Author: Charles O. HuckerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804726245
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
China to 1850
Author: Charles O. HuckerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804726245
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
China to 1850
Author: Charles O. HuckerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804709583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
By the author of the highly acclaimed China's Imperial Past and written in the same lively style, this is a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization. It weaves together chronologically all aspects of Chinese life and culture, broadly surveying general history, socioeconomic organization, political institutions, religion and thought, and art and literature. The author explains how the Chinese empire emerged in antiquity, how it flourished and declined in successive cycles for thousands of years, and how in the end it found itself unprepared for both the domestic and the external challenges of the modern era. The result is a concise overview that is both absorbing in itself and basic to a more detailed study of China's long and complex evolution. I
The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960
Author: Bridie AndrewsPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774824344
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.
Modern China
Author: Jonathan FenbyPublisher: Ecco
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Clear and engaging, this is the definitive history of China, one of the most important political, economic, and cultural players in the modern world. 8-page color photo insert.
China’s Imperial Past
Author: Charles O. HuckerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804723534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A panoramic survey of the course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China began to give way
Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943
Author: Yong ChenPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804745505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco.
Governing China
Author: John W. DardessPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603844473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Includes timelines, maps, suggested further readings, and an index.
Daily Life for the Common People of China, 1850 to 1950
Author: Ronald Stanley SuleskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9789004361027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this book Ronald Suleski introduces a new category of source material, chaoben 抄本, for understanding the lives of China's semi-literate masses before 1950. It links the documents now flooding the antiques markets in China, with the hopes and fears of China's people at the end of the pre-modern era.
Nourish the People
Author: Pierre-Etienne WillPublisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN: 089264091X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries. Nourish the People traces the basic practices of this system, analyzes the organizational bases of its successes and failures, and examines variant practices in different regions. The volume concludes with an assessment of the granary system’s social and economic impact and historical comparison with the food supply policies of other states.
Author: Emily Hahn