epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | 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, ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Ethan Gutmann

Wang Yuzhi was outside the yard, facing the door to her mother's house. In past dreams she had tried to go to that door many times. There had been a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1990-12-31 | Author:Jung Chang

Mao found the idea of peaceful progress suffocating. A restless military leader, a warrior-poet, he needed action violent action and regarded permanent human snuggle as necessary for social development. His ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Gavin Menzies

The locations of standing stones in Massachusetts. After establishing the settlements, the junks would have set sail. How desolate the crew and concubines left ashore must have felt, watching the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:Dikötter, Frank [Dikötter, Frank]

The pressure did not abate. Almost every year the regime identified a high-profile scholar as a counter-revolutionary, making him the target of vociferous denunciations by the propaganda machine. After Mao ...

mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Frank Dikotter [Dikotter, Frank]

One of the many paradoxes of the planned economy, therefore, was that everybody traded. People speculated by buying in bulk, betting on the fact that shortages and inflation would push ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Carl E. Walter & Fraser J. T. Howie [Walter, Carl E. & Howie, Fraser J. T.]

The rapid growth in the China Development Bank’s funding and lending activities coincides with the ascension of the new Party and government leadership in 2003 and the start of a ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Shambaugh, David [Shambaugh, David]

China’s Discourse on International Image, Soft Power, and Public Diplomacy The concept of soft power, usually translated in Chinese as ruan shili ,17 has percolated in Chinese academic discourse for ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Spence, Jonathan D. [Spence, Jonathan D.]

And we enter the hexagram P’i’s world of stagnation and declining powers: Evil people of the time of standstill do not further the perseverance of the superior man. The great ...

epub |eng | | Author:Valery Garrett

Fig. 247 Roundel from a set of twelve, each containing all Twelve Imperial Symbols, made for President Yuan Shikai, 1914. Seed pearls form the constellation of three stars, the moon, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Harmsen, Peter [Harmsen, Peter]

Shanghai’s famous waterfront The Bund seen from the south. The Huangpu River is to the right. The WWI memorial is in the foreground. From the American Geographical Society Library, University ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-01-01 | Author:Max Hastings [Hastings, Max]

On 27 March, another landmark was passed when the first UN troops – ROK I Corps – once more crossed the 38th Parallel. They took the town of Yangyang four ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Mara Hvistendahl [Hvistendahl, Mara]

They wedded in Nguyen’s village, and Cheng brought Nguyen back to his farm near Taiwan’s western coast, in the rolling hills outside Taichung. When they reached his driveway, she looked ...

epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 1996-07-02 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Xueqin, Cao]

Chapter XXX * Pao-ch'ai avails herself of the excuse afforded her by a fan to administer a couple of raps. While Ch'un Ling traces, in a absent frame of mind, ...

epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Gavin Menzies [Menzies, Gavin]

After establishing the settlements, the junks would have set sail. How desolate the crew and concubines left ashore must have felt, watching the great red sails unfurl and fill with ...