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  • The Chinese People’s Liberation Army since 1949

    Ground Forces

    af Benjamin Lai ...
    Serier Bog 194 - Elite
    The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest army in the world.China is predicted to be on the brink of overtaking the USA as the world's largest economy, and China's military capabilities and global ambitions are the single greatest long-term pre-occupation of Western governments. The PLA has progressed steadily – if slowly – since its creation in 1949, from a mass army of ... Læs mere

    134,70 kr.

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  • Forgotten Ally

    China's World War II, 1937–1945

    af Rana Mitter ...
    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Unbound

    A True Story of War, Love, and Survival

    af Dean King ...
    In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women. Their trek would eventually cover 4,000 miles over 370 days. Under enemy fire they crossed highland awamps, climbed Tibetan peaks, scrambled over chain ... Læs mere

    66,79 kr.

  • Brave Dragons

    A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

    af Jim Yardley ...
    The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of China’s worst professional basketball teams, hired former NBA coach ... Læs mere

    59,41 kr.

  • Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning to End

    af Henry Freeman ...
    Genghis Khan was the most unlikely of conquerors. An orphan of the Mongolian Steppes, his rise went all but unnoticed by all the great powers around him. His people had been divided and discounted by the Chinese dynasties to his south and completely dismissed by the encroaching Islamic empires to his west.Inside you will read about...✓ Mystery of the Steppes✓ When Warriors Are Made✓ Rites of ... Læs mere

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  • China and Japan at War, 1937–1945

    af Philip Jowett ...
    Serier serie Images of War
    This pictorial history of the Sino-Japanese War offers a rare look at one of the most important yet neglected aspects of WWII.The 1937-1945 war between China and Japan was one of the most bitter conflicts of the twentieth century. It was a struggle between the two dominant peoples of Asia. Millions of soldiers fought on each side and millions of soldiers and civilians died. Philip Jowett's book is ... Læs mere

    83,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Borders

    Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma

    The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a "back door" to Yunnan, providing a sanctuary for political refugees and economic opportunities for trade explorers. Since the Chinese Communist takeover in 1949 and subsequent political upheavals in China, an unprecedented number of Yunnanese refugees have fled to ... Læs mere

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  • Chinese Cubans

    A Transnational History

    Serier serie Envisioning Cuba
    In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba’s infamous “coolie” trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish ... Læs mere

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  • The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

    Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire

    Serier serie China Program Books
    Occupying much of imperial China’s Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the spiritual beliefs of the rebels. The core of the Taiping faith focused on the belief that Shangdi, the high God of classical China, had chosen the Taiping ... Læs mere

    280,62 kr.

  • Sojourners in a Strange Land

    Jesuits & Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China

    Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. ... Læs mere

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  • White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates

    Crisis and Reform in the Qing Empire

    af Wensheng Wang ...
    The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796–1820 CE) has long occupied an awkward position in studies of China’s last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1911 CE). Conveniently marking a watershed between the prosperous eighteenth century and the tragic post–Opium War era, this quarter century has nevertheless been glossed over as an unremarkable interlude separating two well-studied epochs of great transformation. ... Læs mere

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  • The Afterlife of Images

    Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West

    Serier serie Body, Commodity, Text
    In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of the Chinese. In the mid-nineteenth century, the celebrated Cantonese painter Lam Qua collaborated with ... Læs mere

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