Search results for "China"
epub |eng | 2013-08-15 | Author:Jacka, Tamara & Kipnis, Andrew & Sargeson, Sally [Jacka, Tamara]

Summary For many years, China has had 56 official ethnic groups, comprising the majority Han and 55 ethnic minorities. These categories are not natural, but the result of political relations ...
( Category: China May 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:James Bradley

Chapter 8 SECRET EXECUTIVE AIR WAR IN ASIA Japan can be defeated in China. It can be defeated by an Air Force so small that in other theaters it would ...
( Category: Asian April 27,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Mcgregor, Richard [Mcgregor, Richard]

Shanghai had been fêted in colonial times as the Pearl of the Orient, a mercantilist and mercenary trading hub where it was ‘hard to know where the government ended and ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism April 23,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-13 | Author:Henry M. Paulson

Over my years of close contact with China, I’d learned that it was impossible to separate the country’s environmental challenges from its rapid growth: China’s dazzling economic leap forward had ...
( Category: Asian April 20,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Rob Gifford

Broadband changes your life. If you’re going to bring life-changing inventions to this part of the country, it seems that some kind of basic agricultural mechanization might be a better ...
( Category: Asian April 15,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Hayton

CHAPTER 7 Ants and Elephants Diplomacy DUSK IN PHNOM PENH, Friday, 18 December 2009. Twenty members of China's Uyghur minority are resting in an apartment provided by the United Nations ...
( Category: History April 11,2015 )
epub |swe | 2014-11-12 | Author:Ellström, Lars [Ellström, Lars]

DAY 65: YINCHUAN ”Of course I am Hui!” the driver exclaims with a big smile. His nose is rather pronounced with a high and bent bridge. His face is shaped ...
( Category: Travel March 30,2015 )
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 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hedley Harrison

23 After his weekend with Susie, David was exhausted, amazed and fascinated all at the same time. He knew why he was exhausted! His amazement and fascination represented a jumble ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense March 22,2015 )
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 )
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 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1923-03-08 | Author:Mackenzie, Donald Alexander, 1873-1936

2o8 MYTHS OF CHINA AND JAPAN the Ancient Egyptian furnace resembled " the Japanese furnace for copper, tin, and lead". The Etruscan furnace also resembled the Egyptian one. " From ...
( Category: other March 9,2015 )

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