Dear China

Author : Gregor Benton,Hong Liu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520970540

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Dear China by Gregor Benton,Hong Liu Pdf

Qiaopi is one of several names given to the “silver letters” Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions’ socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312268838

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Dear China: Love Letter Poems by Martin Avery Pdf

Author : Gillian Chan
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada Emigration and immigration Government policy History 20th century Juvenile fiction
ISBN : 0779113535

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An Ocean Apart by Gillian Chan Pdf

With over 400,000 books already in print, the Dear Canada series has fast become the book series for children. Each fictional diary invites readers into the world of a girl living through a particular period in Canada's past. Gillian Chan's latest addition illustrates the effect the Chinese Head Tax has on one young girl and her family. Mei-ling and her father are struggling to pay the head tax that will allow her mother and brother, who are still living in China, to come to Canada. They must have that money before the impending Exclusion Act bars any more Chinese from immigrating. What will happen if they can't come up with enough in time to reunite their family?

Author : Donald K Emmerson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781931368599

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The Deer and the Dragon by Donald K Emmerson Pdf

Will the nations of Southeast Asia maintain their strategic autonomy, or are they destined to become a subservient periphery of China? This book’s expert authors address this pressing question in multiple contexts. What clues to the future lie in the modern history of Sino-Southeast Asian relations? How economically dependent on China has the region already become? What do Southeast Asians think of China? Does Beijing view the region in proprietary terms as its own backyard? How has the relative absence, distance, and indifference of the United States affected the balance of influence between the US and China in Southeast Asia? The book also explores China’s moves and Southeast Asia’s responses to them. Does China’s Maritime Silk Road through Southeast Asia herald a Pax Sinica across the region? How should China’s expansionary acts in the South China Sea be understood? How have Southeast Asian states such as Vietnam and the Philippines responded? How does Singapore’s China strategy compare with Indonesia’s? How relevant is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations? To what extent has China tried to persuade the “overseas Chinese” in Southeast Asia to identify with “'the motherland” and support its aims? How are China’s deep involvements in Cambodia and Laos affecting the economies and policies of those countries? “This rich collection,” writes renowned author-journalist Nayan Chanda, answers these and other questions while offering “fresh insights” and “new information and analyses” to explain Southeast Asia’s relations with China.

Author : Julia Waterlow
Publisher : Cherrytree Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : China
ISBN : 9781842345696

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China by Julia Waterlow Pdf

Illustrated in colour throughout, this title focuses on one urban and one rural community in China. By looking at aspects of daily life, the differences between the two communities and across the country are exposed.

Author : Derek Philpott,Dave Philpott
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781783526000

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Dear Mr Pop Star by Derek Philpott,Dave Philpott Pdf

For more than a decade, Derek Philpott and his son, Dave, have been writing to pop stars from the 1960s to the 90s to take issue with the lyrics of some of their best-known songs. But then, to their great surprise, the pop stars started writing back... Dear Mr Pop Star contains 100 of Derek and Dave's greatest hits, including correspondence with Katrina and the Waves, Tears for Fears, Squeeze, The Housemartins, Suzi Quatro, Devo, Deep Purple, Nik Kershaw, T’Pau, Human League, Eurythmics, Wang Chung, EMF, Mott the Hoople, Heaven 17, Jesus Jones, Johnny Hates Jazz, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Chesney Hawkes and many, many more.

Author : Margaret C. Collier
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493195138

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Dear Diana: Travel with Me to London by Margaret C. Collier Pdf

London is a magnificent city and so once again , the reader is invited to look at those special places of interest included in "Dear Diana: Travel with me to London." As in the other five books of the "Dear Diana" series, travel is personalized and shared with those who have not traveled yet or those who do not want to read lengthy tour books. While this book on London covers highlighted places of interests and shares impressions and opinions , it is short read to help with the understanding of London's special qualities.

Author : Haiming Yan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338052

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World Heritage Craze in China by Haiming Yan Pdf

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking recognition from UNESCO. This book explores three dimensions of the UNESCO World Heritage initiative with particular relevance for China: the universal agenda, the national practices, and the local responses. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Author : Yiyun Li
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399589119

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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li Pdf

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. “A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead “What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?” Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Praise for Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life “Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating—and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.”—The Washington Post “Li’s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.’”—The New York Times Book Review “An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.”—The Boston Globe “Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.”—Financial Times “Every writer is a reader first, and Dear Friend is Li’s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.”—Entertainment Weekly “Yiyun Li’s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : John Hervey Earl of Bristol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Account books
ISBN : IND:32000009969769

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The Diary of John Hervey, First Earl of Bristol by John Hervey Earl of Bristol Pdf

Author : Randall E. Stross
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0824815092

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Bulls in the China Shop and Other Sino-American Business Encounters by Randall E. Stross Pdf

"An entertaining, fact-filled journey through the past two decades of Chinese and American business interaction.... Stross's chapters on the adoption of modern management practices in China shine for their detailed analysis and ... their extremely thorough use of primary Chinese-language newspaper and magazine documentation.... [His] two chapters on Americans and their expatriate lives in China are also well written and complete." --China Review International, Spring 1994

Author : Rotem Kowner,Walter Demel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004292932

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Race and Racism in Modern East Asia by Rotem Kowner,Walter Demel Pdf

A sequel to the groundbreaking volume, Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, it also analyzes the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this insightful and engaging 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001906961S

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : China
ISBN : CUB:U183045239076

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China's Millions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michele R. Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1416571213

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Dear Success Seeker by Michele R. Wright Pdf

An inspirational collection of original letters written by remarkably accomplished women to future generations of success seekers When facing obstacles to her own success, Michele R. Wright quickly discovered how valuable it is to have success warriors in your life who can inspire and guide you. With this in mind, Wright assembled luminaries from the entertainment, arts, business, and sports worlds to offer words of inspiration and invaluable advice to those seeking victory in their personal and professional journeys. In these original pieces, the eighty-three contributors -- representing a diverse range of age, background, and experience -- share intimate stories of the challenges and triumphs, adventures and mishaps they faced that marked the road to their achievements. Mae Jemison, MD, the first female African-American astronaut, cautions that "'You can't' and 'You have to' are two deadly phrases that are stumbling blocks for many success seekers," and encourages those seeking success to "remain curious and inquisitive." Tennis great Billie Jean King suggests, "Use your talents to win, not only for yourself, but for generations to come." These women and award-winning actresses Shirley Jones, Ruby Dee, Mo'Nique, and Phylicia Rashad, Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Nobel Prize winner Rosalyn S. Yalow, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer, and entertainer Patti LaBelle are just a few of the many women offering such pearls of wisdom.