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Free Download Xiaorong Han, "Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949"
English | 2005 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0791463192, 0791463206 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Xiaorong Han explores how Chinese intellectuals envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century. Politically motivated intellectuals, both Communist and non-Communist, believed that rural peasants and their villages would be at the heart of change during this long period of national crisis. Nevertheless, intellectuals saw themselves as the true shapers of change who would transform and use the peasantry. Han uses intellectuals' writings to provide a comprehensive look at their views of the peasantry. He shows how intellectuals with varying politics created images of the peasant-a supposed contemporary image and an ideal image of the peasant transformed for political ends, how intellectuals theorized on the nature of Chinese rural life, and how intellectuals conceived their own relationships with peasants.

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Free Download Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery By Patricia Bjaaland Welch
2008 | 290 Pages | ISBN: 080483864X | EPUB | 42 MB
Chinese Art is a guide to the meanings behind the hundreds of common motifs and symbols found in all forms of Chinese art. A thorough examination of the diverse usage of natural symbols, colors, numbers, inanimate items and personages, Chinese Art communicates the deeper messages to be found in Chinese decorative art. It is an excellent reference for collectors, museum-goers and students of Chinese art, culture and history.

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Free Download China's Telecommunications Revolution By Eric Harwit
2008 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0199233748 | PDF | 2 MB
China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the PRC expects to quickly pass the US in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace. This book tells how China conducted its remarkable "telecommunications revolution". It examines both corporate and government policy to get citizens connected to both voice and data networks, looks at the potential challenges to the one-party government when citizens get this access, and considers the new opportunities for networking now offered to the people of one of the world's fastest growing economies.The book is based on the author's fieldwork conducted in several Chinese cities, as well as extensive archival research. It focuses on key issues such as building and running the country's Internet, mobile phone company rivalry, foreign investment in the sector, and telecommunications in China's vibrant city of Shanghai. It also considers the country's internal "digital divide", and questions how equitable the telecommunications revolution has been. Finally, it examines the ways the PRC's entry to the World Trade Organization will shape the future course of telecommunications growth.

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Free Download Alain Sepulchre, "China's Offensive in Europe (Geopolitics in the 21st Century)"
English | 2016 | pages: 205 | ISBN: 0815727984 | PDF | 4,0 mb
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Free Download Efe Can Gürcan, "China on the Rise "
English | ISBN: 1032319941 | 2024 | 168 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book analyses China's multidimensional rise in the context of the international political economy, drawing on Susan Strange's concept of "structural power."

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Free Download Shai Har-El, "China and the Palestinian Organizations: 1964-1971"
English | ISBN: 3031578279 | 2024 | 207 pages | EPUB, PDF | 851 KB + 5 MB
This book explores the relations between China and the Palestinian organizations and their development during the period of 1964-1971. It serves as a case study for understanding China's relations with the Arab world, the superpowers' competition in the Middle East, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in general. It offers a compelling retrospective on a critical period at a time when the contours of power and peace in the Middle East have shifted dramatically. Highlighting the importance of building bridges of understanding and reconciliation across the Middle East divides, it draws on the author's long experience of study, research, speaking, and writing about the Arab-Israeli conflict and Jewish-Muslim reconciliation.

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Free Download China Rising: Will the West Be Able to Cope?: The Real Long-term Challenge to the Rise of China - and Asia in General By Jan Willem Blankert
2009 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 9812837957 | PDF | 4 MB
Why do some countries get rich and other countries don't? Does one country's gain mean another country's loss? How do we address the biggest challenge of all: the fact that our environment suffers when we all want to have our share of the cake? These key questions in international economics and business are addressed in this timely book. Covering issues such as economic growth, the drivers of economic growth and international competition, pollution and the division of labor, the book focuses on China's emergence, but examples of other countries provide context and perspective. Written in a jargon-free style yet extremely well-researched, it is suitable for economists and non-economists alike.

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Free Download China Illustrated: Western Views of the Middle Kingdom By Arthur Hacker
2004 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0804835195 | EPUB | 39 MB
From the mid-16th century to the beginning of World War II, foreigners learned a great deal about China through trade contacts. This lavishly illustrated social history highlights the lives and lifestyles of the merchants, mercenaries, missionaries, adventurers and refugees who came to China during this period, set against the backdrop of China's great cities and the ancient culture of its people. A short commentary on the history of the period sets the scene in each chapter, allowing readers to follow the dramatic changes that took place through these turbulent years. The informative text and hundreds of images, many never published before, brilliantly capture the atmosphere of China throughout the centuries.

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Free Download Aarthi Vadde, "Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016"
English | 2016 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0231180241, 023118025X | EPUB | 1,9 mb
In the years following World War I, the "international" emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While so-called political realists across the twentieth century have regarded such attempts as wishful thinking, Aarthi Vadde argues that the negotiation of wishing and thinking is at the very heart of internationalism. In Chimeras of Form, she shows why modernist literary form is essential to understanding the aspirational and analytical force of internationalism in and beyond Europe.

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Free Download Children's Play and Development: Cultural-Historical Perspectives By Ivy Schousboe, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist (auth.), Ivy Schousboe, Ditte Winther-Lindqvist (eds.)
2013 | 265 Pages | ISBN: 9400765789 | PDF | 4 MB
This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various social relations (with peers, professionals and parents) in different parts of the world (Europe, Australia, South America and North America). Common to all chapters is a goal of throwing new light on the phenomenon of playing within a theoretical framework of cultural-historical theory. Play as a cultural, collective, social, personal, pedagogical and contextual activity is addressed with reference to central concepts in relation to development and learning. Concepts and phenomena related to ZPD, the imaginary situation, rules, language play, collective imagining, spheres of realities of play, virtual realities, social identity and pedagogical environments are presented and discussed in order to bring the cultural-historical theoretical approach into play with contemporary historical issues. Essential as a must read to any scholar and student engaged with understanding play in relation to human development, cultural historical theory and early childhood education.

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