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Sun Yat-sen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Sun Yat-sen

Arguing that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted by both myth and demythification, the author provides a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement.

CliffsTestPrep Regents Global History and Geography Workbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

CliffsTestPrep Regents Global History and Geography Workbook

Designed with New York State high school students in mind. CliffsTestPrep is the only hands-on workbook that lets you study, review, and answer practice Regents exam questions on the topics you're learning as you go. Concise answer explanations immediately follow each question--so everything you need is right there at your fingertips. After going through the practice questions, you can use the workbook again as a refresher to prepare for the Regents exam by taking a full-length practice test. You'll get comfortable with the structure of the actual exam while also pinpointing areas where you need further review. About the contents: Inside this workbook, you'll find sequential, topic-specific test questions with fully explained answers for each of the following subjects: World History Geography Economics Civics, Citizenship, and Government A full-length practice test at the end of the book is made up of questions culled from multiple past Regents exams. Use it to identify your weaknesses, and then go back to those sections for more study. It's that easy! The only review-as-you-go workbook for the New York State Regents exam.

The Political Economy of Food System Transformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

The Political Economy of Food System Transformation

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The current structure of the global food system is increasingly recognized as unsustainable. In addition to the environmental impacts of agricultural production, unequal patterns of food access and availability are contributing to non-communicable diseases in middle- and high-income countries and inadequate caloric intake and dietary diversity among the world's poorest. To this end, there have been a growing number of academic and policy initiatives aimed at advancing food system t...

Taiwan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

Taiwan

This issue of the journal Berliner China-Hefte / Chinese History and Society, themed 'Taiwan: Self vs. Other' brings together outstanding contributions from the 11th annual European Association of Taiwan (EATS) conference, which was held at the University of Portsmouth in 2014. The various papers included here examine how Taiwan perceives and projects itself to its domestic and international audiences by employing a wide variety of case studies. (Series: Chinese History and Society / Berliner China-Hefte, Vol. 47) [Subject: ?Asian Studies, Sociology

China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

China

This new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Chinese civilisation from Peking Man to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, and literature to name but a few.

Love & Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Love & Revolution

"Death is inevitably the end of a journey. Death also allows the journey to go back to the beginning." In this bold novel, one of Taiwan's most celebrated authors reimagines the lives of a legendary couple: Sun Yat-sen, known as the "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and his wife, Song Qingling. Born in 1866, Sun Yat-sen grew up an admirer of the rebels who tried to overthrow the ruling Manchu dynasty. He dreamed of strengthening China from within, but after a failed attempt at leading an insurrection in 1895, Sun was exiled to Japan. Only in 1916, after the dynasty fell and the new Chinese Republic was established, did he return to his country and assume the role of provisional president. ...

Subhas Chandra Bose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Subhas Chandra Bose

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-09-11
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Subhas Chandra Bose continues to be a well-known figure in India more than fifty years after his death, but in the West remains a shadowy figure unknown to many. He made headlines worldwide as the extremist leader of the Provisional Government of Free India after its establishment by the Axis powers during World War II and was viewed as sort of an Asian Hitler or Quisling, but when the Allies crushed Bose's Indian National army, the world seemed quickly to forget him. This work is a biography of Bose, the self-proclaimed Netaji, or "revered leader," who sought to bring down the British Raj by making alliances with Rome, Berlin, and Tokyo during World War II and by helping India thrive econom...

Handbook of Christianity in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1092

Handbook of Christianity in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-12-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 to the present day, dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects.

ACT Advanced Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 443

ACT Advanced Practice

If you're looking to get a top score on the ACT, Kaplan's ACT Advanced Practice workbook has the high-difficulty practice and expert strategies you need to face the toughest questions with confidence. Nine practice sets with advanced, high-difficulty questions to help you score the most points. More than 600 questions with detailed answers and explanations.