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Book The Three Banners of China

Download or read book The Three Banners of China written by Marc Riboud and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1966 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a photographic journey through 1960s China.

Book The Manchu Way

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  • Author : Mark C. Elliott
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780804746847
  • Pages : 612 pages

Download or read book The Manchu Way written by Mark C. Elliott and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, This book supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation.

Book Present Day Political Organization of China

Download or read book Present Day Political Organization of China written by Ippolit Semenovič Brunnert and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes on China

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  • Author : United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Notes on China written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Download or read book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China

Download or read book Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China written by Hsieh Bao Hua and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace, with a focus on the examination of Ming-Qing political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct yet associated individuals. The persistent theme of the book is how concubines, appointed by patriarchal polygamy, and servants, laboring under the master-servants hierarchy, experienced interactions and mobility within each institution and in associating with the other. While reviewing how ritual and law treated concubines and servants as patriarchal possessions, the author explores the perspectives available for individualconcubines and servants and the limitations in their daily circumstances, searching for their “positional powers” and “privilege of the inferiors” in the context of Chinese culture during the Ming-Qing time period. For a list of the book's tables and their sources, please see: http://www.wou.edu/wp/hsiehb/

Book Waging War

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  • Author : Wayne E. Lee
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0199797455
  • Pages : 561 pages

Download or read book Waging War written by Wayne E. Lee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History provides a wide-ranging examination of war in human history, from the beginning of the species until the current rise of the so-called Islamic State. Although it covers many societies throughout time, the book does not attempt to tell all stories from all places, nor does it try to narrate "important" conflicts. Instead, author Wayne E. Lee describes the emergence of military innovations and systems, examining how they were created and then how they moved or affected other societies. These innovations are central to most historical narratives, including the development of social complexity, the rise of the state, the role of the steppe horseman, the spread of gunpowder, the rise of the west, the bureaucratization of military institutions, the industrial revolution and the rise of firepower, strategic bombing and nuclear weapons, and the creation of "people's war."

Book Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year

Download or read book Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Province and Politics in Late Imperial China

Download or read book Province and Politics in Late Imperial China written by S. A. M. Adshead and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1984 Province and Politics in Late Imperial China presents analysis of one of the regional governments of China, the administration of the Szechwan governor-general from its apogee at the end of the nineteenth century to its nadir in the revolution of 1911. The Szechwan governor – general not only ruled the one province of Szechwan, but also exercised significant powers in Kweichow, the Tibetan borderlands, and parts of Yunnan and Hupei, as well as playing a major role in imperial politics. He was therefore a regional and not simply a provincial figure, while Szechwan was characteristic of the system of Chinese regions. This book seeks to show that the main threat to the dominance of the Szechwan governors – general came from their own modernizing activities; viceregal government broke down in the attempt to use traditional means to modern ends. In microcosm, therefore, Szechwan displays the pattern in both politics and ecology that was one of disruptive modernization in China. This book is an interesting read for scholars of Chinese history.

Book Manchus and Han

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  • Author : Edward J. M. Rhoads
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2017-05-01
  • ISBN : 0295997486
  • Pages : 413 pages

Download or read book Manchus and Han written by Edward J. M. Rhoads and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China�s 1911�12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown�the Qing�was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China�s Han majority for nearly three centuries, and that the revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Han, to what extent was the revolution not only anti-monarchical, but also anti-Manchu? Edward Rhoads explores this provocative and complicated question in Manchus and Han, analyzing the evolution of the Manchus from a hereditary military caste (the �banner people�) to a distinct ethnic group and then detailing the interplay and dialogue between the Manchu court and Han reformers that culminated in the dramatic changes of the early 20th century. Until now, many scholars have assumed that the Manchus had been assimilated into Han culture long before the 1911 Revolution and were no longer separate and distinguishable. But Rhoads demonstrates that in many ways Manchus remained an alien, privileged, and distinct group. Manchus and Han is a pathbreaking study that will forever change the way historians of China view the events leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty. Likewise, it will clarify for ethnologists the unique origin of the Manchus as an occupational caste and their shifting relationship with the Han, from border people to rulers to ruled. Winner of the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for Modern China, sponsored by The China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Book The Theory and Practice of Communism  People s Republic of China  July 10  1973  v  853 958  iii p

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Communism People s Republic of China July 10 1973 v 853 958 iii p written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Select List of Recent Publications

Download or read book Select List of Recent Publications written by East-West Center. Library and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory and Practice of Communism   People s Republic of China   Hearings      93 1

Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Communism People s Republic of China Hearings 93 1 written by United States. Congress. House Internal Security and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chinese Repository

Download or read book The Chinese Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chinese Repository

Download or read book The Chinese Repository written by Elijah Coleman Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People s Republic of China

Download or read book Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People s Republic of China written by Henry Yuhuai He and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far more than a simple glossary, this unique resource provides a detailed lexicography of political and social life in China today, and deepens our understanding of the last twenty years of enormous change in the People's Republic. Each of the 1,600 entries (1) is rendered in Chinese characters; (2) is alphabetized according to pinyin, the Chinese phonetic alphabet; (3) is translated into English; and (4) is explained in terms of the situation in which it first appeared and how its meaning shifted over time. In addition to the main body of definitions and annotations, there are three appendices, abbreviations, a name index, and a bibliography.

Book Historical Dictionary of Modern China  1800 1949

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern China 1800 1949 written by James Z. Gao and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800-1949) offers a concise but comprehensive examination of the political, military, economic, social, and cultural development of modern China. Instead of focusing merely on the political elites of China, this reference covers a variety of significant persons, including women and ethnic minorities; new historical concepts; cultural and educational institutions; and economic activities. Drawing on newly-available records, including a large mass of governmental and family archives, the narratives presented reveal new facts, offer a new interpretation in accordance with China's modernization process during the late Qing period, and a revisionist perspective on the Republican history. The chronology records not only political and military events but also other experiences of the Chinese people. The bibliography gives prominence to current literature on China's drive towards modernization and appendixes provide the reader with detailed information on China's cultural and economic transformation.