Yellow River Pioneers
Author | : William Hiles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Pittsville (Wis.) |
ISBN | : 9780910122955 |
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Author | : William Hiles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Pittsville (Wis.) |
ISBN | : 9780910122955 |
Author | : Khoon Choy Lee |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9812700900 |
Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian R(r)n are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing R(r)n are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai R(r)n are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan R(r)n are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan R(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 | : Ruth Mostern |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2021-09-28 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0300263112 |
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human decisions. As Mostern follows the Yellow River through three millennia of history, she underlines how governments consistently ignored the dynamic interrelationships of the river’s varied ecosystems—grasslands, riparian forests, wetlands, and deserts—and the ecological and cultural impacts of their policies. With an interdisciplinary approach informed by archival research and GIS (geographical information system) records, this groundbreaking volume provides unique insight into patterns, transformations, and devastating ruptures throughout ecological history and offers profound conclusions about the way we continue to affect the natural systems upon which we depend.
Author | : James Reardon-Anderson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804751674 |
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 | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Michigan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Micah S. Muscolino |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107071569 |
This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.
Author | : Clyde Ellis |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 080325251X |
This anthology examines the origins, meanings, and enduring power of the powwow. Held on and off reservations, in rural and urban settings, powwows are an important vehicle for Native peoples to gather regularly. Although sometimes a paradoxical combination of both tribal and intertribal identities, they are a medium by which many groups maintain important practices.
Author | : Michigan Historical Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Theodore Christian Blegen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Minnesota |
ISBN | : |
Vol. 6 includes the 23d Biennial report of the Society, 1923/24, as an extra number.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Illinois |
ISBN | : |