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Martin Yan's China
Author | : Martin Yan |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008-04-30 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9780811863964 |
Chef Martin Yan explores the Mandarin, Shanghai, Sichuan, and Cantonese cuisines of China.
Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors
Author | : Ann Paludan |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2009-03-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Spanning over 2,000 years, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors tells the history of China and its 157 rulers from the early empire of 221BC to the revolution, detailing in special features such diverse subjects as the Great Wall of China, the Silk Roads, Buddhism, the Mongols, the Ming Tombs, the Forbidden City and the Opium Wars. The book is illustrated with paintings, sculptures, woodcuts and portraits and maps. In addition, key information such as birthname and cause of death is given on each emperor, and timelines detail the major events of every reign. This is a book to read for pleasure, an essential reference volume for the home, school or library, and a source of discovery and inspiration on a culture that has enthralled people in the West throughout history.
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
Author | : Yu Hua |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-11-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400031850 |
From the acclaimed author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: here is Yu Hua’s unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover that his favorite son was actually born of a liaison between his wife and a neighbor, he suffers his greatest indignity, while his wife is publicly scorned as a prostitute. Although the poverty and betrayals of Mao’s regime have drained him, Xu Sanguan ultimately finds strength in the blood ties of his family. With rare emotional intensity, grippingly raw descriptions of place and time, and clear-eyed compassion, Yu Hua gives us a stunning tapestry of human life in the grave particulars of one man’s days.
The Chronicler of China
Author | : Diego Sola Garcia |
Publisher | : Hakluyt Society Studies in the History of Travel |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781032441900 |
This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan González de Mendoza (1545-1618). Within a few years, this book had reached thirty editions and had been translated into several languages, including English. Mendoza's chronicle shaped the late Renaissance interpretation of China across Europe. It had its origin in an embassy to emperor Wanli of China sent by Philip II, ruler of the Spanish and Portuguese overseas empires in America and Asia. Reconstructing the biography of González de Mendoza with new sources, this volume offers a systematic study of his account of late Ming China, analyzing its reception and influence both in Spain and elsewhere in Europe. The Chronicler of China is divided into five chapters, covering the Portuguese and Castilian sources that recorded the earliest contacts with China in the sixteenth century, the figure of Mendoza as an ethnographical and political writer, the building of his chronicle on China, the dialogue with his sources and, finally, the footprint of Mendoza's book in the European Republic of Letters. This book, the most complete study on the Augustinian Mendoza and his historical and ethnographical work until date, contributes to a wider understanding of the Iberian contribution to sixteenth century travel writing and the Western knowledge on China. It will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in the early modern interpretation of China in Europe.
The Chronicler of China
Author | : Diego Sola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781003370932 |
"This monograph provides an analysis and contextualization of an extraordinarily successful book, the History of the Great Kingdom of China (Rome 1585), by the Spanish Augustinian friar Juan González de Mendoza (1545-1618). Within a few years, this book had reached thirty editions and had been translated into several languages, including English. Mendoza's chronicle shaped the late Renaissance interpretation of China across Europe. It had its origin in an embassy to emperor Wanli of China sent by Philip II, ruler of the Spanish and Portuguese overseas empires in America and Asia. Reconstructing the biography of González de Mendoza with new sources, this volume offers a systematic study of his account of late Ming China, analyzing its reception and influence both in Spain and elsewhere in Europe. The Chronicler of China is divided into five chapters, covering the Portuguese and Castilian sources that recorded the earliest contacts with China in the Sixteenth century, the figure of Mendoza as an ethnographical and political writer, the building of his chronicle on China, the dialogue with his sources and, finally, the footprint of Mendoza's book in the European Republic of Letters. This book, the most complete study on the Augustinian Mendoza and his historical and ethnographical work until date, contributes to a wider understanding of the Iberian contribution to Sixteenth century travel writing and the Western knowledge on China. It will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in the early modern interpretation of China in Europe"--
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Author | : Jennifer B. Lee |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2008-03-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0446511706 |
If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born Chinese). In her search, Jennifer 8 Lee traces the history of Chinese-American experience through the lens of the food. In a compelling blend of sociology and history, Jenny Lee exposes the indentured servitude Chinese restaurants expect from illegal immigrant chefs, investigates the relationship between Jews and Chinese food, and weaves a personal narrative about her own relationship with Chinese food. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles speaks to the immigrant experience as a whole, and the way it has shaped our country.
The Anti-capitalist Chronicles
Author | : David Harvey |
Publisher | : Red Letter |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Anti-globalization movement |
ISBN | : 9780745342085 |
A new book from one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences
Out of China
Author | : Robert Bickers |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 675 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1846146194 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE The extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today. Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonising process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world: the corrupt, lurid modernity of pre-War Shanghai, the often tiny patches of 'extra-territorial' land controlled by European powers (one of which, unnoticed, had mostly toppled into a river), the entrepôts of Hong Kong and Macao, and the myriad means, through armed threats, technology and legal chicanery, by which China was kept subservient. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, a determination both to assert China's standing in the world and its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers - and Out of China explains why.