The Gate to China. A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong, Paperback - Michael Sheridan

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Michael SheridanNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 33Cover type: Paper...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Michael SheridanIllustration(s): 16 col platesNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times'An authoritative history' Financial Times'Gripping and richly researched' Rana MitterA superb new history...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Taiwan, then keep reading...The history of Taiwan is astonishing. Politically, Taiwan-- was a wa...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice MeisnerIn this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverag...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Harold M. TannerIllustration(s): heavily illustratedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2010Dimen...

DescriptionChinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with "Western" biomedicine. Legitimization o...

DescriptionThis book gives an account of Hong Kong's medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigates how ...

Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers...

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This first edition of South China Sea is the successor to Stephen Davies and Elaine Morgan's Cruising Guide to Southeast Asia, Volume I (Imray). Bu...

A dive into the tumultuous protests in Hong Kong that are forming the identity of a generation

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When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes,...

Reducere. ?Iron Ox contains chapters 63-90 of the original and can be divided into four main sections. The first of these is very much concerned with the que...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Philine-Luise PulstNumber of pages: 352Collection: Deutsches Und Internationales WirtschaftPublication date: 2022Di...

"How China's challenge will be met by America is a critical question and we must answer soon." --Gordon G. Chang, Author and television pundit, May...

Reducere. The book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu's discipleship with Yang Zhenhai ( 楊真海), one of the last remaining mast...

The first substantial history of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme since 1898

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

Reducere. Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is one of the most important Chinese classics and has had great influence on Chinese thought. It is r...

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Reducere. An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter. Like Vo...

Reducere. The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on...

Reducere. Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through...

A comprehensive and timely account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, City of the Edge considers the 2019 unrest in ...

Compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formatio...

Four years of fear: escapes, resistance, internment, occupation and finally - liberation. Philip Cracknell brings his unrivalled knowledge of Hong ...

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This publication provides updates on recent developments in the bond market in Hong Kong, China and highlights developments connected to the bond m...

Reducere. Pirates, plagues, pistols, and poisons: with adventure of all varieties, this is a rollicking journey into colonial Hong Kong. A collection of hist...

A portrayal of the adult world in Peking of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. The five sequential stories in the volume are con...

Publisher: ACA Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Kerry BrownPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lec...

Explores the history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Regi...

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient ...

Description"A passionate, important study of the current affairs of a volatile region."-- Kirkus Reviews starred review The rise of Hong Kong is th...

The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...