The Dragon And The Foreign Devils

Author : Harry Gelber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719414
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Harry Gelber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is the most exciting rising power in the world today. The fact that China may be the next superpower attracts endless interest from all quarters-yet China is still utterly inscrutable to most outsiders. In The Dragon and the Foreign Devils, Harry Gelber illuminates China's present by looking at the broad sweep of foreign relations in its past. From the incursions by the steppe horsemen and the Mongol conquests to the first arrival of European travelers, foreign fascination with China has followed certain patterns: curiosity, admiration, and greed for trade or territory. But, as China gradually rises from the turbulence in the wake of Mao Zedong to the economic growth and political stability of the twenty-first century, the dynamic between East and West has slowly shifted. Essential reading for anyone interested in China and its evolving relations with foreigners, The Dragon and the Foreign Devils breaks down the walls between East and West and shines a light on the recurring cycles of Chinese history.

Author : Johan Gunnar Andersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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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 : Harry Gregor Gelber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Harry Gregor Gelber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is the most exciting rising power in the world today. The explosive growth of its economy and the possibility that it might soon become the next superpower, dominant in East Asia and influential in every part of the world, has attracted universal interest, admiration and envy. Most histories of China approach that huge and populous country through the story of its dynasties, its struggle to defend its borders and its internal politics. Harry Gelber's The Dragon and the Foreign Devils is the first history for the general reader to tell the story of China from the outside as well as from the inside. It explores the relationships involved, from the incursions into China of steppe horsemen around 200 BC to the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century AD, from the first arrival of European travellers to China's decline, after 1911, into an object of the policies of the major powers, and on to the Revolution on 1949 and the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989. It explains what moved these minor and major foreign societies and how concerns with China fitted into their own major interests and views of the world. And it outlines the recurring cycles of Chinese history, from turmoil and disorder to strong central government and back to turmoil. Informative text boxes elaborate on particular people, topics or key moments to complement the main narrative. These mini-essays deal with a wide range of topics from 'Confucius' and 'Concubines' to 'Tea' and 'Silk', and from the debilitating influence of the last nineteenth-century empress, 'Cixi' through to 'Mao's Sexual Habits'.

Author : Johan Gunnar Andersson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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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 : Carl Crow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom written by Carl Crow and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141983507
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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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 : Harry G. Gelber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802715915
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dragon and the Foreign Devils written by Harry G. Gelber and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the present and future of China from the perspective of its past foreign relations, ranging from the invasions of the steppe horsemen and Mongol conquests to its fluid modern-day dynamic with the East and rapid economic growth.

Author : John Hornor Jacobs
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 057512394X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Devils written by John Hornor Jacobs and published by Gollancz. 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ThirdWay written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monthly current affairs magazine from a Christian perspective with a focus on politics, society, economics and culture.

Author : Joseph LoBianco
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847693865
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and English written by Joseph LoBianco and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said there are more Chinese learning English than there are Americans. We all have a sense that the first decades of the third millennium, including the effects of the global financial recession, signal dramatic changes to the shape of the world to come. China’s emergence as a superpower is one of the few certainties in this rapidly changing world. What is less well realised is the critical role which China’s decisions about English will play in the world’s communication profile. This unique volume explores this question looking at the debates on identity, cultural values and communication practices. Taking a wide-ranging view and uniquely blending both Chinese and Western perspectives the volume explores the critically important cultural consequences of mass English learning in today’s world.