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Book China s Last Noble Race and Their Lost Generation

Download or read book China s Last Noble Race and Their Lost Generation written by Deng Shiao Yang and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China s Last Noble Race

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  • Author : Pao Chin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023-09-30
  • ISBN : 9780228895077
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book China s Last Noble Race written by Pao Chin and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal journey of surviving the brutality of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy craft. Espionage has been a part of human history for centuries. In the 21st century, it has evolved to extend into the general population with a long-game strategy. Communist spy craft has become more ingenious, using tactics such as sexpionage, money, coercion, and media propaganda. Their modern cold war aims to gain control of average citizens and influence the future of individuals and their families, This starts with targeting influential people and spreading their influence with pyramid-scheme-like methods. The tale of modern geishas, the seven mountain mandate, and its process are all part of an invisible cold war raging against democracy. The new cultural revolution is gaining momentum across the continent, its influence is becoming more widespread and it is here to stay.

Book China Inside Out

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  • Author : P l Ny¡ri
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789637326141
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book China Inside Out written by P l Ny¡ri and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are being played out. The authors shake off the shackles of the orientalist legacy but retain a close reading of local processes. They challenge the boundaries of China and question its study from different perspectives, but believe that area studies have a role to play if their geographies are studied according to certain common problems. In the case of China, the book shows the diverse array of critical but solidly grounded research approaches that can be used in studying a society. Its approach neither trivializes nor dismisses the elusive effects of culture, and it pays attention to both the state and the multiplicity of voices that challenge it.

Book The Discourse of Race in Modern China

Download or read book The Discourse of Race in Modern China written by Frank Dikotter and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of a topic that is both extremely important and highly sensitive: how the Chinese have viewed other ethnic groups across time. The issue of racial differences constitutes a highly marked and oblique discourse in modern China. This is the first book to analyse that shielded rhetoric directly.

Book Chinese Looks

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  • Author : Sean Metzger
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-25
  • ISBN : 0253015685
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Chinese Looks written by Sean Metzger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a cultural history of three iconic objects in theatrical and cinematic performance: the queue, or man's hair braid; the woman's suit known as the qipao; and the Mao suit. Each object emerges at a pivotal moment in US-China relations, indexing shifts in the balance of power between the two nations. Metzger shows how aesthetics, gender, politics, economics, and race are interwoven and argues that close examination of particular forms of dress can help us think anew about gender and modernity.

Book At America s Gates

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  • Author : Erika Lee
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2004-01-21
  • ISBN : 0807863130
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book At America s Gates written by Erika Lee and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-01-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Erika Lee explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation." Immigrant identification, border enforcement, surveillance, and deportation policies were extended far beyond any controls that had existed in the United States before. Drawing on a rich trove of historical sources--including recently released immigration records, oral histories, interviews, and letters--Lee brings alive the forgotten journeys, secrets, hardships, and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. Her timely book exposes the legacy of Chinese exclusion in current American immigration control and race relations.

Book The Discourse of Race in Modern China

Download or read book The Discourse of Race in Modern China written by Frank Dikötter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they discovered the notion of 'race', and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to present a universe red in tooth and claw in which 'yellows' competed with 'whites' in a deadly struggle for survival. After the fall of the empire in 1911, prominent politicians and writers in republican China continued to measure, classify and rank people from around the world according to their supposed biological features, all in the name of science. Racial thinking remains popular in the People's Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists continue to interpret human variation in terms of 'race'. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter taking the reader up to the twenty-first century.

Book The Great Han

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  • Author : Kevin Carrico
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2017-08-29
  • ISBN : 0520295501
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Great Han written by Kevin Carrico and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement, a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China since 2001. Participants come together both online and in person in cities across China to revitalize their utopian vision of the authentic “Great Han” and corresponding “real China” through pseudotraditional ethnic dress, reinvented Confucian ritual, and anti-foreign sentiment. Analyzing the movement’s ideas and practices, this book argues that the vision of a pure, perfectly ordered, ethnically homogeneous, and secure society is in fact a fantasy constructed in response to the challenging realities of the present. Yet this national imaginary is reproduced precisely through its own perpetual elusiveness. The Great Han is a pioneering analysis of Han identity, nationalism, and social movements in a rapidly changing China.

Book The Great Race

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  • Author : Dawn Casey
  • Publisher : Barefoot Books
  • Release : 2018-09-01
  • ISBN : 1782854819
  • Pages : 35 pages

Download or read book The Great Race written by Dawn Casey and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race with the animals of the Zodiac as they compete to have the years of the Chinese calendar named after them. The excitement-filled story is followed by notes on the Chinese calendar, important Chinese holidays, and a chart outlining the animal signs based on birth years.

Book The Chinese Must Go

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  • Author : Beth Lew-Williams
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2018-02-26
  • ISBN : 0674976010
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book The Chinese Must Go written by Beth Lew-Williams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited violence against Chinese workers, and how that violence provoked new exclusionary policies. Locating the origins of the modern American "alien" in this violent era, she makes clear that the present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman."

Book A Select Collection of ENGLISH PLAYS  ORPHAN Of CHINA  A TRAGEDY

Download or read book A Select Collection of ENGLISH PLAYS ORPHAN Of CHINA A TRAGEDY written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winner Take All

Download or read book Winner Take All written by Dambisa Moyo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of the impending doom nearly every day—shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and the political Armageddon as global demand for energy in the form of fossil fuels far outstrips any possible supply. The picture painted is bleak, and the possible impact of commodities markets on how we live is far-reaching, but our grasp of the details and the mega shifts in the commodity space remains blurred. There’s so much noise surrounding resource scarcity and China’s emerging dominance in commodities that we risk complacency. Overturning our assumptions, bestselling author Dambisa Moyo charts the commodity dynamics that the world will face over the next several decades, and the implications of China’s rush for resources across all regions of the world, from Africa to Latin America, from North America to Europe to Australia.

Book Little Soldiers

Download or read book Little Soldiers written by Lenora Chu and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; Real Simple Best of the Month; Library Journal Editors’ Pick In the spirit of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Bringing up Bébé, and The Smartest Kids in the World, a hard-hitting exploration of China’s widely acclaimed yet insular education system that raises important questions for the future of American parenting and education When students in Shanghai rose to the top of international rankings in 2009, Americans feared that they were being "out-educated" by the rising super power. An American journalist of Chinese descent raising a young family in Shanghai, Lenora Chu noticed how well-behaved Chinese children were compared to her boisterous toddler. How did the Chinese create their academic super-achievers? Would their little boy benefit from Chinese school? Chu and her husband decided to enroll three-year-old Rainer in China’s state-run public school system. The results were positive—her son quickly settled down, became fluent in Mandarin, and enjoyed his friends—but she also began to notice troubling new behaviors. Wondering what was happening behind closed classroom doors, she embarked on an exploratory journey, interviewing Chinese parents, teachers, and education professors, and following students at all stages of their education. What she discovered is a military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in public, using bribes to reward students who comply, and shaming to isolate those who do not. At the same time, she uncovered a years-long desire by government to alleviate its students’ crushing academic burden and make education friendlier for all. The more she learns, the more she wonders: Are Chinese children—and her son—paying too high a price for their obedience and the promise of future academic prowess? Is there a way to appropriate the excellence of the system but dispense with the bad? What, if anything, could Westerners learn from China’s education journey? Chu’s eye-opening investigation challenges our assumptions and asks us to consider the true value and purpose of education.

Book A Glossary of Political Terms of the People s Republic of China

Download or read book A Glossary of Political Terms of the People s Republic of China written by Gucheng Li and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A glossary of political terms of the People's Republic of China is a collection of 560 important and frequently-used Chinese political terms and phrases that appeared between 1949 and 1990. Each entry begins with an explanation of the term and its origin, a description of how and under what circumstances the term was used, and a discussion of the changes of meaning over the years, as well as the political and social significance of the words."--Jacket.

Book The Adventures of a Lady in Tartary  Thibet  China    Kashmir  With an Account of the Journey from the Punjab to Bombay Overland

Download or read book The Adventures of a Lady in Tartary Thibet China Kashmir With an Account of the Journey from the Punjab to Bombay Overland written by Mrs. Hervey and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: