Chinese book library: Chinese novels, Chinese poetry, Chinese essays, Chinese history, Chinese art. The “China Book Library” category on the China Underground website serves as a comprehensive archive ...
Kublai Khan and the Making of China (Bloomsbury, 2024) Author: Jack Weatherford Reviewed by: Addleton, president of Forman Christian College and former U.S. Ambassador […] ...
A family’s set of dishes has passed through five generations of women, but will the teacups, plates and bowls make it to a ...
The poignant debut novel takes the reader on a journey that spans from Shanghai in 1938 to 2008-era Los Angeles.
Lianhuanhua (‘serial picture stories’), read by children and adults alike, are palm-sized books with two or three lines of text and one image per page. They emerged in China’s Republican period ...
Prospects for a Cross-Strait Invasion,” distills key findings from the book, covering history and doctrine, China’s joint amphibious force, and its supporting enablers. In what is also a ...
"Korea in Rare Photographs" is filled with photos documenting Korea's painful history during the Japanese colonial era, as ...
Three books stand out for me this year ... Jonathan Chatwin’s The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future (Bloomsbury) is an elegant and evocative history of Deng’s month-long ...
Britain defeats China in the first Opium War, opening China to Western powers for trade, Christian missions, and legalizin ...
In the early 20th century, the pavilion's books, boxes containing the books, and bookshelves were taken to Beijing, and are ...
Two incisive studies of the Chinese president reveal a complex figure who is all too aware of the capricious nature of power ...