China's Trial by Fire
Author | : Donald A. Jordan |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472111657 |
A vivid account of Japan's war on China in 1932
Download Chinas Trial By Fire full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Chinas Trial By Fire ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Donald A. Jordan |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472111657 |
A vivid account of Japan's war on China in 1932
Author | : Peter Dahlin |
Publisher | : Safeguard Defenders |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780999370629 |
There is something terribly wrong with CCTV, China
Author | : Norah McClintock |
Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459809378 |
Riley Donovan is the new kid in a small town where her aunt (and guardian) has just started a job as a detective on the town’s police force. Riley is home alone when a neighbor’s barn catches on fire; when she realizes that he is trapped in the barn, she calls 9-1-1 and then tries to save him. But instead of being hailed as a hero, Riley finds herself the target of vandalism and violence. Never one to back away from a confrontation, Riley discovers that her neighbor, Mr. Goran is an immigrant from Kurdistan who is hated by most of the townspeople. When he is accused of arson, Riley is positive he’s innocent. In her determination to get to the truth, she makes some powerful enemies, uncovers the depth of the town’s prejudice and corruption, and figures out who is targeting Mr. Goran—and why.
Author | : Harrison Evans Salisbury |
Publisher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780316809030 |
Considering the global implications of the disaster, Salisbury describes the devastation and ecological and environmental consequences of the 1987 fire in Manchuria that destroyed an area the size of England
Author | : Paul French |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1101580380 |
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Author | : Robert Spalding |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0593331052 |
In its fight for global dominance, Communist China has thrown out the old rules of war. China expert General Robert Spalding walks us through their new playbook. Many Americans are finally waking up to the alarming reality of China's stealth war on the United States and puzzling over how to push back against its insidious infiltration. What few realize is that we have one real advantage in this war: the Chinese Communist Party strategy for total war has been written out in Unrestricted Warfare, the Chinese book, well known there, that has become their new Art of War. In War Without Rules, retired Air Force Brigadier General Rob Spalding takes Americans inside Unrestricted Warfare. He walks readers through the principles of this book, revealing the Chinese belief that there is no sector of life outside the realm of war. He shows how the CCP itself has promised to use corporate espionage, global pandemics, and trade violations to achieve dominance. Most importantly, he provides insight into how, once Americans are aware of the tactics, we can fight back against CCP’s creeping influence. More than a vital read for those interested in China, War Without Rules is essential reading for anyone—from policymakers and diplomats to businessmen and investors—finally waking up to the stealth war. Knowledge is power, and it’s time to arm yourself.
Author | : Yuen Yuen Ang |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501706403 |
WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE "BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS WINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis and implementation of socio-economic development and should have a major impact across many social sciences." ― Zelizer Best Book in Economic Sociology Prize Committee Acclaimed as "game changing" and "field shifting," How China Escaped the Poverty Trap advances a new paradigm in the political economy of development and sheds new light on China's rise. How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? Political economists have traditionally offered three answers: "stimulate growth first," "build good institutions first," or "some fortunate nations inherited good institutions that led to growth." Yuen Yuen Ang rejects all three schools of thought and their underlying assumptions: linear causation, a mechanistic worldview, and historical determinism. Instead, she launches a new paradigm grounded in complex adaptive systems, which embraces the reality of interdependence and humanity's capacity to innovate. Combining this original lens with more than 400 interviews with Chinese bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, Ang systematically reenacts the complex process that turned China from a communist backwater into a global juggernaut in just 35 years. Contrary to popular misconceptions, she shows that what drove China's great transformation was not centralized authoritarian control, but "directed improvisation"—top-down directions from Beijing paired with bottom-up improvisation among local officials. Her analysis reveals two broad lessons on development. First, transformative change requires an adaptive governing system that empowers ground-level actors to create new solutions for evolving problems. Second, the first step out of the poverty trap is to "use what you have"—harnessing existing resources to kick-start new markets, even if that means defying first-world norms. Bold and meticulously researched, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap opens up a whole new avenue of thinking for scholars, practitioners, and anyone seeking to build adaptive systems.
Author | : Alfred Emile Cornebise |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 078649770X |
A study of U.S.-Chinese relations involving the U.S. Army, this work focuses at the personnel level on the Army's service in China. While studies have been published of the U.S. Marines' and U.S. Navy's involvement in China, little attention has been given the Army's missions in this theater. Operations in China were a key part of the history and traditions of the 9th, 14th, 15th and 31st Regiments, whose coats of arms still feature dragons as symbols of their service there. Many who served in the 15th in China went on to impressive careers as general officers, prompting one soldier to ask "what other infantry regiment of those days can boast of such an alumni list?" Also covered is the 31st Regiments' involvement in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the prelude of the coming of World War II in Asia.
Author | : Shuge Wei |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9888390619 |
News under Fire: China’s Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928–1941 is the first comprehensive study of China’s efforts to establish an effective international propaganda system during the Sino-Japanese crisis. It explores how the weak Nationalist government managed to use its limited resources to compete with Japan in the international press. By retrieving the long neglected history of English-language papers published in the treaty ports, Shuge Wei reveals a multilayered and often chaotic English-language media environment in China, and demonstrates its vital importance in defending China’s sovereignty. Chinese bilingual elites played an important role in linking the party-led propaganda system with the treaty-port press. Yet the development of propaganda institution did not foster the realization of individual ideals. As the Sino-Japanese crisis deepened, the war machine absorbed treaty-port journalists into the militarized propaganda system and dashed their hopes of maintaining a liberal information order. “A superbly researched and well-nuanced account of an overlooked topic: nationalist China’s propaganda system and the multiple ways in which it intersected with the treaty-port foreign-language press of the time. Combining a wealth of archival and newspaper sources, it is destined to be on the ‘must read’ list of all who are interested in state propaganda and news dissemination in the Republican period.” —Julia C. Strauss, professor of Chinese politics, SOAS, University of London “An absorbing and well-sourced study of KMT propaganda efforts to convince the United States to side with China rather than Japan in WWII. The study shows how the KMT, facing a massive power asymmetry compared to its Japanese opponent, managed to effectively use the soft power of foreign propaganda.” —Rudolf G. Wagner, senior professor of Chinese studies, Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe, Heidelberg University, Germany
Author | : JAVIER CLEMENTE ENGONGA AVOMO |
Publisher | : DelRei |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Life gives us all difficult moments, tests to overcome as obstacles on the way to an objective destination. These tests, if this is how they are perceived, are the Trial by Fire. In reality it is a permanent trial by fire that lasts from the first day to the last of our existence. That is why there is no need to fight against life, because it is as exhausting as swimming against the current. In order to know how to live, we must assume all possibilities as surmountable trials by fire, and not as impossible missions and simply give up. It is very easy to give up in the face of adversity, especially when you live in an environment where true excellence is unknown and all mediocrity is accepted with honor. Being excellent is not easy, being the best is not a myth either, because in reality the only adversary to fight is nothing more than oneself. The others are only observers, and if we act well with them it is easy to expect that they will also do even better things with us, but reality is relative, and that is why these lines and this book is dedicated to those people who, even in the worst difficulties, have always been known and have come out winners. This book is for you, who read and write these lines. Thank you for reading these lines. Javier Clemente Engonga, 17.07.2021