wyszukanych pozycji: 12
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Policing Shanghai 1927-1937
ISBN: 9780520207615 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld. In detailing the life and politics of China's largest urban center during the Guomindang era, Wakeman covers an array of topics: the puritanical social controls implemented by the police; the regional differences...
Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents....
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245,56 zł |
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Telling Chinese History: A Selection of Essays
ISBN: 9780520256064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the first time in one volume, the essays offer richly textured narratives of critical historical events as well as sweeping analyses of China's place in world history. They take us from the late Ming dynasty to the People's Republicdelving into complex issues of Confucianism and intellectual history, the nitty-gritty details of Jiangyin localism, wartime Shanghai, and more. Always there is engagement with the larger concerns of...
This superb collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr...
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159,39 zł |
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Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service
ISBN: 9780520234079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler," based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its time. In addition to exposing the inner workings of the secret police, whose death squads, kidnappings, torture, and omnipresent surveillance...
The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler,"...
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377,22 zł |
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History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
ISBN: 9780520362260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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425,04 zł |
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The Great Enterprise, Volume 2: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
ISBN: 9780520235199 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)
In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a tw...
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548,14 zł |
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Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861
ISBN: 9780520212398 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now available again, this pioneering work examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civil and military authorities and the British trading community in Guangdong province on the eve of the Taiping Rebellion, one the most calamitous events in Chinese history. Wakeman shows how prevailing rural discontent, urban riots, secret society activity, and the imbalance of class and clan affected the mechanisms of regional power and gentry control, demonstrating the progression of rebellion and the historical inevitability of revolution.
Now available again, this pioneering work examines one of the most controversial periods in Chinese history: the relationship between the Chinese civi...
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199,94 zł |
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History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought
ISBN: 9780520317338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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223,15 zł |
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The Great Enterprise, Volume 1: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China
ISBN: 9780520235182 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with a plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)
In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume...
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398,48 zł |
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The Fall of Imperial China
ISBN: 9780029336809 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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109,28 zł |
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The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941
ISBN: 9780521497442 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authorities who occupied most of Shanghai, and a spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the very noses of authorities. The release of secret Chinese police files by the C.I.A. allow the inner workings of these terrorist groups, and their links to the Green Gang just before Pearl Harbor was bombed and World War II erupted, to be exposed for the first time.
Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authoriti...
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581,76 zł |
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The Shanghai Badlands: Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941
ISBN: 9780521528719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authorities who occupied most of Shanghai, and a spate of assassinations, bombings, and machine gun raids took place under the very noses of authorities. The release of secret Chinese police files by the C.I.A. allow the inner workings of these terrorist groups, and their links to the Green Gang just before Pearl Harbor was bombed and World War II erupted, to be exposed for the first time.
Between August 1937 and December 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authoriti...
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232,66 zł |
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Reappraising Republican China
ISBN: 9780198296171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a testament to the accomplishments of Republican studies during the 1980s and early 1990s. Leading scholars review many aspects of contemporary research on the Republican era, ranging from the influence of fascism on Chiang Kai-Shek to the transition from the Qing dynasty to the Republic. Relevant for all interested in the key period in China between Monarchy and Communism.
This book is a testament to the accomplishments of Republican studies during the 1980s and early 1990s. Leading scholars review many aspects of contem...
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326,68 zł |