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'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to backfire. Second, he comes closer than any previous writer to covering...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2018-03-13
ePub
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This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China’s past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-03
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THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE LEWIS TRILOGY ANDTHE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OFTHE CWA DAGGER INTHE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more eloquently written...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2017-03-31
Collection :
China Thrillers
ePub
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This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, and is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-25
Collection :
China Academic Library
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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
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
ePub
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The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, “piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2014-03-11
ePub
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An acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North Korea is an impoverished, famine-ridden nation, but it is also a nuclear power whose dictator Kim Jong-un regularly threatens his neighbors and adversaries, the United States in...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2013-12-10
ePub
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'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions.THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH...so why are the younger generation derided as spoiled and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-10-10
ePub
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'A splendid, exciting book' Daily Mirror'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday ExpressOnly three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-05-30
Collection :
W&N Military
ePub
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As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2012-08-28
ePub
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The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2011-03-01
ePub
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On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2010-06-01
ePub
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Entertaining and masterly biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek - the woman who built modern China.THE LAST EMPRESS revolves around a fascinating, manipulative woman and her family who were largely responsible for dragging China into the modern world. Soong May-ling, or...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-02-25
ePub
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An authoritative and “exquisitely written” (Guardian) account of five thousand years of Chinese history Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled,...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Some observers expect China to become an economic superpower. Others expect it to fragment into pieces. Is China nationalistic and on the march, or is it a stumbling Communist dinosaur? Is it already a billion-citizen member of the global village? Is it, as the Clinton...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2009-03-05
ePub
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Over several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in a major research project, sponsored by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (USEF), to address the big bilateral and global issues the two countries face. Historically, the...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2009-03-03
ePub
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Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2008-10-16
ePub
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I Dialoghi di Confucio influenzano ancora oggi in profondità la cultura cinese poiché, insieme alle altre opere che costituiscono i Quattro Libri, insegnano le principali virtù: il decoro, la giustizia, la lealtà e la pietà filiale. Per circa due millenni, questi...
Editeur :
Cactus
Parution :
2024-07-25
epub sans DRM
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A history of Chinese immigrants encounter with Canadian Protestant missionaries, “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril”: Protestant Missions to Chinese Immigrants in Canada, 1859-1967, analyzes the evangelizing activities of missionaries and the role of religion in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-02-25
Collection :
Editions SR
ePub
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