China

The Art of War is one of the most successful treatises on warfare and military strategy of all time. Written by ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu in the 6th century BC, it has since been consulted by countless military and political leaders. Divided into 13 chapters covering all aspects of warfare, Sun Tzu's lessons are as relevant today as they ever were. Flexible strategies, quick thinking on the battlefield, the use of intelligence and understanding the enemy's intentions are all crucial ingredients for success. Whether you wish to get ahead in business, sport or politics, The Art of War will help you steal a march on your competitor. This edition contains oriental images of warfare throughout.

There is no denying that China has experienced, and is still experiencing, radical changes, generally initiated by the vibrant market-driven economy that began in the late 1970s. The question remains, however, of what has happened to those who, just a few decades before, experienced pride and power in being part of the proletariat. How do they make sense of the past and face up to the uncertainties of the future? This book presents an anthropological investigation into their lives and memories in order to understand their situation. Presently a working-class neighbourhood in Shanghai, Cucumber Lane was in the 1960s a well-known socialist "model community" being transformed from an urban slum in the 1940s. The neighbourhood was further recast as a "civilised small community" in the 1990s. Based on oral histories as well as ethnographic observations and pertinent historical materials, this book portrays the ways the Chinese have been making sense of and coping with radical changes during a period punctuated by shifts in political priorities, vicissitudes in ideological orientation, changes in the way they conceive of their relationship with the state and enterprises, the (de-)politicisation of social identities, the rise and fall of collectivism, and the explosive vitality of the new market economy.

Looking North, Looking South brings together the works of leading China, Taiwan, and Pacific politics specialists analysing a topic of growing importance: China and Taiwan's ever-growing involvement in the South Pacific. There is no doubt that China is on the rise in Asia, Africa, South America, the Caribbeans, and even the Antarctica and the Arctic, this rise can be partly attributed to China's activities in the South Pacific. This book will pinpoint China's involvement in the South Pacific within the context of China's wider foreign policy and the challenges it poses to the traditional dominant powers of the region - the China-Taiwan rivalry has helped to seriously alter the balance of traditional influence in the South Pacific where China is now one of the largest aid donors in the region, squeezing out Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, both in terms of funding and influence.

The book begins with a history of previous translations of Tang tales, surveying how Chinese scholarship has shaped the reception and rendition of these texts in the West. In that context, Tang Dynasty Tales offers the first annotated translations of six major tales (often called chuanqi, "transmitting the strange"), which are interpreted specifically for students and scholars interested in medieval Chinese literature. Following the model of intertextual readings that Glen Dudbridge introduced in his The Tale of Li Wa (Oxford, 1983), the annotation points to resonances with classical texts, while setting the tales in the political world of their time; the "Translator's Notes" that follow each translation explain how these resonances and topical contexts expand the meaning of the text. Each translation is also supported by a short glossary of original terms from the tale and a bibliography guiding the reader to further studies.

Leave Me Alone: a Novel of Chengdu is an unflinching, darkly funny take on love and life in modern China. It's the story of three young men - Chen Zhong, Li Liang and Big Head Wang - and their tragic-comic struggles to make their way in Chengdu, China's fifth most populous city. Despite their aspirations in the newly capitalist China, the trio's lives are beset by dead-end jobs, gambling debts, drinking, and whoring.

Is it straight or satirical? The reader must decide. This unsentimental analysis of the successful campaign methods of the "Shanghai Girl" on the hunt for a choice husband has no time for the dewy-eyed.

This book is unique in covering all important topics of the Chinese economy in depth but written in a language understandable to the layman and yet challenging to the expert. Beginning with entrepreneurship that propels the dynamic economic changes in China today, the book is organised into four broad parts to discuss China's economic development, to analyse significant economic issues, to recommend economic policies and to comment on the timely economic issues in the American economy for comparison. Unlike a textbook, the discussion is original and thought provoking. It is written by a most distinguished economist who has studied the Chinese economy for 30 years, after making breathtaking contributions to the fields of econometrics, applied economics and dynamic economics and serving as a major adviser to the government of Taiwan during its period of rapid development in the 1960s and 1970s. In the last 30 years, the author has served as a major adviser to the government of China on economic reform and important economic policies and cooperated with the Ministry of Education to introduce and promote the development of modern economics in China, including training hundreds of economists in China and placing many graduate students to pursue a doctoral degrees in economics in leading universities in the US and Canada. These graduates now play pivotal roles in China and in the US in academics, business or government institutions.

Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalised in recent decades. In Other-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called "traditional Chinese medicine" are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Zhan spent a decade following practitioners, teachers, and advocates of Chinese medicine through clinics, hospitals, schools, and grassroots organisations in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing on that ethnographic research, she demonstrates that the everyday practice of Chinese medicine is about much more than writing herbal prescriptions and inserting acupuncture needles. "Traditional Chinese medicine" is also made and remade through efforts to create a preventive medicine for the "proletariat world," reinvent it for cosmopolitan middle-class aspirations, produce clinical "miracles," translate knowledge and authority, and negotiate marketing strategies and medical ethics. Zhan emphasises that unexpected encounters and interactions are not anomalies in the structure of Chinese medicine. Instead, they are constitutive of its irreducibly complex and open-ended worlds. Zhan proposes an ethnography of "worlding" as an analytic for engaging and illuminating emergent cultural processes such as those she describes. Rather than taking "cultural difference" as the starting point for anthropological inquiries, this analytic reveals how various terms of difference - for example, "traditional," "Chinese," and "medicine" - are invented, negotiated, and deployed translocally.

Modern Chinese food has come a long way from the traditional favourites that we order by rote from our local takeaway. China's culinary traditions are continually evolving to create a new and exciting cuisine that can best be described as fusion. In "China Modern", Ching-He Huang explores these new influences and challenges conventional perceptions of Chinese food. She looks at how dishes have been reinvented, drawing on inspiration from Japan, Thailand and Vietnam as well as Europe. Healthy eating is also integral, with cooking techniques moving away from deep-frying to steaming, pan-frying, boiling, grilling and even baking. Ching looks at home cooking from the less well-known provinces in China such as Hunan and Sichuan (most of the food we know as Chinese originated in Hong Kong) as well as how those takeaway favourites should really be cooked. Delicious recipes include Lemon Monkfish, Ginger, Chilli and Soy Steamed Scallops, Peking Duck Sushi, Vegetable Bao and Chocolate Sesame Balls.

Chinese Made Easy 2 is designed for both young and adult beginners who already have some basic knowledge of Mandarin. The writer teaches 48 common adverbials and phrases by introducing numerous examples and inviting students to make their own sentences All the words in Mandarin are accompanied by hanyu pinyin and English translation.

Originally issued as What's In a Chinese Name in 1981, this reissued practical guide - the first of its kind - is designed to help Chinese parents make the perfect choice in naming their children. Over 900 propitious words, in simplified characters and hanyu pinyin, are arranged alphabetically for easy reference. The meanings of these words are explained in English and at least seven examples are given for each word. To help parents even further, there is a section that gives a brief description of the twelve lunar animal signs and names compatible with a child's animal sign. In this latest edition, there is also a section which provides Chinese equivalents to English names.

As the global economy recovers and stabilises, businesses around the globe are casting their eyes on China. In Blue Book of China's Commercial Sector (2009-2010), the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics (IFTE) of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Li & Fung Research Centre (LFRC) jointly present a comprehensive account of the latest developments in China's commercial sector. Starting with the macroeconomic background of domestic consumption in China and recent pricing trends, the Blue Book provides in-depth analyses of different industries including retailing, wholesale and distribution, catering, and commercial property. Hot topics such as the luxury market, mergers and acquisitions in the retail sector, online retailing, and current developments of China's export-oriented enterprises embarking on domestic sales are covered as well.

During the infamous "Rape of Nanking," a brutal military occupation of Nanking, China, that began in December 1937, it is estimated that Japanese soldiers killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese and raped between 20,000 and 80,000 women. In response to the atrocities, a group of westerners organised the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone and attempted to shelter refugees. Among these humanitarian heroes was Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and acting president of Ginling College. She and Tsen Shui-fang, her Chinese assistant turned the college into a refugee camp. Even though both women were exhausted mentally and physically from caring for so many, they kept detailed diaries during the massacre. The Undaunted Women of Nanking juxtaposes the two women's wartime diaries day-by-day from December 8, 1937, through March 1, 1938. Both diaries provide vital eyewitness accounts of the Rape of Nanking and are unique in their focus on the Ginling refugee camp and the sufferings of women and children. Tsen Shui-fang's diary is the only known daily account by a Chinese national written during the crisis and not retrospectively. It has never before been published in English, and this is its first translation. Editors Hua-ling Hu and Zhang Lian-hong have added many informative annotations to the diary entries from sources including the proceedings of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial of 1946, Vautrin's correspondence, John Rabe's diary, and other historical documents. Also included are biographical sketches of the two women, a note on the diaries, and information about the aftermath of the tragedy, as well as maps and photos - some of which appear in print here for the first time.

A traditional Chinese meal always contains a soup course, and it is more common to drink soup with a meal than alcohol or soft drink. There are a variety of traditional Chinese drinks that offer a healthy and natural alternative. Susan Chan's easy-to-follow recipes combine traditional flavours with modern ingredients to create delicious, nutritious soups and drinks that the whole family will enjoy. She introduces soups that are appropriate for different age groups and classifies them according to the warming, cooling and neutral categories. Includes a glossary of ingredients.

Tse Yim On (b. 1974) is an innovative Hong Kong artist whose artworks upturn many artistic and other conventions. Contemporary photographic and media techniques and values are incorporated in his often-confusing and controversial works. Three introductory essays and a statement from the artist are followed by some 50 examples of his work which were presented at the 2010 Hong Kong exhibition, "Great Righteousness Resolving Confusion". With curriculum vitae and exhibition chronology.

The 2000 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Beijing-born Gao Xingjian (b. 1940) is also a notable playwright and painter in Chinese ink. An essay introduces his oeuvre and career which since 1983 has largely been in Europe. Fifty of his ink paintings on canvas or paper are reproduced. Many feature the solitary man theme for which his earlier paintings were noted. With chronology of exhibitions.

These nine papers were given at a conference which complemented the 2009 SAM exhibition on the 1662-1722 reign of the Emperor Kangxi, the second Qing emperor. His multi-faced personality and long reign had considerable impact on the course and shape of China's history. The papers explore: Kangxi's place on the world stage and relations with Louis XIV and Peter the Great, his contemporaries; the Manchu presence and Kangxi's Southern Tours; his scientific and technical innovation policies; dress; shamanism and its incorporation into mainstream religion; tombs, and death rituals; the Treaty of Nerchinsk of 1689; Kangxi period foreign policy in Asia; the significance of this 2009 exhibition. With illustrations and sketch maps. Partly in Chinese.

Based on the author's life and work in China which includes 2000-2008 as Beijing bureau chief of the Financial Times, this discussion of China's power structure offers informed insights into the contemporary functioning of the Communist Party's leadership and structure. The nature of the Party's grip, its secrecy, business involvements, commercial moguls, its policies on corruption, the media and free markets, its tolerance, and intolerance in selected local and international issues, and approach to economic changes are all addressed with respect as well as clear-sighted criticism. With photographs, references and index.

The Mogao grottoes, a World Heritage Site near Dunhuang in western China, are located along the ancient caravan routes - collectively known as the Silk Road - that once linked China with the West. Founded by Buddhist monks in the late 4th century, Mogao grew gradually over the following millennium, as monks, local rulers, and travelers carved hundreds of cave temples into a mile-long rock cliff and adorned them with vibrant murals portraying Buddhist scripture, Silk Road rulers, and detailed scenes of everyday life. The 65 papers from the Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites address such topics as the principles and practices of wall paintings conservation; site and visitor management; scientific research, particularly in the environmental and geotechnical aspects of conservation; and relevant historical and art historical research.

Khoan and Michael Sullivan began collecting modern Chinese painting in Sichuan in western China in the 1940s, and their collection has developed over the course of more than half a century to include paintings by the principle artists of late 20th-century China, as well as works by a new generation. Many of the works presented in this complete catalogue were given to the Sullivans by the artists themselves, so that this is at once a work of scholarship and a record of many friendships. This edition has been revised and extended to incorporate new works collected since this book was first published in 2001, and an updated further reading section.