The Chinese Navy

The Chinese Navy
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0160897637
ISBN-13 : 9780160897634
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Chinese Navy by : Institute for National Strategic Studies

Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.

The Creation of Wing Chun

The Creation of Wing Chun
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781438456959
ISBN-13 : 1438456956
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis The Creation of Wing Chun by : Benjamin N. Judkins

This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong's Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lee's teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing Chun Kung Fu, has recently emerged as a highly visible symbol of southern Chinese identity and pride. Benjamin N. Judkins and Jon Nielson examine the emergence of Wing Chun to reveal how this body of social practices developed and why individuals continue to turn to the martial arts as they navigate the challenges of a rapidly evolving environment. After surveying the development of hand combat traditions in Guangdong Province from roughly the start of the nineteenth century until 1949, the authors turn to Wing Chun, noting its development, the changing social attitudes towards this practice over time, and its ultimate emergence as a global art form.

Narrating China's Governance

Narrating China's Governance
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9789813291782
ISBN-13 : 9813291788
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Narrating China's Governance by : Department of Commentary People's Daily

This open access book captures and elaborates on the skill of storytelling as one of the distinct leadership features of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the President of the People’s Republic of China. It gathers the stories included in Xi’s speeches on various occasions, where they conveyed the essence of China’s history and culture, its reform and development, and the principles of China’s participating in global governance and cooperating with other countries to build a community of common destiny. The respective stories not only convey abstract and profound concepts of governance in comparatively straightforward language, but also create an immediate emotional connection between the narrator and the listener. In addition to the original stories, extensive additional materials are provided to convey the original context in which each was told, including when and to whom Xi told it, helping readers attain a deeper, intuitive understanding of their relevance.

The Culture of Love in China and Europe

The Culture of Love in China and Europe
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9004396861
ISBN-13 : 9789004396869
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Culture of Love in China and Europe by : Paolo Santangelo

The Culture of Love in China and Europe offers a cautiously comparative survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century.

Why Viet Nam?

Why Viet Nam?
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 648
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ISBN-10 : 0520041569
ISBN-13 : 9780520041561
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Why Viet Nam? by : Archimedes L. A. Patti

Sinophone Southeast Asia

Sinophone Southeast Asia
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Publisher : Chinese Overseas
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 900442122X
ISBN-13 : 9789004421226
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Sinophone Southeast Asia by : Tom Hoogervorst

"This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia's Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely Southeast Asian in its rich hybridity. Our comparative scope and focus on language, analysed in tandem with history and culture, adds a refreshing dimension to the broader field of Sino-Southeast Asian Studies"--

Securing the Belt and Road Initiative

Securing the Belt and Road Initiative
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9789811071164
ISBN-13 : 9811071160
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Securing the Belt and Road Initiative by : Alessandro Arduino

This collection explores the expansion of Chinese outbound investments, aimed to sustain the increased need for natural resources, and how they have amplified the magnitude of a possible international crisis that the People’s Republic of China may face in the near future by bringing together the views of a wide range of scholars. President Xi’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI), aimed to promote economic development and exchanges with China for over 60 countries, necessitates a wide range of security procedures. While the threats to Chinese enterprises and Chinese workers based on foreign soil are poised to increase, there is an urgent need to develop new guidelines for risk assessment, special insurance and crisis management. While the Chinese State Owned Enterprises are expanding their international reach capabilities, they still do not have the capacity to assure adequate security. In such a climate, this collection will be of profound value to policy makers, those working in the financial sector, and academics.

Sojourners and Settlers

Sojourners and Settlers
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9780824882402
ISBN-13 : 0824882407
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Sojourners and Settlers by : Clarence E. Glick

Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.

Introduction to Chinese Culture

Introduction to Chinese Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9789811081569
ISBN-13 : 9811081565
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Introduction to Chinese Culture by : Guobin Xu

Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of Chinese culture. Written by a team of experts in their fields, it offers a comprehensive and detailed introduction to Chinese culture and addresses the fundamentals of Chinese cultural and social development. It notably considers Chinese traditional culture, medicine, arts and crafts, folk customs, rituals and etiquette, and is a key read for scholars and students in Chinese Culture, History and Language.