Here In China I Dwell
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Author | : Zhaoguang Ge |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004279997 |
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Here in ‘China’ I Dwell is a historiographical account of the formation of Chinese historical narratives in light of outside pressures on China — the view from China’s borders. There is a special discussion of the inf luence of Japanese historians on the concept of China and its borders, including the nature of their sources, cultural and religious and more. In Ge’s comparative account, a new portrait of Chinese historical narratives, along with the views and assumptions implicit in these narrat ives, emerges in the context of East Asia, a similarly constructed concept with its own multitudes of frontiers and peoples.
Author | : Elizabeth LaCouture |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2021-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231543794 |
Download Dwelling in the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the world’s most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chinese courtyard house through a Japanese garden past a French Beaux-Arts bank to dine at a German café and fall asleep in a British garden city-style semi-attached brick house. Dwelling in the World considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjin’s urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in today’s middle-class real estate boom. Drawing on diverse sources from municipal archives, women’s magazines, and architectural field work to social surveys and colonial records, Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new perspectives on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology and everyday life.
Author | : Zak Dychtwald |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250078814 |
Download Young China Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The author, who is in his twenties and fluent in Chinese, intimately examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou—the generation born after 1990—exploring through personal encounters how his Chinese peers feel about everything from money and marriage to their government and the West
Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1054 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393307801 |
Download The Search for Modern China Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
Author | : Orville Schell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0679643478 |
Download Wealth and Power Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
Author | : Howard W. French |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307946657 |
Download China's Second Continent Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A New York Times Notable Book Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future. One of the Best Books of the Year at • The Economist • The Guardian • Foreign Affairs
Author | : Yu Hua |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307739791 |
Download China in Ten Words Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades. Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation. In "Disparity," for example, Yu Hua illustrates the expanding gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat," he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle," he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud, and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. Witty, insightful, and courageous, this is a refreshingly candid vision of the "Chinese miracle" and all of its consequences.
Author | : Yutang Lin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
ISBN | : |
Download The Importance of Living Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Cheng Nien |
Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802145167 |
Download Life and Death in Shanghai Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
Author | : Mike Chinoy |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780847693184 |
Download China Live Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A unique insider's view of the most important forces shaping our era--the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China.