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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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-10-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-09-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-06-16
Format(s) : ePub
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-04-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-12-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-10-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2015-05-21
Collection :
Brief Histories
Format(s) : ePub
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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...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2015-04-14
Format(s) : ePub
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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.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-18
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-02-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-11-14
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-09-02
Format(s) : PDF
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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,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-09-01
Format(s) : PDF
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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...
Editeur : Pergamon
Parution : 2014-05-18
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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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...
Editeur : Pergamon
Parution : 2014-05-18
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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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;...
Editeur : Pergamon
Parution : 2014-05-18
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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Approx.520 pages
Editeur : Pergamon
Parution : 2014-05-18
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-04-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Oral History
Format(s) : PDF
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