History - Asia - China

A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered--until now. China's modern resurgence...

A Broken Journey - Wanderings from the Hoang-Ho to the Island of Saghalien and the Upper Reaches of the Amur River I have to thank my friend Mrs Lang for the drastic criticism which once more has materially helped me to write this book....

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A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.]There are indeed enough Histories of China already: why yet another one? Because the time has come for new departures; because we need to clear away the false notions with which the general public is constantly...

When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and disillusionment. The Chinese people made great efforts towards modernization and social change in this...

A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia A word of explanation may help to an understanding of this record of a brief journey in[vii] China, in 1911, in the last quiet months before the revolution. No one...

A Woman In China My grandmother's curiosCamels and elephantsDr MorrisonChinese in AustraliaFeared for his virtuesRacial animosityGreat Northern PlainA city of silenceA land of exileThe Holy SeaFrost flowers on a birch forestChaos at Manchuria and KharbinJapanese efficiencyA Peking dust storm. When I was a little...

Across China on FootDURING MY TRAVELS IN INTERIOR CHINA I ONCE LAY AT THE POINT OF DEATH. FOR THEIR UNREMITTING KINDNESS DURING A LONG ILLNESS, I NOW AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBE THIS VOLUME TO MY FRIENDS, MR. AND MRS. A. EVANS, OF TONG-CH'UAN-FU, YN-NAN, SOUTH-WEST CHINA,...

When Xiao Hai turned fifteen, his family paid a vocational-school teacher 1,200 yuan to find him a factory job in Shenzhen. So began a decade spent moving between the garment mills and electronics factories of China's fast-growing southern cities.Adrift in the South is a...

Among the TibetansThis header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need to understand what they may...

Among the Tibetans The Vale of Kashmir is too well known to require description. It is the 'happy hunting-ground' of the Anglo-Indian sportsman and tourist, the resort of artists and invalids, the home of pashm shawls and exquisitely embroidered fabrics, and the land of...

An American Diplomat in ChinaThrough recent developments China has been put in the forefront of international interest. The world is beginning to have an idea of its importance. Those who have long known it, who have given attention to its traditions and the sources...

An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to BurmaIn the first week of February, 1894, I returned to Shanghai from Japan. It was my intention to go up the Yangtse River as far as Chungking, and then,...

Ancient China SimplifiedBoswell once remarked to Dr. Johnson that "the history of England is so strange that, if it were not well vouched as it is, it would be hardly credible." To which Johnson replied in his usual style: "Sir, if it were told...

Winner of the Baifang Schell Book Prize - 2025 Orwell Prize Finalist One of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of 2024 "A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along." --The Wall Street Journal "In telling this personal story about family memory, exile...

Winner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in HistoryA gripping account of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles--a sweeping yet intimate...

This book started about ten years ago as a very short document to rec-ord all my recollections about my mother, Mu Chen Liu. Her love, cour-age, and grace have influenced my life and the lives of many people around her during her time on...

At twenty-three, nurse Mary Reed Dewar leaves an orderly New Jersey childhood for a war-bruised China-and discovers how quickly a life of faith can collide with history. Packed onto the Marine Lynx, a converted troopship bound for China, she watches the Golden Gate slip...

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As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China. In an effort to satisfy criticism of their expansion into Xinjiang and make the...