Postcards From China

Author : Sandra Slavin
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1589394852

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Postcards from China by Sandra Slavin Pdf

This book is a compilation of humorous emails written to family and friends during the author's two years living in China. They moved to China in August 2000 hoping to escape the hectic lifestyle of living in San Francisco and allow their adopted Chinese daughter an opportunity to learn the language and culture of her birth country. This book chronicles their life and provides an intimate look into what it is like to live in China as an American family. It reveals how it affected the building of an identity for their Chinese-American daughter. The author writes about the numerous friends they made among the Chinese people from Glenn, their housekeeper, to the couple who sold tofu in the market. She describes shopping at the local market, ordering in local restaurants, and describes how the local Chinese live and work. This book describes their life, full of curiosities and adventures. Learn why Chinese men grow long their fifth finger nail, how to avoid disaster when traveling to Mongolia, how to cross the street, and the difficulties in purchasing and getting an egg from market to home. After reading the book you may be inspired to try your own adventure.

Author : Felicitas Titus
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781462908899

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Old Beijing by Felicitas Titus Pdf

This collection of Chinese photography contains over 350 vintage postcards from pre-communist China along with extensive historical background and commentary. Camel trains arriving at a city gate; the distinctive architecture of the Forbidden City, its pagodas, imperial buildings and temples; Manchu fashion, the Empress Dowager and the child emperor Puyi; street performers and foreign tourists—all come to life again in this extraordinary collection of rare and vintage Chinese postcards. Old Beijing: Postcards from the Imperial City offers a unique look at a vanished China and its storied capital once known as Peking. Containing unique black-and-white and hand-tinted cards that span Chinese history from the last years of Imperial China to the Japanese invasion of 1937, it is a treasure trove for historians, collectors, Sinophiles and anyone fascinated by Chinese culture and people from times past.

Author : James Fallows
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307472625

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Postcards from Tomorrow Square by James Fallows Pdf

“Americans need not be hostile toward China's rise, but they should be wary about its eventual effects. The United States is the only nation with the scale and power to try to set the terms of its interaction with China rather than just succumb. So starting now, Americans need to consider the economic, environmental, political, and social goals they care about defending as Chinese influence grows.” —from “China Makes, the World Takes” Since December 2006, The Atlantic Magazine's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political transformation occurring in China. The ten essays collected here cover a wide-range of topics: from visionary tycoons and TV-battling entrepreneurs, to environmental pollution and how China subsidizes our economy. Fallows expertly and lucidly explains the economic, political, social, and cultural forces at work turning China into a world superpower at breakneck speed. This eye-opening and cautionary account is essential reading for all concerned not only with China's but America's future role in the world.

Author : Ingrid Booz Morejohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1932476741

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Postcards from China by Ingrid Booz Morejohn Pdf

Postcards from China is a penetrating collection of texts and pictures: spontaneous, of-the-moment images that go straight to the heart of life. Counting down from Day 100 - in the back of a motorcycle rickshaw - Booz Morejohn takes on modern Chengdu, observing her surroundings with a keen eye and sharp perspective gained from three decades of reflection on China. Her broad range of subjects include street fashion, pandas, food delivery men, bubble tea, baby split pants, garbage recycling, transport and habits of the mega-rich.

Author : Thomas Brandt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 3000248714

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China in Those Days by Thomas Brandt Pdf

Author : Felicitas Titus
Publisher : Felicitas Titus (Blurb Publishing)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781366222404

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Bygone Shanghai A Postcard History from 1890 to 1945 by Felicitas Titus Pdf

A beautiful comprehensive collection of antique China and Shanghai-specific postcards which takes you through the colonial era of China, 1890-1945. The text is written by Felicitas Titus (M.A. in German and French Languages from U.C. Berkeley) who was born and raised in China during the years of 1925-1950, and who is an expert on Chinese history. Her commentary provides just enough explanation of the events and people of that period to make the postcards come alive. The entire book is filled with historically significant and lovely images, capturing Chinese life at that time.

Author : Mike Davis,Matt Davis,Benchmark Education Company, LLC
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781450981040

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Postcards from China by Mike Davis,Matt Davis,Benchmark Education Company, LLC Pdf

Author : Grace Lau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 9620427807

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Picturing the Chinese by Grace Lau Pdf

Author : Benchmark Education Company, LLC Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1450985025

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Postcards from China (Teacher Guide) by Benchmark Education Company, LLC Staff Pdf

Author : James H Irwin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0888643500

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Completed Field Notes by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

This book brings together twenty of Kroetsch's long poems, spanning some of 15 years of creative activity. Remarkably versatile in both form and content, these extended meditations bear witness to Kroetsch's modernist inheritance and his well-known commitment to post-modern jouissance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9868556511

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寄給時間的漂流記 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ni Hao
Publisher : DeepLogic
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Travel Guide of Beijing, China by Ni Hao Pdf

This book is the volume of Beijing among a series of travel guides ("Travelling in China"). Its content is detailed and vivid.

Author : Christian Henriot,Wen-hsin Yeh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004228207

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Visualising China, 1845-1965 by Christian Henriot,Wen-hsin Yeh Pdf

In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s.

Author : Xiaoxin Wu
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 863 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765639929

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Christianity in China by Xiaoxin Wu Pdf

Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.