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  • 北京现代派——798

    by 林芳璐 ...
    林芳璐编著的《北京现代派(798北京影像)》从资深艺术人和798创意人的角度出发,与读者分享一个真实全面的798。书籍内页附加手绘创意地图将798内的艺术聚点直观的展现在读者眼前。又从“游走于画廊与艺术馆之间”、“在新派创意店铺里与艺术碰面”、“边走边歇也艺术”三个方面具体描绘了798作为北京新兴的创意艺术集散地的各类文化特征与艺术特点。 ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • No Dogs in China

    A Report on China Today

    Series series Heritage
    In 1949 the bamboo curtain clattered down over one-fifth of the people of the world. In one sudden twist of history, a vast community that had been militarily and politically allied with the West was transmuted into the ideological foe of everything the free world stands for. With the surprise intervention by Red China in Korea, a new alignment of world powers was confirmed and the bamboo curtain ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Mencius

    A New Translation Arranged and Annotated For The General Reader

    Series series Heritage
    Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways and thoughts that condition their conduct. The Works of Mencius provides an admirable insight into ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • 中國人性論史(先秦篇)

    by 徐復觀 ...
    *此書為固定版面格式,建議使用平板或電腦閱讀*本書由正文十四章、附錄三篇而成,約三十五萬字。人性論為中國文化的根據,欲言中國文化之特徵,必先了解中國的人性論,始可免敷泛支離之弊。著者先由周初人文精神之發展,以探索其如何到達人性論得以成立的歷程,將古代思想史作有機體之把握。更由背景、動機、目的、方法等以說明各家人性論異同之處,及由人性論異同所展開的有關其他思想的異同,使其條理分明,不相側雜。每一結論之提出,皆由基本材料之精密歸納而來;凡文獻真偽及時代先後之爭,皆由相關資料之精密考據而定。去空疏之談,斥拘滯之見,為治中國思想史開闢新途徑。 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

    Series series Heritage
    This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the evolution of modern Chinese fiction was a more complex process than a simple imitation of Western ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace

    The Chinese and Their Revolution

    “A milestone in Western studies of China.” (John K. Fairbank)In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. By skillfully combining ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Born Red

    A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution

    by Yuan Gao ...
    Born Red is an artistically wrought personal account, written very much from inside the experience, of the years 1966-1969, when the author was a young teenager at middle school. It was in the middle schools that much of the fury of the Cultural Revolution and Red Guard movement was spent, and Gao was caught up in very dramatic events, which he recounts as he understood them at the time. Gao's ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Yûn-nan, South of the Clouds

    My Life in Southwest China from 1939 to 1951

    by Gladys Muir ...
    In her autobiographical Yûn-nan, South of the Clouds, Gladys Muir recounts her life working together with her husband Frank as Canadian missionaries in remote villages of Yunnan province in Southwest China during and after World War II.In addition to narratives from everyday life near Dali and Kunming, this book also gives a first hand description of historical events from this tumultuous time in ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 东晋门阀政治

    by 田余庆著 ...
    本书以江左几家侨姓门阀士族与司马氏皇权结合的历史兴衰为线索,从政治史角度对我国中古政治史中“东晋门阀政治”这一重要问题进行了独特考察。 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Four Seasons of T'ang Poetry

    by John C.H. Wu ...
    This substantial collection of Tang Dynasty poetry includes extensive commentary and notes-offering insight into this rich literary heritage."Stretching out my hand I feel the pulse of the stars," wrote Li Po, one of the most famous of the T'ang dynasty poets. This superlative study of the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, based on nearly 50,000 poems written by more than 2,000 poets, captures not ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 外交生涯四十年

    by 何鳳山 ...
    本書敘述三十年代至七十年代中華民國駐外大使與外國使節的交往,描寫了近半個世紀以來在國際政壇上舉足輕重的風雲人物,是近代外交史上既詳實而又珍貴的秘辛錄。 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fists of Righteous Harmony

    A History of the Boxer Uprising in China in the Year 1900

    A British historian recounts the armed, violent Chinese insurrection near the end of the Qing dynasty at the dawn of the 20th century.The Boxers were a fanatical secret organization who were incited by anti-foreign elements in the Chinese Government to commit wide-scale deportations against foreign missionaries and their Chinese converts. The Boxers had the tacit support of the Dowager Empress Tzu ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fanshen

    A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

    More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Soulstealers

    The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768

    Midway through the reign of the Ch’ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China’s last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men’s queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China

    The Control of Foreign Direct Investment under Socialism

    When Chinese leaders announced in late 1978 that China would "open to the outside world," they embarked on a strategy for attracting private foreign capital to spur economic development. At the same time, they were concerned about possible negative repercussions of this policy. Margaret Pearson examines government efforts to control the terms of foreign investment between 1979 and 1988 and, more ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • 清代史事與人物

    by 莊練 ...
    *此書為固定版面格式,建議使用平板或電腦閱讀*本書就清代史事與人物的傳說附會,予以探尋真相,其中包括秘辛、奇案、公案、掌故、軼聞等。上自王公大臣,下至販夫走卒,影響世人視聽者,經搜羅考據,精闢獨到,值得一讀。歷史書大多內容嚴肅,不免使人覺得歷史學枯燥無味,反不如律官野史中的掌故軼聞能引人入勝,作者為避免稗官野史之荒誕鄙俚產生誤導,乃從冷書僻典中考尋發掘某些久被塵封的清代故事素材,在詳加考訂之後,以深入淺出而富于趣味的寫作方式加以介紹,不僅彌補了正史記載之缺漏,並可幫助讀者增加正確的歷史知識。 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Three Chinas

    by Bill Purves ...
    Let me introduce you to Andrew, Pat, and Dr. Su:… three Chinese friends of mine. Andrew is a computer science professor at a university in Taipei; Pat works in the administration of a private club in Hong Kong. Dr. Su works in a hospital in the agricultural city of Hefei in central China.With democracy establishing itself in Taiwan, and colonialism soon to be terminated in Hong Kong and Macau, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of War

    by Tzu Sun ...
    Translated by Ralph D. Sawyer ...
    The definitive translation of Sun-tzu's timeless classic of military strategy, Art of WarSun-tzu's Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written. This treatise has been credited with influencing some of the most legendary military operations. Beyond the battlefield, people far and wide have long turned to Art of War for advice on how to succeed in various ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • ‘This Culture of Ours’

    Intellectual Transitions in T’ang and Sung China

    by Peter K. Bol ...
    This book traces the shared culture of the Chinese elite from the seventh to the twelfth centuries. The early T'ang definition of 'This Culture of Ours' combined literary and scholarly traditions from the previous five centuries. The late Sung Neo-Confucian movement challenged that definition. The author argues that the Tang-Sung transition is best understood as a transition from a literary view ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Cherishing Men from Afar

    Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793

    In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time—the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion was the mission of Lord Macartney, sent by the British crown and sponsored by the East India Company, to the court of the Qianlong emperor. Cherishing Men from Afar looks at the initial confrontation between these ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992

    by Yan Sun ...
    A momentous debate has been unfolding in China over the last fifteen years, only intermittently in public view, concerning the merits of socialism as a philosophy of social justice and as a program for national development. Just as Deng Xiaoping's better advertised experiment with market- based reforms has challenged Marxist-Leninist dogma on economic policy, the years since the death of Mao ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity

    The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao

    by Xiaobing Tang ...
    This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Borders of Chinese Civilization

    Geography and History at Empire's End

    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • None but the Nightingale

    An Introduction to Chinese Literature

    This classic introduction to the Chinese literature is a fundamental step towards the West's understanding of the rich literary legacy of China.Readable, condensed, entertaining, the selections contained in this book belong to enduring world literature; the "Great Society" envisioned by Confucius; the "Fireside Chats" of K'ang Hei; the supercilious letter of the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to King George ... Read more

    $5.99 USD