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Author | : Renee Ting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9781885008374 |
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"Presents stories of kings and queens, generals, battles, and courtiers from the Zhou Dynasty, when China was ruled by kings from 1046 BC to 221 BC. It was the period before the country was unified under a single emperor, when each state schemed to become more powerful than its neighbor, leading to many exciting stories populated by famous historical figures"--Jacket.
Author | : Linda Jaivin |
Publisher | : The Experiment, LLC |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1615198210 |
Download The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Journey across epic China—through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. As we enter the “Asian century,” China demands our attention for being an economic powerhouse, a beacon of rapid modernization, and an assertive geopolitical player. To understand the nation behind the headlines, we must take in its vibrant, tumultuous past—a story of “larger-than-life characters, philosophical arguments and political intrigues, military conflicts and social upheavals, artistic invention and technological innovation.” The Shortest History of China charts a path from China’s tribal origins through its storied imperial era and up to the modern Communist Party under Xi Jinping—including the rarely told story of women in China and the specters of corruption and disunity that continue to haunt the People’s Republic today. A master storyteller and exacting historian, Linda Jaivin distills this vast history into a short, riveting account that today’s globally minded readers will find indispensable.
Author | : Harold Miles Tanner |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2009-03-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0872209156 |
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A deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this volume develops a number of important themes -- such as the ethnic diversity of the early empires -- that other editions omit entirely or discuss only minimally. Includes a general introduction, chronology, bibliography, illustrations, maps, and an index.
Author | : B. J. ter Haar |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004148442 |
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This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Of interest to historians of oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts, but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China.
Author | : Yau-Woon Ma |
Publisher | : Cheng & Tsui |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780887270710 |
Download Traditional Chinese Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For centuries the Chinese referred to their fiction as xiaoshuo, etymologically meaning roadside gossip or small talk, and held it in relative disregard.
Author | : Ralph D. Sawyer |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 046502145X |
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A leading historical scholar offers the definitive account of the strategies and technology that shaped the earliest Chinese dynasties--from walled defenses to chariot-driven warriors.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1985-12-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Download Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Chinese literary history, the Six Dynasties (317-588) and the T'ang (618-906) were the great creative times for the production of supernatural and fantastic stories in the classical language. This major collection of ninety-six stories, most of them newly translated, represents the very best of this tradition. These are all basically fictional narratives or stories, but unlike Western supernatural stories, are considered more or less as records of observable facts and have the effect of giving the fantastic a rootedness in historical reality. Underlying the recording of these supernatual stories is a belief in supernaturalism and magic and, above all, the acceptance of the unnatural and the supernormal on their face value as factual.
Author | : Lisa See |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1408821621 |
Download Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
Author | : Jung Chang |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2008-06-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439106495 |
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The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Author | : Kai-chun Ju |
Publisher | : Port Moody, B.C. : ChineseBridge Pub. |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780973035339 |
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