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Fall of Imperial China
Häftad, 1977
279 kr
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From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline.From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of …
Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937
Häftad, 1996
529 kr
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Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and …
Strangers at the Gate
Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861
Häftad, 1997
441 kr
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Now available again, this pioneering work examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous …
Spymaster
Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
Inbunden, 2003
749 kr
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The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of 'China's Himmler', based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of …
Great Enterprise, Volume 1
The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
Inbunden, 1986
837 kr
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In classical Chinese, 'The Great Enterprise' means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on 'The Great Enterprise' of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth …
Great Enterprise, Volume 2
The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
Inbunden, 1986
1190 kr
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In classical Chinese, 'The Great Enterprise' means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on 'The Great Enterprise' of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the …
Telling Chinese History
A Selection of Essays
Av Frederic Wakeman Jr., Lea Wakeman
Häftad, 2009
312 kr
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This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the first time in one volume, the essays offer richly textured narratives of critical historical events as well as sweeping analyses …
History and Will
Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
Häftad, 1973
614 kr
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History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought delves into the ideological, philosophical, and historical dimensions of Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary vision, focusing on the unique interplay between historical determinism and subjective will in his thought. Against the …
History and Will
Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung''s Thought
E-bok, 1973
433 kr
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed …
Great Enterprise, Volume 1
The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
E-bok, 1986
1427 kr
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In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth …
History and Will
Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
Inbunden, 1973
815 kr
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History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought delves into the ideological, philosophical, and historical dimensions of Mao Tse-tung's revolutionary vision, focusing on the unique interplay between historical determinism and subjective will in his thought. Against the …
The Shanghai Badlands
Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941
Inbunden, 1996
1677 kr
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Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but …
The Shanghai Badlands
Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941
Av Frederic Wakeman, Jr, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 2002
737 kr
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Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but …
Perspectives on Modern China
Four Anniversaries
Av Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1572 kr
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The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese …
Perspectives on Modern China
Four Anniversaries
Av Kenneth Lieberthal, Joyce Kallgren m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
519 kr
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The conveners (the editors of this book) of the September 1989 Four Anniversaries China Conference in Annapolis, asked the contributors to look back from that point in time to consider four major events in modern Chinese history in the perspective of the rapid changes that were shaping the Chinese …
Shanghai Sojourners
Av Frederic Wakeman, Jr, Jr. Wakeman, Frederic E. m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
478 kr
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China's Quest for Modernization
A Historical Perspective
Av Frederic Wakeman Jr., Xi Wang
Häftad, 1997
588 kr
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