New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China's relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from ancient times to the present day.
Author: Martin Stuart-Fox
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781864489545
Category: History
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New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China's relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from ancient times to the present day.
A Short History of China provides an absorbing introduction to more than 4,000 years of Chinese history, telling the stories of the tyrants, despots, femmes fatales, artists, warriors and philosophers who have shaped this fascinating and ...
Author: Gordon Kerr
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
ISBN: 1842439693
Category: History
Page: 160
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The turbulent and chequered past of the world's most populous country is one of the most fascinating in world history, and relatively little known in the West. From the beginnings of Chinese prehistory right through to internet censorship with the 'Great Firewall of China', Gordon Kerr offers a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous country. A Short History of China provides an absorbing introduction to more than 4,000 years of Chinese history, telling the stories of the tyrants, despots, femmes fatales, artists, warriors and philosophers who have shaped this fascinating and complex nation. It describes the amazing technological advances that her scientists and inventors made many hundreds of years before similar discoveries in Europe. It also investigates the Chinese view of the world and examines the movements, aspirations and philosophies that moulded it and, in so doing, created the Chinese nation. Finally, the book examines the dramatic changes of the last few decades and the emergence of China as an economic and industrial 21st century superpower, making Napoleon Bonaparte's words about her ring true: “Let China sleep, for when she awakes, she will shake the world.”
CHAPTER FOUR The Period of the Warring States A map of China in the sixth
century B . C . would show a A tiny and impotent ... were not militarily powerful —
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Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520012394
Category: Art
Page: 279
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By the author of the highly acclaimed China's Imperial Past and written in the same lively style, this is a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization.
Author: Charles O. Hucker
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804709583
Category: History
Page: 162
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By the author of the highly acclaimed China's Imperial Past and written in the same lively style, this is a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization. It weaves together chronologically all aspects of Chinese life and culture, broadly surveying general history, socioeconomic organization, political institutions, religion and thought, and art and literature. The author explains how the Chinese empire emerged in antiquity, how it flourished and declined in successive cycles for thousands of years, and how in the end it found itself unprepared for both the domestic and the external challenges of the modern era. The result is a concise overview that is both absorbing in itself and basic to a more detailed study of China's long and complex evolution. I
Author: Chi-ming Tung
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Category: China
Page: 219
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Author: Chi Tsui
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Page: 388
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Donated by Sydney Harris.
Author: Wailu Hou
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Page: 177
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Author: Mary Augusta Nourse
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Category: China
Page: 413
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Author: Hugo Munsterberg
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This book provides over 2,000 Exam Prep questions and answers to accompany the text A Short History of China Items include highly probable exam items: Neolithic Revolution, Society, Russian Orthodox Church, Doctrine, Minoan civilization, ...
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Lu Hsun, pioneer and standard-bearer of modern Chinese literature, wrote this book during the early twenties.
Author: Lu Hsun
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0898751543
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 452
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Lu Hsun, pioneer and standard-bearer of modern Chinese literature, wrote this book during the early twenties. It is a study of the historical development of Chinese fiction from early myths and legends down to well-developed long novels written at the end of the Ching Dynasty.The characteristics of various forms of fiction through the centuries, the development of these forms and their influence on each other are lucidly presented, while such major works as the novels Hung Lou Meng (A Dream of Red Mansions) and Shue Hu Chuan (Water Margin) are reviewed in detail.Chinese fiction had its roots in story telling, and the feudal ruling class despised folk literature of this kind. The May 4th Movement of 1919 dealt a mortal blow to the feudal forces in Chinese culture. Then the study of this form of literature began to make headway, Lu Hsun being one of the first to carry out research in this field.This book, the earliest systematic study of the history of Chinese fiction by a Chinese writer, still exercises a great influence among Chinese scholars.This English translation is illustrated with reproductions of early Chinese woodcuts.
Author: Luther Carrington Goodrich
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Category: China
Page: 320
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Author: Ji Zui
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Category: China
Page: 355
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Examines the economic, cultural, and social policies of the Peking regime since 1949.
Author: Franklin W. Houn
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
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Category: China
Page: 245
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Examines the economic, cultural, and social policies of the Peking regime since 1949.
This great ruler left behind him an example of vigour such as is seldom found in
the list of Chinese kings of effete physique and apathetic life . He is the only ...
The consequences of human folly and incompetence A SHORT HISTORY OF
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Author: Demetrius Charles Boulger
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Category: China
Page: 436
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Author: Timothy Hugh Barrett
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Author: I. Lin
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Waley, Arthur, Yüan Mei, 18th Century Chinese Poet, London, G. Allen & Unwin,
Ltd., 1956. Swisher, Earl, China's Management of the American Barbarians, New
Haven, Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1951. Wright, Mary C., The ...
Author: L. Carrington Goodrich
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486169235
Category: History
Page: 304
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Discusses major currents of Chinese history, philosophy, culture and politics, beginning with the Shang, Chou and Han dynasties, and culminating with the birth of the Chinese Republic in 1912. 17 maps, 25 illustrations.