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Hong Kong (China) -- History.

Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.

Hong Kong - Transfer of Sovereignty from Great Britain, 1997

Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government -- 1997-

Political participation -- China -- Hong Kong.

Political culture -- China -- Hong Kong.

Democratization -- China -- Hong Kong.

Hong Kong (China) -- Emigration and immigration.

Hong Kong (China) -- Social conditions.

Hong Kong (China) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.

Business and politics -- China -- Hong Kong.

Business enterprises -- Hong Kong

Taiwan -- 1895-1945.

Taiwan History -- 20th century.

Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1975-

Taiwan -- Relations -- China.

Taiwan -- 21st century.

Taiwan -- Social conditions.

Qing Dynasty

Manchus -- China

Kangxi, Emperor of China, 1654-1722

Yongzheng, Emperor of China, 1677-1735

Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-1799

China -- Politics and government -- 1644-1912

China -- History -- 1861-1912.

China -- History -- Revolution, 1911-1912.

China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901.

China -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.

China -- Social life and customs -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D.

China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.

China -- History -- Three kingdoms, 220-265.

China -- History -- Jin dynasty, 265-419

China -- History -- Sui dynasty, 581-618.

China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907

China -- History -- Shang dynasty, 1766-1122 B.C.

China -- Civilization -- To 221 B.C.

China -- Politics and government -- To 221 B.C.

Assigned eBooks (HIST 4499 Fall 2020)

A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai; Ida Pruitt (Editor)
Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt--a bicultural social worker, writer, and contributor to Sino-American understanding--visited with Ning Lao T'ai-ta'i, three times a week for breakfast. These meetings became the foundation for an enduring friendship.
A Woman Soldier's Own Story : The Autobiography of Xie Bingying by Bingying Xie; Lily Chia Brissman; Barry Brissman
This new translation of the autobiography of Xie Bingying (1906-2000)--an important Chinese feminist, pioneering "girl soldier," and skilled writer--provides a fascinating portrayal of a woman fighting to free herself from the constraints of ancient Chinese tradition in the context of the dramatic changes that shook China during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s.
The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942 by Henrietta Harrison
In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office.
Red God: Wei Baqun and His Peasant Revolution in Southern China, 1894-1932 by Xiaorong Han
The career of communist revolutionary Wei Baqun, one of China's "three great peasant leaders" and man of the southern frontier.Robin Hood-style revolutionary Wei Baqun is often described as one of China's "three great peasant leaders," alongside Mao Zedong and Peng Pai. In his home county of Donglan, where he started organizing peasants in the early 1920s, Wei Baqun came to be considered a demigod after his death--a communist revolutionary with supernatural powers.

Selected eBooks

Biographical dictionary of Chinese women: antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E.
Han Yü and the Tʻang search for unity (key Confucian scholar of the Tang Dyansty)
Global entanglements of a man who never traveled : a seventeenth-century Chinese Christian and his conflicted worlds (17th century)
Yuan Mei : Eighteenth century Chinese poet (bio of a key literary figure, Qing)
Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849 : the life and work of a major scholar-official in nineteenth-century China before the Opium War
Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) : reform and modernization in modern Chinese history (late imperial 19th century transition)
Empress dowager Cixi : China's last dynasty and the long reign of a formidable concubine : legends and lives during the declining days of the Qing Dynasty (1835-1908)
A Gentlemen’s prescriptions for women’s lives: a thousand years of biographies of Chinese women (late imperial women and biography)
Ancestral Leaves: a family journey through Chinese history (Imperial Era - People's Republic)
Yuan Shikai: A reappraisal (late imperial and early revolutionary period)
The experience of modernity: Chinese autobiography of the early twentieth century
Blood road : the mystery of Shen Dingyi in revolutionary China (1911 Revolution & Republican era)
Jumping through hoops : Autobiographical stories by modern Chinese women writers (Chinese Women, Revolutionaries & WW2)
Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese women writers and the Japanese occupation (1931-1945)
Daughter of good fortune : a Chinese peasant memoir (Republican & Mao era)
Chairman Hua: Leader of the Chinese communists (1920 - 2002)
Old Shanghai and the clash of revolution (WW2 era biography, 1949 - 2002)
Enduring the Revolution: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in Guomindang China (Ding, Ling, 1904-1986.)
Mao's people : sixteen portraits of life in revolutionary China (classic short biographies from Mao era)
To the storm: the odyssey of a revolutionary Chinese woman (amazing Cultural Revolution era biography, red guards & intellectuals)
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service (Mao era)
Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard (red guards; Mao era)
The Attic: Memoir of a Chinese landlord’s son (Cultural Revolution)
Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: a Political Biography (Best Deng bio, Mao & post Mao era)
Hu Jintao, China’s silent ruler (post-Mao era)
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (best Deng biography; Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997)
The Great Flowing River: a memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan

Selected Print Books

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women (all periods)
Notable women of China : Shang dynasty to the early twentieth century
Empress Dowager CIXI : the concubine who launched modern China
Chen Duxiu: Founder of the Chinese Communist Party (Chen, Duxiu, 1879-1942.)
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China ( Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.)
Zhou Enlai : the last perfect revolutionary : a biography (Zhou, Enlai, 1898-1976)
Mao Zedong (Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976)
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China ( Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997.)
Lives of the family : stories of fate & circumstance
The Crippled Tree: biography, history, autobiography (Boxer era, early 20th century)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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