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Author: Andrew Hyde
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-10-15
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1398115991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of international relations at a time when Western powers exploited Eastern resources and sought to dominate the economic and political landscape. A powerful insight into the history that helped shaped current political and economic realities.
Author: David Scott
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008-11-07
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0791477428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
Author: Haijian Mao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 571
ISBN-13: 1107069874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study of the Opium War that presents a revisionist reading of the conflict and its main Chinese protagonists.
Author: Paul French
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2014-07-23
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 0143800361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan at the start of the war. Yet, despite early encouragement from the world's superpowers, the country was to be severely disappointed. In this First World War China Special Paul French explores China's betrayal by the West, the charismatic advocates it sent to the conference and the hugely significant May Fourth Movement that resulted from the treaty.
Author: Stephen R. Platt
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 0307961745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author: Guangqian Peng
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9787801378927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Zheng Wang
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0231148909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWang follows the Chinese Communist Party's ideological re-education of the public through the exploitation of China's humiliating modern history, tracking the CCP's use of history education to glorify the party, re-establish its legitimacy, consolidate national identity, and justify one-party rule in the post-Tiananmen and post-Cold War era.
Author: Henk Schulte Nordholt
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789087282783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's development over the centuries has purposely diverged from that of the West in terms of language, philosophy, and history, and for many decades its nationalism created a form of isolationism. In order to maintain its influence the Chinese Communist Party has created the myth that, without the Party, China could not have returned to the world stage and that, without the Party, the "territorial integrity" of the country cannot be restored. But what does this "restored" China look like? To answer, Henk Schulte Nordholt examines how Beijing's regional policy is causing structural tensions between China and most of the countries located in East and Southeast Asia, and also, indirectly, their ally the United States. In China and the Barbarians, Nordholt offers his analysis of the possible trajectory of China's internal political and cultural developments in the coming years.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-04-20
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9004428895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRekindling the Strong State in Russia and China offers a thorough analysis of the profound regeneration of the State and its external projection in Russia and China. The book is an essential guide to understand the deep changes of these countries and their global aspirations.
Author: Cheng Nien
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 0802145167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
