The Heavens Boxer

Author : R H Tang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heaven's Boxer written by R H Tang and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wouldn't want to pilot giant robots for a living?The Overdrive Corporation has announced another Selection, the exclusive tryout process for aspiring Fortress Masters. Designing maps for the Mech battling virtual reality RPG is Julian's dream come true, but a brutal defeat against superstar sniper called Dynamic has destroyed his confidence. Hoping to find a stronger machine, Julian enters an immensely challenging map that promises ultra-rare Mech frames.During the ill-fated mission, he finally learns what it takes to get better. It's not the strength of the machine that matters most, it's the skill of the pilot. Julian rebuilds his gameplay from the ground up, seeking out the strongest opponents and the most challenging dungeons. He explores the countless aspects of Overdrive that he's inadvertently ignored. Waiting for him is a rematch with the sniper he's never beaten, with a spot in the Selection on the line.The first novel in the Overdrive series by Esports industry veteran R.H. Tang, The Heaven's Boxer will delight fans of LitRPG, sports stories, and mecha anime.

Author : David J. Silbey
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429942576
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China written by David J. Silbey and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers. The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the upstart imperialist Japan begins to make clear to neighboring Russia its territorial ambition. In China, a perennial pawn in the Great Game, a mysterious group of superstitious peasants is launching attacks on the Western powers they fear are corrupting their country. These ordinary Chinese—called Boxers by the West because of their martial arts showmanship—rise up seemingly out of nowhere. Foreshadowing the insurgencies of our recent past, they lack a centralized leadership and instead tap into latent nationalism and deep economic frustration to build their army. Many scholars brush off the Boxer Rebellion as an ill-conceived and easily defeated revolt, but in The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, the military historian David J. Silbey shows just how close the Boxers came to beating back the combined might of the imperial powers. Drawing on the diaries and letters of allied soldiers and diplomats, he paints a vivid portrait of the war. Although their cause ended just as quickly as it began, the Boxers would inspire Chinese nationalists—including a young Mao Zedong—for decades to come.

Author : Anthony E. Clark
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805404
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heaven in Conflict written by Anthony E. Clark and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most violent episodes of China’s Boxer Uprising was the Taiyuan Massacre of 1900, in which rebels killed foreign missionaries and thousands of Chinese Christians. This first sustained scholarly account of the uprising to focus on Shanxi Province illuminates the religious and cultural beliefs on both sides of the conflict and shows how they came to clash. Although Franciscans were the first Catholics to settle in China, their stories have rarely been explored in accounts of Chinese Christianity. Anthony Clark remedies that exclusion and highlights the roles of Franciscan nuns and their counterparts among the Boxers—the Red Lantern girls—to argue that women’s involvement was integral on both sides of the conflict. Drawing on rich archival records and intertwining religious history with political, cultural, and environmental factors, Clark provides a fresh perspective on a pivotal encounter between China and the West.

Author : Joseph Esherick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520064593
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Boxer Uprising written by Joseph Esherick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and popular culture.

Author : Lanxin Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136865829
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Boxer War written by Lanxin Xiang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a panoramic view of the origins of the Boxer War. Comprehensively examining this historical conundrum of the 20th century from a detached perspective, the book is based on ten years of exhaustive research of both unpublished and published materials from all nine countries involved. Analysing the misunderstanding between the Chinese and foreign governments of the day, Lanxin Xiang debunks the traditional view that the anti-foreign Empress Dowager of the Chinese Empire was chiefly responsible for this catastrophic episode which altered the course of 20th century China's relationship with the west.

Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802713610
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boxer Rebellion written by Diana Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the dramatic human experience of the Boxer Rebellion from both a Western and Chinese perspective, drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters of those who lived through this pivotal time in the history of China.

Author : Victor Purcell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521148122
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boxer Uprising written by Victor Purcell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Prucell examines the origin and development of the Boxer Uprising of 1900.

Author : Joseph W. Esherick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520908963
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Boxer Uprising written by Joseph W. Esherick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-08-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and popular culture.

Author : Victor Bockris
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446492532
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muhammad Ali In Fighter's Heaven written by Victor Bockris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' Muhammad Ali Just off Highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooded hill lay a place called Fighter's Heaven. This was once the training camp of the 'greatest of all times'. From early '73 through the summer of '74 Victor Bockris visited Muhammad Ali, while Ali was preparing for his epic battle in Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight crown from the fearsome George Foreman. Bockris, who was later to write about people like William Burroughs, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed was less interested in his subject's boxing career and ambitions than in his extraordinary gifts as a poet, preacher and performer. As Muhammad Ali said himself of this book, 'These are some of the things I don't reveal to the public too much'.

Author : Chang Naizhou
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781556434822
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scholar Boxer written by Chang Naizhou and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master Cháng, known as the “scholar-boxer,” lived and practiced in Hénán province, at the center of Chinese culture and martial arts near the Shàolín Temple and legendary Luòyáng. His extensive writings reflect many of the ideas, even the phraseology, now familiar from classic Tai Chi Chuan texts. Chinese-language authority Marnix Wells traveled to Cháng’s village, where the master’s family carries on his tradition of Cháng boxing. This resulting study of Chang’s life and teachings reveals the true origins of today’s internal martial arts.