Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits
| Author | : Dao-yuan Chou |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Americans |
| ISBN | : |
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Silage Choppers & Snake Spirits
| Author | : Dao-yuan Chou |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Americans |
| ISBN | : 9782491182021 |
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Americans in China
| Author | : Terry Lautz |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2022-01-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0197512852 |
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Americans in China tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars. In Americans in China, Terry Lautz provides a series of biographical portraits of Americans who have lived and worked in China from before the Communist era to the present. The pathbreaking experiences of these men and women provide unique insights and deeply human perspectives on issues that have shaped US engagement with the People's Republic: politics, diplomacy, education, business, art, law, journalism, and human rights. For each of these Americans, China was more than just another place: it was an idea, a cause, a revolution, a civilization. Some of them grew up in China while others were motivated by curiosity and adventure. Some believed Red China was an existential threat while others looked to the People's Republic as a socialist utopia. Still others--including a number of Chinese Americans--worked to improve US-China relations for personal or professional reasons. Looming over their narratives is the quandary of whether divergent Chinese and Western worldviews could find common ground. Was it best to abide by Chinese norms, taking into account China's unique history and culture? Or should individual civil and human rights be defended as universal? Would China move in the direction of Western-style liberal democracy? Or was the Communist Party destined to follow an authoritarian path? The figures in this book had distinctive answers to such questions. Their stories hold up a mirror to our two societies, helping to explain how we have arrived at the present moment.
The Girls of Atomic City
| Author | : Denise Kiernan |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2014-03-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1451617534 |
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Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Red Friends
| Author | : John Sexton |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 495 |
| Release | : 2023-02-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1788735684 |
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China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War. These desperate and bloody struggles were personified in the lives of Norman Bethune and others who volunteered in both conflicts. The story of Red Friends starts in the 1920s when, encouraged by the newly formed Communist International, Chinese nationalists and leftists united to fight warlords and foreign domination. John Sexton has unearthearthed the histories of foreigners who joined the Chinese revolution. He follows Comintern militants, journalists, spies, adventurers, Trotskyists, and mission kids whose involvement helped, and sometimes hindered, China's revolutionaries. Most were internationalists who, while strongly identifying with China's struggle, saw it as just one theatre in a world revolution. The present rulers in Beijing, however, buoyed by China's powerhouse economy, commemorate them as 'foreign friends' who aided China's 'peaceful rise' to great power status. Red Friends is part of Verso's growing China list, which includes China's Revolution in the Modern World and China in One Village. Founded on original research, it is a stirring story of idealists struggling against the odds to found a better future. The author's interviews with survivors and descendants add colour and humanity to lives both heroic and tragic.
Information and Intrigue
| Author | : Colin B. Burke |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2014-05-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0262323362 |
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An account of Herbert Field's quest for a new way of organizing information and how information systems are produced by ideology as well as technology. In Information and Intrigue Colin Burke tells the story of one man's plan to revolutionize the world's science information systems and how science itself became enmeshed with ideology and the institutions of modern liberalism. In the 1890s, the idealistic American Herbert Haviland Field established the Concilium Bibliographicum, a Switzerland-based science information service that sent millions of index cards to American and European scientists. Field's radical new idea was to index major ideas rather than books or documents. In his struggle to create and maintain his system, Field became entangled with nationalistic struggles over the control of science information, the new system of American philanthropy (powered by millionaires), the politics of an emerging American professional science, and in the efforts of another information visionary, Paul Otlet, to create a pre-digital worldwide database for all subjects. World War I shuttered the Concilium, and postwar efforts to revive it failed. Field himself died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Burke carries the story into the next generation, however, describing the astonishingly varied career of Field's son, Noel, who became a diplomat, an information source for Soviet intelligence (as was his friend Alger Hiss), a secret World War II informant for Allen Dulles, and a prisoner of Stalin. Along the way, Burke touches on a range of topics, including the new entrepreneurial university, Soviet espionage in America, and further efforts to classify knowledge.
Foreigners under Mao
| Author | : Beverley Hooper |
| Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2016-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9888208748 |
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The book examines the lives of six different groups of Westerners: ‘foreign comrades’ who made their home in Mao’s China, twenty-two former Korean War POWs who controversially chose China ahead of repatriation, diplomats of Western countries that recognized the People’s Republic, the few foreign correspondents permitted to work in China, ‘foreign experts’, and language students. Each of these groups led distinct lives under Mao, while sharing the experience of a highly politicized society and of official measures to isolate them from everyday China. ‘This book is enjoyable and engaging. The author introduces a small but dynamic collection of enthusiastic international participants in post-1949 China showing unquestioned loyalty to Mao’s ideals. Equally intriguing are the alternate stories of diplomats and reporters existing far outside the mainstream of Chinese life and trusted by neither the Chinese nor the international supporters.’ —Edgar A. Porter, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University; author of The People’s Doctor: George Hatem and China’s Revolution ‘A well-written survey about the variety of Westerners who lived and worked in the People’s Republic of China between 1949 and 1976. This is a welcome addition to the “sojourner” literature about foreigners who lived in twentieth-century socialist countries. The scholarship, which includes the review of memoirs, archival materials, and secondary works, is impressive and comprehensive.’ —Stephen R. MacKinnon, Arizona State University; co-author of China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s
The Good Boatman
| Author | : Rajmohan Gandhi |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780140255638 |
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A new and illuminating portrait of one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been the subject of over a dozen well-regarded biographies, yet key aspects of the man still prove elusive. In this book, Rajmohan Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and an acclaimed biographer and scholar, attempts to understand the phenomenon that was Gandhi. This he does by examining in detail dominant and varied themes of Gandhi's life"his unsuccessful bid to keep India united, his attitude towards caste and untouchability; his relationship with those whose empire he challenged; his controversial experiments with chastity; his views on God, truth and non-violence; and his selection of heirs to lead a new-born nation. For a generation growing up on images of a simplified Father of the Nation and apostle of non-violence frozen in statues or reduced to a few predictable strokes of an artist's pen, this biography offers a rewarding insight into the man, his victories and his defeats.
Source Code China
| Author | : Cyrill Eltschinger |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2007-09-10 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0470195436 |
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"The next five years will be [...] a period of opportunity for China to speed up the growth of software and information services outsourcing. China will continue to generate strong market demand for the global software industry." —H.E. Bo Xi Lai, Minister, China Central Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Praise for Source Code China: The New Global Hub of IT (Information Technology) Outsourcing "Cyrill Eltschinger's Source Code China examines the depths of a remarkable shift towards a value-added economy. After reading this book, you'll see once again how China is positioning itself for leadership in this growing area." —William G. Parrett, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte, May 2007 "In his book, Cyrill Eltschinger addresses an important perspective: China is not only 'the factory of the world,' it is also becoming a major technology services hub. For all of us, it is a fascinating experience to participate in this impressive evolution." —Josef M. Mueller, Chairman & CEO, Nestle (China) Ltd "Source Code China provides an insightful touch with the reality of how China is reshaping the global market for offshore IT services." —Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Wucherer, Executive Vice President, SIEMENS "This is a must-read to understand IT outsourcing in China and its impact on the rest of the world." —Dr. Andrew Lai, VP/GM, Global Delivery China Center, Hewlett-Packard Company; International Economic Advisor to City Mayor of Chongqing, China; IT Strategy Advisor, City Mayor of Chengdu, China "In his book Source Code China, Mr. Eltschinger provides compelling reasons why any company can benefit from IT outsourcing to China, a country that is rapidly becoming the destination of choice for most enterprises." —Charles Pau, Director, Globalization Architecture and Technology, IBM "This book demonstrates China's credentials as the new hub of offshore IT services." —Steve Little, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, D.S.I., Schneider Electric "Organizations not sourcing IT services from China are literally missing the boat. Mr. Eltschinger's book takes readers on an intellectual journey explaining how and why China is becoming the premier offshore destination for businesses all over the world. This is a must read for any business executive and I highly recommend you knock this one off your reading list immediately." —David Etzler, Chief Executive Officer, OutsourceWorld If you are not in China, you are really not in the game
Chinese Gods
| Author | : Jonathan Chamberlain |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : China |
| ISBN | : 9789679781052 |
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This is an introduction to the most frequently encountered Chinese deities focusing on those gods which express the most common concerns of the Chinese people.
