The Hole To China

Author : Diane Harding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912021840
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Dug a Hole to China written by Diane Harding and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke decides to dig a hole to tunnel from his house in Australia through to China. Little does he know that someone else at the other end is thinking the same thing. A host of dangerous adventures follow with his new friend, usually involving being chased through a variety of Chinese landscapes and settings. Losing his route back to Australia due to a volcano, Luke learns a lot about China while escaping from angry warriors, thieves and dragons, hiding inside priceless antiques and becoming everything from a monkey to a kite. Eventually they realise they are in a race against time to put back something important in its rightful place, before certain disaster. Will they manage this without being caught, after all their mishaps? Although Luke has made a friend for life, they will need courage and initiative to get home in one piece.

Author : Faith McNulty
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064432181
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World written by Faith McNulty and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990-03-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘[An] irresistible account of a child’s imaginary 8,000-mile journey through the earth to discover what’s inside. Facts about the composition of the earth are conveyed painlessly and memorably.’ —SLJ. ‘An exciting adventure. . . . Illustrations [by Caldecott Medal winner Marc Simont] explode with color and action.’ —CS. Best Books of 1979 (SLJ) Children's Choices for 1980 (IRA/CBC) A Reading Rainbow Selection

Author : Jonathan Kaufman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224439
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Kings of Shanghai written by Jonathan Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.

Author : Michael Pettis
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0870034081
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avoiding the Fall written by Michael Pettis and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The days of rapid economic growth in China are over. Mounting debt and rising internal distortions mean that rebalancing is inevitable. Beijing has no choice but to take significant steps to restructure its economy. The only question is how to proceed. Michael Pettis debunks the lingering bullish expectations for China's economic rise and details Beijing's options. The urgent task of shifting toward greater domestic consumption will come with political costs, but Beijing must increase household income and reduce its reliance on investment to avoid a fall.

Author : Paul Midler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111921372X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's Wrong with China written by Paul Midler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s Wrong with China is the most cogent, insightful and penetrating examination I have read on the paradoxes and self-deceptions of Modern China, written by someone who has lived in the country and dealt with it day to day for decades. This book will be hated by the commissars, because it is a triumph of analysis and good sense. —PAUL THEROUX I sure wish I’d read this book before heading to China—or Chinatown, for that matter. China runs on an entirely different operating system—both commercial and personal. Midler’s clear, clever analysis and illuminating, often hilarious tales foster not only understanding but respect. —MARY ROACH From the Back Cover What’s Wrong with China is the widely anticipated follow-up to Paul Midler’s Poorly Made in China, an exposé of China manufacturing practices. Applying a wider lens in this account, he reveals many of the deep problems affecting Chinese society as a whole. Once again, Midler delivers the goods by rejecting commonly held notions, breaking down old myths, and providing fresh explanations of lesser-understood cultural phenomena.

Author : Lyle J. Goldstein
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 162616634X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meeting China Halfway written by Lyle J. Goldstein and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a US China conflict is far from inevitable, major tensions are building in the Asia-Pacific region. These strains are the result of historical enmity, cultural divergence, and deep ideological estrangement, not to mention apprehensions fueled by geopolitical competition and the closely related “security dilemma.” Despite worrying signs of intensifying rivalry, few observers have provided concrete paradigms to lead this troubled relationship away from disaster. This book is dramatically different in that Lyle J. Goldstein’s focus is on laying bare both US and Chinese perceptions of where their interests clash and proposing new paths to ease bilateral tensions through compromise. Each chapter contains a “cooperation spiral” —the opposite of an escalation spiral—to illustrate these policy proposals. Goldstein makes one hundred policy proposals over the course of this book to inaugurate a genuine debate regarding cooperative policy solutions to the most vexing problems in US-China relations. Goldstein not only parses findings from American scholarship but also breaks new ground by analyzing hundreds of Chinese-language sources, including military publications, never before evaluated by Western experts. Meeting China Halfway, new in paperback, remains a refreshing and unique contribution to the study of the world’s most important bilateral relationship.

Author : Gary Kaschak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781418419875
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hole to China written by Gary Kaschak and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine Marty Kent, a shy, pudgy 12 year-old kid who not only started a hole to China, but dug a deeper one than any kid ever did.

Author : Donna Rawlins
Publisher : Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780531084144
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging to China written by Donna Rawlins and published by Orchard Books (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing her friend Marj, the elderly lady next door, speak wistfully of China, Alexis digs a hole all the way through the earth to that exotic country and brings back a postcard for Marj's birthday.

Author : David J. Darling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875184494
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Could You Ever Dig a Hole to China? written by David J. Darling and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes what the earth is made of, how it formed, and why it is still constantly changing its crust. Explores caves, tunnels, and deep holes to learn more about the planet's layers.

Author : Curious Concoctions Books
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0982851308
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging a Hole to China written by Curious Concoctions Books and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain digs his way around the world searching for China. Along the way, he meets and experiences different cultures.