China
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:James Fallows [Fallows, James]
* Just to give a flavor, here is a sample ad I saw on a Western aviation site in 2011: Sichuan Airlines—A320 Captains (UPGRADED Package!)—Now the BEST OPPORTUNITY in China! ...
( Category:
Asian
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Spence
8 Taking Over IN THE MIDSUMMER OF 1945, no one in China guessed that the war with Japan was just about to end. Because security in Chongqing was so poor, ...
( Category:
China
March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:J. Maarten Troost
There are typhoons and there are super typhoons. Typhoon Chancu was only the second super typhoon to ever be recorded in the South China Sea. And somehow, I had managed ...
( Category:
General
March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Don Oberdorfer
In the spring of 1990, China finally activated a channel for unofficial contacts aimed at eventual diplomatic relations with Seoul. The initial discussions, resembling the meetings of go-betweens exploring a ...
( Category:
North
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-25 | Author:Martin Jacques
CHINA’S NEW TURN At the beginning of the 1990s China, with the reform era already a decade old, still existed for the most part in a state of splendid isolation, ...
( Category:
Asian
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Henry Pu Yi
Two Emperors of the same Continent wish to be almighty and deserving of respect, While seven guests, passengers on the same ship, speak of Imperial coexistence. It is not an ...
( Category:
China
March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Philip Pan
ON BOTH OCCASIONS that Chen Lihua agreed to meet with me, she gave me presents. At the end of my interviews with her, she would tell me to turn off ...
( Category:
Asian
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-01 | Author:Ha Jin
25 LOCAL AUTHORITIES, uprooted by the war, no longer existed in many areas. According to what refugees told us, guerrillas had caused a good deal of trouble in the country. ...
( Category:
China
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Tom Scocca
Within two weeks of the earthquake, Sichuan was in the Bird’s Nest, running and jumping. TV and radio were still full of disaster reports and fund-raising specials; orphans were everywhere. ...
( Category:
General
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-08 | Author:Gavin Menzies
Chinese irrigation design. The Nung Shu illustrates all manner of techniques for the vital task of regulating water supply to the rice fields—many types of bucket and chain pumps, locks ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Simon Winchester
Joseph Needham would remain in China for eighteen months more. By the time he left he had visited 296 Chinese institutes, universities, and research establishments; he had arranged for the ...
( Category:
Scientists
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-14 | Author:Martin Jacques [Jacques, Martin]
open economy, is far more multifarious - as a market for the products of the region, as an exporter and as a multifaceted investor. Figure 24. Growing importance of Chinese ...
( Category:
Asian
March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-19 | Author:Wu, Emily & Engelmann, Larry [Wu, Emily]
34 After school each day the children immediately went to work. Their principal task was collecting animal droppings for fertilizer. I learned how to do this and soon was working ...
( Category:
Communism & Socialism
March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-02 | Author:Xiaobing Li
Border Conflicts and the Cultural Revolution 0 thing about this new appointment, Wei studied international relations, diplomacy, and the new republic’s foreign policy in Beijing.17 Shortly after accepting his ...
( Category:
Ethnic Studies
March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Keay
This was followed in the 860s by a succession of army mutinies triggered by the demand for troops to oppose the Nanzhao forces in Vietnam. In 868 a battalion stationed ...
( Category:
China
March 25,2014 )
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