epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Schell, Orville & Delury, John [Schell, Orville]

A Calm Between Storms Forced to the sidelines, with the sour taste of failure and tacit rebuke in his mouth, Mao now turned his attention from domestic affairs to China’s ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Patrick Radden Keefe [Keefe, Radden Patrick]

During his time in Hong Kong, Ah Kay had developed something of a routine. He spent the days indoors, sleeping, and emerged only in the early evening, surrounded by a ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Barbara Tuchman [Tuchman, Barbara]

Another remarkable man, Dr. Gordon Seagrave, appeared at Maymyo at this time to offer his services. An American Baptist missionary surgeon of long experience in Burma, he was unorthodox, uncompromising, ...

epub, azw3, pdf |rus | 2011-11-07 | Author:Yu Hua [Hua, Yu]

In the 1990s, as the tide of economic development swept over China, a similar situation began to reappear. In the fields surrounding one large steel plant in eastern China, backyard ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Paul Theroux

The Chinese flock to Kunming to gape at the colorful natives—twenty-three separate minorities, all gaily dressed in handsomely stitched skirts and quilted jackets, boots and headdresses. They come from the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Xinran

8 Across Mountain and Grassland: a Witness to the Long March Mr and Mrs Changzheng, in PLA uniform, in their wedding photo, 1947. Renewal of their wedding vows, 1997. MR ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

EARLY CHINESE BOWS Despite its primal importance in Chinese warfare, there has been a surprising dearth of articles on the bow and arrow. However, from the few attempts,40 numerous archaeological ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Henry Kissinger

KISSINGER: Thank you and thank you for the reception we have received as always. ZHOU: It is what you deserve. And once the course has been set, as in 1971, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Minxin Pei

Crime and Punishment The breakdown of the monitoring system is accompanied by an increasingly dysfunctional system of punishing corrupt officials—despite the frequent use of the death penalty against high-profile offenders. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rana Mitter

Chapter 4 Is Chinese society modern? Zou Taofen, one of the best-known journalists in China in the 1920s, wrote an essay under the title of ‘Equality’ in 1927: Not every ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:David Wise

Chapter 15 ROYAL TOURIST IN JULY 1997 Robin Lee was annoyed when an outlet in the kitchen of her house in Manhattan Beach, California, suddenly stopped working. She unscrewed the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Stephan Talty

After a few hours of exchanging gunfire with the Chinese at the transport station, Soepa realized the PLA was winning. “Their bullets were finding their mark and many were killed ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Vogel, Ezra F. [Vogel, Ezra F.]

In early 1980, Wan Li, seeking Hu Yaobang's support, told Hu that it wouldn't work to have people at lower levels surreptitiously practicing contracting down to the household: instead they ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2009-07-21 | Author:Patrick Radden Keefe

During his time in Hong Kong, Ah Kay had developed something of a routine. He spent the days indoors, sleeping, and emerged only in the early evening, surrounded by a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-27 | Author:Li Cunxin

In the second half of that year the head of the Communist Youth Party at our academy asked me to apply for membership. This was a privilege. Only the most ...