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Beijing Hutong Model: Price: $15.00
Weight: 2.5lbs
Date Added: Monday 02 March, 2020 |
Author: Liu Baoquan; Language: English Page: 259 Publication Date: 08/2008 ISBN: 9787503235306 Publisher: China Travel and Tourism Press Details With a long history and rich connotation, Chinese geographical names culture is crowned as national treasure.Ancient geographical names feature the rare recorded history of civilization extending for 5,000 yearscontinuously. To protect this precious cultural heritage, China Institute of Toponymy and Chinese Division ofUnited Nations Group of Experts on the Geographical Names (UNGEGN) launched the Protection Project ofChina Geographical Names Cultural Heritage. According to the guidelines and principles of the world culturalheritage protection, these relevant organizations conducted researches on China geographical names and workedout the Master ... more info |
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Chongqing - The Famous City in the Second World War-Photo Annals of Vanishing Sceneries Model: Price: $95.00
Weight: 4.8lbs
Date Added: Monday 02 March, 2020 |
Author: Yu Feng; Language: English-Chinese Format: Hardcover Page: 421 Publication Date: 03/2008 ISBN: 9787536693180 Publisher: Chongqing Publishing House Details The sceneries in the photos are no more in existence. Located in an important communications hub, Chongqing, a peninsula surrounded by rivers, is the Mesopotamia in China's modern history. The city was called China's Jerusalem during the Anti-Japanese War. As one of the world famous cities like Washington D.C, London and Moscow in the Second World War, Chongqing proved its importance in the Far East during the war. A traveler with a pious heart of disciple, recorded the vanishing sceneries of the city with his photos taken in 10 years' time during the period of 1994-2003. |
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Revisiting Shangri-la: Photographing A Century of Environmental and Cultural Change in The Mountains of Southwest China Model: Price: $50.00
Weight: 4.5lbs
Date Added: Monday 02 March, 2020 |
uthor: Robert K. Moseley; Page: 255 Publication Date: 09/2011 ISBN: 9787508521732 Publisher: China Intercontinental Press Details China is changing fast. Seemingly overnight it has become an economic and political powerhouse on a global scale. Although it is the recent rise of China that makes the daily news, the last century saw other large and rapid changes: the fall of the last imperial dynasty, the failure of the Nationalist government, and the ascent of Mao Zedong and the new China. How have these changes affected the land and people of China? Can lessons from the past give us insights about the future? For six years, Robert Moseley lived and worked as a conservation scientist in the mountains of northwest Yunnan Province. As part of that work, he set out to answer these questions ... more info |
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Beijing Walks: Like a Flying Feather Through the Hutongs Model: Price: $26.00
Weight: 3lbs
Date Added: Monday 02 March, 2020 |
Author: Mao Xiang; Language: English Page: 471 Publication Date: 09/2012 ISBN: 7119078569,9787119078564 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press |
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Panoramic China -- Guangdong: Forerunner of an Era Model: Price: $22.00
Weight: 3.5lbs
Date Added: Sunday 01 March, 2020 |
Author: Mu Qing; Language: English Format: 1 book Page: 245 Publication Date: 01/2006 ISBN: 7119041215 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Series: Panoramic China Details It is easy to have a quick look at China's past and present, but it takes time to gain a panoramic knowledge of China. The "Panoramic China" series is meant to assist readers, especially those overseas, in this respect. Each volume in the series focuses on a province, municipality or autonomous region, describing, with illustrations, the outstanding characteristics of each area from different perspectives. Guangdong: Forerunner of an Era Guangdong Province is a beautiful and lively province in South China. Perched on the Tropic of Cancer and nurtured by a warm subtropical climate, Guangdong enjoys ... more info |
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Panoramic China -- Gansu: Grottoes on the Ancient Silk Road Model: Price: $38.00
Weight: 3.5lbs
Date Added: Sunday 01 March, 2020 |
Author: Dong Yuxiang; Language: English Format: 1 book Page: 276 Publication Date: 01/2006 ISBN: 7119043005 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Series: Panoramic China Details It is easy to have a quick look at China's past and present, but it takes time to gain a panoramic knowledge of China. The "Panoramic China" series is meant to assist readers, especially those overseas, in this respect. Each volume in the series focuses on a province, municipality or autonomous region, describing, with illustrations, the outstanding characteristics of each area from different perspectives. Gansu: Grottoes on the Ancient Silk Road Gansu-a starting point of ancient Chinese civilization - rich in remains of its ancient cultural legacy... The world famous Silk Road used to thread its ... more info |
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Following the Tracks of Ennin's 9th c. Journey Model: Price: $35.00
Weight: 3.5lbs
Date Added: Sunday 01 March, 2020 |
Author: Virginia Anami; Language: English Format: 260 x 210 x 20 mm, Paperback Page: 212 Publication Date: 09/2007 ISBN: 9787508511177 Publisher: Beijing Language and Culture University Press Details This is the story of a 9th-century Japanese monk, Ennin (798), who crossed the ocean from Japan to Tang China as a member of an ambassadorial mission, retold by Virginia Anami, an admirer and researcher of Chinese culture and history. When the official mission finished its visiting to Chang'an, Tang's capital, and was about to return to Japan, Ennin made a tough and brave decision to stay in China to quest for Buddhist teachings. Ennin's four-scroll diary, The Record of a Pilgrimage to Tang China in Search of the Law, documenting his nine-year sojourn, was regarded as one of the three ... more info |
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THE KUNSHAN WAY Model: Price: $21.00
Weight: 4lbs
Date Added: Sunday 01 March, 2020 |
uthor: Einar Tangen; Language: English Format: Papercover Page: 188 Publication Date: 06/2010 ISBN: 9787119064321 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Details The I-Pod you Listen to was made in Kunshan; if you have a Cornpaq, Acer, Dell,Toshiba, HP or MSI aptop it was manufactured in Kunshan, almost 20 percent of the world's digital cameras are manufactured in Kunshan; more than 2 bihon dollars worth of bicycles and bicycle parts are manufactured there each year. If you are under 18, chances are you sat in a stroller and car seat designed and manufactured in Kunshan. Everyday something flora Kunshan touches you or someone you know,yet you have never heard of it.In China, Kunshan is just one of over 100 cities with over a million people.Twenty years ago it was a ... more info |
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Panoramic China -- Shaanxi: Glories and Dreams Model: Price: $28.00
Weight: 3.5lbs
Date Added: Sunday 01 March, 2020 |
Author: Hu Ji; Language: English Format: 1 Book Page: 244 Publication Date: 01/2006 ISBN: 7119039202 Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Series: Panoramic China Details It is easy to have a quick look at China's past and present, but it takes time to gain a panoramic knowledge of China. The "Panoramic China" series is meant to assist readers, especially those overseas, in this respect. Each volume in the series focuses on a province, municipality or autonomous region, describing, with illustrations, the outstanding characteristics of each area from different perspectives. Shaanxi: Glories and Dreams |
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Water Towns of the Yangtze River in China Model: Price: $35.00
Weight: 4lbs
Date Added: Sunday 01 March, 2020 |
Author: Ruan Yisan; Fei Yuyin; Language: English Publication Date: 11/2009 ISBN: 9787532265053 Publisher: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House Details Southern China refers to the southern areas of the Yangztze River in general including southern JiangsuProvince and northern Zhejiang Province and locates in subtropical zone.The Yangtze River and Taihualluvial Plain systems are flourishing.The mild and moist climate nourishes plentiful products.After the5t1I century A.D.,the canal and manual rivers and channels were cut,which helped develop the water traffic,which in turn caused the form of numerous richly-endowed water towns.For thousands of years,everyhousehold was adjacent to water with boats went through it,which forms the unique spectacles ... more info |
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