The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Paperback - Timothy Brook

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly t...

Reducere. ``A great way to learn about China's vast history ``--Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional pe...

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The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traito...

The most recent eight centuries of China's relationship with the other nations of the world taken in across this accessible 'big history'. Perspect...

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This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers...

Reducere. This edition covers the history of the Eastern Roman Empire from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD. The author gives the c...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): John W. DardessNumber of pages: 172Collection: Critical Issues in World and International HistoryPublicat...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Bret HinschIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black ...

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World is a book by the historian Professor Timothy Brook in which he explores the...

Exploring online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market, this book details the crucial and evolving role played by the Internet in pres...

First published in 1981, Chun-fang Yu's The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height unde...

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split ...

Introducing: Chinese Dynasties for KidsThe English Reading Tree Book 64A reflective look at Chinese Dynasties that will take children and parents o...

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This book analyses China's approach to tackling air pollution over the past two decades. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of C...

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Reducere. The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on t...

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Ming Dynasty, China, then keep reading..China is one of the longest settled areas of the...

Reducere. With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes. Produced exclusively for wealthy Chinese communities along the Str...

Reducere. KU HUNG-MING (1857--1928), the author of the Book "The Sprit of the Chinese People", one of his representative works written in English by him. He ...

Reducere. "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awak...

Reducere. Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chi...

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Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give the...

This book addresses the dynamics of China's grain production, consumption and trade with a particular emphasis on China's demand for feedgrain vis-...

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balan...

Reducere. Although China and Japan have had virtually uninterrupted contact going back over many centuries, the lion's share of works addressing both China a...

This book forges a link between residential CO2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study. Residential Electricity Consumption...

Reducere. In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colo...

A brilliantly fun search-and-find puzzle book for children from 6+, developed in consultation with the British Museum!Tom's not only lost in time, ...

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It's five years after the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and drove the remnants of the old Imperial...

Reducere. ``Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read.`` --Asian Review of Books on Division to Unificat...

From the slaves used to build the Great Wall to the Tiananmen Square protests, the illustrated China - A Dark History takes an expert sweep across ...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Prof. Qitao GuoIllustration(s): 8 color illus.; 5 tables; 1 mapNumber of pages: 303Publication ...

Publisher: New Falcon Publications, U.S.Author(s): Timothy OweNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 213 x 140 x 15Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fei-Ling WangWhat does the rise of China represent, and how should the international community respond? With a holistic rer...

Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty, Hardcover

DescriptionDating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from pop...

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Accessible and scholarly, this classic book considers the underlying philosophy and the aesthetics of Chinese art and poetry, the expression of the...

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The first nomadic empire and the making of China has its story told with meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, weighing in on the ci...