著者:Sarah Rose
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年03月18日
A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China
In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scotti……続きを見る
著者:Ping Fu, MeiMei Fox
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年12月31日
“Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most dif……続きを見る
著者:Paul French
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年04月24日
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils
Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aft……続きを見る
著者:Martin Jacques
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2009年11月12日
Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power
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著者:Fan Yang
出版社: Indiana University Press
発売日: 2015年11月15日
Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and ……続きを見る
Red Inc. takes issue with the view that economic development will eventually promote democracy. It outlines in detail the enormous social costs of the rapid rise of China's economy. Although many ob……続きを見る
This book, filled with amazing facts and photographs, describes what life was like for people living in the ancient China during the Middle Dynasty period of the Imperial era.It covers the Six Dynas……続きを見る
著者:Thomas H. Reilly
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2011年07月01日
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 dra……続きを見る
More than thirty years ago the political turn that brought the dismantling of agricultural collectives and exclusive rights to small plots of farmland for rural families initiated a historic return ……続きを見る
The author's great-grandfather was reportedly a British Royal Navy officer posted to Shanghai, China. The Englishman fathered a son with a Chinese woman, who was the author's grandfather, Charles Pe……続きを見る
著者:Tonio Andrade
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2016年01月12日
A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before th……続きを見る
This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conduc……続きを見る
There are some serious concerns and critical questions about the on-going minority protesting in China, such as Tibetan monks’ self-immolations, Muslims’ suicide bombings, and Uyghur large-scale dem……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
Just seventeen when they became lovers, Mao's second wife, He Zizhen was condemned to a life of loneliness after he tired of her. A strong young peasant who only wanted to be a soldier, Kang Keqing ……続きを見る
This book examines the development of wartime culture in the city of Guilin, Guangxi Province, in southwestern China during a major part of the country’s war of resistance against Japanese invasion ……続きを見る
China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to ……続きを見る
The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is……続きを見る
This book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection (as well as a host of secondary characters): Tashi Dorje, a well-known and……続きを見る
The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)ーa crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” Chinaーwas remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qin……続きを見る
2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award ー Shortlisted
Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.
From the very beginning of th……続きを見る
著者:Jean-Louis Rocca
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2015年04月01日
Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise A Sociology of Modern China wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society, all the while avoiding clichés and simp……続きを見る
Since the 2008 uprising, nearly one-hundred and fifty Tibetan monks have self-immolated in protest of the Chinese occupation of their lands. Most have died from their wounds. "If Tibetans saw even a……続きを見る
著者:Wang Xi
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2015年11月11日
This book represents an ethnographic study of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in a school in mainland China, serving Chinese students and staffed by teachers from a variety of origins……続きを見る
This clear and engaging book provides a concise overview of the Ming-Qing epoch (1368–1912), China’s last imperial age. Beginning with the end of the Mongol domination of China in 1368, this five-ce……続きを見る
"When I went to Brazil in 1890, I was always comparing and contrasting that country and her people with my country and my people; and to me, mine were always superior...the attitude of superiority I……続きを見る
The Chinese Ginger Jars is a bright and intimate portrait of the adventures, trials, and achievements of an American housewife who lived through dangerous days in modern China.
When Myra Scovel arri……続きを見る
Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the cou……続きを見る
This work is based on Lionel Giles’ 1910 translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War which dates from the 5th century BC. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which revolves around one aspect of war……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Schonebaum
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2016年04月05日
By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning i……続きを見る