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Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 19491976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, an……続きを見る

It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation albeit being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and an international g……続きを見る

In July 1940, the wives and children of British families in Hong Kong, military and civilian, were compulsorily evacuated, following a plan created by the Hong Kong government in 1939. That plan foc……続きを見る

Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and……続きを見る

Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between ……続きを見る

One has to marvel at the tremendous material progress of China under the New China concept. The sweeping skyscrapers, the architectural creations of the Olympics and space successes are a wonder to ……続きを見る

Widow of Que-Moy weaves the romance and tragedy of two young lovers on Que-Moy, an island adjacent to Mainland China, during the tumultuous confrontations between Chiang Kai-Sheks nationalist regime……続きを見る

Herein the writer discusses the present rise of China from looking at a specific critical statement made by Sun Tzu in his ancient treatise The Art of War. The writer builds on this one particular q……続きを見る

The eighteen missionaries who traveled to Shansi were dedicated, pious, hard-working clerics. Ernest Atwater; the young minister Francis Ward Davis and his wife Lydia; Charles Wesley Price and his f……続きを見る

Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be consid……続きを見る

The Western Roman Empire collapsed more than 1500 years ago, while the Eastern Roman Empire survived for almost a thousand more years. When the west collapsed, no one questioned why. It was simply t……続きを見る

The United States has been the worlds dominant super power for the last 70 years. It sets the rules for international relations and seeks to maintain the status quo. That situation is changing. Chin……続きを見る

Huaian born Zhou Enlai was contemporary Chinas greatest statesman, spymaster and negotiator - the one Henry Kissinger could not out-negotiate. The Peoples Republic of China would not exist today wit……続きを見る

This historically accurate educational series on China for Children continues with a look at some of the most famous leaders of Chinas past. From the first emperor who was buried in a city of clay a……続きを見る

All peoples have their share of brutal rulers. The longer their history, the more numerous such notorious rulers they have inevitably witnessed, and the greater the diversity of their pitiless behav……続きを見る

Hacia el ao 2000, Colombia se encontraba al borde del abismo. Tres grupos armados sembraban el terror a lo largo y ancho del pas. Tendra el Gobierno alguna posibilidad de derrotar los grupos armados……続きを見る

Different cultures and civilizations have different perception of a history context and ideas. The Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato, Demosthenes, Aristotle, etc. shaped Western thought, Western lo……続きを見る

At the entrance of The Field Museum’s Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion’s paw rests upon a decorated ball ……続きを見る

La transición de China ha estado llena de éxitos en el campo de la economía. En estos últimos años se convirtió en la segunda economía del mundo. La combinación de formas mercantiles muy poderosas, ……続きを見る

The book documents the atrocities committed against the Southern Mongolians by the Chinese in a massive genocide campaign throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. The two-volume book is the first ……続きを見る

　　清朝，一個距離今天最近的封建王朝。他的敗落更替，不但改變了中華民族發展的軌跡，更是在世界大環境中凸顯出這個民族無與倫比的榮耀與痛徹天地的悲涼之間的巨大反差。　　■給你不一樣的清朝歷史！　　康雍乾……続きを見る

　　古代帝王為何多「嫡長子繼承制」　　嫡長子，就是由符合「六禮」所娶的妻子生育的、有著純正血統的長子。嫡長子繼承制，就是由正妻所生的長子來繼承家產和王位。這是宗法制度最基本的一項原則，法律規定嫡長子……続きを見る

　　■本書從中國長遠的歷史中，精選出數十個廣為人知的歷史人物與事件，對其進行深入而精闢的分析，並且還原其歷史真相，帶給讀者全然不同的看法與見解！　　歷史大多是由改朝換代的勝利者所組織編寫，出於政治上……続きを見る

　　正像許多研究者所意識到的那樣，近代中國的所有問題都是因為中西交通而引起，假如沒有西方人東來，沒有鴉片貿易，就不會有鴉片戰爭，不會有後來的變化，中國還會在原來的軌道上穩步發展，中國人還會享有日出而……続きを見る

　　封建帝國的組織　　武王所肇創、周公所奠定的「封建帝國」，維持了約莫七百年（西元前十一世紀初至前五世紀末）。這期間的社會概況便是本章所要描寫的。自然在這期間，並非沒有社會變遷，而各地域的情形也不一……続きを見る

The Art of Resistance surveys the lives of seven paintersーDing Cong (1916–2009), Feng Zikai (1898–1975), Li Keran (1907–89), Li Kuchan (1898–1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897–1971),……続きを見る

Points East, A Publication of the Sino-Judaic Institute, Vol. 23 No. 2, July 2008 The Covenant and the Mandate of Heaven: An In-depth Comparative Cultural Study of Judaism and China. By Tiberiu Weis……続きを見る

Even as late as 1989, most young Chinese professionals believed they could predict their entire future lives. But when the Chinese government followed the Tiananmen killings with vigorous promotion ……続きを見る

Das deutsche Kanonenboot Iltis unter Kapitän Kurz ist auf dem Weg nach Tsingtau in China. Sein Geheimauftrag, der Deutschland und England in einen Krieg stürzen kann, führt ihn auf die malaiische H……続きを見る

Birth of two Nations: the Republic of China and the Peoples Republic of China is a historical account how the Republic of China is formally established in 1911 after a bloody struggle that destroyed……続きを見る