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Author : Brian Catchpole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:640309284
Author : Brian Catchpole
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 043531095X
Author : 阎平
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021689661
China has one of the world's earliest civilizations and was the first country in the world to make maps. This volume shows how the development of cartography was an inseparable part of ancient Chinese culture and reveals the huge repository of maps in national museums, libraries and preservation centres. The examples are noteworthy, not only as documents charting the development of knowledge of China's topography, but also as works of art with great value in the study of Chinese art, architecture and social life. The book illustrates and examines over 160 maps arranged chronologically and accompanied by scientific analyses on topography and mapping technique. It concludes with a comprehensive chronicle listing important events in map-making history.
Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1780763816
New paperback edition published in 2012, first published in hardback in 2010.
Author : Laura Hostetler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226354210
In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing China both participated in and helped shape the new emphasis on empirical scientific knowledge that was simultaneously transforming Europe—and its colonial empires—at the time. Although mapping in China is almost as old as Chinese civilization itself, the Qing insistence on accurate, to-scale maps of their territory was a new response to the difficulties of administering a vast and growing empire. Likewise, direct observation became increasingly important to Qing ethnographic writings, such as the illustrated manuscripts known as "Miao albums" (from which twenty color paintings are reproduced in this book). These were intended to educate Qing officials about various non-Han peoples so that they could govern these groups more effectively.Hostetler's groundbreaking account will interest anyone studying the history of the early modern period and colonialism.
Author : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191506710
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century', introducing readers to important but often overlooked events in China's past, such as the bloody Taiping Civil War (1850-1864), which had a death toll far higher than the roughly contemporaneous American Civil War. It also helps readers see more familiar landmarks in Chinese history in new ways, such as the Opium War (1839-1842), the Boxer Uprising of 1900, the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and the Tiananmen protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989. This is one of the first major efforts — and in many ways the most ambitious to date — to come to terms with the broad sweep of modern Chinese history, taking readers from the origins of modern China right up through the dramatic events of the last few years (the Beijing Games, the financial crisis, and China's rise to global economic pre-eminence) which have so fundamentally altered Western views of China and China's place in the world.
Author : Rana Mitter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191578793
China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short Introduction offers the reader with no previous knowledge of China a variety of ways to understand the world's most populous nation, giving a short, integrated picture of modern Chinese society, culture, economy, politics and art. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Kenneth Scott Latourette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:633831603
Author : Evelyn S. Rawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107093089
Evelyn Rawski presents a revisionist history of early modern China in the context of northeast Asian geopolitics and global maritime trade.
Author : Klaus Mühlhahn
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674737358
Klaus Mühlhahn situates modern China in the nation's long, dynamic tradition of overcoming adversity and weakness through creative adaptation--a legacy of crisis and recovery that is apparent today in China's triumphs but also in its most worrisome trends. Mühlhahn's panoramic survey rewrites the history of modern China for a new generation.
Author : J. A. G. Roberts
Publisher : History Press (SC)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045990309
Provides an introduction to the history of China since 1800, with chapter summaries and a chronology.
Author : David Kenley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN : 0924304995
"The second edition of Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. Organized around the twin themes of Chinese cosmopolitanism and exceptionalism, it can easily supplement any history, international studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies course. It can also provide valuable background information necessary to understand contemporary Chinese politics, society, and economics. General readers wanting quickly to understand the collapse of the imperial system, the rise of Communism, and the role of China in our contemporary world will welcome this eminently readable text"--
Author : Timothy Cheek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021419
A vivid account of Chinese intellectuals across the twentieth century that provides a guide to making sense of China today.
Author : Richard Joseph Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415685092
This book brings together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world, and will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.
Author : Marc Andre Matten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004219014
The book offers a new approach to the discussion on the issue of Chinese national identity, providing new insights in how identity is constructed and contested. These issues are of vital concern for the understanding of contemporary China and its national consciousness.