History Of China – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Edward L Shaughnessy

A Brief History of Ancient China

A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendary ru…

Julian Gewirtz

Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Communist Party erased the reform debate from memory. Julian…

Shouhua Qi

Culture, History, and the Reception of Tennessee Williams in China

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profou…

Antonio De Morga

History of the Philippine Islands; From their discovery by Magellan in 1521 to the beginning of the XVII Century, with descriptions of Japan, China and adjacent countries

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Antonio De Morga

History of the Philippine Islands; From their discovery by Magellan in 1521 to the beginning of the XVII Century, with descriptions of Japan, China and adjacent countries

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Frank Dikotter

Mao's Great Famine

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing an…

Eva Dou

The Listening State

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Xinran Xue

The Book of Secrets

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the live…

Wang Wen

0.7

Product Information 0.7, originally released in 2012, is album #7 out of 11 in the impressive carreer or China's leading instrumental rock band WANG WEN. Their international audience has grown tremendou…

Science Fiction Classics Box: II

Cécile Armand

Madmen in Shanghai

Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914-1956) provides a novel perspective on the emergence of Chinese consumer society through an extensive historical investigation of …

Lawrence James

The Lion and the Dragon

'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple 'James has a geni…

Lawrence James

The Lion and the Dragon

A compelling history of Britain's complicated and compromised relationship with China between the start of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997

Jennifer Bond

Dreaming the New Woman

Based on seventy-five oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the voices of Chinese women who attended Protestant missionary schools for girls in China in the early twentieth century. By …

Machine Decision Is Not Final

An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collection that decenters familiar narratives to provide a fresh perspective on what artificial intelligence is today, and what it might become. Historians, media the…

Lawrence James

The Lion and the Dragon

A compelling history of Britain's complicated and compromised relationship with China between the start of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997

Xuelei Huang

Scents of China

"Drawing on recent developments in sensory studies, Xuelei Huang presents a pioneering cultural history of smell in China from the High Qing to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology, she…

George Hong Jiang

The Imperial Mode of China

Utilising Marxian, Weberian, and institutionalist approaches, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the imperial mode of China. The boo…

Shiho Alimtohte

Islam in China and the Islamic world

Over the past half century, China has accomplished a great deal in the study of Islam, and established a certain academic system for its study. This book offers a history of contemporary Islamic research …