China
mobi |eng | | Author:John King Fairbank && Merle Goldman

15 The Second Coming of the Chinese Communist Party Problems of Life on the Land Among the origins of a revolutionary movement, the popular mentality among illiterate farmers is least ...
( Category: China March 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:May-lee Chai

Hong Kong For most of the twentieth century, until 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. Hong Kong was originally ceded to Great Britain in 1842, after ...
( Category: General March 24,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Xiao-bo , Wu [Xiao-bo , Wu]

Li Dong-sheng, Chairman of the TCL Group, together with Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, at a forum in China in 2004. For Chinese entrepreneurs to be seated on the ...
( Category: China March 15,2015 )
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 )