China My Other Country

Author : Gioetta Kuo
Publisher : Author House
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452067087

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China My Other Country by Gioetta Kuo Pdf

www.gioiettakuo.com Idyllic childhood in the Himalayan foothills of Chengdu, Sichuan, with pet panda. Exciting hike across a bamboo suspension bridge to camp by a Buddhist monastery in Kham. Tibet. Harrowing tales of her feudal relatives her cousin who had her arm chopped off by her drunken father and her aunt being made to die drinking opium for having an illegitimate baby who was thrown into a river. At just 14, abruptly dumped into an English boarding school with little English, Gioietta grew up to be beautiful and academically brilliant. Here is an unique and thrilling tale of her metamorphosis from one great civilization to another her struggles of adaptation, conflicts of identity and her accomplishments Cambridge, PhD in nuclear physics at age 24, Fellow at St Hilda's college, Oxford and later at Princeton, USA. Inevitably she was pursued by many young men of different nationalities. Among them was an Italian billionaire who fell in love with her on a Paris-Milano flight. May be it is her father, her profession or her personality, her early life revolved around the shady side of politics spying. Dancing with a Russian physicist from communist Soviet Union in the streets of Paris at the height of cold war led to a sinister skirmish with Soviet intelligence, KGB, and British foreign counter Intelligence MI6. Her father was a diplomat for Taiwan in Paris. larger than life, patron of the arts, a fabulous cook, kind, generous and recklessly extravagant especially with women. He doted on Gioietta and was devastated when she left Paris to marry a Croatian and live in Tito's communist Yugoslavia. Most sensational, her father vanished escaping to Beijing pursued by Taiwan agents who wanted his head for high treason. A real life spy story. All cloak and dagger stuff.

Author : Sally Tolan,Rhoda Sherwood
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 1555322077

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China by Sally Tolan,Rhoda Sherwood Pdf

Presents the life of a fifth-grade girl and her family living in Beijing, China, describing her home and school, daily activities, and the ethnic groups, religion, government, education, industry, geography, and history of her country.

Author : Jianbing Dai,Luqian Peng,Xiaorong Chen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527580596

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The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries by Jianbing Dai,Luqian Peng,Xiaorong Chen Pdf

In the currency culture of human history, there are two wonderful works that are immortal. One is that of China, an ancient Oriental civilization, which has influenced the currency culture of many Asian countries for more than a thousand years. The other is the monetary culture of ancient Greece, the birthplace of western monetary culture, which later gave rise to the Arab and Indian coin systems. This book presents survey on Chinese ancient currency of all ages, before moving on to elaborate upon the history of currency culture exchange between China and other countries, such as ancient Greece and Rome, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Asia, Western and central Asia. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on the currency development of the neighboring Asian regions and countries, as well as the interaction between ancient Chinese coins and European and American coins in different periods.

Author : Hu Wenzhong,Cornelius N. Grove,Zhuang Enping
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780984247196

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Encountering the Chinese by Hu Wenzhong,Cornelius N. Grove,Zhuang Enping Pdf

China is in the midst of unprecedented economic and cultural growth. In the last decade alone, China joined the World Trade Organization, hosted the 2008 Olympics and experienced a remarkable, record-high increase in its foreign currency reserves. As these changes unfold, frequency of contact between the Chinese and Westerners is dramatically increasing in the office, the classroom and the home. With thought-provoking glimpses into history and tradition, Encountering the Chinese provides fundamental information on Chinese cultural norms and values, giving clear context for contemporary social standards. Readers will learn the etiquette necessary to build successful personal and professional relationships with the Chinese both inside and outside the People's Republic of China. This revised edition of Encountering the Chinese also explains how Chinese values are changing rapidly-and why it is more important than ever to keep up. For instance, compliments, once declined out of modesty, are now widely accepted in coastal cities; and some terms of address that were proper to use only a decade ago have grown offensive. Encountering the Chinese provides invaluable insight into the diverse and changing Chinese culture.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000023043190

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Energy Demand in China and Other Rapidly Developing Countries in Asia by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Pdf

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Author : Yutang Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:10531423

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My Country and My People by Yutang Lin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789711040048

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Rice Improvement in China and Other Asian Countries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lin Yutang
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781456636777

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My Country and My People by Lin Yutang Pdf

In this classic book, Yutang Lin does a fantastic job of describing Chinese people, customs and culture in an understandable way for the Western reader. This book was the first of it's kind, Lin being a rarity as he was fluent in both English and Chinese, having been born in China but growing up in America. This extremely popular book will prove to be a fascinating read, and is highly recommended on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in different non-Western cultures and societies.

Author : Howard W. French
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307946652

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China's Second Continent by Howard W. French Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future. One of the Best Books of the Year at • The Economist • The Guardian • Foreign Affairs

Author : Willy vande Walle,Noël Golvers
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9058673154

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The History of the Relations Between the Low Countries and China in the Qing Era (1644-1911) by Willy vande Walle,Noël Golvers Pdf

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Author : John Pomfret
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781429944120

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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom by John Pomfret Pdf

A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.

Author : Sir George Thomas Staunton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : China
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050802479

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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and Our Commercial Intercourse with that Country by Sir George Thomas Staunton Pdf

Author : Bernice Moon,Cliff Moon
Publisher : Hodder Wayland
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 0850783216

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China is My Country by Bernice Moon,Cliff Moon Pdf

Twenty-eight people describe their lives and work.

Author : Carla P Freeman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782544210

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Handbook on China and Developing Countries by Carla P Freeman Pdf

This Handbook explores the rapidly evolving and increasingly multifaceted relations between China and developing countries. Cutting-edge analyses by leading experts from around the world critically assess such timely issues as the ŠChina model�, Beijin

Author : Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004388246

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African Countries and the Global Scramble for China by Ngonlardje Kabra Mbaidjol Pdf

In African Countries and the Global Scramble for China, Mbaidjol engages the reader, from African perspectives and African People’s interests, in a theme that is currently fuelling international relations debates.