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  • The 'Awakening' of China: A History of Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century

    par Edwin Poon ...
    The 'Awakening' of China: Western Concepts of China in the Early 20th Century' explores the reasoning behind the concept of "China's Awakening" at a time when China was weak, divided and dominated by western imperialism. Battered by the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the fall of the Qing, the descent into warlordism and then formation of the shaky foundations of a republic in the 1920s, he seems ... En savoir plus

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  • 72 Hours

    par Frank Pope ...
    The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped Russian submarine.5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation 30 miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy submersible AS-28 ran into a web of cables and stuck fast. With 600 feet of freezing water above them, there was no escape for the seven crew. Trapped in a titanium tomb, all they could do was wait ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Souls of China

    The Return of Religion After Mao

    par Ian Johnson ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • When America First Met China

    An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

    par Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Stumbling Giant

    The Threats to China's Future

    par Timothy Beardson ...
    "A thoughtful reconsideration of China's actual place in the new world order, based on reality rather than fanciful speculation." —Kirkus ReviewsCan anything prevent China surpassing the United States and becoming the world's top superpower? While predictions that China's rise to global supremacy is a near-certainty have resulted in this belief becoming almost conventional wisdom, this book boldly ... En savoir plus

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  • Inside the Red Mansion

    On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man

    par Oliver August ...
    A journalist meets fascinating characters while seeking out a fugitive gangster in the Chinese underworld.The notorious gangster Lai Changxing started out as an illiterate farmer, but in the tumult of China's burgeoning economy, he seized the opportunity to remake himself as a bandit king. A newly minted billionaire of outsized personality and even greater appetites, he was a living legend who ... En savoir plus

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  • English Lessons

    The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China

    par James L. Hevia ...
    Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, James L. Hevia ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • China – The New Superpower

    History Series, #2

    par Matt Green ...
    Collections Livre 2 - History Series
    Who will be the next Superpower? Is this China?It seems modern China is a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity.China, in general, has been one of the most intriguing countries in the world for most of its history. The most populous nation of the world.The Modern ... En savoir plus

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  • The Dragon and the Crown

    par Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Dragon and the Crown is the unforgettable memoirs of Stanley Kwan, the creator of the Hang Seng Index. Wedged between the East and the West—the Dragon and the Crown—Stanley Kwan’s life experiences are a microcosm of the forces pulling at Hong Kong. He was born into a traditional Chinese banking family but attended King’s College under the British colonial system. Fired up by patriotism during ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Chasing the Chinese Dream

    Stories from Modern China

    par Nick Holdstock ...
    China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history. Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the 'Chinese Dream', the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it. Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country in order to find out the reality behind this rhetoric - from the factory-owner, to the noodle ... En savoir plus

    $57.99 CAD

  • Accidental State

    Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan

    par Hsiao-ting Lin ...
    The existence of two Chinese states—one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan—is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war. Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state, thereby creating the “Two Chinas” dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day. Accidental State ... En savoir plus

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  • Modern China and the New World

    The Reemergence of the Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century

    par Randall Doyle, Zhang Boshu ...
    Modern China and the New World focuses upon a few of the main topics associated with China's recent rise to global prominence. Dr. Randall Doyle discusses the impact that China will have on the geopolitical balance throughout the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the effect of China's new power on U.S.-China relations in the 21st century. Dr. Zhang Boshu addresses China's continuing struggles with ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD