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The Civilization of China by Giles Herbert Allen
mobi |eng | 2012-05-16 | Author:Giles, Herbert Allen [Giles, Herbert Allen]

CHAPTER VII—PHILOSOPHY AND SPORT Chinese philosophy covers altogether too large a field to be dealt with, even in outline, on a scale suitable to this volume; only a few of ...
( Category: Children's Literature June 4,2015 )
The China Collectors by Karl E. Meyer
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Karl E. Meyer

Chapter Fourteen Threads of Heaven On January 1, 1912, the revolutionary leader and Christian convert Sun Yat-sen returned from foreign exile to be inaugurated in Nanking as the first provisional ...
( Category: History May 27,2015 )
The China Doll by Deborah Nam-Krane
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Deborah Nam-Krane

CHAPTER 18 Two hours later, Michael was just about to leave his house when there was a knock on the door. "I ought to punch you, you know that?" Richard ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense May 27,2015 )
Old Land, New Tales: Twenty Short Stories by Writers of the Shaanxi Region in China
epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Chen Zhongshi & Jia Pingwa [Zhongshi, Chen]

5 It was the evening of August 5, 1945. The dreadful alarm horn went on the whole evening. After a quick supper, all the people fled to the air-raid shelters. ...
( Category: Chinese May 25,2015 )
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Hessler, Peter (2007) Paperback
epub |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:Peter Hessler [Hessler, Peter]

POLAT NEVER MENTIONED the mugging during my visit in January of 2001. I didn’t learn about it for more than a year, when a mutual friend informed me. Afterward, I ...
( Category: Travel Writing May 23,2015 )
Contemporary China by Jacka Tamara & Kipnis Andrew & Sargeson Sally
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 )
The China Mirage by James Bradley
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 )
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Mcgregor Richard
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 )
Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson
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 )
China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power by Rob Gifford
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 )
The South China Sea by Bill Hayton
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 )
Road to Kashgar: Notes from a walk through China by Ellström Lars
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 )
China: A New History (Second Enlarged Edition) by John King Fairbank && Merle Goldman
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 )
China a to Z by May-lee Chai
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 )
China Wife by Hedley Harrison
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 )

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