Download E-books Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period (The New Middle Ages) PDF

For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

"If ever there has been a e-book to learn within the corporation of a pleasant cuppa, this can be it. " -The Washington publish within the dramatic tale of 1 of the best acts of company espionage ever devoted, Sarah Rose recounts the attention-grabbing, not going conditions surrounding a turning aspect in financial heritage. by means of the center of the 19th century, the British East India corporation confronted the lack of its monopoly at the beautifully profitable tea alternate with China, forcing it to make the drastic determination of sending Scottish botanist Robert Fortune to thieve the crop from deep inside of China and produce it again to British plantations in India.

China in World History (New Oxford World History)

Here's a attention-grabbing compact background of chinese language political, monetary, and cultural lifestyles, starting from the origins of civilization in China to the start of the twenty first century. Historian Paul Ropp combines brilliant story-telling with astute research to make clear many of the greater questions of chinese language heritage.

Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)

In 2001 the chinese language govt introduced that the right position of Shangrila―a position that in the past had existed basically in fiction―had been pointed out in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. seeing that then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet self sustaining sector were the websites of various kingdom initiatives of tourism improvement and nature conservation, that have in flip attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists, and marketers who search to event, safeguard, and make the most of the region's landscapes.

The Art and Architecture of China: 3rd edition (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)

With nearly 4000 years of creative evolution - from the Shang Dynasty to the tip of the Ch'ing during this century - the chinese language boast an extended span of cultural heritage than the other race. The abiding impression of culture is under pressure via either authors. Confucian restraint and Taoist escapism, between different non secular and philosophical beliefs, are continually re-appearing and the significance of Buddhism in chinese language structure is evidenced within the textual content and illustrations.