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Author : Andrew Cartmel
Publisher : TELOS
ISBN 13 : 9781903889336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ghost Ship written by Andrew Cartmel and published by TELOS. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192802118
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Foreign Devils on the Silk Road written by Peter Hopkirk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold, and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left, and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasurees and guarded by demons. In the early years of the 20th century, foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures, and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
Author : Richard Hughes
Publisher : 1500 Books LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Foreign Devil written by Richard Hughes and published by 1500 Books LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 30 years Hughes wrote newspaper stories for The Sunday Times and the Economist from and about Southeast Asia. Followed by readers around the globe, his reports were often harbingers of momentous events to come. In addition Hughes teases the reader with was or wasn't he-a spy, a double-agent and, most important, for whom? This is a rollicking read by a seasoned veteran who keeps his cards close and his enemies closer.
Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141983507
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Scramble for China written by Robert Bickers and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly enough to maintain their independence? This important and compelling book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West by illuminating a dramatic, colourful and sometimes shocking period of the country's history.
Author : Carl Crow
Publisher : Earnshaw Books
ISBN 13 : 9889963337
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom written by Carl Crow and published by Earnshaw Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1940, this is Carl Crow’s entertaining autobiography, the story of his more than 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century. This book is a tale of East meets West set in the wild and heady days of inter-war China. It is an account of how two cultures clashed, bickering over business deals and social norms as they tried to find a way to live with each other.
Author : John Hornor Jacobs
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 057512394X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Foreign Devils written by John Hornor Jacobs and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is on the brink of war. Fisk and Shoe - mercenaries, very much not wanting to get caught in the middle of a political whirlwind - must deliver a very important message, and find a very dangerous man. They have caught the eye of the powerful men of the world, and now the stakes are higher than they like. And the Emperor has decreed that Livia Cornelius, pregnant with Fisk's child, must travel to the far lands of the Autumn Lords on a diplomatic mission. It will mean crossing half the world, and facing new dangers. And in the end, she will uncover the shocking truth at the heart of the Autumn Lords' Empire. A truth which will make the petty politics of war and peace unimportant, and will change the world.
Author : Hsiang-fu Yüan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Those Foreign Devils!" written by Hsiang-fu Yüan and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dick K. Nanto, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491797320
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book China’S Dance with the Foreign Devils written by Dick K. Nanto, PhD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1978 in China, foreign direct investment has served as a driver of change that has brought the country into the modern economic world. Mao Zedong had shut out the foreign devilsEuropeans, Japanese, Americans and other outsiders. He created chaos in an economy that was long on suffering but short on foreign currency, technology and capital. In this detailed account, Dick K. Nanto explores how foreign companies came in tofill the gaps in Chinas economy and helped it to become a manufacturing marvel. Hefocuses on topics such as how: Industrialization has created a socialist economy with Chinese characteristics thatare reflected in industrial policy, governmental institutions, state-owned enterprises, the push to climb the high-technology ladder, indigenous innovation, and the drive to create more national champion companies. Chinese are investing abroad, entering the home turf of multinational corporationsand raising issues related to national security. Foreign enterprises are now being squeezed as Beijing seeks to replace them withcompanies of its own. Businesspeople, entrepreneurs, international business students, politicians, and anyoneinterested in how things get done in China will find engaging, informative, andcomprehensive information in Chinas Dance with the Foreign Devils.
Author : Johan Gunnar Andersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Johan Gunnar Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Partly a characterization of the Chinese temperament and culture, partly an outline of China's difficult task in fitting herself to the industrial life of western machinery."--Preface.
Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848546327
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Foreign Devils on the Silk Road written by Peter Hopkirk and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures and guarded by demons. In the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
