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There are many accounts of what happened in central Beijing in June 1989, and not all of them say - or describe - the same things. Nor is there any agreement about what actually happened. Many foreign journalists say no 'massacre' occured and that no tanks squashed people into pulp. Quelling the People is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of what happened in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The author focuses on the army the People?s Liberation Army?which, with its motto Serve the People, had always prided itself on its close ties to the civilian population. What were the intentions of the Chinese government in mobilizing the army against civilians? Why did the troops act as they did, and what does this say about how the army would act on the next such occasion? How does the military suppression of the democracy movement help us to understand China?s current predicament over democratisation and human rights? (For this item please quote stock ID 2713) ISBN: 9780804736381

China exerts increasing influence on the global economy, and the country's fascinating and turbulent recent history demands our understanding. This clear and convincing overview tells the story of a century that saw three political revolutions and considerable social and cultural upheaval. The author moves fluently between social, political and cultural history and frequently brings gender into the picture, showing that events such as revolutions can have very different effects on men and women. His exploration of the transformations China has undergone integrates ideas from the very latest scholarship, reminding readers that history is not just about what happened, but also about differing interpretations and approaches. Paul J. Bailey is Reader in East Asian History at the University of Edinburgh. He formerly taught at Lingnan College, Hong Kong and the University of Durham, England. His previous publications include Postwar Japan: 1945 to the Present (Blackwell, 1996), Strengthen the Country and Enrich the People: The Reform Writings of Ma Jianzhong 1845?1900 (1998) and Reform the People: Changing Attitudes to Popular Education in Early Twentieth-century China (1991). (For this item please quote stock ID 4234) ISBN: 9780631203285

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Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering research of sixteen scholars to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. The book presents a coherent historical arc that moves from British imperialism in the nineteenth century, to Chinese capital formation and state making at the turn of the century, to Japanese imperialism through the 1930s and 1940s, and finally to the apparent resolution of China's opium problem in the early 1950s. Together these essays show that the complex interweaving of commodity trading, addiction, and state intervention in opium's history refigured the historical face of East Asia more profoundly than any other commodity. (For this item please quote stock ID 4692) ISBN: 9780520222366

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered - a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode. The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abondon the city and created a safety zone which saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Among the heroes was the German John Rabe, a Nazi, whose diaries Chang discovered and whom she calls the " the Oscar Schindler of China". More than just narrating the details of an orgy of violence, The Rape of Nankeen analyzes the militaristic culture that fostered in the Japanese soldiers a total disregard for human life. It also tells of the concerted effort during the Cold War on the part of the West and even China to stifle open discussion of this atrocity. "The first comprehensive examination of the destruction of this Chinese imperial city...Ms. Chang, whose grandparents narrowly escaped the carnage, has skillfully excavated from oblivion the terrible events that took place." ?The Wall Street Journal "A powerful new work of history and moral inquiry. Chang takes great care to establish an accurate accounting of the dimensions of the violence." ?Chicago Tribune "Chang reminds us that however blinding the atrocities in Nanking may be, they are not forgettable?at least not without peril to civilization itself." ?The Detroit News "A story that Chang recovers with raw urgency...an important step towards recognition of this tragedy." ?San Francisco Bay Guardian Foreword by William C. Kirby Introduction Part I 1. The Path to Nanking 2. Six Weeks of Terror 3. The Fall of Nanking 4. Six Weeks of Horror 5. The Nanking Safety Zone Part II 6. What the World Knew 7. The Occupation of Nanking 8. Judgment Day 9. The Fate of the Survivors Part III 10. The Forgotten Holocaust: A Second Rape Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF ONE OF HISTORY'S MOST BRUAL MASSACRES In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered - a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode. The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abondon the city and created a safety zone which saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Among the heroes was the German John Rabe, a Nazi, whose diaries Chang discovered and whom she calls the " the Oscar Schindler of China". More than just narrating the details of an orgy of violence, The Rape of Nanking analyzes the militaristic culture that fostered in the Japanese soldiers a total disregard for human life. It also tells of the concerted effort during the Cold War on the part of the West and even China to stifle open discussion of this atrocity. In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered - a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode. The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abondon the city and created a safety zone which saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Among the heroes was the German John Rabe, a Nazi, whose diaries Chang discovered and whom she calls the 'the Oscar Schindler of China'. (For this item please quote stock ID 5116) ISBN: 9780140277449

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Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how various businesses have struggled with this issue as they have adjusted to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics, and foreign affairs. Cochran devotes a chapter each to six of the biggest business ventures in China before the Communist revolution: two Western-owned companies, Standard Oil and British-American Tobacco Company; two Japanese-owned companies, Mitsui Trading Company and Naigai Cotton Company; and two Chinese-owned firms, Shenxin Cotton Mills and China Match Company. In each case, he notes the businesses' efforts to introduce corporate hierarchies for managing the distribution of goods and the organisation of factory workers, and he describes their encounters with a variety of Chinese social networks: tenacious factions of English-speaking compradors and powerful trade associations of non-English-speaking merchants channelling goods into the marketplace; and small cliques of independent labour bosses and big gangs of underworld figures controlling workers in the factories. Drawing upon archival sources and individual interviews, Cochran describes the wide range of approaches that these businesses adopted to deal with Chinese social networks. Each business negotiated its own distinctive relationship with local networks, and as each business learned about marketing goods and managing factory workers in China, it adjusted this relationship. Sometimes it strengthened its hierarchical control over networks and sometimes it delegated authority to networks, but it could not afford to take networks for granted or regard them as static because they, in turn, took their own initiative and made their own adjustments. In this book Cochran calls into question the idea that the spread of capitalism has caused business organisations to converge over time. His cases bring to light numerous organisational forms used by Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China's past, and his conclusions suggest that businesses have experimented with new forms on the basis of their historical experiences - especially their encounters with social networks. (For this item please quote stock ID 5991) ISBN: 9780520216259

'History in Three Keys is an extraordinary book. It is breathtaking, bold in concept, innovative in methodology, provocative at times, and eminently readable'. - Edmund S. K. Fung, University of Western Sydney in Asian Studies Review 'Cohen pares the overlays of historical accounts of the Boxers down to their constituent parts as myth and lived experience. The book is eminently readable, ideally suited both to the general reader and to the college teacher seeking to deepen students´ understanding of the currents in modern Chinese history'. - Jonathan Spence, Yale University 'Cohen offers excellent insight into the idiosyncratics of the Boxer movement, including its ideas, origins, rituals, and development ... Highly recommended'. - Library Journal A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries. (For this item please quote stock ID 6006) ISBN: 9780231106511

A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries. (For this item please quote stock ID 6007) ISBN: 9780231106504

The third edition of this historical survey includes new materials and a thoroughly rewritten final chapter, bringing the book up to date. The third edition of this historical survey includes new materials and a thoroughly rewritten final chapter, bringing the book up to date. With remarkable economy People's China chronologically unpacks the essential story of modern China - the historical background, the ideologies, the grand economic achievements, and the cruel repression. (For this item please quote stock ID 6441) ISBN: 9780195081862

With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989). The Japanese military takeover in Manchuria between 1931 and 1932 was a critical turning point in East Asian history. It marked the first surge of Japanese aggression beyond the boundaries of its older colonial empire and set Japan on a collision course with China and Western colonial powers from 1937 through 1945. These essays seek to illuminate some of the more significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at war: the creation of a Japanese-dominated East Asian economic bloc centered in northeast Asia, the mobilisation of human and physical resources in the older established areas of Japanese colonial rule, and the penetration and occupation of Southeast Asia. Introduced by Peter Duus, the volume contains four sections: Japan's Wartime Empire & the Formal Colonies (Carter J. Eckert & Wan-yao Chou), Japan's Wartime Empire & Northeast Asia (Louise Young, Y. Tak Matsusaka, Ramon H. Myers, & Takafusa Nakamura), Japan's Wartime Empire & Southeast Asia (Mark R. Peattie, E. Bruce Reynolds, & Ken'ichi Goto), and Japan's Wartime Empire in Other Perspectives (George Hicks, Hideo Kobayashi, & L. H. Gann). (For this item please quote stock ID 6604) ISBN: 9780691043821

In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and popular culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 6786) ISBN: 9780520064591

'To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cultural Revolution and the 30th of its beginning, Feng conducted extensive interviews with 100 people who had lived through that harrowing decade. In 1986, when he placed ads in Chinese newspapers calling for people?s experiences, he received over 4,000 responses. Those he selected are disturbing, utterly compelling, seamlessly told, and together constitute a many-layered and intimate picture.' - Publisher?s Weekly This book is translated from its Chinese edition under the title Ten Years of One Hundred People which was published simultaneously in China to mark the 30th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution and the 20th Anniversary of its conclusion. This English edition contains the stories of 15 individuals who went through the chaotic era and whose lives were damaged or destroyed by it. Among them are former Red Guards and rebel leaders, the daughter of a 'Rightist' who has never found peace with herself for betraying her own father, a scientists who managed to survive by studying the English editions of Mao?s works . . . Feng Jicai is one of China?s most popular writers today. He has published many novels and short stories, several of which have been translated into English. (For this item please quote stock ID 6915) ISBN: 9780835125840

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyses the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China 'woke up' in this century. (For this item please quote stock ID 6978) ISBN: 9780804733373

The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000. This carefully researched, intelligent collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment in China of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan. The book examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy in the five decades since World War II. In his introduction, Joshua A. Fogel raises the significant moral and historiographical issues that frame the other essays. Mark Eykholt then provides an account of postwar Chinese responses to the massacre. Takashi Yoshida assesses the attempts to downplay the incident and its effects, providing a revealing analysis of Japanese debates over Japan's role in the world and the continuing ambivalence of many Japanese toward their defeat in World War II. In the concluding essay, Daqing Yang widens the scope of the discussion by comparing the Nanjing historiographic debates to similar debates in Germany over the nature of the Holocaust. (For this item please quote stock ID 7073) ISBN: 9780520220072

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'Hua-ling Hu has created a powerful, definitive biography of Minnie Vautrin, one of the greatest heroes of World War II. Meticulously researched and poignantly written, American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking describes how a courageous missionary defied the Japanese army to save thousands of Chinese lives?at the eventual cost of her own' ? Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking (For this item please quote stock ID 8241) ISBN: 9780809323036

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This manual for students focuses on archival research in the economic and business history of the Republican era (1911-1949). Following a general discussion of archival research and research aids for the Republican period, the handbook introduces the collections of archives in the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan that contain materials in the areas of economics and business, with data on the history of the archives, descriptions of their holdings, and publications on their collections. The second half of the work consists of guided readings in Republican-era documents, such as government decrees, regulations, and business letters, with complete vocabulary lists and explanations of terms. Also included with the handbook are facsimile reproductions of these documents. (For this item please quote stock ID 8883) ISBN: 9780674003682

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The paradox of contemporary China - its openness to Western technology, yet its rejection of Western democratic ideals - serves to make China appear remote and inaccessible to those outside. The country's vast area and population only accentuate these difficulties. The Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China draws from numerous sources, official and otherwise, to present up-to-date information on all aspects of Chinese life since 1949, with particular emphasis on the past decade. The Handbook is well-organised, clear and compact; its major strength is its contemporary focus and easy-to-use format. Useful maps and tabled statistics accompany the text, which is divided into clearly defined categories, including political and legal structures, biography, foreign relations, the economy, population, culture and society as well as a detailed chronology, a gazetteer and a helpful bibliographic section. Contents: >Tables, figures, maps >Preface >Abbreviations >1. Chronology >2. Politics >3. Eminent contemporary figures >4. Bibliography >5. Foreign relations >6. China?s economy >7. Population >8. Gazetteer >9. China?s minority nationalities >10. Education >11. Culture & society >Appendix >Notes >Index. (For this item please quote stock ID 10418) ISBN: 9780521387552

The complete text of Mao?s influential pronouncements, with an examination of their literary, rather than political or histori-cal, implications. (For this item please quote stock ID 10715) ISBN: 9780892640393

A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows how it became part of China's political consciousness, enduring even today. After Japan's September 1931 military strike leading to a takeover of the Northeast, the Chinese responded in three major ways: collaboration, resistance in exile, and resistance on the ground. What motives prompted some Chinese to collaborate, others to resist? What were conditions like under the Japanese? Through careful reading of Chinese and Japanese sources, particularly local government records, newspapers, and journals published both inside and outside occupied Manchuria, Mitter sheds important new light on these questions. (For this item please quote stock ID 10894) ISBN: 9780520221116

This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation, and popular protest, and analyses the consequences for different classes, sub-regions, and genders. Pomeranz attributes these diverse developments to several causes: the growing but incomplete integration of North China into the world economy, the state's abandonment of many hinterland areas and traditional functions, and the effect of local social structures on these processes. He shows that hinterlands were made, not merely found, and were powerfully shaped by the strategies of local groups as well as outside forces. (For this item please quote stock ID 11840) ISBN: 9780520080515

China's 1911-12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown - the Qing - was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China's Han majority for nearly three centuries, and that the revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Han, to what extent was the revolution not only anti-monarchical, but also anti-Manchu? Edward Rhoads explores this provocative and complicated question in Manchus and Han, analysing the evolution of the Manchus from a hereditary military caste (the 'banner people') to a distinct ethnic group and then detailing the interplay and dialogue between the Manchu court and Han reformers that culminated in the dramatic changes of the early 20th century. Until now, many scholars have assumed that the Manchus had been assimilated into Han culture long before the 1911 Revolution and were no longer separate and distinguishable. But Rhoads demonstrates that in many ways Manchus remained an alien, privileged, and distinct group. Manchus and Han is a pathbreaking study that will forever change the way historians of China view the events leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty. Likewise, it will clarify for ethnologists the unique origin of the Manchus as an occupational caste and their shifting relationship with the Han, from border people to rulers to ruled. (For this item please quote stock ID 12113) ISBN: 9780295979380

In this compelling biography, James Ross integrates interviews and contemporary history to present a vivid picture of the horrifying ordeals suffered by Wen Zengde (1900-1988), a Chinese American woman who returned to China in 1956 to teach English and was caught up in the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. Charged with espionage by the Red Guards, Wen Zengde was imprisoned and tortured for 10 years, but lived to tell her story. This gripping account integrates biography and contemporary history, providing a compelling picture of the ordeals suffered by the victims of that vast social upheaval. (For this item please quote stock ID 12223) ISBN: 9781555531928

It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China. Vera Schwarcz is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Wesleyan University. (For this item please quote stock ID 12391) ISBN: 9780520068377

A definitive chronological study of labour?s role in the revolution, drawing upon a wide range of Chinese and Western sources. (For this item please quote stock ID 13292) ISBN: 9780892640492

Today's intellectuals in China inherit a mixed tradition in terms of their relationship to the state. Some follow the Confucian literati watchdog role of criticising abuses of political power. Marxist intellectuals judge the state's practices on the basis of Communist ideals. Others prefer the May Fourth spirit, dedicated to the principles of free scholarly and artistic expression. The Chinese government, for its part, has undulated in its treatment of intellectuals, applying restraints when free expression threatened to get 'out of control', relaxing controls when state policies required the co-operation, good will, and expertise of intellectuals. In this stimulating work, 12 China scholars examine that troubled and changing relationship. They focus primarily on the post-Mao years when bitter memories of the Cultural Revolution and China's renewed quest for modernisation have at times allowed intellectuals increased leeway in expression and more influence in policy-making. Specialists examine the situation with respect to economists, lawyers, scientists and technocrats, writers, and humanist scholars in the climate of Deng Xiaoping's policies, and speculate about future developments. This book will be a valuable source of information for anyone interested in the changing scene in contemporary China and in its relations with the outside world. (For this item please quote stock ID 14779) ISBN: 9780674119727

In the new millennium all eyes are on China, which many believe has the potential in the near future to rise to world prominence as a political leader and an economic powerhouse. Yet several aspects of Chinese society remain an obstacle to internal growth and of deep concern to the outside world. In Modern China Graham Hutchings offers a timely and useful reference guide to the people, places, ideas, and events crucial to an understanding of this rising power. The focus is on society and politics and their impact on both China and the world. After an introduction that discusses key themes in twentieth-century China, Hutchings provides over two hundred insightful short essays, arranged alphabetically, that cover central figures and events from Sun Yat-sen to Jiang Zemin and the Boxer Rebellion to Tiananmen Square. Included are separate entries on each province, the current political leadership, and the two colonies recently returned to Chinese control, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as trenchant essays on subjects that remain sensitive within and controversial outside China, such as religion, ethnic minorities, Tibet, Taiwan, and human rights. Accessible and authoritative, Modern China is invaluable for anyone interested in the transformation of this ancient land into a modern power. Graham Hutchings studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and was the China correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph for more than a decade (For this item please quote stock ID 15321) ISBN: 9780674012400

With the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, the regime of Chairman Mao Zedong launched a propaganda campaign aimed at disseminating inspiring images of the chairman to a skeptical populace. Thus was born the 'Mao badge,' a political icon in the form of a pin that was widely distributed to create, sustain, and inflate the Mao personality cult during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Scholars estimate that over two billion Mao badges, featuring over fifty thousand different designs and themes, were produced. As China now enters an era in which people can more openly express their views about the Cultural Revolution, these icons have taken on new meanings, and people are wearing and talking about them in subversive ways. Melissa Schrift suggests that the badges developed 'lives that far surpass the intentions of their creators, as the Chinese ironically commodified them, both during the Cultural Revolution and today. During the Mao years, people wore the objects to symbolize their unquestioned loyalty to Mao. Yet even then many Chinese subverted the badges' symbolic meaning. Using them in socially approved rituals, they gained a measure of political credibility that masked their practice of prohibited customary rites. Biography of a Chairman Mao Badge is a work of cultural history that contributes to our understanding not only of Chinese society but, more generally, of strategies people employ in responding to and transforming the meaning of propaganda campaigns and symbols. Melissa Schrift is an assistant professor of anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University. (For this item please quote stock ID 15420) ISBN: 9780813529370

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War - all of which involved China as a central actor - represented the only major 'hot' conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War. (For this item please quote stock ID 15425) ISBN: 9780807849323

Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, this book examines changing relationships between social organisation, politics, and economy during the 20th century. (For this item please quote stock ID 16427) ISBN: 9780804741293

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In 1944, Moslems in Yili, Xinjiang, rose up in rebellion against the Guomindang (GMD or KMT) Government in China and established the Eastern Turkestan Republic (ETR), which became part of the newly established People's Republic of China in 1949. Sparking intense separatist feelings in the region for years, the ETR in Yili is regarded today as a dynamic symbol of the East Turkestan Independence Movement. A better understanding of events between 1944-1949 in Xinjiang enables us to gain insights into the ongoing Uygur separatist movement. This study explores the historical background of the ETR, examining the domestic and international politics from which the ETR emerged, and analysing accounts of Soviet participation in the republic. Detailed analysis highlights Xinjiang politics between 1944 and 1949, and explains how and why the Chinese Communist Party was able to take over Xinjiang peacefully in 1949. This book also illustrates the interlocking pattern of ethnic disputes, government policy, foreign interference, and international rivalry in this complex event. (For this item please quote stock ID 16911) ISBN: 9789622018310

In December 1937 invading Japanese troops seized Nanjing without meeting substantial resistance. The city was sacked and soldiers looted and committed arson, murder and rape over more than six weeks. One group of innocent people after another was massacred. For a time the shore of the Yangtse River was strewn with corpses and the river dyed red with blood as more than 300,000 people perished during the massive slaughter. For the first time this cruel holocaust is recounted in a text that is by turns evocative, hair raising, terrifying, stirring and moving. No one can read the pages of Nanjing Massacre 1937: Lest We Forget without being shaken by the grisly truth that is revealed in mountains of eyewitness accounts, news reports, confessions, court documents, and photographs. (For this item please quote stock ID 17211) ISBN: 9787507103021

The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality. Until the recent emergence of John Rabe's diaries, few people knew abouth the unassuming hero who has been called the Oskar Schindler of China. In Novemgber 1937, as Japanese troops overran the Chinese capital of Nanking and began a campaign of torture, rape, and murder against its citizens, one man - a German who had lived in China for thirty years and who was a loyal follower of Adolph Hitler - put himself at risk and in order to save the lives of 200,000 poor Chinese, 600 of whom he sheltered in his own home. 'Riveting, inspiring, terrifying and tragically sad.' - The New York Times Book Review 'John Rabe is the Oskar Schindler of China.' - Iris Chang, The New York Times 'A document of the power of the human will ... A quarter-million Chinese survived the horror of Nanking because John Rabe didn't hesitate to act.' - The Boston Globe John Rabe was born in Hamburg in 1882. He lived in China from 1908 to 1938, where his last position was that of director of the Siemens office in Nanking. He died impoverished and unrecognized in Berlin in 1950. (For this item please quote stock ID 18100) ISBN: 9780375701979

September 7, 2001 marked a special day for China. On this day 100 years ago, the Eight-Power Allied Forces, formed by Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Austria and Italy, forced the Qing government to sign one of the most insolent and unfair treaties in human history. That year was also the Year of Xinchou in the Chinese lunar calendar, so the treaty, officially known as the Protocol of 1901, is historically known as the Treaty of Xinchou. The photographs, mainly taken by non-Chinese, present an unobscured picture of this period of history. (For this item please quote stock ID 18353) ISBN: 9787119029146

The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged insult to the British flag supposedly flying over the boat Arrow led to an analysis of complex Chinese and British diplomacy; of the even more complex Chinese tea and silk exports; of British India's jealously guarded economic strategies and opium monopoly; of cotton supplied to the Lancashire mills by the Americans, who thereby made up their trade deficit with China occasioned by their heavy purchases of tea; of intricate Westminster politics and British global trade; of French pride and cultural priorities; of Russian intrigues and territorial designs; and of America's apparent aloofness and real ambitions. (For this item please quote stock ID 18702) ISBN: 9780521526197

Peking was an ancient historical capital of world renown and is still the political and cultural centre of modern China. As part of its historical legacy, much traditional architecture of cultural and artistic value is carefully preserved. Readers can glimpse some of style, features and customs of old Peking from this album, with more than two hundred rare photographs taken about eight decades ago around the beginning of the Republic of China. (For this item please quote stock ID 18757) ISBN: 9789622382077

China's 1911-12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown - the Qing - was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China's Han majority for nearly three centuries, and that the revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Han, to what extent was the revolution not only anti-monarchical, but also anti-Manchu? Edward Rhoads explores this provocative and complicated question in Manchus and Han, analysing the evolution of the Manchus from a hereditary military caste (the 'banner people') to a distinct ethnic group and then detailing the interplay and dialogue between the Manchu court and Han reformers that culminated in the dramatic changes of the early 20th century. Until now, many scholars have assumed that the Manchus had been assimilated into Han culture long before the 1911 Revolution and were no longer separate and distinguishable. But Rhoads demonstrates that in many ways Manchus remained an alien, privileged, and distinct group. Manchus and Han is a pathbreaking study that will forever change the way historians of China view the events leading to the fall of the Qing dynasty. Likewise, it will clarify for ethnologists the unique origin of the Manchus as an occupational caste and their shifting relationship with the Han, from border people to rulers to ruled. (For this item please quote stock ID 18995) ISBN: 9780295980409

A Partnership for Disorder examines American-Chinese foreign policy planning in World War II for decolonising the Japanese Empire and controlling Japan after the war. This study unravels some of the complex origins of the postwar upheavals in Asia by demonstrating how the US and China?s disagreements on many concrete issues prevented their governments from forging an effective partnership. The two powers? quest for long-term co-operation was further complicated by Moscow?s 11th-hour involvement in the Pacific War. By the war?s end, a triangular relationship between Washington, Moscow, and Chongqing surfaced from secret negotiations at Yalta and Moscow. Yet the Yalta-Moscow system in Asia proved too ambiguous and fragile to be useful even for the purpose of defining a new balance of power among the Allies. The failure of the system was compounded by its obliviousness to Asia?s dynamic nationalist forces. Features: >Important historical background to today?s urgent issues in the region >New interpretations of the origins of postwar upheavals in Asia besides the Cold War >Extensive use of American & Chinese archival materials unavailable till recently Contents: >The making of an alliance >The issue of postwar Japan >China?s lost territories >Korea?s independence >The road to Cairo >A divisive summit >Yan?an & postwar East Asia >Diplomacy without action >Erosion of a partnership >The Manchurian triangle >Bargaining at Moscow >Epilogue: the crisis of peace >Appendices >Bibliography >Index (For this item please quote stock ID 20013) ISBN: 9780521528559

The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China served as a centre of the global economy. This study goes further to argue that China?s perennial quest for cultural centrality resulted in periodic political changes that permitted the Chinese people to retain control over social and economic developments. The study focuses on two-and-a-half million people in three prefectures of northeast Henan, the central province in the heart of the 'central plain' ? a common synecdoche for China. The author argues that this population may have been more representative of the Chinese people at large than were the residents of more prosperous regions. Many diverse individuals in northeast Henan invoked historical models to deal with the present and shape the future. Though they differed in the lessons they drew, they shared the view that the Han dynasty was particularly relevant to their own time. Han and Ming politics were integral parts of a pattern of Chinese historical development that has lasted to the present. (For this item please quote stock ID 20033) ISBN: 9780804740449

'With this volume, Roderick MacFarquhar completes his monumental trilogy on the origins of the Cultural Revolution in China. The volume ... surpasses the earlier efforts and marks the probable definitive treatment of Chinese elite political history until CCP archives become fully available' ? Journal of Asian Studies. 'This is a distinguished book. Finding his way beneath the protective formulas PRC bureaucrats used to say things, MacFarquhar places back into historical context what was taken out of context and criticised in the Cultural Revolution. Together, the three volumes are the most detailed, reliable, astute history [of this period] available of Chinese elite politics ... in any language' ? Andrew J. Nathan, author of China's Transition. 'An awe-inspiring work of historical scholarship ... MacFarquhar has exposed the inner workings of Mao´s China with a depth of detail that raises the standards for Sinological research' - Lucien W. Pye, Harvard Magazine. 'This great intellectual effort, under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, has taken more than 25 years to complete, and has produced the most sparkling gem of modern Sinology ... MacFarquhar´s careful but devastating prose and his insights make ... other books seem shallow by comparison' ? The Economist. This is the final volume in a trilogy that examines the politics, personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. It seeks to answer the central question: Why did Chairman Mao Zedong launch the Cultural Revolution (1966­76), which plunged China into chaos and almost destroyed its Communist Party? The Coming of the Cataclysm starts with the great famine of the early 1960s, which resulted in tens of millions of deaths and set in train a series of emergency measures that increasingly divided Mao from his comrades-in-arms. His anger that they were prepared to adopt 'capitalist' methods to rescue the country was sharpened by his belief that Moscow had actually gone capitalist and sold out to the 'imperialist' West. From 1961 to 1966, the period covered by this volume, the increasingly urgent question for Mao was how to prevent a similar revolutionary degeneration in China. The Cultural Revolution was his answer. Drawing upon new evidence from Party documents, personal interviews, books, and journals, MacFarquhar details the growing rift between Mao and his colleagues as they attempted to cope with domestic privation and an increasingly hostile international environment - until the Chairman finally decided to smash the unity of the Yan´an Round Table by unleashing society against the party-state. Contents: Part 1 The Third Bitter Year >1. The Central Committe's Ninth Plenum >2. Emergency Measures >3. A New Course in the Countryside >A Plethora of Plans >Reds & Experts >6. China's Isolation Part 2 False Down >7. The Seven Thousand Cadres Conference >8. Economic Crunch >9. The Dispute over Collectivization >10. Resuscitating the United Front >11. The Curious Case of the 'Three-Family Village' Part 3 Class Struggle >12. Mao Changes the Signals >13. War in the Himalayas, Crisis in the Caribbean >14. Mao in Charge >15. The Socialist Education Movement >16. The Sino-Soviet Rupture & the Vietnam War Part 4 The End of the Yan'an Round Table >17. Woman Warrior >18. From Grey Eminence to Red Leader >19. Mao Stoops to Conquer >20. The Coming of the Cataclysm (For this item please quote stock ID 20119) ISBN: 9780231110839

'Gracefully written and carefully researched' ? Foreign Affairs. 'An unrivaled account of high politics in China during a critical two-year period' ? The Times Literary Supplement. 'Excellent within its own frame of reference, the book also stimulates wider thinking' ? The Nation. 'A mighty and eloquent work' ? New York Review of Books. Why did Mao Zedong launch the cultural revolution that almost destroyed all that he had worked so long and so hard to create? In his highly praised study - now a classic - Roderick MacFarquhar seeks to answer that question by examining the politics, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Contents: Part 1 The 'Fundamental Change' >1. The 'High Tide' of Socialism >2. The First 'Leap Forward' is Launched >3. The Thaw Begins >4. The Soviet 20th Congress & Chinese Reactions >5. Mao Against the Plannners >6. The Thaw Spreads >7. The End of the First 'Leap Forward' Part 2 The CCP's Eighth Congress >8. The Position of Mao Tse-tung >9. The Dispute Over Liberalisation >10. The Second Five-Year Plan >11. The New Central Leadership Part 3 The Rectification Campaign >12. The Impact of the Hungarian Revolt >13. A Rectification Campaign is Agreed On >14. Mao Analyses Contradictions Among the People >15. The Rectification Campaign is Launched >16. Blooming & Contending Part 4 The Anti-Rightist Campaign >17. The Publication of the Contradictions Speech >18. Mao Linked with the Rightists >19. Compromise Roderick MacFarquhar, a former British Member of Parliament, is Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard, chairman of its Government Department, and a research associate of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. (For this item please quote stock ID 20120) ISBN: 9780231083850

'An authoritative, exhaustively researched political history ... By far the best treatment of this subject in a Western language and probably any language' ? American Historical Review. The second volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. This volume tells the story of the Great Leap Forward - Mao´s utopian attempt to propel China economically and socially into the twenty-fist century by mobilising his nation´s greatest asset: its disciplined manpower. The effort produced economic disaster and political dissension, and helped to precipitate the Sino-Soviet split. Today´s leaders point to it as the beginning of two decades of national trauma, which ended only after the death of Mao and the purge of the Gang of Four. Those leaders have recently authorised the release of a mass of new documentation in the form of political reminiscences, economic statistics, and leaders´ speeches. This volume is the first scholarly work to use the new material comprehensively, weaving it into the narrative along with the contemporary record and the revelations published in Red Guard newspapers during the cultural revolution. The result is the most detailed account and analysis to date of what went wrong and why. Contents: Part 1 Change >1. Mao in Moscow >2. The Politburo Tours China >3. The Chengtu Conference >4. The Leap is Launched >5. The Coming of the Communes >6. High Tide Part 2 Retreat >7. Withdrawal at Wuhan >8. Mao Veers Right >9. Chairman Liu Part 3 Clash >10. High Noon at Lushan Part 4 Defeat >11. The Sino-Soviet Split Emerges >12. The End of the Leap (For this item please quote stock ID 20121) ISBN: 9780231057172

At the dawn of the 20th century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamoured for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free marriage choice and economic and emotional independence. But what came to be known as the New Culture Movement had the unwitting effect of fostering totalitarianism. In this wide-reaching, engrossing book, Susan Glosser examines how the link between family order and national salvation affected state-building and explores its lasting consequences. Glosser effectively argues that the replacement of the authoritarian, patriarchal, extended family structure with an egalitarian, conjugal family was a way for the nation to preserve crucial elements of its traditional culture. Her comprehensive research shows that in the end, family reform paved the way for the Chinese Communist Party to establish a deeply intrusive state that undermined the legitimacy of individual rights. 'Glosser illuminates the ideal of the 'small family' and shows how it supplied a cultural repertoire upon which 20th-century leaders have drawn to promote their own ideas about modernity' - Susan Mann, co-editor of Under Confucian Eyes: Writings On Gender in Chinese History. (For this item please quote stock ID 20196) ISBN: 9780520227293

When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, ?the study of change?. In this first full-length work on science in modern China, James Reardon-Anderson describes the introduction and development of chemistry in China in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, and examines the impact of the science on language reform, education, industry, research, culture, society, and politics. Throughout the book, Professor Reardon-Anderson sets the advance of chemistry in the broader context of the development of science in China and the social and political changes of this era. His thesis is that science fared well at times when a balance was struck between political authority and free social development. Based on Chinese and English sources, the narrative moves from detailed descriptions of particular chemical processes and innovations to more general discussions of intellectual and social history, and provides a fascinating account of an important episode in the intellectual history of modern China. (For this item please quote stock ID 20368) ISBN: 9780521533256

'... an important case study in the debate on the reasons for the long-term failure of the modernisation drive in the late 19th-century' - Michael Dillon, Royal Society for Asian Affairs. 'The case that is built here for Shen as a major figure of his time is unassailable' - Michael Gasster, The China Review International. The Opium Wars ushered in an era of intensive Western imperialism in China, at a time when the Ch?ing dynasty was already in decline, forcing a small number of Chinese officials to come to the realisation that China must protect itself by adopting the same military technology that had brought it national humiliation. Shen Pao-chen was one such official. Abandoning the comfort of his successful career, Shen devoted his life to building China?s first modern naval dockyard and academy. His successes and failures shed new light on the story of China?s efforts at modernisation - a story that has not come to a conclusion. As China engages in new rounds of economic and industrial modernisation in the post-Mao era, many of these issues acquire new meanings and significance. (For this item please quote stock ID 20369) ISBN: 9780521531269

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[Indent] In traditional Chinese cities, a lively street culture was an important part of popular culture, and street life was central to the daily lives of city dwellers, especially the lower classes. By examining street culture in Chengdu, an under-studied inland city, during the transformative decades between 1870 and 1930, this book explores the relationship between urban commoners and public space, the role that community and neighborhood played in public life, how the reform movement and Republican revolution changed everyday life, and how popular culture and local politics interacted. Drawing on a rich array of Chinese and Western sources ? including archives, local newspapers, personal records, folk literature, and field investigation ? the author argues that life in public spaces was radically transformed in Chengdu in the early 20th century, and that this resulted in the reconstruction of urban public space, the re-creation of people?s public roles, and the redefinition of the relations between ordinary people, local elites, and the state. The author thus opens a new way of understanding Chinese urban society and culture during these transformative years. (For this item please quote stock ID 21131) ISBN: 9780804747783

This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish and the other Slavic, which found refuge in Shanghai during the period 1900-1950. Victims of discrimination and persecution in their own lands ? Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine ? they chose Shanghai as their destination because no documentation was required to enter the city and settle there. In their struggle to survive and build a life in this Chinese open port, they encountered severe political, social, economic, and cultural challenges. The Jewish diaspora community began forming in the early 1900s and increased to more than 18,000 after the initial triumphs of Nazism. The Slavic community eventually numbered about 30,000 people, escaping revolution and persecution from Bolshevik and fascist forces at home and in north China. This book focuses on how these diverse groups, adhering to various religious and cultural traditions, formed communities, preserved their national and cultural identities, chose their leaders, found gainful employment, coped with the alien Chinese culture, educated and raised their children, and established a considerable presence in this large, cosmopolitan city. The author examines at length the different experiences and responses of the two diaspora groups during World War II under the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. With the Chinese Communist takeover of the city in 1949, both groups found themselves in a renewed struggle to find a home, adding still another chapter to the saga of their diaspora experiences. The book concludes with an account of how the two groups handled this new challenge and where they finally found refuge. Apart from the particulars of the Shanghai experience, the story of the two communities clearly resonates with today?s accounts of societies in conflict, dislocated populations, and varied struggles to survive and sustain life under trying conditions. (For this item please quote stock ID 21184) ISBN: 9780804738408

Contents: >Hai River >The Old Tianjin >Before & After the Opening of Ports >An Extensive Look of the Concessions >Occupation by the Enemy >Liberation >Industry & Commerce >Urban Facilities >The Appearance of the Street & the City; Culture >Temples & Shrines >Customs & Habits. (For this item please quote stock ID 21445) ISBN: 9787102020730

In 1908, a very public crusade against opium was in full swing throughout China, and the provincial capital and treaty port of Fuzhou was a central stage for the campaign. This, the most successful attempt undertaken by the Chinese state before 1949 to eliminate opium, came at a time when, according to many historians, China's central state was virtually powerless. This volume attempts to reconcile that apparent contradiction. The remarkable, albeit temporary, success of the anti-opium campaign between 1906 and 1920 is as yet largely unexplained. How these results were achieved, how that progress was squandered, and why China's opium problem proved so tenacious are the questions that inspired this volume. The attack on this social problem was led by China's central and provincial authorities, aided by reformist elites, and seemingly supported by most Chinese. The anti-opium movement relied on the control and oversight provided by a multi-layered state bureaucracy, the activism and support of unofficial elite-led reform groups, the broad nationalistic and humanitarian appeal of the campaign, and the co-operation of the British government. The extent to which the Chinese state was able to control the pace and direction of the anti-opium campaign and the evolving nature of the political space in which elite reformers publicised and enforced that campaign are the guiding themes of this analysis. Joyce Madancy is Associate Professor of History at Union College. (For this item please quote stock ID 21809) ISBN: 9780674012158

[Indent] 'Chinese people should consume Chinese products!' This slogan was the catchphrase of a movement in early 20th-century China that sought to link consumption and nationalism by instilling a concept of China as a modern 'nation' with its own 'national products.' From fashions in clothing to food additives, from museums to department stores, from product fairs to advertising, this movement influenced all aspects of China's burgeoning consumer culture. Anti-imperialist boycotts, commemorations of national humiliations, exhibitions of Chinese products, the vilification of treasonous consumers, and the promotion of Chinese captains of industry helped enforce nationalistic consumption and spread the message - patriotic Chinese bought goods made of Chinese materials by Chinese workers in factories owned and run by Chinese. In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world - nationalism and consumerism - developed in tandem in China. Early in the 20th century, nationalism branded every commodity as either 'Chinese' or 'foreign,' and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalised, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations. Karl Gerth is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. (For this item please quote stock ID 21811) ISBN: 9780674012141

Isolated for more than two decades, behind its Great Wall of communism, the People?s Republic of China surprised the outside world, in the spring of 1971, by extending hospitality to young table tennis players from five countries, including the United States. Captured in these pages is a rare portrait of a people about to embark on the Long March Back to the international community of nations. The contrast between China then, and the China of today, marks one of the greatest historical transitions of the 20th century, and this record serves to remind us how much can change in those moments that alter the course of human history. (For this item please quote stock ID 21907) ISBN: 9789627283676

The tragic and powerful story of the Opium Wars provides an astonishing exploration of the power of addiction and the tragedy that can result when cultures collide. In the 19th century, Chinese society was crippled by a vast addiction to opium, which was largely supplied by British traders. For years British and Chinese governments clashed over Britain?s right to trade in China and to be treated as equals by the Chinese officials. When China tried to close its ports to opium, the British fought back, starting two of the most bizarre wars in history. Featuring astonishingly mismatched battles in which the technological might of the British steamships and artillery decimated the medieval sailing junks and arrows of the Chinese, these wars stand as one of the most important clashes in history between East and West. The Opium Wars presents a detailed and thoroughly engrossing new history that evokes the political and moral struggles of the people involved in the wars that devastated an empire and have continued to poison the ties between China and the West to this day. Historian W. Travis Hanes is an internationally recognised expert on 19th-century Britain and holds a doctorate in British Imperial History. Frank Sanello has written numerous books on history and film. (For this item please quote stock ID 22238) ISBN: 9781861056894

Li Zhensheng (b. 1940), a photo-journalist living in the northern Chinese province of Heilongjiang during the Cultural Revolution, managed, at great personal risk, to hide and preserve over 20,000 stills during the 10-year period 1966-1976. He was able to capture the events as a party-approved photographer for the Heilongjiang Daily. This body of work is the only known existing photographic documentation of the Cultural Revolution. It has remained unseen until now, except for some eight photographs that were released for publication in 1987. Red-Colour News Soldier includes over 400 photographs and a running diary of Li's experience, both capturing and explaining events of which little or no other visual record exists. The images are powerful representations of the turbulent period, including photos of Red Guard rallies and public denunciations, Mao's rural re-education centres, as well as prominent participants in the Cultural Revolution. This book excels both as a volume of compelling photography and an exciting historical record. It is truly unique and indispensable for all interested in modern Chinese history or the powerful cultural role of photo-journalism. (For this item please quote stock ID 22324) ISBN: 9780714843087

In 1900, Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister, was assassinated in a Peking street. By 4pm the first shots were fired and a siege by Boxers and imperial troops had begun. Among the besieged were 148 women from around the world including Maud, the Baron's widow. This book tells their story. The Boxer uprising; the siege of the legations; 55 days in Peking; foreign troops looting China's capital - these are the images from books and films over the past 100 years. Now the story is told from the women's point of view, using their previously neglected writings and giving a new dimension. (For this item please quote stock ID 22933) ISBN: 9780953773060

~'The sense of completeness that characterises Clunas' writing has something to do with the self-assured patter of his prose, with its intense and unwavering focus on the subject before him. But it has more to do with his reach, his willingness to cross the disciplinary boundaries of his field ... An eye-opening pleasure to read' - Ming Studies.

~'Bold and insightful ... Clunas establishes the importance of material consumption as an index of much larger historical processes. Students of early modern Europe as well as China will find [his] arguments both pertinent and compelling' - American Historical Review.

~'One of those rare books whose every chapter makes you think, often about features of Chinese society that we have too long taken for granted ... Inspiring, even entertaining' - Journal of Asian Studies.

~This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyses 'superfluous things' - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society. (For this item please quote stock ID 23314) ISBN: 9780824828202

In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office. Through the story of his family, the author illustrates the decline of the countryside in relation to the cities as a result of modernization and the transformation of Confucian ideology as a result of these changes. Based on nearly 400 volumes of Liu's diary and other writings, the book illustrates what it was like to study in an academy and to be a schoolteacher, the pressures of changing family relationships, the daily grind of work in industry and agriculture, people's experience with government, and life under the Japanese occupation. Henrietta Harrison is Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds. (For this item please quote stock ID 23521) ISBN: 9780804750691

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It has been more than a century since the birth of Mao Zedong. From the collapse of the old Chinese Empire in 1912 to the foundation of the People's Republic in 1949, his history is linked with that of contemporary China, and beyond national borders, with the history of communism as well. His version of guerilla warfare and revolution resulted in the construction of a socialist society that became a model of socialism throughout the world. Both a tyrant and rebel, Mao wanted to rule through revolution. Yet the Big Leap Forward (1958) and the Cultural Revolution (1966) each plunged China into chaos without saving it from totalitarianism. After 1978, de-Maoisation and economic reforms by Deng Xiaoping helped heal the country's wounds, but the future yet remains uncertain. Whether to be an empire united or broken, serenely 'open' or in conflict, democratic or authoritarian, egalitarian or prosperous - so many lingering questions remain of those that Mao and his generation began asking nearly a century ago. Was the Maoist Revolution futile? Would China have been better off without Mao? Or is such a thing imaginable? (For this item please quote stock ID 23971) ISBN: 9781566565141

The Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 was a major unforgettable event in modern Chinese history. For more than 30 years, the prevalent view of the Cultural Revolution in the Chinese Foreign Ministry has been that rebels controlled the Foreign Ministry in August 1967 and caused the many excesses in foreign affairs such as the burning of the British mission in Beijing which isolated China from the rest of the world. This book challenges this perspective. The author gives a factual account of the course of the ten-year Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry, based on documents issued during the Cultural Revolution, talks by Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi, manuscripts of the people concerned, as well as interviews with Foreign Ministry staff members who personally took part in the events. Ms. Ma Jisen graduated from the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute in 1952; she served first at the Chinese embassy in Denmark and then in the West European Department at the Foreign Ministry between 1952 and 1969. She worked at the Foreign Ministry during the Cultural Revolution and was an eyewitness to many of the daily events there. Since 1981, she was the Editor in charge of the 'Opinion Page' of China Daily and later at the academic quarterly Social Sciences in China until her retirement in 1994. (For this item please quote stock ID 24707) ISBN: 9789629962029

This volume questions the universal belief that England's 1840-42 war with China was an 'opium war'. What really worried London was 'insults to the Crown', the claim of a dilapidated and corrupt China to be superior to everyone, threats to British men and women and seizure of British property, plus the wish to expand and free trade everywhere. It was only much later that general Chinese resentment and Evangelical opinion at home and in America persuaded everyone that Britain had indeed been wicked and fought for opium. (For this item please quote stock ID 24874) ISBN: 9781403907004

From 1932 until the end of World War II, the Japanese established and maintained by bloody rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of Manchuria. This region was composed of three northern provinces in China; the puppet ruler was the last Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi, and this rich industrial region was clearly coveted and managed by the Japanese as a critical element in their imperial dominion. Yamamuro Shin'ichi's extraordinary book re-examines this occupation under new light. The author shows that right wing Japanese military and civilian groups thought of construction in this sparsely populated region as an effort to build a paradise on earth, with roots deep in Asian traditions. At the same time, Chinese and Korean populations in the region were abused by the Japanese military, and many Japanese were deliberately misinformed about what was being done in their name. Shin'ichi examines the policies and events unfolding on the ground during this time. With close attention to the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans involved, and the links between the military and the home islands, he offers his own overall assessment of this distinctive instance of state-building. Making use of numerous sources in Chinese and Japanese, from legal documents and government decrees to memoirs and poetry, The Japanese Expansion into Manchuria goes beyond rhetoric to provide a unique assessment of the unique history of this period. Yamamuro Shin'ichi is Professor of History and Politics at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at Kyoto University. He is the author of numerous books in Japanese, including Questioning the Meaning of Modern Japan and Representations of Mutual Understanding and Misunderstanding among Japan, China, and Korea. Translator Joshua A. Fogel is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books, including The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China and editor of The Telelology of the Nation State: Japan & China, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. (For this item please quote stock ID 25168) ISBN: 9780812239126

This book tells of the little known 'Old Tea Road' between China and Russia via Mongolia. It was commercial route that opened as a result of China's flourishing tea trade can be traced back 450 years. This is a vivid description of the rise and decline of this commercial road, changes in the surrounding cultural environment, and prospects for its revival in the era of China's reform and opening. It also details Sino-foreign relations on the Eurasian Continent in politics, economy and culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 25793) ISBN: 9787508503806

'Tyrene White knows as much about the one-child policy in China as anyone around. The narrative of China's Longest Campaign is presented in rich yet always pleasurably readable detail, and the research on which it is based is solid and comprehensive. White's analysis is cast, cleverly, in terms of a compelling set of puzzles: why would, and how could, the state undertake so unpopular a policy at a time of considerable political uncertainty, flux, and retrenchment? She offers an important, insightful correction to some of our best grassroots-centered theories of resistance and political change' - Marc Blecher, Oberlin College In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms, it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural reforms and child-bearing preferences, was the culmination of a decade-long effort to subject reproduction to state planning. Styrene White here analyses this great social engineering experiment, drawing on more than twenty years of research, including fieldwork and interviews with a wide range of family-planning officials and rural cadres. White explores the origins of China?s 'birth-planning' approach to population control, the implementation of the campaign in rural China, strategies of resistance employed by villagers, and policy consequences (among them infanticide, infant abandonment, and sex-ratio imbalances). She also provides the first extensive political analysis of China?s massive 1983 sterilisation drive. The birth-planning project was the last and longest of the great mobilisation campaigns, surviving long after the Deng regime had officially abandoned mass campaigns as instruments of political control. Arguing that the campaign had become an indispensable institution of rural governance, White shows how the one-child campaign mimicked the organisational style and rhythms both of political campaigns and economic production campaigns. Against the backdrop of unfolding rural reforms, only the campaign method could override obstacles to rural enforcement. As reform gradually eroded and transformed patterns of power and authority, however, even campaigns grew increasingly ineffective, paving the way for long-overdue reform of the birth-planning program. 'Tyrene White's careful reading of documentary evidence from the 1950s leads to a nuanced and interesting picture of internal debates within the Chinese leadership and among intellectuals about birth-control issues in a period prior to mandatory family planning. When discussing changes in mandatory family planning in the 1980s, White is able to rely on local evidence she collected, particularly in rural Hubei, on changes in the implementation of the policies she describes' - Martin Whyte, Harvard University Tyrene White is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Swarthmore College. (For this item please quote stock ID 26279) ISBN: 9780801444050

Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops. Walking more than 10,000 miles over mountains, grassland and swamps, they suffered appalling casualties and ended up in the remote barren North. Just one-fifth survived; and they went on to launch the new China in the heat of revolution. A legend was born. Justified by a remarkable feat, the Long March was also a triumph of propaganda, for Mao and for the revolution. Seventy years later, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace the Marchers' steps. The rugged landscape has changed little. Her greatest difficult was in wrestling with the scenes lodged in her mind since childhood, part of the upbringing of every Chinese. On each stage of her journey, she found hidden stories: the ruthless purges, the terrible toll of hunger and disease, the fate of women on the March, the huge number of desertions, the futile deaths. The real story of the March, the most vivid pictures, come from the veterans whom Sun Shuyun has found. She follows their trail through all those harsh miles, discovers their faith and disillusion, their pain and their hopes, and also recounts how many suffered even after the March's end in 1936. The Long March was an epic journey of endurance, even more severe than history books say, and courage against impossible odds. It is a brave, exciting and tragic story. Sun Shuyun tells it for the first time, as it really happened. (For this item please quote stock ID 26680) ISBN: 9780007204366

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of China?s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945), Sun Mingling's?s daughter translated his original Chinese language book and integrated it with 142 of his photographs. These photographs reflect the Chinese way of life and preparation for war, battlefield reports, unique personages, communal weddings, the lives of flood victims, precious relics and beautiful landscapes. (For this item please quote stock ID 27202) ISBN: 9787119044927

A series that unfolds, in black-and-white photographs, natural scenes, historical sites, customs, culture, commerce and trade, and other aspects of the famous cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although three of these books are entitled, Old Fashions..., clothing and dress only rate a passing mention. (For this item please quote stock ID 15764) ISBN: 9787102010618

Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China?s environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were also unusually distorted. Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven and humans' was abrogated in favour of Mao?s insistence that 'People Will Conquer Nature'. Mao and the Chinese Communist Party?s 'war' to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural environment. Mao?s War Against Nature argues that the abuse of people and the abuse of nature are often linked. Shapiro?s account, told in part through the voices of average Chinese citizens and officials who lived through and participated in some of the destructive campaigns, is both eye-opening and heartbreaking. 'Shapiro is a gifted storyteller, and the book is a fascinating read ... a must-read for anyone interested in understanding not only all that the Chinese people have endured in their recent past but also how those turbulent times shape the current environment and future possibilities' - Elizabeth Economy, www.washingtonpost.com 'Both for readers interested in China?s past and for those concerned about its future, the story Shapiro tells is a valuable account of Mao?s regime - one of the last century's most tragic episodes' - Natural History. '... this illuminating book makes an important contribution to assessing the enormous damage done between the Communist takeover in 1949 and Mao's death in 1976. Shapiro is excellent at putting Mao?s thought in its historical and cultural context' - China Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 16224) ISBN: 9780521786805

This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil</I> describes the contrasting organisational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential features of both. Fei shows how these unique features reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of people in these societies. This profound, challenging book is both succinct and accessible. In its first complete English-language edition, it is likely to have a wide impact on Western social theorists. Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng's translation captures Fei's jargonless, straightforward style of writing. Their introduction describes Fei's education and career as a sociologist, the fate of his writings on and off the Mainland, and the sociological significance of his analysis. The translators' epilogue highlights the social reforms for China that Fei drew from his analysis and advocated in a companion text written in the same period. (For this item please quote stock ID 6880) ISBN: 9780520077966

Mao and his policies have long been demonized in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is being denigrated by the Chinese political and intellectual elite. This book tackles the extremely negative depiction of China under Mao in recent publications and argues that most people in China, including the rural poor and the urban working class, actually benefited from Mao's policies. Under Mao there was a comprehensive welfare system for the urban poor and basic health and education provision in rural areas. These policies are being reversed in the current rush towards capitalism. Offering a critical analysis of mainstream accounts of the Mao era and the Cultural Revolution, this book sets the record straight, making a convincing argument for the positive effects of Mao's policies on the well-being of the Chinese people. (For this item please quote stock ID 30195) ISBN: 9780745327808

Sons of Heaven is an amazing journey through China?s fascinating past when life was raw and brutal and yet at the same time gentle and respectful.

Sheila Urquhart was three years old when the Manchu Ching Dynasty was overthrown, the Revolution began and China moved into a new age of Communism. Sheila was a true child of the Far East; she loved China with passion and her colourful descriptions of her life growing up in the International Settlement of Shanghai are truly astonishing.

Throughout Sheila?s childhood, her Amah recited the tales of the Sons of Heaven/ to her in Mandarin and her father told her the story of Shanghai. She then read about the history of the China ? from Genghis Khan to Marco Polo and Chiang Kai-shek, the mystery unfolded.

Sons of Heaven is an unforgettable journey into Old China?s mysterious past, a story intricately woven within a tapestry of prose and delicate artwork resplendent in style and presentation. Recollections of an amazing woman brought to life with incredible originality and eloquence. "This book was written to convey to my grandchildren what it was like for me to be a child in China and to be brought up by a Chinese woman until the age of twelve ? and to tell ? simply, the history of China and of the unique International Settlement of Shanghai that lasted only for 100 years ?? Sheila Urquhart (For this item please quote stock ID 30514) ISBN: 9780980336542

This collection of essays addresses the meaning and practice of political citizenship in China over the past century, raising the question of whether reform initiatives in citizenship imply movement toward increased democratization. After slow but steady moves toward a new conception of citizenship before 1949, there was a nearly complete reversal during the Mao regime, with a gradual reemergence beginning in the Deng era of concerns with the political rights as well as the duties of citizens. The distinguished contributors to this volume address how citizenship has been understood in China from the late imperial era to the present day, the processes by which citizenship has been fostered or undermined, the influence of the government, the different development of citizenship in mainland China and Taiwan, and the prospects of strengthening citizens' rights in contemporary China. Valuable for its century-long perspective and for placing the historical patterns of Chinese citizenship within the context of European and American experiences, Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China investigates a critical issue for contemporary Chinese society. (For this item please quote stock ID 18617) ISBN: 9780674008434

For much of the twentieth century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Recent examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the authors of the eight studies in this volume seek to contribute to the ongoing critique of the movement. The essays are centered on the intellectual and cultural/historical motivations and practices behind May Fourth discourse and highlight issues such as strategies of discourse formation, scholarly methodologies, rhetorical dispositions, the manipulation of historical sources, and the construction of modernity by means of the reification of China's literary past. (For this item please quote stock ID 18621) ISBN: 9780674007864

China exerts increasing influence on the global economy, and the country's fascinating and turbulent recent history demands our understanding. This clear and convincing overview tells the story of a century that saw three political revolutions and considerable social and cultural upheaval. The author moves fluently between social, political and cultural history and frequently brings gender into the picture, showing that events such as revolutions can have very different effects on men and women. His exploration of the transformations China has undergone integrates ideas from the very latest scholarship, reminding readers that history is not just about what happened, but also about differing interpretations and approaches. The book concludes with a discussion of recent reforms by the Chinese Communist Party in its aim to raise the living standards of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants and strengthen the foundations of one-party rule. (For this item please quote stock ID 18793) ISBN: 9780631203285

In a prior volume ? The Voyage of the Frolic: New England Merchants & the Opium Trade (Stanford, 1997 ) ? historical archaeologist Thomas N. Layton told the story of his excavation of an ancient Pomo Indian village site in Northern California, where, to his surprise, he recovered Chinese porcelain pot sherds. Tracing those sherds to a beach on the rugged Mendocino coast, he then followed them out to the submerged remains of the Frolic, a sailing vessel wrecked in the summer of 1850 with a rich cargo of Chinese goods bound for Gold Rush San Francisco. In that volume, Layton used the vessel?s earlier role, transporting opium from Bombay to Canton, as a vehicle to tell the story of American participation in the opium trade. Although the Frolic?s career as an opium clipper was ended in 1849 by the introduction of steam vessels, the almost simultaneous discovery of gold in California suddenly created enough purchasing power to support direct commerce with China ? and thus a new career for the Frolic. In this sequel volume, Layton has two objectives. First, he employs the Frolic?s ill-fated first, and final, cargo to San Francisco to tell the broader story of the beginnings of direct commerce between China and California. Second, he attempts to explore the potential of contextual archaeology ? the intellectual process of 'transporting' artifacts from their resting places back to the behavioral contexts in which they once functioned. Layton accomplishes his objectives by describing the full trajectory of the Frolic?s final cargo from four different perspectives: from that of John Hurd Everett, the California merchant who assembled the cargo in China; then from the perspectives of the sailors and Pomo Indians who pillaged the cargo immediately after the wreck; then through the eyes of twentieth-century sport divers who plundered it yet again; then, finally, through Layton?s scientific perspective as an archaeologist. To augment his quest for context, he employs carefully documented vignettes to fill the interstices between the facts. Throughout, he discusses his research ? replete with visits to archives and antique shops ? and in so doing introduces readers to the practice of modern historical archaeology. (For this item please quote stock ID 19234) ISBN: 9780804746915

This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyses the link between the awakening of China as a historical narrative and the awakening of the Chinese people as a political technique for building a sovereign and independent state. In sum, it asks what we mean when we say that China 'woke up' in the 20th Century. (For this item please quote stock ID 27013) ISBN: 9787108021113

The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth century witnessed a qualitatively unprecedented trend towards openness. Frank Dikotter argues that the years from 1900 to 1949 were characterised at all levels of society by engagement with the world, and that the pursuit of openness was particularly evident in four areas: in governance and the advance of the rule of law and of newly acquired liberties; in freedom of movement in and out of the country; in open minds thriving on ideas from the humanities and sciences; and in open markets and sustained growth in the economy. Freedom of association, freedom to travel, freedom of religion, freedom to trade and relative freedom of speech wrought profound changes in the texture of everyday life. While globalisation itself was a vector of cultural diversification, pre-existing constellations of ideas, practices and institutions did not simply vanish on contact with the rest of the world, but on the contrary expanded even further, just as much as local industries diversified thanks to their inclusion into a much larger global market. Arguably the country was at its most diverse in its entire history on the eve of World War II - in terms of politics, society, culture and the economy. Accessible to general readers, while providing an integration of ideas that will be valuable for specialists, this book presents a fresh way of approaching the history of modern China.

About the Author Frank Dikötter is Professor of Chinese Modern History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Chair of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. He has published a series of innovative books, including The Discourse of Race in Modern China and Narcotic Culture: a History of Drugs and China. (For this item please quote stock ID 30507) ISBN: 9789622099203

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The nine essays in this volume re-examine the 'hundred days' in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernising China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformers, newspapers, education, the urban environment, female literacy, the 'new' woman, citizenship, and literature. All the contributors urge the view that modernity must be seen as a conceptual framework that shaped the Chinese experienfront free endpaper,ce of a global process, an experience through which new problems were raised and old problems rethought in creative, inventive, and contradictory ways. (For this item please quote stock ID 18618) ISBN: 9780674008540

"This is an important and exciting monograph for the field of modern Chinese literature. It sheds unprecedented light on poetic composition and does much more than previous studies to flesh out the living practice of poetry circulation and reception in modern China." -Charles Laughlin, Tsinghua University, Beijing

"Crespi convincingly argues that the questions of how to give voice to modern poetry and how to communicate poetic work to the wider public lie at the heart of modern Chinese poetics. Consequently, recitation was an issue for poets of all persuasions, not just for those interested in political activism. And even those who pursued political agitation, such as the wartime poets, are shown to have performed much more often for smaller in-house audiences than for the large crowds that they hoped to address. Attempts to turn modern poetry into spontaneous on-stage outbursts of unaffected yet affective emotion were riddled with paradoxes, expertly grasped in Crespi?s analysis. It is Crespi?s greatest achievement that he has unearthed a wide variety of source materials, many previously unstudied, that shed light on an aspect of modern Chinese poetry that many would agree is crucially important, but that few would have imagined possible to study in such detail." -Michel Hockx, SOAS, University of London

China?s century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun?s seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voice of poetry. Supported throughout by vivid narration and accessible analysis, Voices in Revolution offers a literary history of modern China that makes the case for the importance of the auditory dimension of poetry in national, revolutionary, and postsocialist culture.

Crespi brings the past to life by first examining the ideological changes to poetic voice during China?s early twentieth-century transition from empire to nation. He then traces the emergence of the spoken poem from the May Fourth period to the present, including its mobilization during the Anti-Japanese War, its incorporation into the student protest repertoire during China?s civil war, its role as a conflicted voice of Mao-era revolutionary passion, and finally its current adaptation to the cultural life of China?s party-guided market economy.

Voices in Revolution alters the way we read by moving poems off the page and into the real time and space of literary activity. To all readers it offers an accessible yet conceptually fresh and often dramatic narration of China?s modern literary experience. Specialists will appreciate the book?s inclusion of noncanonical texts as well as its innovative interdisciplinary approach.

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The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution explores and explains for the first time the important role of G. E. Morrison in great power diplomacy in China from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty. The work is based on a wide range of multinational scholarly sources and in order to develop the context in which Morrison carried out his personal diplomacy and to delineate the many-sided story into which Morrison has to be placed, Woodhouse has, in addition to mining the very rich Morrison collection, drawn upon British, Japanese and American personal and official materials. (For this item please quote stock ID 24642) ISBN: 9780415322621

[Indent] During its 50 years of existence the People's Republic of China has seen dramatic changes, from the proclamation of the independent state through the period of the Communist Revolution, the Cultural Revolution, the Reform Period. These changes are analysed from the political, economic and social points of view, challenging accepted orthodoxy. Throughout, the emphasis is on change in the context of contemporary China, and as part of the Chinese Communist Party's search for paths to development. (For this item please quote stock ID 21679) ISBN: 9780700716302

'This is my Hawaii. Here I was brought up and educated; and it was here that I came to know what modern, civilised governments are like and what they mean' - Sun Yat-sen, 1910. Hawaii and its people played an important role in the life of Sun Yat-sen (Sun Wen), the father of modern China and one of the most honoured and revered statesmen of the 20th century. This is the most comprehensive and detaliled account available in English of Dr Sun's life and revolutionary activities in Hawaii. The authors have painstakingly culled information from books and articles in English and Chinese and collected letters, military bonds, and other memorabilia of the revolution and put them in historical context. They visited and identified sites where Dr Sun's political activities took place and interviewed many family members and descendants of his original group of followers. Short biographical sketches of some 60 Chinese in Hawaii who supported Dr Sun's cause financially and politically are included. (For this item please quote stock ID 10305) ISBN: 9780824821791

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Surprisingly little has been written about the complicated relationship between opium and China and its people. Opium, State, & Society goes a long way toward illuminating this relationship in the Republican period, when all levels of Chinese society - from peasants to school teachers, merchants, warlords, and ministers of finance - were physically or economically dependent on the drug. The centrepiece of this study is an investigation of the symbiotic relationship that evolved between opium and the Guomindang's rise to power in the years 1924-1937. Despite attempts to find other sources of revenue, the Guomindang became increasingly addicted to the tax monies derived from the drug trade prior to the war with Japan. Based solidly on a previously untapped reservoir of archival sources from the People's Republic and Taiwan, this work critically analyzes the complex realities of a government policy that vacillated between prohibition and legalisation, and ultimately sought to curtail the cultivation, sale, and consumption of opium through a government monopoly. Edward R. Slack, Jr., is assistant professor of history at Indiana State University. Asia/China/History (For this item please quote stock ID 16900) ISBN: 9780824823610

A series that unfolds, in black-and-white photographs, natural scenes, historical sites, customs, culture, commerce and trade, and other aspects of the famous cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although three of these books are entitled, Old Fashions..., clothing and dress only rate a passing mention. (For this item please quote stock ID 15761) ISBN: 9787102020624

A series that unfolds, in black-and-white photographs, natural scenes, historical sites, customs, culture, commerce and trade, and other aspects of the famous cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although three of these books are entitled, Old Fashions..., clothing and dress only rate a passing mention. (For this item please quote stock ID 15762) ISBN: 9787102021393

A series that unfolds, in black-and-white photographs, natural scenes, historical sites, customs, culture, commerce and trade, and other aspects of the famous cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although three of these books are entitled, Old Fashions..., clothing and dress only rate a passing mention. (For this item please quote stock ID 15763) ISBN: 9787102017273

Changes to Tian?anmen over the last 100 years and many of the historical events that occured there are illustrated by the many rare photographs in this album. (For this item please quote stock ID 15793) ISBN: 9787503216527

Peking was an ancient historical capital of world renown and is still the political and cultural centre of modern China. As part of its historical legacy, much traditional architecture of cultural and artistic value is carefully preserved. Readers can glimpse some of style, features and customs of old Peking from this album, with more than two hundred rare photographs taken about eight decades ago around the beginning of the Republic of China. (For this item please quote stock ID 11927) ISBN: 9789622382060

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The Yale-China Association's long legacy of work in China places it among the premier American organisations engaged in international service. Founded in 1901, Yale-China built on a long tradition of Yale's graduates founding churches, schools, and colleges in far-flung places. In time, the organisation evolved into a bicultural educational enterprise, reflecting a spirit of intellectual tolerance and openness that adapted itself to China's changing conditions and needs. From its earliest years at the close of the Qing dynasty through wars, revolutions, and the modern era of reform, Yale-China's history was interwoven with China's own turbulent journey to find its place in the modern world. At certain points in its history, Yale-China was ahead of its time; at others, the organisation was overwhelmed by social and political forces beyond its control or comprehension. Yale-China's history thus provides intriguing insights into the vagaries and complexities of America's interaction with China in the twentieth century, as well as the profound ambivalence with which many Chinese viewed the United States - its representatives, educational models, and intentions toward China - in this period. About the Editors: Nancy E. Chapman is Executive Director of the Yale-China Association. She holds a Ph.D. in Chinese history from Princeton University and has been active in the field of U.S.-China educational exchange for over twenty years. Jessica C. Plumb, who spent two years in China as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow, is a freelance writer. (For this item please quote stock ID 17132) ISBN: 9789629960186

The Long March is a universal story of struggle against overwhelming odds. It is a journey to the outer limits of human suffering and an adventure that changed the course of 20th century world history. The true stories of the men and women who took part deserve to be recorded and remembered, and this album by two Western journalists is a contribution to that task. It took the two authors 384 days to reach the end of the road at Wuqi County Town in Shaanxi Province. They walked 6,294 kilometres and marched through four seasons, from the fertile farming country of southern Jiangxi to the semi-desert of northwest China. Ed Jocelyn was born in Sydney, Australia, but moved to England at the age of five. After taking a Ph.D in history at the University of Bradford, he moved to China in 1997. He has worked for a variety of newspaper and magazine publications in Beijing, but since 2001 has concentrated on the New Long March project. Andrew McEwen was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He graduated from Essex University with a degree in political science, and has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist in England and the USA. He first came to China in 1997 where he now works as a freelance writer and media consultant. (For this item please quote stock ID 25646) ISBN: 9787508505893

~To many Chinese, the rise and expansion of Japanese power during the years between the two Sino-Japanese wars (1895?1945) presented a paradox: With its successful modernisation, Japan became a model to be emulated; yet as the country's imperial ambitions on the continent grew, it posed an ever-increasing threat. Drawing on an extraordinary array of source materials, Lu Yan shows that this attraction to and apprehension of Japan prompted the Chinese to engage in a variety of long-term relationships with the Japanese.

~At the centre of Lu's inquiry are four diverse yet significant case studies: military strategist Jiang Baili, literary critic and essayist Zhou Zuoren, Guomindang leader Dai Jitao, and romantic poet turned Communist Guo Moruo. In their public and private lives, these influential Chinese formed lasting ties with Japan and the Japanese. While their writings reached the Chinese public through the print mass media and served to enhance popular understanding of Japan and its culture, their activities in political, cultural, and diplomatic affairs paralleled significant turns in Sino-Japanese relations.

~Based on archival documents, personal memoirs, correspondence, interviews, and contemporary literary works, Re-understanding Japan delineates diverse approaches in Chinese efforts to engage Japan in China's modern reforms.

~Lu Yan is associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. (For this item please quote stock ID 22637) ISBN: 9780824827304

Crossed Histories represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to 'Manchuria' under Japan's influence from the turn of the twentieth century to 1945. The contributors, who represent the fields of history, literature, film studies, sociology, and anthropology, explore the complexity of Manchuria as an effect of the geopolitical imaginaries of various individuals and groups shaped by imperialism, colonialism, Pan-Asianism, and the present globalisation. Manchuria is thus examined in the imaginations of a Chinese journalist and his Shanghai readers in the 1930s; prewar Japanese city planners and architects; a Manchu princess later executed by the Chinese nationalist government; various audiences of Japanese 'goodwill films' of the 1930s and 1940s; the seven thousand Poles who immigrated to northern Manchuria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the state makers of Manchukuo (which included both Japanese and Chinese leaders) and North and South Korea during the Cold War era; and a student of Manchuria Nation- Building University in the mid-1940s. Contributors: Michael Baskett, Suk-Jung Han, Thomas Lahusen, Rana Mitter, Dan Shao, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, David Tucker. Mariko Asano Tamanoi is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, UCLA. Asian Interactions & Comparisons Published jointly with the Association for Asian Studies (For this item please quote stock ID 24884) ISBN: 9780824828721

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This is the first detailed study in English of the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution, in the first quarter of the 20th century. In retracing various fragments of the city?s history in this period, the book argues that modernist politics as practiced by the Nationalists and Communists represented a specific political rationality embedded in the context of a novel conception of the social realm. Modern governments invariably base their claim to legitimacy on the support of 'society' or 'the people'. The mobilisation of hitherto disenfranchised constituents into the political process is thus a central component of the nation-state. Modern governments also produce schemes for categorising and organising these same constituents to ensure social unity and their base of support. The author analyses this apparent paradox of modern governance ? emancipation and discipline ? as shown in the discourse and practice of Canton elites and the lives of the city?s inhabitants. Canton, which witnessed the modernisation of both its physical and social structures in the early 20th century, was the site of the first modernist government in Chinese history. The new governing elites, the Nationalists and Communists, attempted to dissect and classify their constituents into different classes or segments and to transform them into disciplined members of a new body social. Contrary to their expectations, extensive organisational work, though empowering the newly mobilised, did not lead to the formation of a well-ordered society. Instead, it brought into sharp focus the heterogeneity of Canton society and highlighted the impossibility of its analysis and management as a totality. To the dismay of the modernisers, social discipline could be restored only through violence. (For this item please quote stock ID 20035) ISBN: 9780804748209

The book has been issued owes the generous assistance and wise advice of some people. "[he sponsors came from Jinan University. Qiu Yijian helped shapethe outline of the book. Zhang Tingmao reviewed the book and provided thoroughrevise both in history area and language on later drafts. Thanks also should giveto Xu Yixiong, Huang Shengying, who helped to make the professional design ofthe book.

The support of my family is my greatest motivation. My mother, father,sisters, and my son have always been interested in my work. Without theirunderstanding and support, I could do nothing in my research.

Contents
Part 1 The Opium Wars and the Changing Characteristicsof China Society;
Part 2 Self-Strengthening in the Age of Accelerated Foreign Imperialism;
Part 3 Reform under the Menace of Partition;
Part 4 Revolution and Republic;
Part 5 Ideological Awakening and the National Revolution;
Part 6 The Struggle of the Nanjing Government from 1927 to 1937;
Part 7 The War of Resistance against Japan ( 1937 - 1945 );
Part 8 The Civil War in China ( 1945 - 1949) and the Establishment of the People's
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Continuing the epic story of china's centuries-old relationship with Australia .. the sequel to Sojourners. Few writers are more highly respected than Eric Rolls, whose sensuous poetry and impeccably researched and incomparably seductive prose have won him a wide and appreciative audience over thirty years. (For this item please quote stock ID 33369) ISBN: 9787306034168

In November 1937, Ishii Itaro, head of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Bureau of Asiatic Affairs, reflected bitterly on the decline of the ministry's influence in China and his own long and debilitating struggle to guide China policy. Ishii was the most notable member of a group of middle-level diplomats who, having served in China, strongly advocated that Japan adopt policies in harmony with China's rising nationalism and national interests. Japan's Imperial Diplomacy profiles this distinct strain of 'China service diplomat,' while providing a comprehensive look at the institutional history and internal dynamics of the Japanese Foreign Ministry and its handling of China affairs in the years leading up to and through World War II. Moving from a thorough examination of a wide range of primary sources, including the extensive archives of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, memoirs, diaries, and unpublished speeches, Japan's Imperial Diplomacy offers integrated interpretations of Japanese imperialism, diplomacy, and the bureaucratic restructuring of the 1930s that were fundamental to Japan's version of fascism and the move toward war. Specialists of China, Japan, comparative colonialism, and World War II diplomacy will find this well-conceived and carefully researched and organized work of first-rate importance to the understanding of modern Japanese history in general and Japanese imperialism in particular. Barbara J. Brooks is assistant professor in the Department of History at the City College, City University of New York. 'Carefully researched and well-documented.... Brooks presents a compelling diplomatic historical analysis and demonstrates that the prewar Japanese state was less than monolithic and its celebrated bureaucracy and liberal diplomacy was severely stressed in China.' - H-Net Reviews, April 2001 'An important dissenting voice that helps to broaden our understanding of Japan's diplomatic history.' - China Journal 46 (2001) 'A study in failure that succeeds on nearly every level. Beautifully structured ... clearly the product of many years of painstaking research.' - Monumenta Nipponica 56 (2001) 'This volume deserves hearty applause as it enriches the current scholarship explaining Japan's road to war with China.' - Choice, July 2001 A STUDY OF THE EAST ASIA INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (For this item please quote stock ID 4698) ISBN: 9780824823252

This short volume is a reprint of a short travel diary of the famous Sinologist Herbert Allen Giles. He was employed by the British foreign services at the time, and was sent on the journey he describes to inspect the Yunnan Proclamation also known as the Margary Proclamation. On his 21 day journey through Guangdong province from Shantou (Swatow) to Guangzhou (Canton) he describes his experiences, the landscape and the sights.

(For this item please quote stock ID 31917) ISBN: 9787309057683

A lucid introduction to the history of modern China from the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 through to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Within a chronological framework the author explores the forces of nationalism, modernisation and change in a period of revolution, occupation and civil war. Two thematic chapters look at social change through the period (in particular, the status of women) and education and the student movement. Written by the editor of the best-selling survey, Eastern Asia, this is an ideal text for anyone tackling the complexities of Chinese history for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 23996) ISBN: 9781405840583

Since the Great Exhibition held in Britain in 1851, 159 years have gone by, and in 2010 Shanghai, China, will get its turn for the first time to host a WorLd Expo. For over 100 years the Chinese people have participated in and supported the world expos in various forms.What effects did these events have on China and its social progress? What did China contribute to the events, and what interesting stories have been told about them? What will the 2010 Shanghai WorLd Expo show to the world? This book records China's participation in WorLd Expos, and its great vision for the upcoming Shanghai Wortd Expo. It contains many treasured historical photos and depictions of stereographs, emblems and medals, ittustrating China's links with 20 WorLd Expos. (For this item please quote stock ID 33156) ISBN: 9787119062709

The study guide succinctly summarizes the readings and essays in The Chinese, providing learning objectives, key terms and concepts, and review and essay questions. (For this item please quote stock ID 4745) ISBN: 9780892641048

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The wrenching saga of a patriotic Communist family in China 'A splendid lesson in 20th-century Chinese history' - Boston Globe. 'Zhu's narrative is unique . . . Zhu goes far beyond his family's ordeals, linking personal and family experiences to a broader comprehension of the [Chinese] nation's public history. The result is this highly readable and thoughtful illustration of Chinese society under Mao's rule' - Choice. 'An engaging account of one family's triumphs and travails in Mao Tse-tung's Communist China. And Zhu's is no ordinary family. Nearly every significant event in recent Chinese history seems to have a link to a close relative' - Boston Herald. 'This well-written memoir by a student of English tells of daily life from his birth in China in 1958 to his departure in 1987 . . . Engrossing and engaging' - Library Journal. 'Provides a balanced and realistic view of one family's experience in post-revolutionary China. In addition to offering readers a glimpse of the personal life of a Chinese official [Zhu's father] and the ideals that inspired him, Zhu's memoir documents his own coming of age and eventual departure from a country that ultimately failed to live up to the hard-fought ideals of his father's generation' - Sampan. Zhu Xiao Di came to the United States in 1987 to pursue graduate studies. He is a research associate at the Joint Center for Housing Studies in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. (For this item please quote stock ID 14899) ISBN: 9781558492165

高瑜在八九民運時期擔任著名改革派報紙《經濟學週報》的副總編，她既是八九民運的重要報道者，也是全國人大教科文衛委員會副主任胡績偉先生和學生運動的聯繫人。下邊記錄的兩個片段是5月20日鄧小平決定戒嚴之後，以胡績偉為代表的人大常委們直接和學生互動制止武力鎮壓的最後努力，時間雖短，卻是八九民運中誕生的議會政治的萌芽。 5月21日是星期天，早上我與胡績偉先生通電話，他要我代表他立刻去天安門廣場，去勸學生撤退，他說，祇要退出廣場，發表個聲明也可以。我回答：「今天是星期日，能不能明天多聯繫幾家報社一起去。」他說：「不成，我恐怕來不及了。我的兒媳醫院已經在發救護包了，當然不是給學生預備的。」我答應了他，我在馬路上截了一輛小麵包，拿出記者證，搭車去了廣場。…… 第二天（5月22日），我和何家棟應嚴家其的邀請到社科院參加他召集的知識界座談會，那天到的人很多，一個會議室擠得滿滿的，連窗台上都坐滿了。會議當中，有人來找我，是我的一個朋友畫家劉光恩。原來早上我離家後，胡老即打來電話，要我把聲明改寫成一份同樣內容的致人大常委會的公開信，交到人大常委會，這樣上下就有個呼應。我丈夫急得不知道怎麼通知我，正好劉光恩又來電話, 就有勞他把胡績偉的電話內容告訴我，劉光恩當仁不讓，就趕到社科院來了。我把情況和何老交換了一下，何老表示同意，我就在會議上起草起來了，…… 高瑜對學運的介入導致她6月3日早晨被捕。6月30日陳希同向人大做的「動亂暴亂」報告，將高瑜1988年12月在《經濟學週報》發表的長篇報道《關於時局的對話–採訪嚴家其、溫元凱》打成兩個『動亂暴亂政治綱領「之一，又導致《經濟學週報》被查封。 作者介紹 高瑜原任職官方中新社記者，1989年時任職《經濟學週報》副總編輯，六四事件後該報停刊。高獲釋後從事自由撰稿工作，替海外刊文，以非凡勇氣繼續批評中共 ，更坦稱「你有槍，我有筆」，不懼當局，因而兩度獲得總部在美國華府的國際婦女傳媒基金會「傑出女性新聞工作者勇氣獎」。 (For this item please quote stock ID 31765) ISBN: 9789881771063

A series that unfolds, in black-and-white photographs, natural scenes, historical sites, customs, culture, commerce and trade, and other aspects of the famous cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although three of these books are entitled, Old Fashions..., clothing and dress only rate a passing mention. (For this item please quote stock ID 15759) ISBN: 9787102022192

Written by BBC producer, Michael Robson, this book brings to life an age of high adventure, of empire-building, treachery and trade. Its action-packed narrative centres on a single commodity initially smuggled, and later legally traded, in 19th century China. The story begins in the poppy fields of Bengal - where the potent poppy is still cultivated - and traces the development of a trade that made fortunes for both mandarin and merchant princes and laid the foundation for the phenomenal growth of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. The poppy that fed the opium dreams of early users was the catalyst for the first major military conflict between the 19th century empires of Britain and China. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of authentic documents and China Trade paintings. Winner of the Hong Kong Designers Award. (For this item please quote stock ID 12170) ISBN: 9789627283089

The Honourable Frederick Stewart (1836-1889), MA, LLD, Founder of Hong Kong Government Education and Head of the Permanent Hong Kong Civil Service, was also a Hong Kong Police Magistrate. His work in education was greatly admired. His work on the bench was also frequently approved by his contemporaries and this gives an understanding of how some English-speaking people in colonial Hong Kong thought in the latter part of the 19th century. Education was one means for colonial administrators to provide future adult citizens with an understanding of what they expected of them. But most of those who attended school in nineteenth century Hong Kong did not attend colonial, but traditional Confucian schools; and most residents among this highly transient population had little formal education of any kind. The Police Magistrate's court was another place where some might learn what was and was not accepted, after some brush with the law. The newspaper reports of Stewart's court cases give a unique picture of colonial society. They show sailors, soldiers, policemen, teachers, clergymen and priests, wives and husbands, parents and children, servants and scamps, prostitutes and their clients, kidnappers, traffickers in human beings, children and students, gamblers and informers. They give an image of urban and country life and life at sea. The cases reveal the rough edges of the interface between local and western cultures, as well as within the various cultural groups in multi-cultural Hong Kong. But, particularly through the demeanour of magistrate Frederick Stewart himself, they also show sincere attempts to live in a neighbourly manner, to respect and learn from others, and to work hard to create an improved society; a society where all might live safe and fulfilling lives, whether cocooned within their mother culture, or mingling and merging within the other various groups forming Hong Kong society. Six writers from very different professional backgrounds offer insights into this world. Verner Bickley, cross-cultural scholar and socio-linguist, former University Professor and former colonial education administrator, writes on differing perceptions of social reality in Dr Stewart's court. Christopher Coghlan, a Hong Kong barrister, offers thoughts about the practice of law in Hong Kong. Tim Hamlett, previously a working journalist, now a University Professor of Journalism, considers reporting the cases of Frederick Stewart. Geoffrey Roper, a retired Assistant Commissioner of the Hong Kong Police Force, analyses the police role in magistrate Frederick Stewart's court. Hong Kong magistrate, Garry Tallentire, compares the Hong Kong (Police) Magistrate of the 1880s and the 1990s. Gillian Bickley, Frederick Stewart's biographer, considers what sort of magistrate Frederick Stewart was and takes a new look at the notorious Hong Kong 'Light and Pass' Rules. In his Preface, former Hong Kong Chief Justice, Sir T. L. Yang, gives a broadly historical perspective on the Western legal system in Hong Kong. A source book for data and analysis from the perspective of various disciplines, with much interesting reading. (For this item please quote stock ID 24709) ISBN: 9789628557042

'Hua-ling Hu has created a powerful, definitive biography of Minnie Vautrin, one of the greatest heroes of World War II. Meticulously researched and poignantly written, American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking describes how a courageous missionary defied the Japanese army to save thousands of Chinese lives—at the eventual cost of her own' — Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking 'Vautrin, a Midwestern farm girl called to missionary service, devoted her life to the education of Chinese women at Ginling College . . . In the cauldron of horror that Nanking became, Vautrin, a tower of moral strength, turned Ginling into a sanctuary for 10,000 women and girls, who honored her as their Goddess of Mercy. Hu tells Vautrin’s inspirational story in spare but powerful prose. This book deserves a wide audience and belongs in every public and academic library' — Library Journal. The Japanese army’s brutal occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as 'the rape of Nanking.' As they slaughtered an estimated three hundred thousand people, the invading soldiers raped more than twenty thousand women—some estimates run as high as eighty thousand. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected ten thousand Chinese women and children and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served. Hua-ling Hu has taught Chinese language and literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she received a doctorate in history, and modern Chinese history at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. She served as an editor of the Journal of Studies of Japanese Aggression Against China for six years. Her publications include three books and over eighty short stories, essays, and historical papers. In 1998 she received the prestigious Chinese Literary and Arts Medal of Honor in Biography in Taiwan for the Chinese language edition of her biography of Minnie Vautrin. (For this item please quote stock ID 15424) ISBN: 9780809323869

The English-language edition of The Last Eunuch of China -- Life of Sun Yaoting was recently published by the Beijing-based China International Press.
Its author Jia Yinghua, now 57, is known for his serial biographic works about Emperor Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the last dynasty in the Chinese history, and the royal family.
Sun Yaoting (1902-1996) used to be an eunuch serving some members of the royal family, and he followed Pu Yi till his last years as the puppet "emperor" of the so-called "Manchukuo" in northeast China, created by Japanese aggressors and in existence from 1931 through 1945.
Jia, a Beijing native 50 years younger than Sun, happened to be a close friend of Sun. In their long-time talks, the former eunuch told his young friend lots of inside stories about the "last emperor" and the royal family. Sun allowed Jia to record these stories with a tape-recorder and a video-tape-recorder.
Jia had already published the Chinese edition of the eunuch's biography and a Japanese-language edition.
So far, Jia has written six books on the royal family. Jia said he wanted to translate his books into major foreign languages to help foreign readers better understand the history of China.
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The Los Angeles Times calls Liu’s works 'warm-hearted and clear-eyed,' while The Christian Science Monitor says, 'Mr. Liu has a brand of frankness that during the Cultural Revolution was more likely to win him a stint of hard labor than it was to win him friends.' Set against the stark background of China’s turbulent Cultural Revolution, Hard Time is Liu Zongren’s account of his 30-month internment in Chadian Labor Reform Farm No. 583. The story is told through an inmate, Huang Longsen, who describes his degrading and dehumanising experiences with a frank and often uncomfortable honesty. The tone of his narrative is deeply personal - there is no mistaking the authenticity of his experience - and deeply rooted in loneliness and sudden waves of despair. Along the way he meets many of China’s other ‘Lost Sons’, forming alliances and avoiding enemies. (For this item please quote stock ID 10031) ISBN: 9780835125420

In the seventh century, during the Chinese Tang Dynasty, Tibetans began drinking fermented black tea, a valuable addition to their restricted diet of meat and milk. Beginning as an aristocratic delicacy, it quickly became a staple, but it had to be imported, first from southern Yunnan, with a secondary route from Ya'an in Sichuan. The Chinese on the other hand, had a need for war horses and the sturdy Tibetan horses were ideal. As a result a two-way trade route arose during the Song Dynasty and became known as the Cha Ma Dao, the Tea-Horse Road, a 2,300 kilometre journey from southern Yunnan to Lhasa at its core. (For this item please quote stock ID 35962) ISBN: 9789749863930