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The Tientsin Volunteers photographed by Nathan J. Sargent, one of the volunteers. This unit was composed primarily of businessmen. One naval officer wrote: ‘The Volunteers, also at first, rendered service, ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Chloë Starr [Starr, Chloë]

8 STATE REGULATION, CHURCH GROWTH, AND TEXTUAL PROFUSION The period since Reform and Opening Up began in 1978 has proved to be one of the most exciting, diverse, and unpredictable ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nicholas Lardy

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mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:Robert Jay Lifton

Hu began to sense that the cadres were antagonistic to him, and he feared that, should he make one false move, they might well label him a “reactionary”—a dangerous accusation ...

epub |eng | 2002-04-15 | Author:Guanzhong Luo [Luo, Guanzhong]

Vainly now for chances lost Yuan sighs; once he was great. Had he taken Hsu's advice, Ts'ao had rot set up a State. Hsu Yu stealthily left the camp and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jason Q. Ng [Ng, Jason Q.]

Why it is blocked: Central authorities imposed a media blackout on SARS reporting after the first cases in late 2002. Jiang broke the government silence in April 2003 by e-mailing ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-10 | Author:W. Somerset Maugham [Maugham, W. Somerset]

XXXV THE STRANGER IT was a comfort in that sweltering heat to get out of the city. The missionary stepped out of the launch in which he had dropped leisurely ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1997-11-21 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]

Corpses of Nanking citizens were dragged to the banks of the Yangtze and thrown into the river (Moriyasa Murase). Heaps of dead bodies wait for disposal on the wharves of ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Julia Lovell

Chapter Fourteen THE TREATY OF NANJING In April 1842, a seventy-one-year-old Manchu called Yilibu received some terrible news. His distant relative, the emperor, had revoked his sentence of banishment to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Iris Chang [Chang, Iris]

In January 1938, not one shop was officially open in Nanking except for a military store and the International Committee’s rice shop. The harbor was practically empty of ships. Most ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-23 | Author:Frank Dikötter [Dikötter, Frank]

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epub |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Burton Watson [Watson, Burton]

1 The domain is the feudal state of Lu. The family may refer either to the disciples’ own families or to the powerful families such as the Ji, in which ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

In the end, I thought, it was probably not so different from what you find in any relationship, even with those you have known for an entire lifetime: at the ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Paul French [French, Paul]

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alexander V . Pantsov & Steven I. Levine

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