
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The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China


Shakhar Rahav


The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan. Current narratives of May...

Parution : 2015-02-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Leaving for the Rising Sun
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Leaving for the Rising Sun


Jiang Wu


In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded a new tradition, called Obaku.In this sequel to his 2008 book, Enlightenment in Dispute, Jiang Wu tells the story of the tremendous...

Parution : 2014-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Old Chinese
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Old Chinese


William H. Baxter , Laurent Sagart


This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the first Sino-Tibetan language to be reduced to writing. Old Chinese is the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE) and the...

Parution : 2014-09-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes)
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Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes)


Tze-Ki Hon , Geoffrey Redmond


Chinese traditional culture cannot be understood without some familiarity with the I Ching, yet it is one of the most difficult of the world's ancient classics. Assembled from fragments with many obscure allusions, it was the subject of ingenious, but often conflicting,...

Parution : 2014-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
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Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung


Mao Tse-Tung


Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume III focuses on the views of Mao Tse-Tung on communism, revolution, fascism, national unity, and patriotism. The volume first ponders on the proposition of Mao Tse-Tung to reform the method and system of study within the Communist...

Parution : 2014-05-18
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Éditeur : Pergamon
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Télécharger le livre :  Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
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Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung


Mao Tse-Tung


Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume IV focuses on the views of Mao Tse-Tung on communism, revolution, civil war, and patriotism. The volume first ponders on China's policy following victory in the war of resistance against Japan and the response of Mao Tse-Tung on...

Parution : 2014-05-18
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Éditeur : Pergamon
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Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung


Mao Tse-Tung


Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume II focuses on the thoughts of Mao Tse-Tung on revolution, communism, war tactics, national unity, and patriotism. The volume first discusses the policies, measures, and perspectives for resisting the invasion of Japan;...

Parution : 2014-05-18
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
Éditeur : Pergamon
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