A concise and accessible history of the Chinese Republic, which was established in 1912 at the end of the Chinese Empire and ended in 1949 when mainland China fell to the Communists. It marked the beginning of a period of intense change as China struggled towards modernisation.
China's Grandmothers explores the status and lives of grandmothers in China from the late Qing to the present. Using a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary offers a fresh way of thinking about gender, family and aging in modern Chinese social history.
China's Grandmothers explores the status and lives of grandmothers in China from the late Qing to the present. Using a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary offers a fresh way of thinking about gender, family and aging in modern Chinese social history.
The first social history in English of China's Civil War, 1945–9, which brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Surveying a period of intense upheaval... Læs mere
The first social history in English of China's Civil War, 1945–9, which brought the Chinese Communist Party to power. Surveying a period of intense upheaval... Læs mere
A concise and accessible history of the Chinese Republic, which was established in 1912 at the end of the Chinese Empire and ended in 1949 when mainland China fell to the Communists. It marked the beginning of a period of intense change as China struggled towards modernisation.
Diana Lary tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. She creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war and the accompanying economic and social disintegration.
Diana Lary tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. She creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war and the accompanying economic and social disintegration.