Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang Kai-Shek's regime, and an employee of Shell Oil, Nien Cheng enjoyed comforts that few of her compatriots could afford. When she refused to confess that any of this made her an enemy of the state, she was placed in solitary confinement, where she would remain for more than six years. "Life and Death in Shanghai" is the powerful story of Nien Cheng's imprisonment, of the deprivation she endured, of her heroic resistance, and of her quest for justice when she was released. It is the story, too, of a country torn apart by the savage fight for power Mao Tse-tung launched in his campaign to topple party moderates. An incisive, rare personal account of a terrifying chapter in twentieth-century history, "Life and Death in Shanghai" is also an astounding portrait of one woman's courage.

    

    

    He writes of bureaucrats, students and Cultural Revolution survivors, stripping none of their complexity and humanity. He's gentle with their idiocies, saving his sharpest barbs for himself (it's his pants that split from zipper to waist whilst demonstrating martial arts in Canton). Though dribs of history and drabs of classical lore seep through, this is mostly a personal tale, noted by the Los Angeles Times for "the charmingly unpretentious manner in which it penetrates a China inaccessible to other foreigners."

    

    Remembrances takes up the strongest claims we can make for literature: that it can sustain life in the present and the life of the past. The past has always played a particularly powerful role in Chinese civilization. Both private memories and cultural artifacts were an inescapable part of the present, offering models for present behavior and recalling what had been lost.Owen shows how the fascination with the past came into being in Chinese literature, some of the forms it took, and the ways readers have responded to such literature. He reflects on a series of moments in Chinese writing from the seventh century B.C. to the early nineteenth century. Through poems, anecdotes, exegeses, and one long story of an ardent collector and his wife, Owen treats a theme basic to Chinese civilization not as something exotic but as a motif fundamental to our civilization, even though its expression differs from our own.

    

    An ideal tool for study, the dictionary now provides authoritative coverage of over 26,000 words and phrases from every major field of reference, including science and technology, in addition to core general vocabulary. Simplified and orthodox Chinese characters are used throughout the dictionary, and thousands of examples illustrate and expand on how and when a word can be used. Also including a guide to the most commonly used radicals and an additional key to the pronunciation of Chinese, this dictionary is an indispensable reference tool.

    A place where change is erupting, where old and new worlds collide in the awesome, tumultous Long March.THIS IS KATE RICHMOND,A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG DOCTOR, RETURNING TO CHINA AMID ITS REVOLUTIONARY UPHEAVAL ...An American missionary's daughter, Kate finds love in the arms of a wealthy adventurer, Thomas Blake, only to feel the pain of betrayal, only to turn to the dynamic Shen Sun Lung, a Communist leader. Caught in the web of a passionately divided China, she is swept along in its all-consuming path.THIS IS BLOOD RED ROSEA glorious tapestry of a magnificent love and exquisite betrayal, an epic novel of people, a place, a time you'll not soon forget ...

    

    This book presents rich information on all aspects of the life of this group of urban workers.

    Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

    Based on official Chinese sources as well as intensive interviews with Hong Kong residents formerly employed in mainland factories, Andrew Walder's neo-traditional image of communist society in China will be of interest not only to those concerned with China and other communist countries, but also to students of industrial relations and comparative social science.

    

    From the suspension bridge and the seismograph to deep drilling for natural gas, the iron plough, and the parachute, ancient China’s contributions in the fields of engineering, medicine, technology, mathematics, science, transportation, warfare, and music helped inspire the European agricultural and industrial revolutions.Since its original publication, The Genius of China has won five literary awards in America and been translated into forty-three languages. Its Chinese edition, The Spirit of Chinese Invention, was approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education for use in connection with the national secondary curriculum in China. Based on the immense, authoritative scholarship of the late Joseph Needham, the world’s foremost scholar of Chinese science, and including a foreword by him, this revised full-color illustrated edition brings to life the spirit and excitement of the unparalleled achievements of ancient China. ROBERT TEMPLE is a visiting professor of the history and philosophy of science at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He also is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society; member of the Egypt Exploration Society, Royal Historical Society, Institute of Classical Studies, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; and visiting research fellow of the University of the Aegean in Greece. He is the author of ten books, including The Sirius Mystery and Oracles of the Dead, and lives in England with his wife, Olivia.NOTE: Original UK title was 'China: Land of Discovery and Invention'.

    the most comprehensive book of translation of this period in any Western language." --Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association..". a welcome addition to the repository of translated Chinese poetry.... highly readable." --World Literature Today..". a mega-project... an impressive achievement of scholarship." --Journal of Asian Studies..". an outstanding anthology of Ch'ing poetry... It must be recommended whole-heartedly to students and teachers alike." --Eugen Feifel, Monumenta Serica

    Nothing like it has ever been published." --ChoiceThe second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.

    These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

    Examines the transformation of Imperial China to Communist China, discusses the social and cultural changes that have occurred, and looks at modern economic development in China.

    

    The author's exhaustive primary sources in Chinese and Japanese and, in particular, his generous inclusion of direct quotations are great strengths of this book, which is far and away the best researched and most complete treatment of a key question in modern history. His monumental work is certain to change our understanding of the relationship of the CCP to rural society during wartime.Dr. Chen's research is unrivaled in the quality and quantity of internal CCP documents it employs, and a fuller and far more complex and convincing description of CCP successes in wartime rural China emerges from this volume than from those we have had up to now.The book focuses on the military struggle, peasant mobilization, and the united fronts. In each of these areas Dr. Chen offers readers a tangible grasp of an exemplary peasant revolution that until now has remained an elusive abstraction because of a lack of detailed information. To readers interested in wartime China, he offers the insights of cadres into rural society--insights that were proven to be correct in practice. And to readers interested in China today, Dr. Chen offers clues to the dilemma faced by the Party in its attempt to modernize the nation.