Author: Arnolis HaymanPublisher: Merwinasia
ISBN: 9781878282965
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Foreign Missionary on the Long March
Author: Arnolis HaymanPublisher: Merwinasia
ISBN: 9781878282965
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Long March
Author: Shuyun SunPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 0385520247
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Recounts the events of China's Long March, describing the odyssey of thousands of Chinese Communists from their bases to the remote north of China and discussing stories behind the March, including ruthless purges, hunger and disease, and mistreatment ofwomen.
The Long March
Author: Sun ShuyunPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 9780307278319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In The Long March, Sun Shuyun uncovers the true story behind the mythic march of Mao's soldiers across China, exposing the famine, disease, and desertion behind the legend.In 1934, in the midst of civil war, the Communist party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced from their bases by Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist troops. Led by Mao Tse Tung, they set off on a strategic retreat to the barren north of China, thousands of miles away. As Sun Shuyun travels along the march route, her interviews with survivors and villagers show that the forces at work during the days of the revolution – poverty, sickness, and Mao's use of terror, propaganda, and ruthless purges – have shaped modern China irrevocably. Uncovering the forced recruitment, political infighting, and futile deaths behind the myth, Shuyun creates a compelling narrative of a turning point in modern Chinese history, and a fascinating journey that spans China, old and new. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Long March 1934–35
Author: Benjamin LaiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147283402X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek routed the Chinese Communists and some 80,000 men, women and children left their homes to walk with Mao Zedong into the unknown. Mao's force had to endure starvation, harsh climates, and challenging terrain whilst under constant aerial bombardment and threatened by daily skirmishes. The Long March survivors had to cross 24 rivers and 18 mountain ranges, through freezing snow and disease-ridden wilderness to reach their safe-haven of Yan'an. In military terms, the Long March was the longest continuous march in the history of warfare and it came as a terrible cost – after one year, 6,000 miles and countless battles, fewer than 4,000 of the original marchers were left. Illustrated with stunning full-colour artwork, this enthralling book tells the full story this epic display of resilience, and shows how, from the desert plateau of Yan'an, these survivors would grow the army that conquered China 14 years on, changing history forever.
The Foreign Missionary
Author: The Guiding Hand
Author: Rudolf Alfred BosshardtPublisher:
ISBN: 9789971972981
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Journey to the East
Author: Liam Matthew BROCKEYPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674028813
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.
Handbook of Christianity in China
Author: Gary TiedemannPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900419018X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
This second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 onwards up to the present, divided into three main periods, and dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects. Also in this volume the reader will be guided to and through the Chinese and Western primary and secondary sources by carefully selected major scholars in the field. Produced with financial support from the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim.
THE HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY RECORD OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, FOR 1880.
Author: Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description