Author: James F. RochePublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The French at Foochow
Author: James F. RocheThe French at Foochow
Author: James F RochePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337534127
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Throne and Mandarins: China's Search for a Policy During the Sino-French Controversy, 1880-1885
Author: Lloyd E. EastmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674891159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This study of the policy-making process in China during the Sino-French controversy of 1880-1885 illuminates China's response to the West in the 19th century. The threat of French efforts to extend control into northern Vietnam was the catalyst in Chinese policy decisions; Eastman traces the process by which the problem was eventually resolved.
The Trade and Administration of China
Author: Hosea Ballou MorsePublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, and Etc
Author: Four Sisters of Hofei
Author: Annping ChinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439125872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin. Now in their late eighties and early nineties, the Chang sisters lived through a century of historic change in China. In this extraordinary work, assembled with the benefit of letter, diaries, family histories, poetry, journals, and interviews, Annping Chin shapes the story of this family into a riveting chronicle that provides uncanny insight into the old China and its transition to the new. From their father, the Chang sister inherited reason and a belief in the virtues of modern education. From their mother they learned about the human spirit and the art of finding an appropriate path. Their nurse-nannies -- uneducated widows from the Hofei countryside -- contributed their own traditional beliefs and opinions on modern ways. As the sisters grew up, one broke with tradition to marry an actor, one survived the most violent political years of Communist rule, one married one of China's greatest novelists, and one, raised separately by her devout Buddhist great-aunt, was taught to be a rigorous practitioner of China's classical arts. The Chang sisters' prolific correspondence provides a rare glimpse of private life in China during the twentieth century, as well as a chronicle of the country from prosperity to persecution, from foreign wars to Cultural Revolution. In Chin's expert prose, Four Sisters of Hofei is an intensely person story that illustrates the complex history of a complex land.
Everyday Life in the Navy
Author: Albert Smith BarkerPublisher:
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Category : Admirals
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
God in Chinatown
Author: Kenneth J. GuestPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814731538
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
An insightful look into the central role of religious community in the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to New York Chinatown yet God in Chinatown is a path breaking study of the largest contemporary wave of new immigrants to Chinatown. Since the 1980s, tens of thousands of mostly rural Chinese have migrated from Fuzhou, on China’s southeastern coast, to New York’s Chinatown. Like the Cantonese who comprised the previous wave of migrants, the Fuzhou have brought with them their religious beliefs, practices, and local deities. In recent years these immigrants have established numerous specifically Fuzhounese religious communities, ranging from Buddhist, Daoist, and Chinese popular religion to Protestant and Catholic Christianity. This ethnographic study examines the central role of these religious communities in the immigrant incorporation process in Chinatown’s highly stratified ethnic enclave, as well as the transnational networks established between religious communities in New York and China. The author’s knowledge of Chinese coupled with his extensive fieldwork in both China and New York enable him to illuminate how these networks transmit religious and social dynamics to the United States, as well as how these new American institutions influence religious and social relations in the religious revival sweeping southeastern China. God in Chinatown is the first study to bring to light religion's significant role in the Fuzhounese immigrants’ dramatic transformation of the face of New York’s Chinatown.
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