Mokanshan

Author : James H Irwin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595362011

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Mokanshan by James H Irwin Pdf

Shanghai 1936. Word reaches the newsroom of the North China Daily-News that King Edward VIII is planning to marry an American divorcee, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, a one-time resident of Shanghai's International Settlement. Wallis Simpson has a thin but interesting file in the records of the Shanghai Municipal Police Department containing details of her activities in China-opium smoking, heroin peddling, learning the tricks of the trade at a high-class brothel and posing naked for naughty postcards. The lost negatives of Simpson immediately become sought after by the Shanghai police acting on behalf of the British Government, the Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, the notorious Green Gang, agents of Adolf Hitler and Emily Hahn, the China Coast correspondent for the New Yorker magazine. Instead they end up in the clumsy hands of two naive young Americans, Eli Swan and Luther Flood, who have little idea of their international significance or how much trouble they are in when they take the negatives with them on holiday to the nearby mountain resort of MOKANSHAN

Author : Wayne Flynt,Gerald W. Berkley
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0817308334

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Taking Christianity to China by Wayne Flynt,Gerald W. Berkley Pdf

Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided over the appropriateness of the missionary endeavor. Secular American intellectuals began to criticize missionaries as meddling do-gooders trying to impose American Evangelicalism on a proud, ancient culture. By examining the lives of 47 Alabama missionaries who served in China between 1850 and 1950, Flynt and Berkley reach a different conclusion. Although Alabama missionaries initially fit the negative description of Americans trying to superimpose their own values and beliefs on "heathen," they quickly learned to respect Chinese civilization. The result was a new synthesis, neither entirely southern nor entirely Chinese. Although previous works focus on the failure of Christianity to change China, this book focuses on the degree to which their service in China changed Alabama missionaries. And the change was profound. In their consideration of 47 missionaries from a single state--their call to missions, preparation for service in China, living, working, contacts back home, cultural clashes, political views, internal conflicts, and gender relations--the authors suggest that the efforts by Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian missionaries from Alabama were not the failure judged by many historians. In fact, the seeds sown in the hundred years before the Communist revolution in 1950 seem to be reaping a rich harvest in the declining years of the 20th century, when the number of Chinese Christians is estimated by some to be as high as one hundred million.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UVA:X004331682

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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951T00248542X

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Foreign Relations of the United States by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Madeleine Yue Dong,Joshua L Goldstein
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0295986026

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Everyday Modernity in China (Studies in Modernity and National Identity; A China Program Book) by Madeleine Yue Dong,Joshua L Goldstein Pdf

Essays address expressions of modernity in relation to non-Western politics and national cultures. Topics range from the installation of gas streetlights in Shanghai to urban planning efforts aimed at improving daily routines of work and leisure.

Author : Bill Porter
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781619028845

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South of the Yangtze by Bill Porter Pdf

Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remained the center of Chinese civilization for the next 4,000 years. Then a thousand years ago, this changed. A thousand years ago, the center of Chinese civilization moved to the Yangtze. And the Yangtze, not the Yellow River, has remained the center of its civilization. A thousand years ago, the Chinese came up with a name for this new center of its civilization. They called it Chiangnan, meaning "South of the River," the river in question, of course, being the Yangtze. The Chinese still call this region Chiangnan. Nowadays it includes the northern parts of Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces and the southern parts of Anhui and Kiangsu. And some would even add the northern part of Hunan. But it's not just a region on the map. It's a region in the Chinese spirit. It's hard to put it into words. Ask a dozen Chinese what "Chiangnan" means, and they'll give you a dozen different answers. For some the word conjures forests of pine and bamboo. For others, they envision hillsides of tea, or terraces of rice, or lakes of lotuses and fish. Or they might imagine Zen monasteries, or Taoist temples, or artfully–constructed gardens, or mist–shrouded peaks. Oddly enough, no one ever mentions the region's cities, which include some of the largest in the world. Somehow, whatever else it might mean to people, Chiangnan means a landscape, a landscape and a culture defined by mist, a landscape and a culture that lacks the harder edges of the arid North. In the Fall of 1991, Bill Porter decided to travel through this vaporous land, following the old post roads that still connected its administrative centers and scenic wonders, its most famous hometowns and graves, its factories and breweries, its dreamlike memories and its mist, and he was joined on this journey by his poet and photographer friends, Finn Wilcox and Steve Johnson. South of the Yangtze is a record in words and black and white images of their trip.

Author : Charles Bright,Joseph W. Ho
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611462326

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War and Occupation in China by Charles Bright,Joseph W. Ho Pdf

A fresh eyewitness account of the Japanese invasion of mid-China in 1937-1938, these letters by an American missionary in Hangzhou provide a vividly detailed, first-hand account of the spread of war from Shanghai across the Yangzi valley and the subsequent ordeals of military occupation seen against the better-known backdrop of the Nanjing Massacre – one man’s embedded experience in one major Chinese city of one chaotic year of war. Already 25 years in Republican China and fluent in the language when the Japanese arrived, the author was well-placed as both an observer of, and participant in harrowing events – the provost of the Hangzhou Christian College and responsible for its campus, president of the local Red Cross which organized refugee camps and shelter for those displaced by the looting and raping that ensued, and chairman of an International Committee which sought to mediate between Japanese and Chinese forces in an effort to limit destruction and then to negotiate with the occupation regime on a day-to-day basis. The letters – written twice weekly – describe pitched battles and aerial bombing, the fearful conditions of civilian refugees, the exigencies of the missionary enterprise and the experiences of foreign neutrals in wartime China, as well as the practical dilemmas of collaboration that arose under occupation – moving about, protecting refugees, procuring food, tending a dairy herd, and ministering to embattled congregations. The letters are fully annotated to give readers a fuller perspective on places, people, and events that surround the eyewitness accounts. A substantially researched introductory essay provides necessary historical background and situates the author in a longer missionary career that began in 1911 and ended with wartime internment in 1943.

Author : Robert Nield
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139286

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China’s Foreign Places by Robert Nield Pdf

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan—signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in remote places further inland. The largest of them—the great treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin—became modern cities of international importance, centres of cultural exchange and safe havens for Chinese who sought to subvert the Qing government. They are also lasting symbols of the uninvited and often violent incursions by foreign powers during China’s century of weakness. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports were abolished in 1943—a time when much of the treaty port world was under Japanese occupation. China’s Foreign Places provides a historical account of the hundred or more major foreign settlements that appeared in China during the period 1840 to 1943. Most of the entries are about treaty ports, large and small, but the book also includes colonies, leased territories, resorts and illicit centres of trade. Information has been drawn from a wide range of sources and entries are arranged alphabetically with extensive illustrations and maps. China’s Foreign Places is both a unique work of reference, essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modern China. It is also a fascinating account of the people, institutions and businesses that inhabited China’s treaty port world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073413192

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The China Connection by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1608 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : China
ISBN : MINN:319510007368173

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Chinese Economic Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Plant introduction
ISBN : UCBK:C069178161

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Inventory by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Agricultural Research Service. Plant Science Research Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Plant introduction
ISBN : CHI:72780319

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Inventory by United States. Agricultural Research Service. Plant Science Research Division Pdf

Author : Alexander Schintlmeister
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004259188

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Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera) by Alexander Schintlmeister Pdf

This 11th volume in the World Catalogue of Insects comprises 4415 species in 532 genera of Notodontidae & Oenosandridae (Lepidoptera), which is about 1000 species more than ever before provided in any catalogue. Altogether 7434 names of taxonomic entities are included. 27 cases of new synonymies on genus level and 72 new synonymies on species group level are reported and 15 statuses of taxa are changed. One Neotype and 24 Lectotypes are designated to stabilize the nomenclature. In line with recognized homonymies 4 replacement names are proposed. The catalogue also includes 107 new combinations of Notodontidae. The bibliographical source of almost all of the listed taxa (including the infrasubspecific entities) has been checked by the author personally. The exact type-locality of a taxon as well as the depository of the type is given, where traceable.

Author : Gail Pilley Harris
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798888514733

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Daughter of Drum Mountain by Gail Pilley Harris Pdf

This is the story of a brilliant woman who struggled to understand Christianity in the midst of war, loss, and depression.

Author : Bryna Goodman,David S. G. Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415687980

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Twentieth-century Colonialism and China by Bryna Goodman,David S. G. Goodman Pdf

Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China's landscape defies systematic characterization. This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences characterizing much of China's experience at this time. In the process it is clear that an emphasis on interaction, synergy and hybridity can add much to an understanding of colonialism in Twentieth Century China based on the simple binaries of colonizer and colonized, of aggressor and victim, and of a one-way transfer of knowledge and social understanding. To provide some kind of order to the analysis, the chapters in this volume deal in separate sections with colonial institutions of hybridity, colonialism in specific settings, the social biopolitics of colonialism, colonial governance, and Chinese networks in colonial environments. Bringing together an international team of experts, Twentieth Century Colonialism and China is an essential resource for students and scholars of modern Chinese history and colonialism and imperialism.