China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780141031453 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths[...]
A Bitter Revolution (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780192806055 - UTGIVEN: 200505China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. [...]
Modern China (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780199228027 - UTGIVEN: 200802China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities,[...]
The Manchurian Myth (Inbunden)
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ISBN: 9780520221116 - UTGIVEN: 200011A powerful element in twentieth-century Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. Investigating the shifting alliances of key players in that event, Rana Mitter traces the development of the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows h[...]
The Keyboard in Baroque Europe (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780521102612 - UTGIVEN: 200903Twelve of today's most distinguished scholar-performers offer essays in this volume on new and intriguing aspects of baroque keyboard music. Topics include fresh evidence on music of the seventeenth century (Frescobaldi, Froberger and Purcell), the place of the keyboard in concerted music and on com[...]
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945 (Häftad)
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ISBN: 9780544334502 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08An "Economist "Book of the Year
A "Financial Times" Book of the Year
"A book that has long cried out to be written." -- "Observer "(UK), Books of the Year
In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II[...]
China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 (Inbunden)
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ISBN: 9781846140105 - UTGIVEN: 201306In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves. Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhap[...]
