JingGuo Novel：Dream Seizure
Author : Jing Guo
Publisher : Jing Guo
Page : 2510 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Chinese Navy
Author : Institute for National Strategic Studies
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category :
ISBN : 9780160897634
Book Description
Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.
Cultural Perspectives, Geopolitics, & Energy Security of Eurasia
Author : Mahir Ibrahimov
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 9781940804316
Book Description
Chinese Military Reform in the Age of Xi Jinping: Drivers, Challenges, and Implications
Author : Joel Wuthnow
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 9780160937873
Book Description
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has embarked on its most wide-ranging and ambitious restructuring since 1949, including major changes to most of its key organizations. The restructuring reflects the desire to strengthen PLA joint operation capabilities- on land, sea, in the air, and in the space and cyber domains. The reforms could result in a more adept joint warfighting force, though the PLA will continue to face a number of key hurdles to effective joint operations, Several potential actions would indicate that the PLA is overcoming obstacles to a stronger joint operations capability. The reforms are also intended to increase Chairman Xi Jinping's control over the PLA and to reinvigorate Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organs within the military. Xi Jinping's ability to push through reforms indicates that he has more authority over the PLA than his recent predecessors. The restructuring could create new opportunities for U.S.-China military contacts.
Japan and China
Author : Matsuda Wataru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136821090
Book Description
This volume ties together the histories of Japan and China for the modern period prior to the 20th century. The chapters look at Chinese and Japanese works which were written in response to events in the other country. None of these works has received any sustained attention in the west. As a result we get a view of how Chinese and Japanese saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other. But the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction so that these texts all reveal a fascinatingly well-defined area.
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
Author : Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107010756
Book Description
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia
Author : Xing Hang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1316453847
Book Description
The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng had come to dominate trade across the China Seas. Their average annual earnings matched, and at times exceeded, those of their fiercest rivals: the Dutch East India Company. Although nominally loyal to the Ming in its doomed struggle against the Manchus, the Zheng eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on Taiwan with the potential to encompass the family's entire economic sphere of influence. Through the story of the Zheng, Xing Hang provides a fresh perspective on the economic divergence of early modern China from western Europe, its twenty-first-century resurgence, and the meaning of a Chinese identity outside China.
Chinese Religiosities
Author : Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520098641
Book Description
"Extraordinarily timely and useful. As China emerges as an economic and political world power that seems to have done away with religion, in fact it is witnessing a religious revival. The thoughtful essays in this book show both the historical conflicts between state authorities and religious movements and the contemporary encounters that are shaping China's future. I am aware of no other book that covers so much ground and can be used so well as an introduction to this important field." —Peter van der Veer, University of Utrecht
Intimate Communities
Author : Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0520300467
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.
War and Popular Culture
Author : Chang-tai Hung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0520354869
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms—especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers—to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.
