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Cultural centrality and political change in Chinese history : northeast Henan in the fall of the Ming
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ISBN: 0804740445 Year: 2003 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

In war and famine
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ISBN: 1282863258 9786612863257 0773572597 9780773572591 9780773528536 0773528539 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montréal Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press

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While the principle narrator is Christensen's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor, Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who also sought to relieve the suffering of innocents caught in the crossfire of war and revolution - brave women who marched orphans through enemy lines, missionaries turned OSS intelligence officers, a Canadian Anglican cleric, a Swiss trainer of seeing-eye dogs, and a diplomat who travelled the province by bicycle.

China along the Yellow River : reflections on rural society
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ISBN: 1134296630 1280225335 9786610225330 0203480244 9780203480243 9780415341134 0415341132 6610225338 9781134296637 9781134296583 1134296584 9781134296620 1134296622 9780415406147 0415406145 0415341132 9781280225338 Year: 2005 Publisher: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon,

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This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest portraits of the Chinese countryside published in the reform era', it charts a long journey through the hinterland region of the Yellow River undertaken by the author between 1994 and 1996. It examines in exhaustive detail the lives and work of peasants, Party and local government officials, providing a wealth of data on the nature of life in post-reform rural China. The author argues that global integration is but the latest 'great leap forward' in a successio


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The ecology of war in China : Henan Province, the Yellow River, and beyond, 1938-1950
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ISBN: 1316191478 1316211827 1316189635 1316209962 1316206262 1107417597 1316208117 1316204472 1316202615 1107785278 1107071569 1322560870 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores the interplay between war and environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-3, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.

Cross culture and faith : the life and work of James Mellon Menzies
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ISBN: 1282028898 9786612028892 1442673613 9781442673618 9781282028890 0802038697 9780802038692 Year: 2005 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. In a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in collecting for the people of China. He also saw his archaeological work as an extension of his missionary work, connecting, through his discoveries, the religious beliefs of ancient China to those of evangelical Christianity. In Cross Culture and Faith, Linfu Dong sheds new light on the modern encounter between China and the West through Menzies's life, work, and thought. He elucidates the difficult 'negotiation' processes that Menzies endured on multiple levels and with multiple forces, including Chinese nationalism, Western imperialism, the evangelical Mission, and his own personal interest in Chinese archaeology within that world. Despite his belief in assuring Chinese artefacts remained in China, some of Menzies's personal collection was donated to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in British Columbia. This has assured his place in the cultural memory of both East and West - appropriate, since his life so often straddled the two worlds.

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Archaeologists --- Missionaries --- Historians --- Menzies, James M. --- Ming, Yishi --- Mingyishi --- Ming, Ziyi --- Menzies, James Mellon --- Presbyterian Church in Canada. --- Presbyterian Church in Canada --- Eglise presbytérienne au Canada --- Eglise presbytérienne du Canada --- Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces of British North America --- Presbyterian Church of Canada in Connection with the Church of Scotland --- Canada Presbyterian Church --- Missions --- Histoire. --- History. --- China --- China. --- Canada. --- Henan (Chine : Sheng) --- Henan Sheng (China) --- Ho-nan sheng (China) --- Kanan-shō (China) --- Honan Province (China) --- Chung-chou (China : Province) --- Ho-nan sheng cheng fu (China) --- Pʻing-yüan sheng (China) --- Henan Province (China) --- Ho-nan (China) --- Ho-nan sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- 河南省 (China) --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey --- 1949 --- -BNKhAU --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Catay --- Cathay --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chine --- Chinese National Government --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Chung-hua min kuo --- Chung-kuo --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Cina --- Činská lidová republika --- Dumdad Uls --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Erets Sin --- Jhonggu --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- Khi͡atad --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Kin --- Kitad --- Kita --- Kitaĭskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika --- Kitajska --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- National Government --- P.R.C. --- P.R. China --- People's Republic of China --- PR China --- PRC --- Republic --- Republic of China --- República Popular China --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- République Populaire de Chine --- RRC --- RRT --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- VR China --- VRChina --- Zhong guo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhonghuaminguo --- Rotchina --- Zhongguo-Diguo --- Kaiserreich Zhongguo --- Zhonghua-minguo --- Chung-hua-min-kuo --- Zhonghua-Renmin-Gongheguo --- Kaiserreich China --- Shinkoku --- Chung-hua-jen-min-kung-ho-kuo --- Zhonghua --- Volksrepublik China --- Zhonghua renmin gongheguo --- République populaire de Chine --- Kytajsʹkaja Narodnaja Respublika --- Chinese People’s Republic --- 中华人民共和国 --- Chinesen --- Taiwan --- Antiquites. --- Antiquities.

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