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Tells of the 55day siege of the foreign legation compound in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion
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On 20 June 1900 Baron von Ketteler the German Minister was assassinated in a Peking street By 4pm the first shots were fired into the legation quarter and the siege of foreigners by Boxers and imperial troops had begun Among the besieged were 148 women from America Europe Russia and Japan and Maud the Barons American widow What were their experiences How did they cope with their 79 children for two months without enough to eat often under fire This book tells their story of courage grief humour friendship illhealth and hard work mostly through their own accounts It identifies the women for the first time as individuals missionary teachers and doctors globe trotters and the wives of diplomats officials railway engineers merchants bankers and the owner of the Peking Hotel
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Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA NonFiction DaggerPeking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal opulence and opium dens rumors and superstition The Japanese are encircling the city and the discovery of Pamela Werners body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking Is it the work of a madman One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now surrounding the city Or perhaps the dreaded fox spirits With the suspect list growing and clues sparse two detectivesone British and one Chineserace against the clock to solve the crime before the Japanese invade and Peking as they know it is gone forever Can they find the killer in time before the Japanese invadeHistorian and China expert Paul French at last uncovers the truth behind this notorious murder and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking
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A digital copy of The Peking Gazette In Late Imperial China by Mokros Download is immediately available upon purchase
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The author recounts his experiences living in China between 1946 and 1950 and shares his observations on the Communist Revolution
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To a China racked by famine and bloody civil war in the 1930s a young Englishborn missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith He burns to save the worlds largest nation from Communism But on the Long March amidst horror and despair too great for Christianity to salve Jakob becomes entangled with Meiling a beautiful and fervent revolutionary Powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith and entrap him for life in that vast countrys tortured destiny
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Originally published in 1972 this is a detailed examination of the policy of the Peoples Republic of China towards the overseas Chinese those people of Chinese origin living outside China mostly in SouthEast Asia The overseas Chinese have often been regarded as a kind of fifth column used by the Chinese Communist Party to stir up revolution in their home countries Dr Fitzgerald convincingly demonstrates the falseness of this view and traces the development of the CCP from 1949 through to the Cultural Revolution He has succeeded in producing a valuable new and carefully researched study of Chinese policy which contains many new insights and much new material of interest to those dealing with modern Chinese politics
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One hour with this book will make you an expert on business in China Dick Gephardt MajorityMinority Leader US House of Representatives 19892002Without question the best 60 minutes you will spend on China Jonathan Anderson Emerging Markets Advisors This is the China book for everyone whether an expert or novice It can be read in an hour and gives you most of what you need to know about China business today and its increasing impact on the rest of the worldThis small speedread book is the distilled knowledge of two Peking University business professors with over 30 years of experience on the ground in China and the emerging markets According to authors Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel if we had the undivided attention of someone from Ohio Brighton or Lima for just one hour this little book is what we would sayAuthor Jonathan Woetzel is a senior partner of McKinsey amp Company He opened McKinseys Shanghai location in 1995 and has been resident since then He currently the global leader of its Cities Special Initiative and the Asiabased Director of the McKinsey Global Institute He has led many of the Firms most significant projects in China including the first major international listing of a Chinese company and the development of the economic plans for the cities of Shanghai Wuhan Shenzhen Xian and Harbin among others He cochairs the Urban China Initiative along with Tsinghua University and Columbia University to catalyze the next stage of Chinas urbanizationAuthor Jeffrey Towson is a private equity investor professor and bestselling author His area of expertise is developing economy investing and crossborder strategies primarily USChina deals in healthcare and consumer products He was previously Head of Direct Investments for Middle East North Africa and Asia Pacific for Prince Alwaleed nicknamed by Time magazine the Arabian Warren Buffett and arguably the worlds first private global investor
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Set in the fictional framework of a suspenseful threeday coup detat the book examines all the levels of society in the Peoples Republicfrom the bitterly divided leadership to the illegal underground youth movements from fiercely dedicated idealists to rebellious young people laboring in distant agricultural communes
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For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution David Kidd lived in Peking where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family I used to hope he writes that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life
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This WWII memoir is unusual in presenting the experiences of a member of the Office of Strategic Services during his years spent near Hong Kong As a secret service agent the basis of Pincks work involved developing contacts which he accomplished in part by working closely with the local Chinese The account details the relationships he developed his activities and life in China during the war Annotation c Book News Inc Portland OR booknewscom
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Science and Civilisation in China Volume V Part 6 is the first of the three parts dealing with the arts of war in ancient and medieval China Part 7on gunpowder and all aspects of explosive weaponshas already been published while Part 8on cavalry techniques and signalingis still in preparation The present volume opens with an introduction on Chinese attitudes to warfare in general Four major sections follow on the making and use of simple bows on the crossbow the standard weapon of the Han armies and its introduction to the Western world on the pregunpowder forms of artillery including the invention of the trebuchet and on the art of siege warfare in which the Mohists were particularly interested There is a good deal of material on siegewarfare available and this final section is a substantial one covering all aspects in detail
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This isnbspa quirky account of revolutionary China written by Frances Wood who went to Peking as a studentnbspfor a year in 1975
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This epic novel of a missionary and a young woman caught up in Chinas Communist revolution is an excellent read panoramic in scope Financial Times nbspTo a China racked by famine and bloody civil war in 1931 young Englishborn missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith He burns to save the worlds largest nation from Communism But on the cold unforgiving Long March amid horror and despair too great for Christianity to salve Jakob becomes entangled with Meiling a beautiful and fervent revolutionary Powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faithand entrap him for life in the vast countrys tortured destiny Once held hostage by Red Guards in Peking for more than two years author Anthony Grey crafts a portrait of China as a land of great beauty and harshness of triumph and tragedy as he traces the path of Chinas Communist party from its covert inception through purge and revolution in an epic novel that enhances the readers understanding of modern Chinanbsp
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