(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America's future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China's importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on literature, art, biography, popular culture, and politics to trace America's long and varied preoccupation with China. China...
Series
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2014].
Physical Desc
vii, 313 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. The introduction provides an overview of key issues in the development of visual culture in China over the last 200-300 years, while each chapter is an original scholarly study of a specific topic providing chronological coverage for that period. Topics include: Qing court ritual, peasant rebellions, folk art, modern urban...
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 204 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, Chinaʹs Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every aspect of human life, leaving large parts of the Chinese...
72) The monster that is history: history, violence, and fictional writing in twentieth-century China
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vii, 402 pages)
Language
English
Description
David Wang explores 20th century Chinese literature, delineating the many meanings of Chinese violence & its literary manifestations. He considers modern Chinese history as a complex of geopolitical, ethnic, gendered, & personal articulations of bygone and ongoing events.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Long March is Communist China's founding myth. Seventy years afterwards, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace its steps and discovered the true history behind the legend. The facts: in 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by the Nationalists. After that, truth and legend begin to blur: led by Mao Zedong, the Communists set off on a strategic retreat to the distant barren north of China,...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans--including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano--who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants eager to Westernize. The media propagated this mirage, and FDR believed that supporting Chiang Kai-shek would make China America's best friend in Asia. But Chiang was on his way out and when Mao Zedong instead came to...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the Chinese communists came into power in 1949, they promised to "turn society upside down". Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and disillusionment. The Chinese people made great efforts towards modernization and social change in this period of transition, but they also experienced traumatic setbacks. Covering the period 1949 to 1976 and then tracing the legacy of the Mao era through the 1980s, Felix...
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural history of pre-imperial China. Fourteen leading specialists on early Chinese history and archaeology cover more than one thousand years. There are two chapters for each time-period - Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, and Warring States: one on institutional history, based on both traditional and palaeographic literature, and one on material culture, based on archaeological...
Author
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph volume 95
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. The author focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult"--Provided by the publisher.
MNLINK Interlibrary Loan
Be sure you’ve looked in the “all libraries” option at the top of the page, and if you didn’t find what you need, try requesting it from another Minnesota library through MNLINK interlibrary loan (ILL). You’ll use the same barcode number and password for MNLINK as you do for the library catalog
.png)