How China Loses The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions by Luke Patey | 5.1 MB
English | 397 Pages

Title: How China Loses
Author: Luke Patey
Year: 2020

Nomads on Pilgrimage - Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940
pdf | 9.93 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-9004296015 | Author: Isabelle Charleux | Year: 2015

John King Fairbank, "H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China"
English | ISBN: 0813160022 | 2014 | 328 pages | PDF | 29 MB
Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (1910-18).

Fengshui In China: Geomantic Divination Between State Orthodoxy And Popular Religion By Ole Bruun
2004 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 8791114799 | PDF | 6 MB
For well over a century Chinese fengshui, or geomancy, has fascinated Western laymen and scholars. Today hundreds of popular manuals claim to use its principles in their advice on how people can increase their wealth, happiness and longevity. The focus of this academic study is on fengshui's significance in China over the last 150 years, augmented by anthropological fieldwork in rural China. Eschewing Western intellectual preconceptions and penetrating the confused mass of old texts and divergent local practices, the author argues that fengshui serves as an alternative tradition of cosmological knowledge which is used to explain a range of everyday occurrences in rural areas such as disease, mental disorders, accidents and common mischief. Opposing the Chinese collectivist ethos and moralizing from above, fengshui represents an alternative vision of reality, while interpreting essential Chinese values in a way that sanctions selfish motivations and behaviour.

Annual Report on China's Response to Climate Change (2017): Implementing The Paris Agreement by Weiguang Wang
English | PDF | 2019 | 174 Pages | ISBN : 9811396590 | 2.4 MB
This book is written by experts from Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and National Climate Center, this book provides an overview of China's effort to implement the Paris Agreement. In addition to measures put in place to reduce runoff in cities, improve flood risk management, promote decarbonization, and combat desertification, the book also addresses issues such as scientific assessment in relation to climate change, the implications of US domestic climate politics for China-US relations, and China's emerging leadership role in the post-Paris age. The volume is a must-read for anybody who wants to understand how China's aggressive climate adaptation policies help shape the country's growing weight in global climate governance.

Edward Slingerland, "Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism"
English | ISBN: 019084230X | 2018 | 400 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and

Mark Edward Lewis, "Honor and Shame in Early China"
English | ISBN: 1108843697 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups. Over centuries, the formally recognized political order came to be intertwined with groups articulating alternative models of honor. These groups both participated in the existing order and, through their own visions of what was truly honourable, paved the way for subsequent political structures. Filling a major lacuna in the study of early China, Lewis presents ways in which the early Chinese empires can be fruitfully considered in comparative context and develops a more systematic understanding of the fundamental role of honor/shame in shaping states and societies.

Margherita Zanasi, "Economic Thought in Modern China: Market and Consumption, c.1500-1937"
English | ISBN: 1108499937 | 2020 | 252 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in Europe. In response to the commercial revolutions of the late 1500s, Chinese intellectuals and officials called for the end of state intervention in the market, recognizing its power to self-regulate. They also noted the elasticity of domestic demand and production, arguing in favour of ending long-standing rules against luxury consumption, an idea that emerged in Europe in the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Zanasi challenges Eurocentric theories of economic modernization as well as the assumption that European Enlightenment thought was unique in its ability to produce innovative economic ideas. She instead establishes a direct connection between observations of local economic conditions and the formulation of new theories, revealing the unexpected flexibility of the Confucian tradition and its accommodation of seemingly unorthodox ideas.

China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China 1937-1952 By Hans van de Ven
2017 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 1781251940 | EPUB | 11 MB

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Isabelle Charleux, "Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan (China), 1800-1940 "
English | ISBN: 9004296018 | 2015 | 472 pages | PDF | 10 MB
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