China
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Mitter, Rana [Mitter, Rana]

PART IV THE POISONED ALLIANCE Chapter 13 Destination Burma SINCE THAT TERRIBLE DAY in December 1941, they had been captives. Spring had come to Guangdong province, but the new season ...
( Category: China January 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A

THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category: Jewish December 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Allen, Barry [Allen, Barry]

I differentiated sport and dance in terms of expressive intentionality. Dance movements are endotelic and look it. Sport movements are competitive, contesting, and look it. Martial arts movements are weapons, ...
( Category: Taoism December 26,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1967-03-15 | Author:Hinton, William [Hinton, William]

As part of his self-criticism, Yu-hsing made a surprising admission. "Halfway to the field I got hungry. I ate one bun. I delivered 35 instead of 36. I will pay ...
( Category: Asian December 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Harrison Salisbury [Harrison E. Salisbury]

In these conditions to talk of mounting a counteroffensive was impossible. The best Voroshilov had been able to do was to carry out local counterattacks. Voroshilov’s presentation was accurate. It ...
( Category: Asian December 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-11 | Author:Delia Davin

Chapter 5 The Great Leap Forward and its aftershocks Mao’s impatience with the pace of economic growth in China was increased by his second and final visit to the Soviet ...
( Category: Leadership December 12,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Hinsch, Bret [Hinsch, Bret]

The Song author Li Qingzhao (1081–ca. 1141), one of the most erudite women of her age, captures the increasingly cultured atmosphere of tea drinking with a lively vignette.[27] Although famous ...
( Category: China December 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:Hinsch, Bret

The Song author Li Qingzhao (1081–ca. 1141), one of the most erudite women of her age, captures the increasingly cultured atmosphere of tea drinking with a lively vignette.[27] Although famous ...
( Category: China December 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:John Rabe [Rabe, John]

15 JANUARY As is obvious from the letters that arrived for me yesterday from Shanghai via the German embassy and to which on 14 January I replied to the management ...
( Category: Germany December 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Martin Jacques [Jacques, Martin]

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 November 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Eunsun Kim

12 Through the windows, I watched as the Chinese countryside passed before my eyes. On the seat of the taxi, Mom was worrying herself sick. We didn’t have even one ...
( Category: North November 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Gregory Crouch [Crouch, Gregory]

The U.S. government listening post in Ventura, California, received a radiogram for Katharine Dunlop Bond on Saturday, December 13, 1941, the first she’d heard from her husband since Pearl Harbor. ...
( Category: History November 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:Michael McRae [McRae, Michael]

BREASHEARS AND WILTSIE had to find transportation to drive to the Po Tsangpo. They arrived at the trailhead village after Fisher and his clients, who had already hired most of ...
( Category: China November 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Chang, Jung [Chang, Jung]

20 A Plot to Kill Cixi (September 1898) WILD FOX KANG had been hatching plots to kill Cixi for some time, knowing that she stood between him and supreme power. ...
( Category: China September 16,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

The Military Pronouncements states: "When the officials are many but the people few; there is no distinction between the honored and lowly; the strong and weak insult each other; and ...
( Category: China August 29,2015 )