Listing 1 - 10 of 11 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
This book is a study of everyday life in rural north China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century told through the story of one man's life.
Choose an application
The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes investigate two central questions through all aspects of Chinese life: what core values sustained this ancient civilization through centuries of upheaval, and in what ways did these values survive in modern times?From Ying-shih Yü's perspective, the Dao, or the Way, constitutes the inner core of Chinese civilization. His work explores the unique dynamics between Chinese intellectuals' discourse on the Dao, or moral principles for a symbolized ideal world order, and their criticism of contemporary reality throughout Chinese history. Volume 2 of Chinese History and Culture completes Ying-shih Yü's systematic reconstruction and exploration of Chinese thought over two millennia and its impact on Chinese identity. Essays address the rise of Qing Confucianism, the development of the Dai Zhen and Zhu Xi traditions, and the response of the historian Zhang Xuecheng to the Dai Zhen approach. They take stock of the thematic importance of Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-century masterpiece Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) and the influence of Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People, as well as the radicalization of China in the twentieth century and the fundamental upheavals of modernization and revolution. Ying-shih Yü also discusses the decline of elite culture in modern China, the relationships among democracy, human rights, and Confucianism, and changing conceptions of national history. He reflects on the Chinese approach to history in general and the larger political and cultural function of chronological biographies. By situating China's modern encounter with the West in a wider historical frame, this second volume of Chinese History and Culture clarifies its more curious turns and contemplates the importance of a renewed interest in the traditional Chinese values recognizing common humanity and human dignity.
China --- History. --- Civilization. --- S02/0200 --- S04/0680 --- S04/0790 --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- HISTORY / Asia / China.
Choose an application
Throughout its modern history China has suffered from immense destruction and loss of life from warfare. In its worst periods of warfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millions of civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modern war-related death and suffering has remained hidden. The Rape of Nanking is beginning to be known, but hundreds of other massacres are still unrecognized by the outside world and even by China itself. The focus of The Scars of War is the social and psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country. The book is illustrated with contemporary photographs and woodblock prints. Each chapter is introduced by a traditional Chinese saying (cheng-yu) on warfare.
S04/0790 --- S07/0200 --- S11/0490 --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- China: Army and police force--Military history --- China: Social sciences--Society: general --- Atrocities --- War and society --- Atrocités --- Guerre et société --- History --- Histoire --- China --- Chine --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Military atrocities --- Cruelty --- War crimes --- Social aspects --- Atrocites --- Guerre et societe
Choose an application
The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes investigate two central questions through all aspects of Chinese life: what core values sustained this ancient civilization through centuries of upheaval, and in what ways did these values survive in modern times?From Yü Ying-shih's perspective, the Dao, or the Way, constitutes the inner core of Chinese civilization. His work explores the unique dynamics between Chinese intellectuals' discourse on the Dao, or moral principles for a symbolized ideal world order, and their criticism of contemporary reality throughout Chinese history. Volume 1 of Chinese History and Culture explores how the Dao was reformulated, expanded, defended, and preserved by Chinese intellectuals up to the seventeenth century, guiding them through history's darkest turns. Essays incorporate the evolving conception of the soul and the afterlife in pre- and post-Buddhist China, the significance of eating practices and social etiquette, the move toward greater individualism, the rise of the Neo-Daoist movement, the spread of Confucian ethics, and the growth of merchant culture and capitalism. A true panorama of Chinese culture's continuities and transition, Yü Ying-shih's two-volume Chinese History and Culture gives readers of all backgrounds a unique education in the meaning of Chinese civilization.
S04/0630 --- S02/0200 --- China: History--Sui and Tang: 589 - 907 --- China: General works--Civilization and culture --- China --- History. --- Civilization. --- S04/0680 --- S04/0790 --- China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- E-books --- HISTORY / Asia / China.
Choose an application
Before WWII, China mattered little in international relations. Afterwards, it was recognised as one of the victorious allies, it secured a permanent seat in the UN's Securty Council, and it had become a central player in East Asian Affairs. 'Negotiating China's Destiny' examines this transformation in China's international position, which occurred despite its military weakness. It examines the end of Western imperialism in China, the efforts of the Nationalists to engage with its wartime Allies, its dealings with surrounding states and peripheral areas, and its approach to Japan in defeat.
World War, 1939-1945 --- S04/0790 --- S06/0210 --- S09/0250 --- Diplomatic history. --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- China: Politics and government--Republic: 1911 - 1949 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works: after 1840 --- Historiography --- World War (1939-1945) --- China --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Diplomatic history
Choose an application
In China’s Social Insurance in the Twentieth Century , Aiqun Hu develops a framework of “interactive diffusion of global models” in examining the history of China’s social insurance since the 1910s. The book covers both Nationalist- and Communist-controlled areas (1927-1949) and Taiwan (1949-present), surpassing the party divide. It argues that China’s progression in social insurance resulted from diffusion of two global models (German capitalist and Soviet socialist social insurance) until the early 1990s. Thereafter, China’s social insurance reforms were increasingly directed by the World Bank’s neoliberal models, which also influenced Taiwan’s pension reforms. During the entire process, however, global forces provided the basic intellectual framework, while national forces determined the timing and specifics of adopting the models.
Social security --- Insurance, Social --- Insurance, State and compulsory --- Social insurance --- Insurance --- Income maintenance programs --- History --- E-books --- S11/0550 --- S10/0572 --- S04/0790 --- China: Social sciences--Social welfare system --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Insurance --- China: History--20th century, general: China
Choose an application
S04/0740 --- S04/0790 --- S06/0255 --- S12/0805 --- Social Darwinism --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- Darwinism, Social --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution --- China: History--General: 1894 - 1911 --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- China: Politics and government--Political theory: modern (and/or under Western influence) --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Influence of Foreign philosophy on Chinese philosophy --- China --- Civilization --- -Western influences. --- Social Darwinism. --- Western influences. --- Occidental influences
Choose an application
Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By contrast, very little historical information has been available on the covert operations of the security services in Mao Zedong's China. However, as Michael Schoenhals reveals in this intriguing and sometimes sinister account, public security was a top priority for the founders of the People's Republic and agents were recruited from all levels of society to ferret out 'counter-revolutionaries'. On the basis of hitherto classified archival records, the book tells the story of a vast surveillance and control apparatus through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of agents, their training and their operational activities across a twenty-year period from 1949 to 1967.
Polemology --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- China --- Domestic intelligence --- Intelligence service --- Internal security --- Secret service --- Spies --- S04/0790 --- S07/0350 --- S07/0370 --- S07/0400 --- Counter intelligence --- Counterespionage --- Counterintelligence --- Intelligence community --- Secret police (Intelligence service) --- Public administration --- Research --- Disinformation --- Domestic national security intelligence --- Agents, Secret --- Intelligencers (Spies) --- Operatives (Spies) --- Secret agents --- Spooks (Spies) --- Spying --- Subversive activities --- Espionage --- Secret police (Secret service) --- Police --- Detectives --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- History --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- China: Army and police force--Army, navy and air force: since 1949 --- China: Army and police force--Military institutions --- China: Army and police force--Police --- Arts and Humanities
Choose an application
Communism --- Communists --- History. --- Trotsky, Leon, --- Bronshteĭn, Lev Davidovich, --- Trotski, Leo, --- Trot︠s︡kiĭ, Lev, --- Trotzki, Lee, --- Trotzky, Leon, --- Trotzky, N., --- Trotzkij, Leo, --- Trockij, Lev, --- Trocký, Leon, --- Trotsky, L. D., --- Troc̦ki, --- Tʻo-lo-ssu-chi, --- Trotskiĭ, N., --- Trotsky, Lev Davidovitch, --- Tʻo-lo-tzʻu-chi, --- Trótski, Leon, --- Bronstein, Léon, --- Trot︠s︡kiĭ, L. D. --- Trocki, Lev, --- Troţki, Lev, --- Trôtski, Lêông, --- Torotsukī, --- Torokkī, --- Torotsukii, --- Троцкий, Лев, --- טראָצקי, ליאון, --- טראָצקי, לעאָן, --- טראָצקי, לעװ --- טראצקי, לעאן --- טראצקי, לעוו --- טראצקי, לעוו, --- טראצקי, ל. --- טרוצקי, לב, --- טרוצקי, ל. --- טרוצקי, ל., --- تروتسكى، لئون --- Crux, --- A. Kros, --- L.D.T., --- Bronstejn, Lev Davidovich, --- Trotsky, Leone, --- S06/0410 --- S06/0400 --- S04/0790 --- China: Politics and government--CCP: 1921 - 1949 (Here also relations with Russian CP in that period) --- China: Politics and government--Communist Party and Communism: general --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- Троцкий, Лев, --- טראצקי, ל., --- تروتسكى، لئون,
Choose an application
By one of the leading experts on modern Chinese history and historiography, this volume argues for fresh ways of approaching the Chinese past, spotlighting Western historians, Chinese historians, and the history itself.
China --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- History. --- History --- Historiography. --- S04/0200 --- S04/0760 --- S04/0790 --- S04/0900 --- China: History--Historiography and theory of history --- China: History--Boxers --- China: History--20th century, general: China --- China: History--People's Republic: general --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ
Listing 1 - 10 of 11 | << page >> |
Sort by
|