HISTORY -- China. -- Asia

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Chinese civilization

Chinese civilization: a sourcebook
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Provides information on the social and cultural history of China through a collection of documents, including popular stories, descriptions of local customs, contracts, and essays that reveal how ordinary people thought, and includes translations of philosophical and religious t…

Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China

by Greenhalgh, Susan, Schmalzer, Sigrid, Cao, Cong, Han, Dongping, Brock, Darryl E., Cheng, Yinghong, Mikita, Michael A., Solomone, Stacey, Volti, Rudi, Wei, Chunjuan Nancy, Xu, Yibao

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Despite the verdict of the Cultural Revolution as a disaster for China, a number of scholars have called for re-examining socialist science under Mao's aegis. Western observers once found much to admire in Chairman Mao's mass science, with its origins in the May Fourth era. This…

Chinese and Americans

Chinese and Americans: a shared history

by Guoqi, Xu

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Xu begins with the story of Anson Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to China, and the 120 Chinese students he played a crucial role in bringing to America, inaugurating a program of Chinese international study that continues today. Such educational crosscurrents moved bot…

The emperor far away

The emperor far away: travels at the edge of China

by Eimer, David

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Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing'…