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“john ayers”

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  • Blanc de Chine

    History and Connoisseurship Reviewed

    Edited by John Ayers, Rose Kerr ...
    Dehua porcelain, or Blanc de Chine as it is known in the West, is pure ivory-white porcelain made at the Dehua kilns in the southern Chinese province of Fujian. It rose to international significance in the 17th century and inspired aristocratic patronage in the development of European porcelain. Its popularity at home and abroad continued and the k ... Read more

    $70.07 CAD

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    The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image

    by Juan Pablo Cardenal, Heriberto Araújo ...
    China's Silent Army is a revealing and gripping piece of investigative journalism into the unknown extent of China's global power, from China-based reporters Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto AraújoThis book stems from the remarkable, determined work of these two China-based journalists who, frustrated by the facile, pro-business commentary of so much writing on China and the evasions of Beijing's ... Read more

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  • The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History

    by Xun Zhou ...
    Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every ... Read more

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  • India and Tibet

    by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband ...
    It is an interesting reflection for those to make who think that we must necessarily have been the aggressive party, that the far-distant primary cause of all our attempts at intercourse with the Tibetans was an act of aggression, not on our part, not on the part of an ambitious Pro-consul, or some headstrong frontier officer, but of the Bhutanese, neighbours, and then vassals, of the Tibetans, ... Read more

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  • Call to Arms

    by Lu Xun ...
    Call to Arms is a collection of revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun’s most famous and most important short stories. Featuring “A Madman’s Diary,” a scathing attack of traditional Confucian civilization and “The True Story of Ah Q,” a poignant satire about the hypocrisy of Chinese national character and the first work written entirely in the Chinese vernacular. Together this collection exposes a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Sichuan Frontier and Tibet

    Imperial Strategy in the Early Qing

    by Yingcong Dai ...
    Series series China Program Books
    During China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), the empire's remote, bleak, and politically insignificant Southwest rose to become a strategically vital area. This study of the imperial government's handling of the southwestern frontier illuminates issues of considerable importance in Chinese history and foreign relations: Sichuan's rise as a key strategic area in relation to the complicated ... Read more

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  • In the Circle of White Stones

    Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet

    by Gillian G. Tan, Stevan Harrell ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Gillian Tan’s story, based on her own experience of living through seasonal cycles with the people of Dora Karmo between 2006 and 2013, examines the community ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Emperor Huizong

    by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. The first comprehensive English-language biography of ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Unearthing the Nation

    Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China

    by Grace Yen Shen ...
    Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation, Grace Yen Shen uses the development of modern geology to explore this complex relationship between ... Read more

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  • Chinese Lives

    The People Who Made a Civilization

    by Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood ...
    3000 years of Chinese history presented through the lives of ninety-six illustrious participants from all periods and all parts of the countryChina is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. Here, the full range of Chinese cultural and scientific achievements, as well as its military conquests, wars, rebellions, and political and philosophical movements, ... Read more

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  • Women and the Family in Chinese History

    by Patricia Ebrey ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time. The essays cover topics ranging from dowries and the sale ... Read more

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  • Chinese Women - Living and Working

    by Anne McLaren ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD