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Free Download Donna Brunero, Stephanie Villalta Puig, "Life in Treaty Port China and Japan"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9811073678, 9811339449 | PDF | pages: 307 | 6.3 mb
This edited volume moves beyond the traditional examination of the treaty ports of China and Japan as places of cultural interaction. It moves ‘beyond the Bund’,presenting instead the history of material culture, the everyday life of the residents of the treaty ports beyond the symbology of Shanghai’s waterfront. Bringing for the first time together scholars of China and Japan, museum curators, legal, economic and architectural historians, it studies the treaty ports not only as sites of cultural exchange, but also as sites of social contestation, accommodation and mobility, covering topics as varied as day to day life itself, such as family, property and law, health and welfare, travel, visual culture and memory. The call of this volume is to peel the multiple layers of the encounter between East and West in the treaty ports of China and Japan.

Free Download David Adam Brubaker, "Jizi and His Art in Contemporary China: Unification "
English | ISBN: 3662449285 | 2015 | 166 pages | EPUB | 22 MB
This interdisciplinary study promotes the thesis that some contemporary Chinese ink artists succeed in using principles of traditional Chinese aesthetics to convey the union of self with nature, others and the universe. The investigation is a case study of the writings and paintings of Jizi, an ink-wash artist in Beijing, who combines images of icy mountains, Tibetan landscapes, cosmic vistas, and enclosures of personal existence. Jizi’s success in expressing the unification of these dimensions is confirmed by developing and applying an interpretation of Jing Hao’s classic description of the authentic image, which resonates with the vitality of nature. To find words for resonance with visible nature, the inquiry extends to such writers as Li Zehou, Arthur Danto and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In short, an account of authenticity in Chinese ink painting is offered experimentally as a means for assessing whether contemporary Chinese artworks are expressive of Chinese philosophy and culture. The text includes stylistic comparisons with artists such as E.C. Escher, Guo Xi, Jia Youfu, Liu Guosong, Rene Magritte, Piet Mondrian, and Xu Bing. The result is an appreciation of the healing influence of Chinese ink art in a global culture that is vibrant, complex, diverse and affirming of the present.

Free Download India-China Dialogues Beyond Borders: Cultural, Social Economic and Political Perspectives by Swati Mishra, Ranjana Sheel
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 282 Pages | ISBN : 9819943256 | 27.1 MB
This book is a collection of contributions related to India-China relationship beyond the issue of borders. It focuses on those elements that play important role in defining, continuing, and strengthening the interaction between the two countries. In doing so, it explores roles of language and linguistics, history and culture, politics and economy, and philosophy and sociology that mediated ancient and modern interfaces.

Free Download Guns and Ledgers: China and the East Asian World in the Age of Early Economic Globalization by Bozhong Li
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 382 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 11.4 MB
This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China’s early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China’s reactions to the West oscillate between business-driven openness and military paranoia. In this intellectual tour de force, Bozhong Li, one of China’s preeminent intellectual and economic historians, traces the unprecedented transition that led China into the modern world; the book will be of value for economists, historians, and sinophiles alike.

Free Download Tony Saich, "Governance and Politics of China"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 1403921849, 0333594878 | PDF | pages: 370 | 7.2 mb
Over the past 20 years change in China has been breathtaking. Reform has affected every facet of life and has left no policy and institution untouched. Now available in a substantially revised second edition covering the changes of the Sixteenth Party Congress and Tenth National People’s Congress and other recent developments this major text by a leading academic authority, who has also lived and worked in China, provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China.

Free Download Paula Williams Madison, "Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0062331639 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.7 mb
Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.

Free Download East China Sea 1945: Climax of the Kamikaze (Campaign) by Brian Lane Herder
English | April 28th, 2022 | ISBN: 1472848462 | 96 pages | True EPUB | 13.24 MB
This study describes the air-sea offensive supporting the ground-force invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in February and April 1945, which led to the sinking of the Yamato and the onslaught of the Japanese kamikaze.

Free Download Florence Padovani, "Development-Induced Displacement in India and China: A Comparative Look at the Burdens of Growth"
English | ISBN: 1498529038 | 2016 | 280 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
The world seems to have recently discovered India and China as major players in Asia, and political and economic connections between the two countries are rapidly growing. Beyond the fashionable phenomenon, the two countries have much in common and many shared experiences. Both are developing countries with dynamic economies focused on lifting their people out of poverty. There are also differences as well, as India is a democracy while China is an autocratic state, and the speed of economic growth is much higher in India. This collection provides a comparative analysis of development-induced migration in India and China caused by urbanization and dam construction. The contributors include scholars from both countries working in both academia and consultancy positions.

Free Download Malgorzata Jakimów, "China’s citizenship challenge: Labour NGOs and the struggle for migrant workers’ rights"
English | ISBN: 1526153998 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 7 MB
China’s citizenship challenge tells a story of how labour NGOs contest migrant workers’ citizenship marginalisation in China. The book argues that in order to effectively address problems faced by migrant workers, these NGOs must undertake ‘citizenship challenge’: the transformation of migrant workers’ social and political participation in public life, the broadening of their access to labour and other rights, and the reinvention of their relationship to the city.

Free Download Baogang Guo, "China’s Quiet Rise: Peace Through Integration "
English | ISBN: 0739146467 | 2011 | 192 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Despite China’s desire to make its rapid ascendance in the 21st century as non provocative as possible, the key to ensure China’s peaceful rise lies in two-way integration and engagement. A closely integrated China with the rest of the world and China’s acceptance of existing international norms and rules may compel China to behave in a more predictable and responsive way. This co-edited book examines China’s rising military capacity and the complex feelings its neighbors, such as Taiwan, South Korea and India, have toward the increasingly powerful China. The focus of this book is on the efforts made by China to brand her non-aggressive image through promoting public diplomacy and expanding regional free trade and cooperation in Asia and Latin America. It uses the cross-Taiwan-strait relations as a testing ground for the prospect of peace between the two former adversaries.