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Bartlett, Beatrice S. Monarchs and Ministers: the Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China 1723-1820
University Of California Press 0520086457 / 9780520086456 Paperback
R. Kent Guy, Journal of Asian Studies: A major work. . . . The value of Monarchs and Ministers lies not only in the accomplishments it culminates, but in the new research directions it suggests. . . . It will be the standard work in eighteenth-century history for many years to come. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. : From the Back Cover: No one in the West knows the archives of China's last dynasty better than Professor Bartlett. Monarchs and Ministers affords us one of the first truly informed views of imperial Chinese policy-making from the inside. (Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.; 417 pages
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Blunden, Caroline Cultural Atlas of China
New York, N. Y. Facts On File 0871961326 / 9780871961327 Hardcover
Amazon.com: For all the importance of China to world history and contemporary affairs alike, Western readers lack for general overviews of the country. This oversize, heavily illustrated atlas goes a long way to fill that gap. The authors, both specialists in Chinese history, begin with a description of the physiographic regions of China, a complex series of environments whose rivers, valleys, and mountains have conditioned the growth of cities and empires over thousands of years. They move on to a detailed account of Chinese history from the Paleolithic to the present, deftly negotiating the complexities of dynastic lines and multiple kingships and surveying the growth of the modern, postimperial Chinese state, forged in warfare and under considerable hardship. Finally, the authors examine the arts for which China is justly famous, calligraphy, architecture, and cooking among them. The authors take care to explain many of the realities of contemporary Chinese society by noting past events. China has always been open to outside influences, they write, but foreign invasions beginning with the medieval Mongol and Manchu conquests have also led China to guard its frontiers jealously; even today, in a time when foreign investment is courted, China keeps a certain distance from outsiders. Chinese intellectual and cultural assimilation of the West during the present century, they note, has been extremely selective, concentrating almost entirely on the most recent times and showing no interest in the Western Middle Ages and only the most marginal interest in Western antiquity. With so much history of its own, as this volume well summarizes, China's apparent lack of interest in the outside world of long ago is understandable. --Gregory McNamee--This text refers to the : Hardcover edition. : Book Description: Western civilization has only recently tapped into the ancient wisdom of Chinese enlightenment, from alternative medicines to spiritual balance and so much more. Cultural Atlas of China embodies the history, geography, and uniqueness of the world's oldest civilization, providing readers with a guided tour of this momentous kingdom. This revised edition has been updated to include: a completely updated and expanded bibliography; coverage of Chinese environmental problems, Taiwan, and the Chinese Diaspora; new maps and photographs. --This text refers to the : Hardcover edition.; Cultural Atlas Series; 237 pages
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Buchanan, Keith M China
New York Random House Value Publishing 0517544946 / 9780517544945 Hardcover
Language Notes&newline; Text: English, Italian (translation) ; 519 pages
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Dietrich, Craig People's China: a Brief History
New York Oxford University Press 0195081854 / 9780195081855 Hardcover
Book Description: This standard text has been updated to take into account China's increasing economic liberalization along with its continuing authoritarianism in the late 1990's. Beginning with the sweeping changes which occurred when Mao Zedong and the Communists defeated Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and took over a China which was still reeling from World War II, People's China introduces us to the unique characters and events which have shaped recent Chinese history. With remarkable economy, People's China chronologically unpacks the essential story of modern China -- the historical background, the ideologies, the grand economic achievements, and the cruel repression. --This text refers to the : Hardcover edition.; 362 pages
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Huang, Ray China, a MacRo History
Armonk, N. Y. M. E. Sharpe 0873324536 / 9780873324533 Paperback
From Library Journal&newline; Several good histories of China for general readers have been published in recent years, e. G. , Witold Rodzinski's The Walled Kingdom (Free Pr. , 1984) . Cotterell's book, however, is too amateurish to be among them. It alternates between convention and error and often condenses history in a confusing way. Huang's macro history, on the other hand, is most welcome. It builds a structure of novel interpretation and vivid anecdote on a solid base of original research and covers the whole sweep of Chinese history, making comparative references to Western history. Huang seeks to explain the present Chinese reforms as the culmination of a commercialization trend that has broken down the old peasant society and brought China into the mainstream of world history. It is debatable whether Imperial China was as stagnant as Huang says, and his theory of the breakup of traditional China bears a resemblance to old-fashioned modernization theory. Still, his book is a boldly opinionated, freshly written synthesis that will be read with pleasure and profit by all. Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia Univ. &newline; Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.; 277 pages
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Hucker, Charles O. China's Imperial Past: an Introduction to Chinese History and Culture
Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press 0804708878 / 9780804708876 Hardcover
ABOUT THE BOOK: China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture: FROM THE PUBLISHER: A work unique in the sweep of its design and scope, intended expressly for the general reader interested in human history and culture, this is a vivid panoramic survey of the vast course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the Old China began the agonizing transition to the new. ; 474 pages
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Lieberthal, Kenneth Policy Making in China
Princeton University Press 0691010757 / 9780691010755 Paperback
Review: Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organization chart. . . . A major work that no serious student of politics should miss. ; 464 pages
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Link, Perry Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament
New York W W Norton & Co Inc 0393030520 / 9780393030525 Hardcover
From Publishers Weekly: Americans, a Chinese scholar friend of the author observed, can never, never appreciate the 'worrying mentality' of the Chinese. Nevertheless, Link, a professor of Chinese literature at Princeton, eloquently imparts the deeply felt concerns he heard from students and colleagues during his 1988-1989 stint as director of the National Academy of Science Office on Scholarly Exchange in Beijing. With grace and warmth, he recounts complaints of nepotism, corruption, deprivation, bribery and oppression leading to the Tiananmen Square massacre--confirming what has already been told in the recent spate of reports from dissidents. His temperate, objective account demonstrates the acute sense of responsibility Chinese intellectuals have traditionally assumed for their country. A fellow American at one of the meetings Link attended drew parallels between the complaints of the Chinese and those of U. S. Citizens about their own goverment. Link points out the profound differences between a society in which individuals have freedom to criticize and one in which they don't. : Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. : From Library Journal: Unlike most of their Western counterparts, Chinese intellectuals actually count for something in politics. In 1988-89, Link, a distinguished scholar of Chinese literature, served as an academic exchange coordinator in Beijing, where he came into contact with a broad cross section of Chinese intellectuals. His sympathetic but critical portrait, based on careful attention to his Chinese friends, is by far the best account of the mental, emotional, and physical universe that Chinese intellectuals inhabit. Torn between their desire to serve their country and their contempt for the ruling Communist party, China's intellectuals agonize over how to establish their moral and intellectual autonomy without abandoning their traditional social roles. Mostly, Link allows the Chinese intellectuals, in all their diversity, to speak for themselves. But his own insights and empathy impart a luminous quality to this utterly absorbing gem of a book. : - Steven I. Levine, Boulder Run Research, Hillsborough, N. C. : Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.; 336 pages
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Lipman, Jonathan N. Violence in China: Essays in Culture and Counterculture (Suny Series in Chinese Local Studies)
Albany State University Of New York Press 0791401154 / 9780791401156 Paperback
Book Description: In this volume, Lipman and Harrell explore the prevalence and ubiquity of violence in China, a society whose official norms value harmony and condemn conflict. The book investigates violence in a wide variety of situations through the sweep of history and in contexts ranging from the family to the national polity. : The book explores motivations for violence from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Historically, the authors cover bloody religious rebellions in premodern times, the depiction of violence in traditional popular novels, ethnic strife between Muslims and Han Chinese in the Northwest, and feuding local communities in the Southeast. Modern China is depicted by analyses of rural and urban violence in Mao's Cultural Revolution and an examination of continuing domestic violence. This depiction of the cultural themes and motivations for violence allow lessons drawn from specific contexts to be applied to the nature of Chinese culture in general. --This text refers to the : : Hardcover: edition.; Suny Series in Chinese Local Studies; 249 pages
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MacFarquhar, Roderick (editor) The Politics of China : the Eras of Mao and Deng
New York Cambridge University Press 0521588634 / 9780521588638 Paperback
Book Description&newline; Bringing together substantial essays by leading scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of the politics of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the mid-1990s. The first four chapters are drawn from The Cambridge History of China, Volumes 14 and 15. The last two chapters have been written specifically for the second edition. Richard Baum's chapter covers the events of the 1980s, and Joseph Fewsmith's concluding essay extends the coverage into the 1990s. ; 620 pages
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Madsen, Richard China and the American Dream: a Moral Inquiry
Berkeley University Of California Press 0520086139 / 9780520086135 First Edition Hardcover
Book Description&newline; From the &doublequote; Red Menace&doublequote; to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U. S. -China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two strikingly different nations. Combining his expertise as a sinologist with the vision of America developed in Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, Madsen studies the cultural myths that have shaped the perceptions of people of both nations for the past twenty-five years. The dominant American myth about China, born in the 1960s, foresaw Western ideals of economic, intellectual, and political freedom emerging triumphant throughout the world. Nixon's visit to China nurtured this idea, and by the 1980s it was helping to sustain America's hopefulness about its own democratic identity. Meanwhile, Chinese popular culture has focused on the U. S. , especially American consumer goodsCoca-Cola was described by the People's Daily as &doublequote; capitalism concentrated in a bottle. &doublequote; Today we face a new global institutional and cultural environment in which the old myths no longer work for either Americans or Chinese. Madsen provides a framework for us to think about the relationship between democratic ideals and economic/political realities in the post-Cold War world. What he proposes is no less than the foundation for building a public philosophy for the emerging world order.; 288 pages
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Mote, Frederick W The Intellectual Foundations of China
New York McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages 0075540304 / 9780075540304 Paperback
Book Description&newline; This brief paperback introduction to the basic ideas that underlie traditional Chinese culture focuses on the &doublequote; Golden Age&doublequote; (600 B. C. -150 B. C. ) of Chinese philosophy.; Studies in World Civilization; 144 pages
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Mu, Yi Crisis At Tiananmen: Reform and Reality in Modern China
San Francisco China Books & Periodicals 0835122905 / 9780835122900 Paperback
From Library Journal: Chinese journalist Yi and his American co-author Thompson have written a well-informed review for nonspecialist readers of the Chinese democracy movement that ended so tragically. They correct the U. S. Media view of these events--noting for example, that by democracy most Chinese students meant greater government accountability, not a Western-style political system. Highly critical of Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese hardliners, the authors see the idealistic students as the harbingers of a new and more humane Chinese democratic socialism. For more on Deng Xiaoping's reform plans, see James M. Ethridge's China's Unfinished Revolution , reviewed in this issue, below. --Ed. They also have written a very interesting section on the role of the press, have included some of the most important documents from both sides, and supply a useful chronology. For all general collections. : - Steven I. Levine, Duke Univ. , Durham, N. C. : Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.; 283 pages
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Needham, Joseph Science in Traditional China
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 0674794397 / 9780674794399 Paperback
ABOUT THE BOOK: Science in Traditional China: FROM THE PUBLISHER: The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the invention of gunpowder and firearms, but also, through the search for macrobiotic life-elixirs, to the rise of modern medical chemistry. ; 134 pages
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