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Long before the gold rush, missionaries travelled to the west coast, built houses of worship and spread Christianity. Much of the state's culture and history stems from these structures, built as early as 1769 before the American Revolution!).

To say California has an abundant marine life is an understatement. More than 1,100 miles of shoreline provides ample opportunity to spot whales and other water creatures. This book provides information on popular public locations and quiet locales, too.

How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name ''China'' was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s.China Imagined is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state. China''s early history describes a multilingual space, ruled by a homogeneous elite with its own minority culture--a far cry from Maoism''s national mass culture, or Xi Jinping''s state-controlled digital society today.Gregory Lee traces this complex, diverse entity''s evolution since the Opium Wars into a China made in ''our'' image. Today, it is a great power integral to the global system, whether it comes to climate change, security or inequality. Given this rapid convergence with the West, Xi''s China holds up a mirror to our own nations. Trump''s America, Putin''s Russia and post-Brexit Europe all betray echoes of ''the Chinese Dream''. If China is a product of Westernization, is it now the West''s turn to become China?

How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name ''China'' was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s.China Imagined is a thoughtful exploration of the idea of China, from the naming and mapping of its territory and peoples to the creation and rise of the modern nation-state. China''s early history describes a multilingual space, ruled by a homogeneous elite with its own minority culture--a far cry from Maoism''s national mass culture, or Xi Jinping''s state-controlled digital society today.Gregory Lee traces this complex, diverse entity''s evolution since the Opium Wars into a China made in ''our'' image. Today, it is a great power integral to the global system, whether it comes to climate change, security or inequality. Given this rapid convergence with the West, Xi''s China holds up a mirror to our own nations. Trump''s America, Putin''s Russia and post-Brexit Europe all betray echoes of ''the Chinese Dream''. If China is a product of Westernization, is it now the West''s turn to become China?