Author : Alice Tisdale Hobart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Silk Road
ISBN : UCAL:$B243340
Pidgin Cargo
Alice Tisdale Hobart
Pidgin Cargo
Pidgin Cargo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Pidgin Cargo book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Linguistic Ecology
Peter Mühlhäusler
Author : Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134934881
Linguistic Ecology by Peter Mühlhäusler Pdf
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. In contrast to the traditional portrayal of linguistic change as a natural process, the author focuses on the cultural and historical forces which drive language change. Using the metaphor of language ecology to explain and describe the complex interplay between languages, speakers and social practice, the author looks at how language ecologies have functioned in the past to sustain language diversity, and, at what happens when those ecologies are disrupted. Whilst most of the examples used in the book are taken from the Pacific and Australian region, the insights derived from this area are shown to have global applications. The text should be useful for linguists and all those interested in the large scale loss of human language.
The China Weekly Review
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117682190
The China Weekly Review by Anonim Pdf
Millard's Review of the Far East
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015027554206
Millard's Review of the Far East by Anonim Pdf
Vol. 34 includes "Special tariff conference issue" Nov. 6, 1925.
Yangtze Patrol
Kemp Tolley
Author : Kemp Tolley
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612511993
Yangtze Patrol by Kemp Tolley Pdf
The U.S. Navy's patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve, the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the shoreline factories. Tolley was a young naval officer in the 1930s when assigned gunboat duty, first in the Mindanao, then in the Tutuila, and finally the Wake in August 1941. His colorful description of life as a ""river rat"" is filled with anecdotes about the resourceful and high-spirited sailors who manned the old riverboats in that distant land. In the process of telling their story he covers a century of Chinese history, replete with warlords and mandarins, bandits and kidnappers, missionaries and mercenaries, riots and revolution. He presents a knowledgeable summary of the political situation in China up to World War II, including the bombing of the Panay, the siege of Shanghai, and the Nanking incident. Far more than a routine account of naval operations on the great Yangtze, this book is an unforgettable reading experience that has attracted readers since 1971 when it was first published in hardcover.
Journeys to the Other Side of the World
David Attenborough
Author : David Attenborough
Publisher : Two Roads
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473666665
Journeys to the Other Side of the World by David Attenborough Pdf
'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s onwards' Sunday Express Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman companion were aiming to record not just the wildlife, but the way of life of some of the indigenous people of these regions, whose traditions had never been encountered by most of the British public before. From the land divers of Pentecost Island and the sing-sings of New Guinea, to a Royal Kava ceremony on Tonga and the ancient art of the Northern Territory, it is a journey like no other. Alongside these remarkable cultures he encounters paradise birds, chameleons, sifakas and many more animals in some of the most unique environments on the planet. Written with David Attenborough's characteristic charm, humour and warmth, Journeys to the Other Side of the World is an inimitable adventure among people, places and the wildest of wildlife. 'Abundantly good' TLS 'A wondrous reminder of Attenborough's pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales' Daily Express 'An adventure that sparked a lifetime's commitment to the planet' The Lady 'Attenborough is a fine writer and storyteller' Irish Times
Reassessing Revitalization Movements
Michael Eugene Harkin
Author : Michael Eugene Harkin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803224060
Reassessing Revitalization Movements by Michael Eugene Harkin Pdf
The escalating political, economic, and cultural colonization of indigenous peoples over the past few centuries has spawned a multitude of revitalization movements. These movements promise liberation from domination by outsiders and incorporate and rework elements of traditional culture. Reassessing Revitalization Movements is the first book to discuss and compare in detail the origins, structure, and development of religious and political revitalization movements in North America and the Pacific Islands (known as Oceania). The essays cover the twentieth-century Cargo Cults of the South Pacific, the 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance movements in western North America, the Tuka Movement on Fiji in 1885, as well as the revitalistic aspects of contemporary social movements in North American and Oceania. Reassessing Revitalization Movements takes Anthony F. C. Wallace?s concept of revitalization movements and examines the applicability of the model to a variety of religious and anticolonial movements in North America and the Pacific Islands. This extension of the revitalization movement model beyond its traditional territory in Native anthropology enriches our understanding of movements outside of North America and offers a holistic view of them that embraces phenomena ranging from the psychic to the ecological. This cross-cultural approach provides the most stimulating and broadly applicable treatment of the topic in decades.
Gradual Creolization
Rachel Selbach,Hugo C. Cardoso,Margot van den Berg
Author : Rachel Selbach,Hugo C. Cardoso,Margot van den Berg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289360
Gradual Creolization by Rachel Selbach,Hugo C. Cardoso,Margot van den Berg Pdf
Is creolization an abrupt or a gradual process? In this volume leading scholars provide both comparative and case studies that outline their working definitions and their views on the particular or average time depth, or key processes necessary for contact language formation, providing a state-of-the art assessment of the theory of gradual creolization. Authors scrutinize the roles of nativization, demography, initial settlement, language composition, koineization, adstrate presence, bilingualism, as well as a variety of structural features in pidgins, creoles and other contact languages world-wide. From Pacific to Atlantic, French-, English-, Dutch-, Portuguese- and other-lexified restructured varieties are covered. Syntactic, lexical, phonological, historical and socio-cultural studies are grouped into Part 1, Linguistic analysis, and Part 2, Social reconstruction. This volume provides the multi-faceted groundwork and expert discussion that will help formulate further a model of gradual creolization, as called for by the work of the late Jacques Arends.
Wings for an Embattled China
W. Langhorne Bond
Author : W. Langhorne Bond
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0934223653
Wings for an Embattled China by W. Langhorne Bond Pdf
"This is the story of an aviation pioneer who developed a major airline in China in the 1930s and 1940s. W. Langhorne Bond was a Pan American executive in the days when Pam Am was achieving mastery of the skies. The book tells the story of Bond's efforts to set up and operate a fledgling airline, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), while overcoming Chinese political machinations, attacks by invading Japanese forces, and changing and erratic American management and government policies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
China Bound
Robert Bickers
Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472949950
China Bound by Robert Bickers Pdf
From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a core focus on Asia. From 1866 its fate was intertwined with developments in China, with the story of steam, and later of flight, and with the movements of people and of goods that made the modern world. China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's – and the twists and turns of the global economy. This is the story of a business that reshaped Hong Kong, developed Cathay Pacific Airways, dominated China's pre-Second World War shipping industry, and helped pioneer containerization. Robert Bickers' remarkable new book is the history of a business, and of its worlds, of modern China, Britain, and of the globalization that entangled them, of compradors, ship-owners, and seamen, sugar travellers, tea-tasters, and stuff merchants, revolutionaries, pirates and Taipans. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in global commerce, China Bound provides an intimate history that helps explain the shape of Asia today.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357409
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)
Railroads and the Transformation of China
Elisabeth Köll
Author : Elisabeth Köll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674916425
Railroads and the Transformation of China by Elisabeth Köll Pdf
To convey modern China’s history and the forces driving its economic success, rail has no equal. From warlordism to Cultural Revolution, railroads suffered the country’s ills but persisted because they were exemplary institutions. Elisabeth Köll shows why they remain essential to the PRC’s technocratic economic model for China’s future.
River of Smoke
Amitav Ghosh
Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143185789
River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh Pdf
The Ibis is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French orphan masquerading as a deck hand; and Deeti, the widowed poppy grower fleeing her homeland with her lover, Kalua. The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton. And the Redruth, a nursery ship, carries “Fitcher” Penrose, a horticulturist determined to track down the priceless treasures of China: plants that have the power to heal, or beautify, or intoxicate. All will converge in Canton’s Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave: a tumultuous world unto itself where civilizations clash and sometimes fuse. It is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars. Spectacular coincidences, startling reversals of fortune, and tender love stories abound. But this is much more than an irresistible page-turner. The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries meet, and the result is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance.
The Michigan Technic
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015021290880
The Michigan Technic by Anonim Pdf
The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik
J.K. Van Dover
Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617411
The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik by J.K. Van Dover Pdf
From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee’s world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the citizens he served with dedication on the emperor’s behalf. This book gives a synopsis of each Judge Dee story, along with commentary on plots, characters, themes and historical details. Exploring van Gulik’s influence on Chinese and Western detective fiction and on the image of China in popular 20th century American literature, this study brings to light a significant contributor to the development of detective fiction.