Qing Hua Chronicles

Qing Hua Chronicles

Author: Shui ShengSheng

Publisher: Funstory

Published: 2020-02-19

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 1648463940

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In that life, she was the daughter-in-law of the Celestial Emperor. However, the revered Crown Princess of the Six Realms had turned the tables on her due to her love.In this life, she was the lazy and renowned daughter of the Prime Minister. She had no choice but to embark on the path of cultivation.That day, when she met him for the first time, she felt as if the moment he laid his eyes on her, the heaven and earth would be destroyed.That year, she was abandoned by him in the East Sea, tears of tears in her eyes.Life eight hardships, the individual taste does not personally experience will not understand, if there is infatuation wrong pay because of the great Dao merciless.


Fractured Rebellion

Fractured Rebellion

Author: Andrew G. Walder

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0674268180

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Fractured Rebellion is the first full-length account of the evolution of China’s Red Guard Movement in Beijing, the nation’s capital, from its beginnings in 1966 to its forcible suppression in 1968. Andrew Walder combines historical narrative with sociological analysis as he explores the radical student movement’s crippling factionalism, devastating social impact, and ultimate failure. Most accounts of the movement have portrayed a struggle among Red Guards as a social conflict that pitted privileged “conservative” students against socially marginalized “radicals” who sought to change an oppressive social and political system. Walder employs newly available documentary evidence and the recent memoirs of former Red Guard leaders and members to demonstrate that on both sides of the bitter conflict were students from comparable socioeconomic backgrounds, who shared similar—largely defensive—motivations. The intensity of the conflict and the depth of the divisions were an expression of authoritarian political structures that continued to exert an irresistible pull on student motives and actions, even in the midst of their rebellion. Walder’s nuanced account challenges the main themes of an entire generation of scholarship about the social conflicts of China’s Cultural Revolution, shedding light on the most tragic and poorly understood period of recent Chinese history.


Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview & Chronology

Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview & Chronology

Author: Hong Kong Chronicles Institute

Publisher: Chung Hwa Book Co. (H.K.) Ltd.

Published: 2022-06-30

Total Pages: 810

ISBN-13: 9888807323

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Overview & Chronology is the first title of the book series Hong Kong Chronicles by Hong Kong Chronicles Institute. It presents a detailed overview of Hong Kong’s local history and more than 6,500 major historical events taking place between ancient times and 2017. The book series consists of 66 volumes to be released in 42 books with 25 million words and completed in phases by 2027. It covers a historical timeline of 7,000 years – from the New Stone Age 5,000 B.C. to the inauguration of the fifth term of the HKSAR government on July 1, 2017. It includes 10 major categories, including nature, economy, culture, society, politics and people, etc. Local chronicles have the important functions of preserving history, providing reference for policymaking and educating the people. Through the compilation of local chronicles, it serves to seek out, preserve and promote the stories of people, their socio-economic development and way of life as well as political structure. It plays an important role of cultural significance in driving the future by reflecting on the past. The book series is of profound historical significance and cultural value as an accurate, objective, systematic and comprehensive record of 7,000 years of Hong Kong's transformation.


Facing Cantonese Adversity, Fleeing Tong-Shaan:

Facing Cantonese Adversity, Fleeing Tong-Shaan:

Author: Douglas W. Lee, PhD

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2024-06-12

Total Pages: 1045

ISBN-13: 1639376429

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This book is a two-part discussion about mid-late nineteenth-century traditional Cantonese society and the material conditions that fostered large-scale Cantonese overseas emigration. Part I: discusses the Peasant-farmer, merchant, and Gentry (scholar-official-landed Gentry) social classes. An additional chapter focuses on Cantonese “special interests’ groups,” which embraced those people with shared group needs, identities, and interests, which cut across social class lines. Part II: analyzes four adverse material conditions, which motivated and contextualized large-scale Cantonese overseas emigration. This includes: 1) high-density population concentration and over-population; 2) economic immiseration of the Cantonese peasant-farmer class; 3) Cantonese communal conflict and social chaos; and 4) local Cantonese/fan-kwai (“foreign devils”) conflicts in the Cantonese heartland. This book is the product of over forty-five years of research and writing, it is the third volume of a new series entitled The Gum-Shaan Chronicles: The Early History of Cantonese-Chinese America, 1850-1900. About the Author Douglas W. Lee, PhD is a second-generation Cantonese-Chinese American, trained as a historian of Modern China, with a special research interest in early Chinese American History. He earned a BA at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon (1967); an MA at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1969); a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1979); and JD from Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon (1988). In 1979-1980, Lee was the cofounder and first national President of the National Association for Asian American Studies. In 1981, he was cofounder of the Chinese Historical Society of the Pacific Northwest, and the first editor of its journal, The Annals of the Chinese Historical Society of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle, Washington).


The Tso Chuan

The Tso Chuan

Author: Ming Zuoqiu

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780231067157

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A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C., the Tso Chuan has long been considered both a major historical document and and an influential literary model. Covering over 250 years, these historical narratives focus not only on the political, diplomatic, and military affairs of ancient China, but also on its economic and cultural developments during the turbulent era when warring feudal states were gradually working towards unification. Ending shortly after Confucius' death in 479 B.C., the Tso Chuan provides a background to the life and thought of Confucius and his followers that is available in no other work.