Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China: Family, State, and Native Place by Cong Ellen ZhangRequirements: .PDF reader, 3.7 MBOverview: Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of […]
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise by Scott Rozelle, Natalie HellRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 1.7 MBOverview: As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in […]
In the Shadow of the Chinatis : A History of Pinto Canyon in the Big Bend by David W. KellerRequirements: .PDF reader, 27 MBOverview: Winner, 2020 Al Lowman Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas County or Local History There is a deep and abiding connection between humans and the land in Pinto Canyon—a remote […]
China and India in Central Asia: A New "Great Game"? by Marlène Laruelle, Jean-François Huchet, Sébastien Peyrouse, Bayram BalcıRequirements: .PDF reader, 3.8 MbOverview: China and India growing interests in Central Asia disrupt the traditional Russian-U.S. “Great Game” at the heart of the old continent. Though for the moment India is unable to equally compete against […]
Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question by Bruce A. EllemanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 19 MBOverview: Drawing on sources in Japanese, Chinese, and American archives and libraries, this book reassesses another facet of Woodrow Wilson’s agenda at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. Breaking with accepted scholarly […]