The Long March 1934-35: The Rise of Mao and the Beginning of Modern China, Paperback - Benjamin Lai

DescriptionThis study tells the epic story of how a routed group of Chinese Communists marched tens of thousands of miles with Mao on a journey tha...

Forging Leninism in China re-examines the Chinese revolution by focusing on the transformation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1927 and 1932...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frank DikoetterNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 40Cover type: Hardb...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--a...

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth.The Penguin History of Modern China shows how ...

Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to under...

Reducere. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On ...

China's rapid rise is doubtless the most significant economic and geopolitical event in the 21st century. What has led to its rise? What does it me...

Reducere. DescriptionThe era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history. But in this book, Fra...

This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume captu...

Reducere. DescriptionThe last 50 years have seen the popularity of Chinese medicine grow exponentially. In China, Korea, Japan and Singapore, Chinese medicin...

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese art...

Reducere. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Paperback

DescriptionFully illustrated with stunning artwork, Chinese Ironclad Battleship vs Japanese Protected Cruiser is the engrossing story of the Yalu R...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Benjamin M. FriedmanIllustration(s): 30 photographs in textNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2022Dime...

Reducere. The economic theories that dominated the field during the 20th century have failed us and empowered government to believe they can manipulate the b...

Li reveals how the Chinese Communist Party runs the Chinese state like an organisation that can act as swiftly and flexibly as a firm. The Rise of ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, variste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggest...

Reducere. As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924--1967) became a nationally known sportscas...

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

Bringing the iconic plays of Stan Lai to an English-language readershipPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Stan LaiIllustration(s...

Reducere. This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, takes readers back to the roots of historical archaeology. B...

A biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg that intends to reconstruct the life of this extraordinary man - a man who remained loyal to his Ukrainian drea...

The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standard...

Reducere. "Slaughter vividly conveys the reality of combat during World War II in his book with sweeping passages that literally place his reader on the batt...

Reducere. The Puranas, as suggested by their name, describe events deep in the earth's past. Finding a complete cosmology in the ancient Puranic texts that i...

For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an Office...

A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to e...

He tamed the market's bulls and bears. "He was the best friend I have ever had in every way."--J. P. MorganIt was the height of the Gilded Age and ...

Reducere. From their decades of combined teaching experience, Benjamin L. Merkle and Robert L. Plummer have produced an ideal resource for novice Greek stude...

Reducere. Two decades after the publication of The Black Book of Communism, nearly everyone is or at least should be, aware of the immense evil produced by t...

In a polemic against the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Benjamin Schreier critically analyzes a series of professionally p...

Reducere. A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first mille...

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that...

A kid from Boston yearns to fly. In December, 1941, he graduates from Army Air Corps Flight school and is assigned to a fighter squadron. But fate ...

This book explores the clash between antitrust, a body of law designed to address market failures in Western democracies, and China, an economic su...

Reducere. For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope t...

The Shah's gradual transition to dictatorship after the 1953 coup in Iran, and its far-reaching consequencesPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(...

China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist...