Poems For Our Century From the Migrants & Exiles of the Tang Dynasty
Chinese poetry is unique in world literature in that it was written for the best part of 3,000 years by exiles, and Chinese history can be read as a matter of course in the words of poets.
In this collection from the Tang Dynasty are poems of war and peace, flight and refuge but above all they are plain-spoken, everyday poems;
• Insights into the people, culture and traditions
• Advice on adapting to the local environment
• Essential information on the country’s history, traditions, beliefs, etiquette, cuisine and leisure activities
• Suggestions on how to get the most out of the travel experience
• Hints on how to learn the language and do business
• Useful list of ......
Commerce, Migration, and Colonization on the Qing Frontier
This book analyzes the social, economic, and political impact of Han Chinese migration into the borderlands that became Inner Mongolia during the Qing period. Linking local history to global movements, Yi Wang traces Inner Mongolia's integration into what would become the nation-state of China and from there into a global capitalist economy.
It has been 20 years since Kishore Mahbubani first took the bold step of asking the politically incorrect question, "Can Asians think?" His collection of essays has stood the test of time, continuing to resonate with both Asian and Western minds alike over two decades and four editions of the book.
The MeatMen are behind the highly popular Facebook page and YouTube channel, MeatMen Cooking Channel. Their Facebook page has more than 250,000 followers and their YouTube channel 79,000 subscribers and counting. The MeatMen have a food and travel show with TLC (Discovery Networks) called Wok with Us. The recipes are extensively researched, tested ......
During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India.
The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to date. Immersing himself in communities around the globe, Xiaodong seeks to present people who often sit on the fringes of society who find themselves marginalised ......
Street food is the fuel of daily life in China, just as it has been for generations. In every Chinese city, adventurous travellers seeking a deeper understanding of authentic Chinese culture can find unique local street foods unavailable anywhere else in the world. If you want to sample these treasures but don't know where to start, look no ......
Natasha Bennett introduces the fascinating world of Chinese arms and armour in the Royal Armouries' collection. Offering a colourful insight into one of the world's earliest civilisations, she chronicles the development of personal weapons and armour from the late Bronze Age to the early twentieth century.
ISBN-13: 9780948092893
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
This balanced history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants traces the development of this ethnic group from imperial China to the present and its fraught relationship with the Chinese state. Morris Rossabi focuses especially on CCP policies, both progressive and repressive, toward the Uyghurs since 1949.
An Illustrated History of Hong Kong's Top District
The Peak is Hong Kong's top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the bustling business centre of 19th-century Asia? The British wanted relief from summer heat and the Peak was the obvious place to escape it. When the Governor adopted Mountain Lodge as a summer getaway, ......
Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes reveals China's history and culture through the eyes of ordinary men and women using an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates history, anthropology, folk studies, and literature to examine the sociocultural and symbolic worlds of gangsters, sorcerers, and prostitutes in late imperial and modern China.
This book is the memoir of Tsewang Yishey Pemba, as novelist and the first Western-trained medical doctor in Tibet, and whose memories of the Tibet of the 1930s and 1940s include festivals, travel, the author's formative years in Tibet and India, and the daily lives of Tibetans.
This study examines the relationship between the People's Republic of China and the people of East Turkistan. The author accuses the Chinese state of settler colonialism and argues for East Turkistan's sovereignty on the basis of international law and the Genocide Convention.
Though a US-China conflict is far from inevitable, major tensions are building in the Asia-Pacific region. Goldstein's book lays bare both US and Chinese perceptions of where their interests clash and offers one hundred policy proposals to inaugurate a genuine debate regarding cooperative solutions to the most vexing problems in US-China ......
Two main types of residential architecture have dominated the architecture in the Fujian region in China. Known as tulou and weiwu, both have been developed in parallel for communal living, but are distinct from each other in terms of setting, layout, form and size. A good deal is known about tulou which has been inscribed as UNESCO ......
Are the Chinese really so inscrutable? China Hand Fred Schneiter delves into the lighter side of Chinese psychology, and in doing so demystifies one of the toughest markets in the world. With an unfailing sense of humour, he offers insights for Sinophiles, Sinophobes and everyone in between. On the Hong Kong bestsellers list for twelve months, ......
