wired - China 2

In the realm where the gentle dance of water meets the ancient art of Tai Chi, a profound synergy emerges, giving birth to a martial masterpiece – "Waveform Warriors: Water Style Tai Chi - Shui Styl……続きを見る

Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical novel, 'With Fire & Sword', takes readers on a captivating journey through 17th century Poland during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The vivid descriptions and engaging pl……続きを見る

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern edit……続きを見る

Explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic. The economic and geographic development of the early United States is usually tho……続きを見る

The "Spring and Autumn Annals," attributed to Confucius, is an ancient Chinese historical chronicle that records events in the Lu state from 722 to 481 BCE. This seminal work combines meticulous his……続きを見る

In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this a……続きを見る

Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Bu……続きを見る

Gold Medal for the 2024 IPPY Award Winner of the 2023 Best Book Award from American Book Fest Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book Award In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an u……続きを見る

Dieses Buch untersucht die besonderen Beiträge chinesischer Romanautoren zur China-Debatte im Hinblick auf die Schlüsselthemen chinesische Sprache, Machtdynamik und konfuzianische Tradition. Während……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING **'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as……続きを見る

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the……続きを見る

This book explores the dissemination of knowledge around Chinese medicinal substances from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries in a global context. The author presents a microhistory of the caterp……続きを見る

Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit China, to which Bu……続きを見る

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism……続きを見る

The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Budd……続きを見る

Ther paperback edition of this book can be accessed with ISBN: 9176371107 THE ART OF WAR (Chinese: 孫子兵法; pinyin: Sūnzĭ bīngfǎ) is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a hi……続きを見る

An American Interest Book of the Year “Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.” ーRobert D. Kaplan “An outstanding contribution to our understanding of that m……続きを見る

Making sense of nature in one of the world’s most contested borderlands. According to Chinese government reports, hundreds of plague-infected rodents fell from the skies over Gannan county on an Apr……続きを見る

In "A United States Midshipman in China," Yates Stirling presents a richly detailed narrative of his experiences as a midshipman during the tumultuous era of the mid-19th century, a time marked by t……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-building Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the ea……続きを見る

Master the many styles of Wing Chun Kung Fu with this expert martial arts guide. With the fame of Bruce Lee, the conditions in Hong Kong, and the hard work and effort of many of his classmates, the ……続きを見る

Written with reader accessibility in mind, this comprehensive handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture will be an invaluable resource for any student of Eastern art history, Chinese arts and……続きを見る

Paul U. Unschuld bietet eine kulturhistorisch begründete Analyse der politischen Geschichte Chinas der vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderte. Ein erster Teil beschreibt die verschiedenen Traumata, die dem L……続きを見る

This first book to consider land reform in both countries show that reform, as the Communists have conducted it, can be justified in China and North Vietnam for both economic reasons and ideological……続きを見る

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderl……続きを見る

This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into ……続きを見る

In 1978, faced with the pressure to modernize and a declining budget, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) reluctantly agreed to join China's economic reform drive, expanding its internal econ……続きを見る

We, as readers, even as historians, too often assume that the Jewish experience unfolded only in the Middle East and in Europe and North America. In this we are missing an entire page of Jewish hist……続きを見る

This narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for dominance over the Silk Road ……続きを見る