[PDF] China And Her People eBook

Author : J. Thomson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2023-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368192876

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Joanna Chiu
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 148700768X

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While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become a dominant power. As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road” global investment project to a growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions through “United Front” efforts. Chiu offers readers background on the protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uyghur communities in Turkey, and exposes Beijing’s high-tech surveillance and aggressive measures that result in human rights violations against those who challenge its power. The new world disorder documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for global stability, prosperity, and civil rights everywhere.

Author : Charles Denby
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781020361241

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The author of this book, Charles Denby, was a diplomat who was a part of the American delegation to China in the late 19th century. In this book, he provides an in-depth look at Chinese history, culture, and society, as well as his own experiences living and working in China. The book provides valuable insights into a time and place that is often shrouded in mystery. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Gordon G. Chang
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2001-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588360210

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China is hot. The world sees a glorious future for this sleeping giant, three times larger than the United States, predicting it will blossom into the world's biggest economy by 2010. According to Chang, however, a Chinese-American lawyer and China specialist, the People's Republic is a paper dragon. Peer beneath the veneer of modernization since Mao's death, and the symptoms of decay are everywhere: Deflation grips the economy, state-owned enterprises are failing, banks are hopelessly insolvent, foreign investment continues to decline, and Communist party corruption eats away at the fabric of society. Beijing's cautious reforms have left the country stuck midway between communism and capitalism, Chang writes. With its impending World Trade Organization membership, for the first time China will be forced to open itself to foreign competition, which will shake the country to its foundations. Economic failure will be followed by government collapse. Covering subjects from party politics to the Falun Gong to the government's insupportable position on Taiwan, Chang presents a thorough and very chilling overview of China's present and not-so-distant future.

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,75 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1101870052

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From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520950348

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What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.

Author : Charles Denby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780331034493

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Excerpt from China and Her People, Vol. 1 of 2: Being the Observations, Reminiscences, and Conclusions of an American Diplomat Such a book should be interesting and val nable. This, I am confident the reader will find, is both. The style of the author is most delightful, and in the purely memoir part he leads the reader into an understanding and an appreciation of the court life at Peking, and one cannot help feeling with him deep regret that the community of diplomats there is no more. His statement of the inner life and Spirit and aspirations of the Chinese people will be found most sympathetic and accurate. It is a pleasing and favourable view that the author takes of the Chinese people, and we ought to be thankful that their case is stated so well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199347700

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"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review