China
mobi |eng | 2010-09-05 | Author:Hsiao-ting Lin
* * * 6 Reconfiguring ethnic frontier territoriality The summit, rising prestige, and grand planning In the fall of 1943, when Chiang Kai-shek was invited to meet with Allied leaders ...
( Category:
Cultural
March 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Watts [Watts, Jonathan]
It was not far from heaven to hell in Xinjiang. At the foot of the Tian Mountains was the Turpan Depression, the lowest and hottest place in China. In classical ...
( Category:
Asian
March 12,2015 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-10-22 | Author:John Man [Man, John]
The Great Raid on Russia and its crucial encounter on the Kalka river had extraordinary consequences. As the Mongols rode back to rejoin Genghis on the Irtish river, they brought ...
( Category:
China
March 11,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Osnos, Evan [Osnos, Evan]
FOURTEEN THE GERM IN THE HENHOUSE The people in sunglasses did not immediately attract attention. When the first portraits appeared on Chinese social media sites in the fall of 2011, ...
( Category:
China
March 10,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Goldstein have rightly put it, the revolution was "not the predetermined working out of structural factors or the inevitable Big Boom emanating from the mixture of revolutionary preconditions and revolutionary ...
( Category:
China
March 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:Mike Davis
Figure 8.1 Teleconnection as Selective Interaction In these entangled modes, ENSO impulses interact on longer timescales with regional climate periodicities, which, depending on phase, can either amplify or decrease the ...
( Category:
History
March 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-04 | Author:James McGregor
The Little Red Book of Business Be tough. The Chinese respect it. Never “tremble and obey” if doing so will damage or destroy your business in China. If engaged in ...
( Category:
Global
March 5,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Menzies, Gavin; Hudson, Ian
THE SUBSTANCE OF LIU GANG’S MAP Liu Gang’s map provides remarkable information about Zheng He’s voyages. A full rendering of every place-name and the nomenclature of mountains, rivers, bays, inlets, ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Coase, Ronald & Wang, Ning [Wang, Ning]
6 From Capitalism to Capitalisms In the concluding speech at the close of the 2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Market Transformation on July 18th, 2008, Ronald Coase pronounced that “the ...
( Category:
Economic History
March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Pillsbury, Michael [Pillsbury, Michael]
9 A CHINA WORLD ORDER IN 2049 “The guest becomes the owner.” —The Thirty-Six Stratagems For more than two decades, the United States has been the world’s only superpower. America’s ...
( Category:
Diplomacy
February 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-03 | Author:Richard Bernstein [Bernstein, Richard]
The person on the receiving end of these communications was the head of the China desk in the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, John Carter Vincent, a distinguished-looking forty-five-year-old Kansan ...
( Category:
Asian
January 29,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Samuel Hawley
CHAPTER 18 Seoul Retaken Spring—arguably the most beautiful season in Korea. After a harsh winter of ice and snow and cold north winds, the warming weather and first green shoots ...
( Category:
China
January 29,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Norman, Alexander [Norman, Alexander]
Accordingly, Lobsang Gyatso instructed Sonam Rabten to compose a letter to Gushri Khan authorizing an attack on the king of Beri, but requesting that his troops return to Mongolia directly ...
( Category:
Chinese
January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-10 | Author:Thomas Laird
I came back to the Dalai Lama armed with my research. As I briefly narrated, with a sense of indignation and outrage, the game Russia and Britain had played, the ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Jacob P. Dalton
In many ways, the Dalai Lama’s language here follows the well-worn tracks of the language of ritual violence and of past Tibetan prophets warning of threats from the borderlands. Pointing ...
( Category:
Buddhism
January 22,2015 )
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