Cargando…
The human tradition in modern China /
This lively and engaging text offers a panorama of modern Chinese history through compelling biographies of the famous and obscure. Spanning five hundred years, they include a Ming dynasty medical pioneer, a Qing dynasty courtesan, a nineteenth-century Hong Kong business leader, a Manchu princess, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2008.
|
| Colección: | Human tradition around the world.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Li Shizhen : early modern scientist / Kenneth J. Hammond
- Amazon, artist, and adventurer : a courtesan in late imperial China / Daria Berg
- Zou Boqi on vision and photography in nineteenth-century China / Oliver Moore
- Ho Kai : a Chinese reformer in colonial Hong Kong / John Carroll
- Der Ling : Manchu princess, cultural advisor, and author / Shuo Wang
- Li Chenggan : patriot, populist, and factory patriarch / Joshua H. Howard
- The Beijing University students in the May Fourth era : a collective biography / Fabio Lanza
- The reluctant mendicant / Hugh Shapiro
- Hu Lanqi : rebellious woman, revolutionary soldier, discarded heroine, and triumphant survivor / Kristin Stapleton
- Zhao Ruiqin : a peasant woman in Gansu and domestic worker in Beijing / Yihong Pan.