Book Description
The author interweaves his personal experiences in China with a discussion of the history, culture, and present situation of the Chinese people and the factors that have formed the Chinese character
Author : Dennis Bloodworth
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374122416
The author interweaves his personal experiences in China with a discussion of the history, culture, and present situation of the Chinese people and the factors that have formed the Chinese character
Author : Andrew Bolton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300211120
For centuries China has fueled the creative imagination and inspired fashion. This stunning publication explores the influence of Chinese art, film, and aesthetics on international fashion designers, including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent.
Author : Paul French
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622099823
The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with newspapers printed in the European factories of Canton in the 1820s. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the future of China and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over therevolution. This book tells the story of China's foreign journalists.
Author : Alan MacFarlane
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1847650589
This entertaining and endlessly surprising book takes us on an exploration into every aspect of Japanese society from the most public to the most intimate. A series of meticulous investigations gradually uncovers the multi-faceted nature of a country and people who are even more extraordinary than they seem. Our journey encompasses religion, ritual, martial arts, manners, eating, drinking, hot baths, geishas, family, home, singing, wrestling, dancing, performing, clans, education, aspiration, sexes, generations, race, crime, gangs, terror, war, kindness, cruelty, money, art, imperialism, emperor, countryside, city, politics, government, law and a language that varies according to whom you are speaking. Clear-sighted, persistent, affectionate, unsentimental and honest - Alan Macfarlane shows us Japan as it has never been seen before.
Author : Jicai Feng
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Tianjin (China)
ISBN : 9781838905132
Author : Richard Paul Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : 0684867818
Hunter Bell, a minister turned gambler, rescues Quaye McGandley from a blizzard and nurses her back to health in his Utah cabin.
Author : Dennis Bloodworth
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 1969
Category :
ISBN : 9780436052002
Author : Cathy Cassidy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0141357835
Alice nearly didn't go to the sleepover. Why would Savvy, queen of the school, invite someone like her? Now Alice is lying unconscious in a hospital bed. Lost in a wonderland of dreams and half-formed memories, she's surrounded by voices - the doctor, her worried friends and Luke - whose kisses the night of the fall took her by surprise . . . When the accident happened her world vanished - can Alice ever find her way back? A wonderful modern-day reimagining of Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, an unforgettable tale of friendship and love from one of the UK's best-loved authors.
Author : Dennis Bloodworth
Publisher :
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 1967
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Gregory Schopen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824825485
In these articles, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.