China Land Of Dragons And Emperors

Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741754674
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China written by Adeline Yen Mah and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of China - the six major dynasties - and information on selected topics such as the Silk Road, festivals, various inventions, Chinese beliefs about numbers and colours.

Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385737491
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China: Land of Dragons and Emperors written by Adeline Yen Mah and published by Ember. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating book about the history and culture of China. The history of China spans thousands of years. Journey through China in this fascinating and absorbing book: discover the land of dragons and emperors, and learn about the significance of its ancient dynasties. Countless tools and materials that people have used every day for centuries—paper, gunpowder, cast iron, matches, and silk, to name just a few—were first made in China. Chinese society has progressed through major changes, but lucky numbers, festivals, beliefs about colors, the practic of footbinding, the building of the Great Wall, and the larger-than-life people of China are all integral parts of this ancient civilization and still have an impact on life today. Bestselling author Adeline Yen Mah explores an extraordinary view of the great story of China over the last two millennia in this nonfiction work, which also includes black-and-white photographs.

Author : Adeline Yen Mah
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375890998
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China: Land of Dragons and Emperors written by Adeline Yen Mah and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating book about the history and culture of China. The history of China spans thousands of years. Journey through China in this fascinating and absorbing book: discover the land of dragons and emperors, and learn about the significance of its ancient dynasties. Countless tools and materials that people have used every day for centuries—paper, gunpowder, cast iron, matches, and silk, to name just a few—were first made in China. Chinese society has progressed through major changes, but lucky numbers, festivals, beliefs about colors, the practic of footbinding, the building of the Great Wall, and the larger-than-life people of China are all integral parts of this ancient civilization and still have an impact on life today. Bestselling author Adeline Yen Mah explores an extraordinary view of the great story of China over the last two millennia in this nonfiction work, which also includes black-and-white photographs.

Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1784292362
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dragon Throne written by Jonathan Fenby and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The soldier-scholar Yongle (r. 1402-24 AD), who raised the Ming dynasty to its military peak. The dowager empress Cixi (r. 1861-1908 AD), who rose from humble Manchu origins to rule over all China. In The Dragon Throne, Jonathan Fenby tells the extraordinary story of imperial China through its 157 emperors, from Qin Shi Huangdu, who crushed his rivals to take supreme power as the first emperor in 221BC, until the final collapse of the faltering Manchu dynasty amidst the revolutionary chaos of the early twentieth century. The final emperor, the infant Puyi (r. 1908-12) ended his days as an assistant gardener in the very palace where he had been enthroned.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Life was Like in the Land of the Dragon written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on religion, ethics, children, and the three perfections accompany an overview of Chinese history from the collapse of the Tang Dynasty through the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

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Publisher : First Avenue Editions
ISBN 13 : 082256744X
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dragon Emperor written by and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folktales describe the might of the Yellow Emperor, especially when he battled the half human, half dragon warrior known as Chi You. Reprint.

Author : Roy Bates
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435703227
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All About Chinese Dragons written by Roy Bates and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-11-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All About Chinese Dragons attempts to foster a wider understanding about the Chinese dragon and the many forms it took, in art, legend, and folklore. It is dedicated to the dragon, and its many offshoots and variations, and gives not only details of what a Chinese dragon was, where it was used, and what it was called, but also a few of the hundreds of legends about it that have arisen. The reader will become more acquainted with the dragon, and will gain a greater understanding of this magnificent beast. This book will interest and please the serious student and the enthusiastic tourist alike.

Author : Tony Allan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760774861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of the Dragon written by Tony Allan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "China is among the world's oldest civilizations and home to the earliest achievements in the history of humankind. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chinese emperor ruled by Heavenly Mandate as the divinely appointed Son of Heaven, intermediary between the world of gods and mortals-Heaven and Earth-in an unbroken dynastic tradition some 4,000 years old. Origins of China's imperial rulers lie in a time when the worlds of men and gods were closer that they are now. Chinese mythology relates these origins and those of China, together with the many gifts given to its people by the gods. It was these rich stories which subsequently inspired and shaped the three major religions found in China today."--Front book jacket flap.

Author : Xiran Jay Zhao
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665900725
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor written by Xiran Jay Zhao and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm. Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, and his schools never taught anything except Western history and myths. So Zack is woefully unprepared when he discovers he was born to host the spirit of the First Emperor of China for a vital mission: sealing the leaking portal to the Chinese underworld before the upcoming Ghost Month blows it wide open. The mission takes an immediate wrong turn when the First Emperor botches his attempt to possess Zack’s body and binds to Zack’s AR gaming headset instead, leading to a battle where Zack’s mom’s soul gets taken by demons. Now, with one of history’s most infamous tyrants yapping in his headset, Zack must journey across China to heist magical artifacts and defeat figures from history and myth, all while learning to wield the emperor’s incredible water dragon powers. And if Zack can’t finish the mission in time, the spirits of the underworld will flood into the mortal realm, and he could lose his mom forever.

Author : Ke Yuan
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragons and Dynasties written by Ke Yuan and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Chinese mythology. Colourful, sometimes grotesque and imaginative, Chinese mythology is just as moving and compelling as anything to be found in the better-known Egyptian, Greek and Teutonic traditions. In this book, Yuan Ke has culled from ancient sources, rearranged in chronological order and retold the variant versions of the creation of the world, the origins of men, women and animals and the era of the five endlessly warring emperor-gods.