Best of
China
1979
The Discovery of Genesis
C.H. Kang - 1979
Analysis of the Chinese language suggests the ancient Chinese knew of the God of Abraham.
The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity
Guy S. Alitto - 1979
Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China
Michael Sullivan - 1979
China 1890-1938: From the Warlords to World War: 003 (A History in Documentary Photographs)
Han Suyin - 1979
Crime and Punishment in Ancient China: Tang-Yin-Pi-Shih
Robert van Gulik - 1979
Fascinating glimpse into the world of traditional Chinese judicial systems through this record of 144 criminal and court cases, judged in courts of ancient China; entertaining and informative.
The Fall of Shanghai
Noel Barber - 1979
But the crushing strictness that followed was jolting. 'On May 24,' wrote one diarist, 'you could bribe everyone in Shanghai. On May 26 you could bribe no one - for perhaps the first time in a hundred years.
From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China
Jonathan D. Spence - 1979
But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644, it has been difficult to form a clear picture of the transition. The nine essays in this book will contribute significantly toward understanding the complexity of change and continuity over the span of time leading up to and resulting from the tumult of the mid-1600s.
For Mao: Essays in Historical Materialism
Philip Corrigan - 1979
Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy, 206 B.C.-A.D. 220 (Han Dynasty, China ; V. 2)
Cho-yun Hsu - 1979