China on Screen: Cinema and Nation (Film and Culture Series) by Christopher J. Berry PhD
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0231137079 | PDF | 336 pages | 4 MB
In China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film studies, explore more than one hundred years of Chinese cinema and nation. Providing new perspectives on key movements, themes, and filmmakers, Berry and Farquhar analyze the films of a variety of directors and actors, including Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Wong Kar-wai, and Ang Lee.
Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism - China Ancient History by Baby Professor
English | December 1, 2017 | ISBN: 1541916050 | 64 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 7.91 Mb
The China that we know today was shaped by three big religious beliefs: Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. This book will not just differentiate the three through definitions, but it will also include historical truths to facilitate deeper understanding. Unearthing ancient history will help you to better understand China and its people today.
Lonely Planet China (Country Guide) by Lonely Planet
English | June 1, 2017 | ISBN: 1786575221 | 1056 pages | Rar (PDF, AZW3) | 67 Mb
#1 best-selling guide to China*
Lisa Rofel, "Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture "
English | ISBN: 0822339471 | 2007 | 264 pages | PDF | 910 KB
Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such "desiring subjects" is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist world. In a study at once ethnographic, historical, and theoretical, she contends that neoliberal subjectivities are created through the production of various desires-material, sexual, and affective-and that it is largely through their engagements with public culture that people in China are imagining and practicing appropriate desires for the post-Mao era.
China Business: The Rules of the Game By Carolyn Blackman
2001 | 257 Pages | ISBN: 1865082309 | PDF | 5 MB
Using real-life stories and situations, the author vividly describes the business experiences of foreign executives and their companies in China--and the problems that are usually kept hidden. Informative, candid, and entertaining, she unlocks the key ''rules of the game'' including: the nature of banquets, prevalence of sharp practices, corruption involving officials, sharing power in joint ventures, introducing change into the workplace, and official interference. A must read for westerners doing business with China.
B. R. Deepak, "China's Global Rebalancing and the New Silk Road"
English | 2018 | pages: 257 | ISBN: 9811059713 | PDF | 3,2 mb
This collaborative volume discusses the One Belt One Road, or the New Silk Road, initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping from the perspectives of the Belt and Road countries. This initiative has been viewed as a re-globalization drive by China in the backdrop of financial crisis of the West and the latter's increasingly protectionist tendencies of late. Rather than 'rebalancing' towards a certain region, this is supposed to be China's 'global rebalancing' aimed at inclusiveness and a win-win partnership. The initiative has raised hopes as well as suspicions about China's goals and intentions; that is, whether this is in sync with China's foreign policy goals, such as multipolarity, no hegemonic aspirations, and common security, or if this is an antidote to the U.S. foreign policy goals in the region, and China's ambition to realizing its long-term vision for Asian regional and global order.
The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Mark Elvin
English | March 10, 2004 | ISBN: 0300101112, 0300119933 | EPUB | 592 pages | 18.5 MB
A landmark account of China's environmental history-by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist
Timothy Grose, "Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity"
English | ISBN: 9888528092 | 2020 | 160 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This is the first book-length study of graduates from the Xinjiang Class, a program that funds senior high school-aged students from Xinjiang, mostly ethnic Uyghur, to attend a four-year course in predominately Han-populated cities in eastern and coastal China. Based on longitudinal field research, Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity offers a detailed picture of the multilayered identities of contemporary Uyghur youth and an assessment of the effectiveness of this program in meeting its political goals. The experiences of Xinjiang Class graduates reveal how young, educated Uyghurs strategically and selectively embrace elements of the corporate Chinese Zhonghua minzu identity in order to stretch the boundaries of a nonstate-defined Uyghur identity. Timothy Grose also argues that the impositions of Chinese Mandarin and secular Chinese Communist Party (CCP) values over ethnic minority languages and religion, and physically displacing young Uyghurs from their neighbourhood and cultural environment do not lead to ethnic assimilation, as the CCP apparently expects. Despite pressure from state authorities to urge Xinjiang Class graduates to return after their formal education, the majority of the graduates choose to remain in inner China or to use their Xinjiang Class education as a springboard to seek global citizenship based upon membership in a transnational Islamic community. For those who return to Xinjiang, contrary to the political goal of the program, few intend to serve the CCP, their country, or even their hometown. Instead, their homecomings are marred by disappointment, frustration, and discontent.
Sport and Physical Education in China By Robin Jones, James (Jim) Riordan
1999 | 299 Pages | ISBN: 0419220305 | PDF | 2 MB
In this one-of-a-kind book, both Chinese and Western scholars provide students with a clear and wide understanding of sports and Physical Education in China. Sport and Physical Education in China looks at sports from both a historical and contemporary perspective.
Reading China By Berg, D. (ed.), Daria Berg
2006 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 9004154833 | PDF | 6 MB
This volume develops a new style of reading Chinese sources, as pioneered in Chinese Studies by Professor Glen Dudbridge, providing fascinating new insights into Chinese literature, history and popular culture. The analysis of self-fashioning, representation and political propaganda sheds new light on Chinese perceptions of the world.