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Balanced Discourses: Zhonglun
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Balanced Discourses urges individual cultivation of Confucian morals. It was written in 170-217 AD in response to corruption and depravity of the ailing Eastern Han dynasty. This edition of Zhonglun (Balanced Discourses) contains the original Chinese Text with anotations and, on facing pages an....
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Call of Yanan Story of the Indian Medican Mission to China 1933-1943
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Some of the most historic events in Modern Chinese history are told firsthand by foreign observers who recorded and often participated in them. These eyewitness accounts are reprints of original titles covering events from 19th century to the late 20th century.
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China's Quest for National Identity
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How to define a Chinese national identity remains as hotly contested a question among today's Chinese citizens as it has been among foreign observers. This volume brings together ten new essays by an interdisciplinary group of leading sinologists and offers a comprehensive framework for....
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The Chinese Experience
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There was a rich civilization in which emperors are magnified, bureacrats satirized, women worshipped, nature revered, parting and death mourned, and war reviled. Dawson shows how Chinese art and literature are linked by the magic of the calligraphic brush-stroke, and the lasting influence of....
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Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era
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How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and....
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Chinese History
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Spanning the grand history of China from the Prehistoric 1500 B.C. to the 2008 Olympics, the perfect-for-classrooms chart combines facts, maps, time lines and dynasty breakdowns all into an easy-to-follow format. Learn how rulers were defeated, when heroes emerged to defend the country, when....
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Chinese History: Ancient China to 1911
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Learn Chinese history in a nutshell with this easy-to-read record of imperial China. Part of the popular new History Express series, with illustrations and interesting comics, the perfect speed course to cover thousands of years of history.
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Chinese Silk: A Cultural History
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Silk is one of China's major contributions to world civilization, the secrets of its cultivation closely guarded for generations. The famous network of trade routes between West and East is still known as the Silk Road. The organization and techniques of Chinese silk production, the uses of the....
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Col. C.L. Chennault and Flying Tigers
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Historical account of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), better known as the “Flying Tigers”, and its maverick commander, Claire Chennault, helping China in the war against Japan. Includes a section on successful efforts in the 1990’s to locate wreckage of aircraft downed fifty years earlier....
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Common Knowledge about Chinese History
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A concise history of China from the pre-Qin period to the return of Hong Kong and Macao, complete with visual aids, including charts and photographs, to help track the place in time from each section.
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The Emperor Prays to Heaven
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Travel with the Dark Bird, a large man-like bird from heaven, who takes us on a journey through the historical Temple of Heaven. While living there for 220 years, he tells about his experiences with various emperors and explores the ideas of heaven and life after death. Learn about what heaven....
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Essence of Ancient Wisdom
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Confucius has become the oft-quoted fount of aphorisms and analects far wider and more comprehensive in their didactic scope than any attributed to sages elsewhere in the world.
But the real gems of Chinese wisdom lie in the anonymous and ageless proverbs, of which this volume contains a....
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The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation
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On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years. The Japanese occupation was a turning point in the slow historical process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from four centuries of influence in....
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Fenjia: Household Division & Inheritance in Qing and Republican China
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The division of household property in agricultural societies lies at the center of the transmission of economic control from one generation to the next. In assembling an impressive body of data concerned with fenjia in Qing (1644-1912) and Republican (1912-1949) China, David Wakefield....
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Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China
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Based upon his extensive examination of Chinese military writings, Sawyer recounts the most important clashes and conflicts in which these dramatic tactics were employed over the centuries. "Fire and Water" captures the excitement and intrigue of battle, making it fascinating reading.
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The Fleeting Splendor of Yuan Ming Yuan
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Follow the narrative of a cat-woman as she takes you through the beautiful gardens of the Yuanmingyuan. Located on the outskirts of Beijing and erected in 1662, little of the gardens are left standing today, past splendors existing now only in the imagination.
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The Hong Kong Visitor's Book: A Historical Who's Who
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Over the years, the eclectic East and West influences of Hong Kong has turned it into a colony of unprecedented excitement. From legendary poet Han Yu, President Ulysses S. Grant, authors Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw to pop singer Madonna, this book details a range of exciting people....
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Imperial China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History
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Horse lovers everywhere are in for the ride of their lives with this stunning range of equine-themed art objects from leading museum collections in Shaanxi exhibited at Lexington, Kentucky's fabled thoroughbred museum.
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Jews in China
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A fascinating photographic record that illustrates four historical migrations of Jews to China: Yuan dynasty Jews in Kaifeng, mid-nineteenth century Baghdadi merchants in Shanghai, early twentieth century migrants from Russia, and mid twentieth century refugees from Nazi Germany.
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Knowledge Painfully Acquired: The "K'Un-Chih Chi" by Lo Ch'In-Shun
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A seminal work in Chinese intellectual history, this sixteenth-century book of reading notes and reflections on philosophy and history was written by Lo Ch'in-shun, one of the most refined and innovative philosophers of Ming China. In the centuries following its publication, the K'un-chih chi....
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