Pioneers Of Modern China

Author : Khoon Choy Lee
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789812566188

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Pioneers of Modern China by Khoon Choy Lee Pdf

Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian R‚n are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing R‚n are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai R‚n are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan R‚n are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan R‚n are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province.Pioneers of Modern China is a fascinating book that paints a vivid picture of the unique cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders in the modern history of China, such as Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as representatives, it offers an in-depth look into the psyche of the Chinese people. It also pays tribute to writers, painters and kungfu experts, who have helped to develop the country socially and artistically.

Author : Jessica Harrison-Hall,Julia Lovell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 050048080X

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Creators of Modern China by Jessica Harrison-Hall,Julia Lovell Pdf

Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the country's transition from dynastic empireto republic.

Author : Juan Pablo Cardenal,Heriberto Araujo
Publisher : Crown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780385346580

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China's Silent Army by Juan Pablo Cardenal,Heriberto Araujo Pdf

The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut that is China, Inc. Beijing-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araújo crisscrossed the globe from 2009-2011 to investigate how the Chinese are literally making the developing world in their own image. What they discovered is a human story, an economic story, and a political story, one that is changing the course of history and that has never been explored, or reported, in depth and on the ground. The “silent army” to which the authors refer is made up of the many ordinary Chinese citizens working around the world - in the oil industry in Kazakhstan, mining minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, building dams in Ecuador, selling hijabs in Cairo - who are contributing to China's global dominance while also leaving their mark in less salutary ways. With original and fresh reporting as well as top-notch writing, China's Silent Army takes full advantage of the Spanish-speaking authors' outsider experience to reveal China's influence abroad in all its most vital implications - for foreign policy, trade, private business, and the environment.

Author : Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538103876

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Modern China by Bruce A. Elleman,S. C. M. Paine Pdf

Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China’s culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

Author : Kenneth James Hammond,Kristin Stapleton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 074255466X

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The Human Tradition in Modern China by Kenneth James Hammond,Kristin Stapleton Pdf

This lively and engaging text offers a panorama of modern Chinese history through compelling biographies of the famous and obscure. Spanning five hundred years, they include a Ming dynasty medical pioneer, a Qing dynasty courtesan, a nineteenth-century Hong Kong business leader, a Manchu princess, an arsenal manager, a woman soldier, and a young maid in contemporary Beijing. Through the lives of these diverse people, readers will gain an understanding of the complex questions of modern Chinese history: What did it mean to be Chinese, and how did that change over time? How was learning encouraged and directed in imperial and post-imperial China? Was it possible to challenge entrenched gender roles? What effects did European imperialism have on Chinese lives? How did ordinary Chinese experience the warfare and political upheaval of twentieth-century China? What is the nature of the gap between urban and rural China in the post-Mao years? These richly researched biographies are written in an accessible and appealing style that will engage all readers interested in modern China. Contributions by: Daria Berg, John M. Carroll, Kenneth J. Hammond, Joshua H. Howard, Fabio Lanza, Oliver Moore, Pan Yihong, Hugh Shapiro, Kristin Stapleton, and Shuo Wang

Author : Li Ma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793631572

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Christian Women and Modern China by Li Ma Pdf

Christian Women and Modern China presents a social history of women pioneers in Chinese Protestantism from the 1880s to the 2010s. The author interrupts a hegemonic framework of historical narratives by exploring formal institutions and rules as well as social networks and social norms that shape the lived experiences of women. This book achieves a more nuanced understanding about the interplays of Christianity, gender, power and modern Chinese history. It reintroduces Chinese Christian women pioneers not only to women’s history and the history of Chinese Christianity, but also to the history of global Christian mission and the global history of many modern professions, such as medicine, education, literature, music, charity, journalism, and literature.

Author : James Reardon-Anderson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804751676

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Reluctant Pioneers by James Reardon-Anderson Pdf

Reluctant Pioneers describes the migration of Chinese to Manchuria, their settlement there, and the incorporation of Manchuria into an expanding China, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The expansion of Chinese state and society from the agrarian and urban core of China proper to the territories north and west of the Great Wall doubled the size of the empire, forming the "China" now so prominent on the map of Asia. The movement and settlement of people, clearing and cultivation of land, invasions of soldiers, circulation of merchants, and establishment of government offices extended the boundaries of China at the same time that the American expansion westward and the Russian expansion eastward created the other great landed empires that dominated the twentieth century and persist today. The chief purpose of this book is to describe the Chinese experience and what it tells us about the expansion of states and societies, drawing comparisons with Russia and America, and reflecting on the nature of what scholars since Frederick Jackson Turner have called "frontiers" and what Turner's critics now call "borderlands" or "middle ground." In addition, the book touches on several other issues central to our understanding of modern China, such as the development of the Chinese economy and the nature of Chinese migration.

Author : Yingjin Zhang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118451601

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A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Yingjin Zhang Pdf

This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship published in Chinese and English and brings attention to previously neglected, important areas. Offers the most thorough and concise coverage of modern Chinese literature to date, drawing attention to previously neglected areas such as late Qing, Sinophone, and ethnic minority literature Several chapters explore literature in relation to Sinophone geopolitics, regional culture, urban culture, visual culture, print media, and new media The introduction and two chapters furnish overviews of the institutional development of modern Chinese literature in Chinese and English scholarship since the mid-twentieth century Contributions from leading literary scholars in mainland China and Hong Kong add their voices to international scholarship

Author : S. Liu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137306111

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Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China by S. Liu Pdf

In Shanghai in the early twentieth century, a hybrid theatrical form, wenmingxi, emerged that was based on Western spoken theatre, classical Chinese theatre, and a Japanese hybrid form known as shinpa. This book places it in the context of its hybridized literary and performance elements, giving it a definitive place in modern Chinese theatre.

Author : Patrick Fuliang Shan
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774837811

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Yuan Shikai by Patrick Fuliang Shan Pdf

Yuan Shikai (1859–1916) has been both hailed as China’s George Washington for his role in the country’s transition from empire to republic and condemned as a counter-revolutionary. Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal sheds new light on the controversial history of this talented administrator and modernizer who endeavoured to establish a new dynasty while serving as the first president of the republic, eventually declaring himself emperor. Drawing on untapped primary sources and recent scholarship, Patrick Fuliang Shan offers a lucid, comprehensive, and critical new interpretation of Yuan’s part in shaping modern China.

Author : Zeng Yeying
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351269384

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Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History I by Zeng Yeying Pdf

The study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches. Resulting from a special issue of Modern Chinese History Studies, this volume is devoted to showcasing the healthy development of Chinese modern history studies, and has already been revised twice in the original language. This volume exhibits major achievements on the study of modern Chinese history and shows how the role of history was in debate, transformation and re-evaluation throughout this tortuous yet prosperous period. Articles on eight different topics are collected from 11 prominent historians in order to represent their insights on the developmental paths of Chinese historical studies. Drawing on a large number of case studies of critical historical events, such as the founding of the Communist Party of China and the May 4th Movement, this volume reflects on economic history and military history, while moving on to explore more pioneering topics such as intellectual history and cultural history. This book will be a valuable reference for scholars and students of Chinese history.

Author : Kenneth Scott Latourette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015000230626

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A History of Modern China by Kenneth Scott Latourette Pdf

Author : Kaiming Su
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040284700

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Modern China by Kaiming Su Pdf

Author : Peter Gue Zarrow
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820479454

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Creating Chinese Modernity by Peter Gue Zarrow Pdf

Over the first half of the twentieth century, the lives of millions of urban Chinese were transformed by new ideas, new objects, new jobs, new leisure pursuits, new forms of transportation, new architecture: in a word, new «life-styles» and habits of mind. What did these changes mean to ordinary people? The essays in this book examine how prevailing discourses - on nationalism, feminism, democracy, individualism, socialism, and the like - emerged and were absorbed into the lived experiences and material culture of ordinary Chinese. Only from intimate personal experiences with forces ranging from war, revolution, and state-building to advertising blitzes and boycotts was Chinese modernity forged, forged out of «forces» larger than individuals but simultaneously observed, interpreted, adapted, and absorbed by those individuals.

Author : Yuwu Song
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476602981

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Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China by Yuwu Song Pdf

This biographical dictionary is an indispensable research tool for information about the prominent persons of the past seven decades in China. The book documents nearly 600 Chinese individuals who contributed, for better or worse, to the development of Chinese life and culture since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Though the book is weighted toward political figures, it includes persons in business, the military, academia, medicine, social movements, the arts, entertainment and athletics. In addition to an objective description of the person's life, an analysis is provided that identifies the individual's contributions and importance.