The Foreigner in China
Author | : Owen Mortimer Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Owen Mortimer Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Aliens |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Roberts Coolidge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lucius N. Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom Carter |
Publisher | : Earnshaw Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789881616401 |
Featuring entirely original writings written exclusively for this work, this anthology is filled with 28 essays from foreigners who live or have lived in China for a significant period of time. The book contains beautiful and enlightening stories about China from such noteworthy writers as Simon Winchester, Peter Hessler, Susan Conley, and Alan Paul, among others. Through their personal stories, they illustrate the many sides of Chinese life--the weird, the fascinating, and the appalling--and share what it's like to live, learn, and love as an outsider in a land unlike any other in the world.
Author | : Lucius N. Wheeler |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2024-04-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385430852 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author | : Gordon Mathews, |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022650624X |
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants are small-scale traders from Africa who deal in Chinese goods—often knockoffs or copies of high-end branded items—to send back to their home countries. In The World in Guangzhou, Gordon Mathews explores the question of how the city became a center of “low-end globalization” and shows what we can learn from that experience about similar transformations elsewhere in the world. Through detailed ethnographic portraits, Mathews reveals a world of globalization based on informality, reputation, and trust rather than on formal contracts. How, he asks, can such informal relationships emerge between two groups—Chinese and sub-Saharan Africans—that don't share a common language, culture, or religion? And what happens when Africans move beyond their status as temporary residents and begin to put down roots and establish families? Full of unforgettable characters, The World in Guangzhou presents a compelling account of globalization at ground level and offers a look into the future of urban life as transnational connections continue to remake cities around the world.
Author | : Anne-Marie Brady |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2003-09-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1461704758 |
This book provides the first detailed analysis of a crucial and distinctive element of Chinese foreign policy. Anne-Marie Brady follows the development of the Chinese Communist Party's 'foreign affairs' system since 1921, focusing on waishi, the external policies intended to influence and control both foreigners themselves as well as Chinese citizens' contact with and perception of outsiders. The term also comprises China's external relations—both official state-to-state and so-called unofficial or 'people-to-people' diplomacy. In effect, waishi activities encompass all matters related to foreigners and foreign things, not merely diplomacy. By managing the foreign presence in China and China's contacts with the outside world and by controlling the Chinese population, the author argues that waishi has proven to be one of the most effective tools in the CCP's repertoire for building and then sustaining its hold on power. Drawing for the first time on policy documents that underpin the phenomena they describe, Brady analyzes trends and developments in waishi during each chronological period. The book elucidates how the CCP's policies evolved: In the 1930s, the need for a broad united front in international relations warred with the desire to control the foreign presence in China; in the 1940s and 1950s, the Sino-Soviet alliance and ridding China of the traces of the 'semi-colonial' past took precedence; in the 1960s, the Sino-Soviet split led to China's claim as the center of world revolution; and in the past twenty years of reform, the focus has been the ongoing quest to create a modern nation-state as China opens up to the outside world. The author considers waishi's deeper meaning as an overriding approach to the 'foreign,' which links state-to-state diplomacy with the management of the foreign presence in China. Her groundbreaking research is based on a previously unexplored genre of waishi materials (almost all classified) in Chinese, extensive interviews with waishi officials and foreign participants of the system, as well as archival research inside and outside of China. The photograph used on the cover of the book was doctored by the Chinese government. The original photograph showed Edgar Snow standing on the Tiananmen podium with (reading from left to right) Snow, translator Ji Chaozhu, Mao Zedong, and Edgar Snow's wife, Lois Wheeler Snow. In the book's cover photograph, which was released internationally, Lois Wheeler Snow has been replaced by Lin Biao—at the time Mao's number two—shown prominently clutching Quotations from Mao Zedong, otherwise known as the Little Red Book. Lin Biao was no doubt inserted not only to show his ranking in the leadership but also to demonstrate that the shift towards rapprochement with the West which the Snow's visit to China in 1970 represented, was supported by the CCP's radical left as symbolized by Lin Biao.
Author | : L. N. Wheeler |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781330280768 |
Excerpt from The Foreigner in China Sublime courage of the leader - Progress of the Insurrection - The Bible adopted as a sacred book - Religious practices and organizations - Morning devotions - Occupations of Nanking - Movement toward the northern capital - Disastrous end of a brilliant campaign - Foreigners take part against the Ti pings - The last hope of the Heavenly Dynasty expires - The rebel chief commits suicide - His son put to death - The imperial edict; The "Paris of China" - A cathedral - The foreign settlement - The island of Hong-kong - Harbor and shipping - A mixed population - Street scenes - Sources of culture and amusement - Exiles from home - The last resting-place - Shanghai - The foreign city - Various open ports - A barbarous Anglo-Chinese dialect - Unhappy breach between merchants and missionaries - The imperial customs under Robert Hart - Light-houses - The arsenal at Kiang-nan - Government works under foreign direction at Foo-chow - Account of their origin and remarkable progress - The foreign drill-master - The civil service reform - Government schools at canton and Shanghai - The imperial college - The educational mission to America - Introduction of various western improvements - A progressive mandarin - Origin of the Burlingame Mission - The foreign ministers admitted to audience - The strength and future progress of Western ideas - Our Chinese policy 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 | : Yue Liu |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110616386 |
We are living in a world in which the visible and invisible borders between nations are being shaken at an unprecedented pace. We are experiencing a wave of international migration, and the diversity of migrants – in terms of how they identify, their external and self-image, and their participation in society – is increasingly noticeable. After the introduction of the Reform and Opening Up policy, over 10 million migrants left China, with Europe the main destination for Chinese emigration after 1978. This volume provides multidisciplinary answers to open questions: How and to what extent do Chinese immigrants participate in their host societies? What kind of impact is the increasing number of highly qualified immigrants from China having on the development and perception of overseas Chinese communities in Europe? How is the development of Chinese identity transforming in relation to generational change? By focusing on two key European countries, Germany and France, this volume makes a topical contribution to research on (new) Chinese immigrants in Europe.
Author | : Westel Woodbury Willoughby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
From the John Holmes Library collection.