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Author : N. Hudson Moore
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434477266
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old China Book written by N. Hudson Moore and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and study of old English china.
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580380
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author : William C. Hunter
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bits of Old China written by William C. Hunter and published by London : K. Paul, Trench. This book was released on 1885 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098022
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand written by Paul French and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book – 400 Million Customers – that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom. Among Crow's exploits were attending the negotiations in Peking that led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, getting a scoop on Japanese interference in China during the First World War, negotiating the release of a group of Western hostages from a mountain bandit lair, and being one of the first Westerners to journey up the Burma Road during the Second World War. He met most of the major figures of the time, including Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, the Soong sisters, and Mao's second-in-command Zhou En-lai. During the Second World War, he worked for American intelligence alongside Owen Lattimore, coordinating US policies to support China against Japan. The story of this one exceptional man gives us a rich view of Shanghai and China during those tempestuous years. This is a book for all with an interest in Shanghai and China of this period, and those with an interest in the development of journalism and business there.
Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.IU/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old China written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stories of Old China written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chan Kei Thong
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310292387
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Finding God in Ancient China written by Chan Kei Thong and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding God in Ancient China is a sweeping historical, cultural, and linguistic tour through the history of China that seeks to connect the God of the Bible with ancient Chinese language, traditions, and rituals.
Author : Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book How to Identify Old China written by Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779123
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Days of Old Beijing written by Michael Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
Author : Charles Grandison Finney
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old China Hands written by Charles Grandison Finney and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1973 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
