China
epub |eng | 2016-03-10 | Author:David Shambaugh [Shambaugh, David]

Pathways to China’s Social Future All of these public goods—healthcare, pensions, education, environment, and energy—are going to be increasingly important to China’s future over the next ten to twenty years ...
( Category: Asian April 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Jianying Zha

6. After our dinner, Zhang Weiying e-mailed me a number of his articles on university reform. Unlike the author of the cool, technical, official Beida documents, Zhang in these articles ...
( Category: China April 13,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas J. Christensen

The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis ONLY ONE YEAR after acceding to the NPT, China would be put to the test by North Korea, its longtime ally. The 1993–1994 crisis ...
( Category: Asian April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ji Xianlin [Xianlin, Ji]

IN THE COWSHED (1) WE WERE ABOUT to be herded into the prison we had built with our own hands. As the novelist Hu Feng said, “There is life to ...
( Category: China April 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 1940-12-31 | Author:Emily Hahn

CHAPTER XVII Eling Gets a Taste of Public Life In may 1931 the group of dissatisfied leaders in Canton interrupted the people’s convention that was being held at Nanking with ...
( Category: China March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-25 | Author:Bill Porter

The Stone Forest of Lunan It was only 125 kilometers southeast of Kunming and was already becoming a major tourist destination. But its fame was not recent. Over 2,300 years ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Burger, Richard. [Burger, Richard.]

Homosexuality No country has as rich and unusual a history of homosexuality as China. For centuries, China was more tolerant of same-sex love than nearly any other society, rivaled perhaps ...
( Category: China March 8,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2009-02-23 | Author:Xinran

In a Zhengzhou street, 2006, interviewing the shoe-mender, who was at first too shy to be photographed; on the right of the photo are instructions on how to clean your ...
( Category: China March 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Lim, Louisa

In an essay dating from 1991, Liu Xiaobo wrote, “When we look at those ‘Tiananmen Mothers’ who so tirelessly persist in seeking justice for victims, can elite survivors like us ...
( Category: Asian March 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Anchee Min [Min, Anchee]

As a comrade with a good record, my case was dropped. I was to be sent to the Shanghai Film Studio to be trained as an actress. The headquarters held ...
( Category: China February 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fang Lizhi

12. TURN TOWARD ASTROPHYSICS My work at the brick factory came to an end less than a month after I got back from Huangshan. The authorities reassigned me to the ...
( Category: Asian February 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Harold M. Tanner

LIN BIAO’S HESITATION The feasibility of Chiang’s plan of action can be gauged by Lin Biao’s reaction: it nearly caused him to call off the attack on Jinzhou. To understand ...
( Category: China January 22,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1992-10-19 | Author:David P. Chandler [Chandler, David P.]

Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category: India & South Asia January 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Paul French

Closet investigations, secret meetings, people being bundled out of the city—it all seemed outlandish to Dennis. And despite the pact of silence in his office, the rumours and gossip inevitably ...
( Category: China January 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Nick Holdstock

Though Enver and Rebiya Kadeer became dissidents for very different reasons, both paid a heavy price for denouncing Chinese-government policy in Xinjiang. As Stuart Tanner puts it: ‘It takes some ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 4,2016 )