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  • Religious Culture and Violence in Traditional China

    by Barend ter Haar ...
    Series series Elements in Religion and Violence
    The basis of Chinese religious culture, and with that many aspects of daily life, was the threat and fear of demonic attacks. These were inherently violent and could only be counteracted by violence as well - even if this reactive violence was masked by euphemisms such as execution, expulsion, exorcisms and so on. At the same time, violence was a crucial dimension of the maintenance of norms and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Guan Yu

    The Religious Afterlife of a Failed Hero

    by Barend J. ter Haar ...
    Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

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  • Forgotten Ally

    China's World War II, 1937–1945

    by Rana Mitter ...
    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Last Days of Old Beijing

    Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed

    by Michael Meyer ...
    Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Souls of China

    The Return of Religion After Mao

    by 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, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Red Star over China

    The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

    by Edgar Snow ...
    "A historical classic" that brings Mao Tse-tung, the Long March, and the Chinese revolution to vivid life ( Foreign Affairs).Journalist Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936—and out of his up-close experience came this historical account, one of the most important books about the remarkable events that would shape not only the future of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice.From humble origins, Coxinga's father became the richest man in China and Admiral of the Emperor's navy during the Ming Dynasty. As his eldest son, Coxinga was given the best education and developed a love of poetry and the study of Confucius. From this unlikely beginning, it took ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Eastern Seas

    The Commission of H.M.S Iron Duke, Flag-ship in China 1878-83

    by J. J. Smith ...
    The first HMS Iron Duke was a British Audacious-class central battery ironclad. She became the flagship of the China Station on 31 August 1871, one of the first large ships to use the Suez canal to reach the Far Easy. In an age of inefficient engines, her full sailing rig made her particularly suitable for operations in the Pacific Ocean. She returned to the UK in 1875 and joined the First Reserve ... Read more

    $2.67 USD

  • Red at Heart

    How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution

    by Elizabeth McGuire ...
    Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance. This is the multigenerational history of people who experienced Sino-Soviet affairs most intimately: prominent Chinese revolutionaries who traveled to Russia in their youths to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • China's World

    The Foreign Policy of the World's Newest Superpower

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    In the next decade China's actions on the world stage will affect us all. A new superpower, with the largest population and GDP on the globe, there are now fears that China is becoming more assertive. Here, award-winning China expert Kerry Brown guides us through China's foreign policy, from its skirmishes with US Navy destroyers in the South China Sea to its arguments with Japan over the Senkaku ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Maoism and the Chinese Revolution

    A Critical Introduction

    by Elliott Liu ...
    Series series Revolutionary Pocketbooks
    The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations?Maoism and ... Read more

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  • The Corporal and the Celestials: In North China with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1909-1912

    by Bill Jackson ...
    Some of the most creative of human expression has originated in the collision of cultures. So it is with this extraordinary archive. The Corporal and the Celestials publishes for the first time a truly absorbing collection of photographs of China in the early years of the twentieth century, taken by a young corporal of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, James Hutchinson, when stationed there from ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus