中国

秦が中華統一を成し遂げた理由は、始皇帝（嬴政）の人間力と、特異な登用方法にあった！始皇帝を支えた李信・王齮・桓齮ら将軍たちは、戦時でどう動き、何を成し遂げたのか。

黒い歴史のすべては、ここから始まった――。1989年6月4日に発生した天安門事件。当時、世界中がこぞって報じたこの事件は、学生運動とそれを封じる軍部という世紀の「民主化運動」として取りざたされてきた。現在、厳しい言論統制下にある中国。

・曹操、劉備、諸葛亮、孫権……魅力あふれる登場人物・仙人から占い師、神医まで、異能の力を発揮する名脇役・乱世を招いた悪人や好敵手、敗れてなお歴史に名を残す群雄・主要人物の側にいた物語を彩る女性たち

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China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China's path. In the first...

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present.

“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger.” —The Financial Times In this...

Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in America. Shan, a former hard laborer who is now one of Asia's...

In 2017, the Defense Intelligence Agency began to produce a series of unclassifed Defense Intelligence overviews of major foreign military challenges we face. This volume provides details on China’s defense and military goals, strategy, plans, and intentions....

After teaching as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Beijing for the year 1920, Bertrand Russell penned The Problem of China, in which he describes China's past and present, opening on the country's possible future....

With an economy and population that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is emerging as a 21st century global superpower....

China's military has entered a new era. It has acquired modern weapons to rival the world's finest, undergone a massive restructuring under Xi Jinping, and been on the frontlines of territorial disputes with Japan, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It is readying forces to be able to seize...

For more than two thousand years, tea has awakened, calmed, and connected people across continents and cultures. In A History of Tea, you'll travel with this extraordinary beverage on its global journey.

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic thought....

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.

THE FIRST THOROUGH ACCOUNT OF A FORMATIVE AND LITTLE UNDERSTOOD CHAPTER IN CHINESE HISTORY Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped...

The first ever comprehensive history in English of China's Warring States period, an era that saw epic battles, the birth of profound philosophies, groundbreaking innovations, and shaped much of East Asian culture as we know it today. The Warring States period saw the emergence of Confucianism...

The Battle of Red Cliffs changed Chinese history. It marked the end of the Han Dynasty, one of the greatest in China’s history, and pushed China into the era of the Three Kingdoms, an era of perpetual warfare and chaos....

Xi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, first, that China should become a "great maritime power" and secondly, that the PLA "become a world-class armed force by 2050." China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it...

Surviving the Dragon is the remarkable life story of Arjia Rinpoche, who was ordained as a reincarnate lama at the age of two and fled Tibet 46 years later....