Modern History

141 books

Why China cover
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Why China Jin Yinan Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2020 Why China is a work of history and strategic commentary by Jin Yinan, professor at the Strategic Studies Department of the National Defense University…
1856: A Tangled Qing, Taiping, and the Powers cover
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1856: A Tangled Qing, Taiping, and the Powers 陶短房 Chemical Industry Press · 2015 1856 was a pivotal year in modern Chinese history and a highly significant one in the history of China's foreign relations. That year the civil war be…
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Biography of Zuo Zongtang 王保蘅 Harbin Publishing House · 2012 Biography of Zuo Zongtang is a volume in the second series of the "Biography Pocket Library" collection, compiled by Wang Baoheng and published by Har…
Thirty Years of Turmoil: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008 (Tenth-Anniversary Collector's Edition, Two Volumes) cover
Thirty Years of Turmoil: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008 (Tenth-Anniversary Collector's Edition, Two Volumes) Wu Xiaobo CITIC Press · 2017 Thirty Years of Turmoil is a history of Chinese enterprise by financial writer Wu Xiaobo, completed over roughly four years, recording the growth, str…
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Better to Stay a Long While in Lingnan 周松芳 Guwuxuan Publishing House · 2022 Better to Stay a Long While in Lingnan is the Guangzhou volume of the "City Chronicles of a Century" series, edited by the cultural historian Zhou Son…
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Bringing the World to China: A Modern Chinese History Starting from Macao Cheng Meibao / He Wenping / 赵立彬 / Huang Jianmin / Hu Xuelian Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2013 This book is the outcome of a sub-project of "The Historical Position, Unique Role and Contemporary Significance of Macao in Globalization and East-We…
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How to Do Oral History 定宜庄 Beijing Arts and Crafts Publishing House · 2024 How to Do Oral History is a summary of decades of oral history practice by historian Ding Yizhuang. She has long worked on Qing history and Manchu his…
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Chen Yinke's Last Twenty Years 陆键东 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2013 This book is Lu Jiandong's biography of Chen Yinke's later years, chronicling the final two decades of the historian—versed in both Chinese and Wester…
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Peking University Professors and New Youth Zhang Yaojie New Star Press · 2014 In January 1918, driven by the "four pillars" Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Qian Xuantong, and Liu Bannong, the magazine New Youth was transformed and "revived"…
Corners of the Republic: Mocking and Roasting Republicans, Chatting About Big History cover
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Corners of the Republic: Mocking and Roasting Republicans, Chatting About Big History Zhang Ming Red Flag Publishing House · 2011 Corners of the Republic is a collection of essays on Republican-era history and culture by Zhang Ming, a professor in the Department of Political Scie…
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The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan, Volume 1 Zeng Guofan Hunan Yuelu Publishing House Co., Ltd. · 2011 The Complete Works of Zeng Guofan is a large-scale documentary collection published by Yuelu Press, based on the complete works issued in the 1980s an…
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Land and Fortune: The Everyday World of Jiangnan Villagers Xiaotian China Social Sciences Press · 2020 Where is Jiangnan? The author's answer is a fourfold qualification: in time, it leans toward the Republican era, when social change and upheaval were …
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Mao: A Biography 罗斯·罗斯特里 China Renmin University Press · 2010 This book is the Chinese translation of the Mao Zedong biography by the American scholar and journalist Ross Terrill, published in the Overseas Mao St…
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China in War and Revolution, 1895–1949 沙培德 China Renmin University Press · 2016 China in War and Revolution, 1895–1949, written by the American historian Peter Zarrow and translated into Chinese by Gao Bo, was published in 2016 in…
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The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day Mark Mazower CITIC Press · 2017 The Balkans: From the End of Byzantium to the Present Day is a general regional history by Mark Mazower, a British historian and professor in the Depa…
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Selected Works of Mao Zedong (Volume I) Mao Zedong People's Publishing House · 1991 Volume I of the Selected Works of Mao Zedong opens the four-volume Selected Works. It was compiled under the auspices of the Central Committee's Edito…
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A Century of Chinese Medicine History (Two Volumes) 朱建平 Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers · 2016 A Century of Chinese Medicine History is the core achievement of the key project "Research on a Century of Chinese Medicine History" of the China Acad…
Beijing Normal University Historical Exploration Series (Series One: Modern and Contemporary Volume, 20 Volumes) cover
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Beijing Normal University Historical Exploration Series (Series One: Modern and Contemporary Volume, 20 Volumes) Guo Dajun / Gong Shuduo / 史革新 / 李帆 / 张越 / 张昭军 / 郑林 / 郭家宏 / Zhang Hongyi / Zhou Huimei Beijing Normal University Press · 2015 This set comprises the “Modern and Contemporary” portion of Series One of the Beijing Normal University Historical Exploration Series, twenty volumes …
Oriental History Review 11: The Eve of Collapse: From Jiashen to Jiawu cover
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Oriental History Review 11: The Eve of Collapse: From Jiashen to Jiawu Xu Zhiyuan Guizhou People's Publishing House · 2018 The 11th issue of Oriental History Review takes as its theme "The Eve of Collapse: From Jiashen to Jiawu." The volume is divided into five sections: F…
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Microhistory: 1957–1965 Zhu Weipo The Commercial Press International Co., Ltd. · 2013 This book is an edited edition of diaries written in the 1950s and 1960s by Zhu Weipo (born 1935 in Wei County, Hebei), a historian at Hebei Normal Un…