Author: Philip Wu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780761839729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Philip Fei Wu was born in the outskirts of Shanghai, the "Venice of the East," where he lived the first 35 years of his life and endured the Chinese political turbulence. From his teens, all throughout early adulthood, the author experienced the worst of human cruelty and madness in China during the government transition and "cultural revolution." My Forty Years in East China and West America is Philip Wu's story in English, rewritten from the original Chinese version.
My Forty Years in East China and West America
Author: Philip Wu
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780761839729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Philip Fei Wu was born in the outskirts of Shanghai, the "Venice of the East," where he lived the first 35 years of his life and endured the Chinese political turbulence. From his teens, all throughout early adulthood, the author experienced the worst of human cruelty and madness in China during the government transition and "cultural revolution." My Forty Years in East China and West America is Philip Wu's story in English, rewritten from the original Chinese version.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780761839729
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Philip Fei Wu was born in the outskirts of Shanghai, the "Venice of the East," where he lived the first 35 years of his life and endured the Chinese political turbulence. From his teens, all throughout early adulthood, the author experienced the worst of human cruelty and madness in China during the government transition and "cultural revolution." My Forty Years in East China and West America is Philip Wu's story in English, rewritten from the original Chinese version.
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
Author: John Pomfret
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429944129
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429944129
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.
My Forty Years as a Diplomat
Author:
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434970612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434970612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A Chinese Appeal to Christendom Concerning Christian Mission
Author: Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
A Path Twice Traveled
Author: Paul A. Cohen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one’s career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction, which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohen’s mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoir’s final chapter, appropriately titled “Then and Now: The Two Histories.”
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176409
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West’s preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one’s career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction, which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohen’s mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoir’s final chapter, appropriately titled “Then and Now: The Two Histories.”
Land Without Ghosts
Author: R. David Arkush
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520084247
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"At last we have a wonderful book which makes us privy to these Chinese images of the West and lets us see how they were formed and how they changed over the last century and a half."—Orville Schell, author of Discos and Democracy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520084247
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"At last we have a wonderful book which makes us privy to these Chinese images of the West and lets us see how they were formed and how they changed over the last century and a half."—Orville Schell, author of Discos and Democracy
Chinese Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy Through U.S. Educational Institutions, Multilateral Organizations and Corporate America
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: The Far East: China
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1370
Book Description
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 96, no. 6)
Author:
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description