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Recounts the experiences of ferrying troops and equipment for the Nationalists during China's civil war; providing medicine and supplies to war-torn regions; and flying under CIA contract during many other wars. This book documents the adventures of Civil Air Transport's pilots and those of the men and women behind the scenes.

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A history of Chinas geopolitical evolution from 1840 to the present, tracing its rise from the Opium Wars to an emerging world power.

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Encompassing history, politics, religion, and art, this collection of essays on Chinese civilization under the Mongols challenges the previously held views that Mongol rule had only negative consequences. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of

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Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, and, Westernization.

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Ever since the death of Mao, China has undergone a transformation almost as radical as the Communist Revolution that Mao instigated.

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This volume covers current economics, politics, culture, and prevalent social problems.

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Offers the cultural history that ranges from prehistoric times to the present - from the disunity of Pre-Imperial China to the renaissance of the Sung and Tang dynasties, from the Mongol conquest to Tiananmen Square and the 1989 student revolt.

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Offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance and subsequent reputations of six representative Chindit and Japanese infantry units involved in three pivotal actions that hastened Japan's defeat in Burma during World War II.

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This book provides readers with a long-term analysis of Chinese maritime activities and their economic consequences in industries, infrastructure, trade, migration, and government policies. It shows insight into the causes for sterility of capitalist industrialization in premodern China.

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Wei (history, Susquehanna U.) and Liu (history, Iowa State U.) bring together nine essays which explore the formation of nationalism in China over the past century through lenses focusing on both politically powerful elites and peripheral social forces. Specific topics addressed include the relation

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Reveals the great warlords of China as well as the organization of their forces which acquired much and very varied weaponry from the west including the French air force bombers.

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Provides an original and challenging perspective on the history of chocolate, questioning the romantic images of the commodity offered in marketing campaigns. It weaves together a variety of previously unexamined sources including oral histories of women workers, advertising material from the Rowntree and Cadbury companies and archival material.

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In this book, historian Walter Dunn reveals the true nature of the conflicting interests on the frontier, demonstrating that the primary issues there, land and the fur trade, were, in fact, the basis of the conflict between the local colonists and Britain.

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First time in paperback: The acclaimed biography of Chopin focusing on his 18 years in Paris at the center of a dazzling circle that included Hugo, Balzac, Stendhal, Delacroix, List, Berlioz, and George Sand.

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Chords of Freedom offers valuable new insights into the ways in which Britons have been taught to remember transatlantic slavery, and how our views of figures like William Wilberforce have been revised to meet the changing demands of the 'present'. -- .

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This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth century.