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The British Industrial Revolution
Chongqing Publishing House · 2026
In the early 18th century, Britain was still a second-rate European power—behind the Dutch in shipping and wealth, behind the French in industry—yet i…
The Heart of Sōseki: Natsume Sōseki's Philosophy and Literature
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025
This book examines the historical context in which Natsume Sōseki lived, the philosophical and scientific ideas that shaped him, and the process by wh…
The Hegemony of Modern Europe (Kodansha's History of the Rise and Fall of the World 07)
Beijing Daily Press · 2020
Modern Europe's Hegemony (Kodansha History of the Rise and Fall of the World 07). In the nineteenth century, Europe was the undisputed center of the w…
Bremen Cotton Exchange, 1872-1922
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Tongzhi Restoration: The Last Resistance of Chinese Conservatism (1862–1874)
Chongqing Publishing House · 2025
The T'ung-chih Restoration: The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism, 1862–1874 is a masterwork by the late Yale University professor Mary C. Wright. Th…
Wealth and Soldiers: China's Modernization and Late Qing Political Games
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025
Wealth and Arms: China's Modernization and the Late Qing Political Game
A History of Russian Cities in the Second Half of the 18th Century
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025
Drawing on a wealth of archival documents and statistical materials from the pre-October Revolution era, as well as numerous scholarly works from the …
Urban Administrators: A Study of the Modern Beijing Police
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025
From the perspective of urban administrators, this book examines the development of the police force in Beijing from the late Qing dynasty to the Repu…
A Study and Annotated Edition of Yanagiwara Sakimitsu's Diary of His Mission to Qing China
Peking University Press · 2025
The "Research" section of this book begins with a literary reading that assigns meaning to discourse, sorts through the contents of The Diary of the M…
Encountering the Late Qing
Zhengzhou University Press · 2024
Frequent communication and exchange between China and the United States during the late Qing period influenced both China's historical course of moder…
2023 Rankings of Language Universities in China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2023
2023 China University Rankings: Languages is exclusively compiled by the Soft Science Research Institute of Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, a globally r…
Modern Chinese History
民主与建设出版社 · 2021
Taking China's modernization as its thread, this book chiefly explains the efforts at self-strengthening made by modern Chinese in the face of "a tran…
Finding a Way in Britain: A Folded Brief History of Human Progress
Jiuzhou Press · 2020
Walking Through England: A Folded Brief History of Human Progress is the author's signature work in the "Reading the World" series. Wandering through …
A Study of Two-Character Words in Modern Chinese: Language Contact and the Modern Evolution of Chinese
East China Normal University Press · 2020
Research in Modern Chinese Disyllabic Words: Language Contact and the Modern Evolution of Chinese comprises two parts—research and case studies—follow…
History of Foreign Preschool Education
Peking University Press · 2025
Foreign History of Early Childhood Education seeks to be systematic and comprehensive, helping readers grasp the development of early childhood educat…
The Ideas and Practices of Russian Cooperatives from the 19th to the Early 20th Century
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2019
This book traces the spread of cooperative ideas in Russia and examines cooperative theory in this period; it paints a full picture of the Russian coo…
A History of Fifty Years Since the Opening of Japan: Women's Education
Kaikoku Gojūnen Shi Hakkōsho · 2019
In July 1853, the U.S. East India Squadron arrived in Japan, forcing the Tokugawa shogunate to move from a policy of national seclusion to one of open…
A History of Fifty Years Since the Opening of Japan: Records of Industry
Kaikoku Gojūnen Shi Hakkōsho · 2019
In July 1853, the U.S. East India Squadron arrived in Japan, forcing the Tokugawa shogunate out of its "closed country" policy and into "opening the c…
A History of Fifty Years Since the Opening of Japan: Records of Mining
Kaikoku Gojūnen Shi Hakkōsho · 2019
In July 1853, the U.S. East India Squadron arrived in Japan, forcing the Tokugawa shogunate to abandon its policy of national seclusion and open the c…
A History of Fifty Years Since the Opening of Japan: The Influence of Western Thought
Kaikoku Gojūnen Shi Hakkōsho · 2019
In July 1853, the U.S. East India Squadron arrived in Japan, ending the shogunate's policy of national seclusion and opening the country, which set it…