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“hans van ess”

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  • The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

    by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, Hans van Ess ...
    Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive history of China, instead of honorably committing suicide following his castration for “deceiving the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • China 1945

    Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

    by Richard Bernstein ...
    A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relationsAs 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing airmen shot down over enemy territory. Chinese leaders talked of a future in which American money and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China

    The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948

    by 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heart of Buddha, Heart of China

    The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk

    by James Carter ...
    The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles--poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation--to become one of the most prominent monks in China, founding numerous temples and schools and attracting crowds of students and disciples wherever he went. Heart of Buddha, Heart of China traces Tanxu's journey from his birth in 1875 to his death in 1963. Through Tanxu's life we come to know ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • East River Column

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Hong Kong’s story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forces and their defeat on Christmas Day 1941. But there is another story: the Chinese guerrilla forces who harassed the Japanese throughout the occupation played a crucial part in the escapes from Hong Kong’s prisoner-of-war camps and in rescuing Allied airmen. This neglected part of Hong Kong’s war is ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • BA JIN. On Anarchism and Terrorism

    by Ba Jin (Li Feigan) ...
    Ba Jin, one of the main figures of twentieth century Chinese literature, died in Shanghai on the 17th of October 2005. He was also a survivor of the Chinese anarchist movement that disappeared with the victory of the Communists. While he was required to ‘repent’, and purged and humiliated during the Cultural Revolution, he never embraced any other ideal.Ba Jin was born in 1904 in Chengdu, Sichuan ... Read more

    $2.73 USD

  • The Question of Sovereignty: A Study of Chinese and British Negotiating Positions with Regard to the Colonisation and Decolonisation of Hong Kong

    by Justin Cahill ...
    This is a study of the collision of Britain's 'imperialism of free trade' with China's sovereignty over Hong Kong from the time of the Colony's occupation in 1842 to the signing of the Joint Declaration in 1984. It examines the influences at work on successive British governments in seeking, expanding and, ultimately, returning the Colony to China. It also examines the influence of the Chinese ... Read more

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  • Embattled Glory

    Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949–2007

    by Neil J. Diamant ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    This groundbreaking book examines the treatment of veterans of the People's Liberation Army and military families as an illuminating window into Chinese patriotism, citizenship, and legitimacy. Using a wealth of recently declassified archival documents and employing a wide comparative perspective, Neil J. Diamant presents the first large-scale study of these groups in comparison to similar ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Mencius

    A New Translation Arranged and Annotated For The General Reader

    Series series Heritage
    Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways and thoughts that condition their conduct. The Works of Mencius provides an admirable insight into ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Chinese History

    Edited by Michael Dillon ...
    China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society and economy and increasing coverage of contemporary China in the media.Our ... Read more

    $605.00 USD

  • Beijing's Power and China's Borders

    Twenty Neighbors in Asia

    by Bruce Elleman ...
    China shares borders with 20 other countries. Each of these neighbors has its own national interests, and in some cases, these include territorial and maritime jurisdictional claims in places that China also claims. Most of these 20 countries have had a history of border conflicts with China; some of them never amicably settled. This book brings together some of the foremost historians, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Love Tales of Ancient China

    by X. L. Woo ...
    Digging into Chinese folktales, Mr. Woo tells us stories about falling in love in a world that is distant in time and place, distinct in culture and expectations, each with a touch of the exotic. In these tales dating from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, dramas unfold in the Imperial palace, along the back roads, and in gardens perfumed with the scent of peony blossoms in the moonlight ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus