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Author : Patrick Grayson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0994402864
Covering three hundred years before Australia was colonised, to the current day, where people of Chinese heritage have influence Australian in a million ways.
Author : Yang Jisheng
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374716912
Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong’s ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union’s "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he called "bourgeois" forces within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This ten-year-long class struggle on a massive scale devastated traditional Chinese culture as well as the nation’s economy. Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Tombstone, Yang Jisheng here presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today. The World Turned Upside Down puts every political incident, major and minor, of those ten years under extraordinary and withering scrutiny, and arrives in English at a moment when contemporary Chinese governance is leaning once more toward a highly centralized power structure and Mao-style cult of personality.
Author : Karoline Kan
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780316412032
A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower. Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in Beijing, reveals how they navigated their way in a country beset by poverty and often-violent political unrest. As the Kans move from quiet villages to crowded towns and through the urban streets of Beijing in search of a better way of life, they are forced to confront the past and break the chains of tradition, especially those forced on women. Raw and revealing, Karoline Kan offers gripping tales of her grandmother, who struggled to make a way for her family during the Great Famine; of her mother, who defied the One-Child Policy by giving birth to Karoline; of her cousin, a shoe factory worker scraping by on 6 yuan (88 cents) per hour; and of herself, as an ambitious millennial striving to find a job--and true love--during a time rife with bewildering social change. Under Red Skies is an engaging eyewitness account and Karoline's quest to understand the rapidly evolving, shifting sands of China. It is the first English-language memoir from a Chinese millennial to be published in America, and a fascinating portrait of an otherwise-hidden world, written from the perspective of those who live there.
Author : Jingdong Yuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Australia
ISBN : 192130295X
Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735214743
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Author : Jia Gao
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811559099
This book analyses how an increasing number of new Chinese migrants have integrated into Australian society and added a new dimension to Australian domestic politics as a result of Australia’s merit-based immigration system and its shift towards Asia. These policies have helped Australia sustain its growth without a recession for decades, but have also slowly changed established patterns in the distribution of job opportunities, wealth, and political influence in the country. These transformations have recently triggered a strong Sinophobic campaign in Australia, the most disturbing aspect of which is the denial of the successful integration of Chinese migrants into Australian society. Based on evidence gathered through a longitudinal study of Chinese migrants in Australia, this book examines the misconceptions troubling Australia’s current China debate from six important but overlooked perspectives, ranging from migration policy changes, economic factors, grassroots responses, the role of major political parties, community activism, to knowledge issues.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:B3079834
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1916 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Asia
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069374233
With which are incorporated "The China directory" and "The Hongkong directory and Hong list for the Far East" ...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Asia
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069324337
Author : Harsh Dobhal
Publisher : Socio Legal Information Cent
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 9788189479824
Defend the Defenders
Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197515761
A major analysis of how China is attempting to become a media and information superpower around the world, seeking to shape the politics, local media, and information environments of both East Asia and the World. Since China's ascendancy toward major-power status began in the 1990s, many observers have focused on its economic growth and expanding military. China's ability was limited in projecting power over information and media and the infrastructure through which information flows. That has begun to change. Beijing's state-backed media, which once seemed incapable having a significant effect globally, has been overhauled and expanded. At a time when many democracies' media outlets are consolidating due to financial pressures, China's biggest state media outlets, like the newswire Xinhua, are modernizing, professionalizing, and expanding in attempt to reach an international audience. Overseas, Beijing also attempts to impact local media, civil society, and politics by having Chinese firms or individuals with close links buy up local media outlets, by signing content-sharing deals with local media, by expanding China's social media giants, and by controlling the wireless and wired technology through which information now flows, among other efforts. In Beijing's Global Media Offensive - a major analysis of how China is attempting to build a media and information superpower around the world, and how this media power integrates with other forms of Chinese influence - Joshua Kurlantzick focuses on how all of this is playing out in both China's immediate neighborhood - Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand - and also in the United States and many other parts of the world. He traces the ways in which China is trying to build an information and influence superpower, but also critically examines the new conventional wisdom that Beijing has enjoyed great success with these efforts. While China has worked hard to build a global media and information superpower, it often has failed to reap gains from its efforts, and has undermined itself with overly assertive, alienating diplomacy. Still, Kurlantzick contends, China's media, information and political influence campaigns will continue to expand and adapt, helping Beijing exports its political model and protect the ruling Party, and potentially damaging press freedoms, human rights, and democracy abroad. An authoritative account of how this sophisticated and multi-pronged campaign is unfolding, Beijing's Global Media Offensive provides a new window into China's attempts to make itself an information superpower.
Author : Harold Isaacs
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608461097
The story of how China's modern development rests on the tragically supressed struggle for true socialism.
Author : David Zweig
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801487552
Based on extensive research, David Zweig's study of the economic liberalisation of China focuses on transnational contacts in tightly regulated areas such as business, higher education, rural development, and investment.
Author : Denis C. Twitchett,Herbert Franke,John King Fairbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0521243319
This volume covers the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yüan dynasty.
Author : Helena F. S. Lopes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009311779
The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpacks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests, including Chinese Nationalists, Communists and collaborators with Japan, Portuguese colonial authorities and British and Japanese representatives. Lopes argues that neutrality eased the movement of refugees of different nationalities who sought shelter in Macau during the war and that it helped to guarantee the maintenance of two remnants of European colonialism – Macau and Hong Kong. Drawing on extensive research from multilingual archival material from Asia, Europe, Australasia and America, this book brings to light the multiple global connections framing the experiences of neutrality and collaboration in the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macau.