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Go Gently Through Peking by Lois Fisher,Lois Fisher-Ruge Pdf
Alltagsleben einer Ausländerin 1972-76 in China, ihre Eindrücke über die Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen in Peking und den Kommunen sowie die politische Entwicklung Chinas am Ende der Ära Mao. (BIOst-Hat).
Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MACFARQUHAR,Michael Schoenhals Pdf
Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.
The city's historic past and vibrant present are a source of pride to Chinese and of fascination to foreign visitors. This annotated bibliography will be of value to visitors, scholars, general readers and all those who wish to gain a better understanding of the city and its vital place in China's history.
"In the 1920s and 1930s no world cause was complete without a visit to Shanghai. Its name alone conjured images of mystery and adventure. Passengers on ships sailing to the Far East were regaled with stories of "The Whore of the Orient" and enthralled by tales of gangsters and warlords, of nightclubs that never closed and hotels that supplied heroin on room service. Shanghai became the epitome of glamour, immortalized in books and films. With its bustling polyglot population of British, Chinese, American, French, and White Russian inhabitants, its extremes of poverty and wealth, it appeared to straddle East and West. By the time the Japanese invasion of 1937 destroyed the illusion, Shanghai had passed into legend. Shanghai in the 1930s was the Berlin of the 1920s: a city where cultures and politics collided; where refugees from the Russian Revolution rubbed shoulders with proper British colonialists and American missionaries; where cabarets, theaters, and prostitution all thrived. Now in 'Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures 1918/1939", Harriet Sergeant recreates the years of the city's brief but brilliant heyday. Her book is an intriguing combination of firsthand accounts (she tracked down former residents, many now in their eighties and scattered across the world), vigorous research, and imaginative reconstruction. It is a fascinating analysis of the factors that make a city great--and a sobering illustration of the forces that can make a great city fall."--Front and back flaps of book jacket.
Every Chinese textile tells a story, and this book tells many stories of Chinese life and legend through the sumptuous textiles that adorn its pages. Breathtaking in workmanship, colour and design, they were made for a purpose, and it is those created for celebrations that dominate the selection in this book. As well as dealing with technique and influence, Wilson tells the story of each piece - why it was made and for whom - and introduces us to a galaxy of characters from China's history and legend. The superb photography allows us to see how richly these textiles reflect the culture from which they come.