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epub |eng | | Author:Talia Carner

CHAPTER 22 The pay phone was a bright orange box mounted on the side of a newspaper kiosk, where tabloids featuring scantily clad Asian women hung from lines like laundry. ...
( Category: Adoption January 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-11 | Author:Edward Rutherfurd [Rutherfurd, Edward]

* * * — The next day, dusk had fallen when I reached the street the eunuch had told me about and asked for Mr. Chen the merchant. This hutong, ...
( Category: Chinese January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-16 | Author:Lori Hile [Hile, Lori]

Slaves toiled over Shang structures for many years with little reward. Even as thousands-year-old ruins from an ancient Chinese capital, these walls still stand strong! HOW DID THE SHANG PEOPLE ...
( Category: Ancient January 14,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-17 | Author:Qicheng Wang

In Chinese wushu circles, the Shaolin Temple has long enjoyed a great reputation, where shaolinquan has been practiced by monks for generations. The movement sets of shaolin boxing, totaling 72 ...
( Category: History January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Simon Foster [Foster, Simon]

Practicalities Money Matters The Currency The currency of China is the yuan ($), also known as the kwai or renminbi (RMB), which literally translates as "people's money.” At the time ...
( Category: Asia January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew S. Erickson

Notes 1.Ritter von Niedermayer, “Nord- und Ostsee: Eine wehrpolitische und strategische Betrachtung,” in Th. Arps, R. Gadow, H. Hesse, and D. Ritter von Niedermayer, Kleine Wehrgeographie des Weltmeeres (Berlin: E. ...
( Category: Asia January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew S. Erickson

U.S. Concerns Those on the American side have raised a number of red flags regarding a move toward such cooperation. The United States is concerned about the ongoing modernization of ...
( Category: other January 12,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Swanson [Swanson, Bruce; Morrison, Vance H.; McDowell, Don H.; Tomasko, Nancy N.]

CHAPTER 6 Career Decision: Gillis Retires and Returns to China, 1914–1917 RETIREMENT AND MORE DOLLAR DIPLOMACY: 1914–1915 Despite his long absences, Gillis had always kept in close touch with his ...
( Category: other January 11,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-01 | Author:Thomas R. Martin

8.102. The king asked for Artemisia’s advice in this way, and these are the words with which she answered him: “It is hard, my king, to give the best possible ...
( Category: Historiography January 8,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:David Leffman

The Chinese era Initially, the Chinese offered goodwill and modernization. Tibet had made little headway into the twentieth century; there were few roads, no electricity, and glass windows, steel girders ...
( Category: other January 8,2023 )
pdf | | 2021-01-13 | Author:Xiangchao Luo; Qi Wang; Xuli Tang; Jixiang Xu; Mengxue Wang; Pinglin Li; Guoqiang Li

( Category: other January 6,2023 )

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