| Author | : Reginald F. Johnston |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 573 |
| Release | : 2011-06-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1108029655 |
Johnson's account of the last years of the Chinese Qing dynasty provides a unique Western perspective on this historic period.
| Author | : Reginald Fleming Johnston |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-03-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781774640265 |
From 1919 to 1924, R.F. Johnston, a British colonial official, scholar, writer and great admirer of Chinese culture, served as tutor and adviser to the last Emperor of China, who had abdicated his throne in 1912. However, in order to ensure a rapid and peaceful transfer of power, the emperor was allowed to retain his title and was permitted to remain in residence in the Forbidden City in Beijing [Peking], which he did until the winter of 1924. This book, first published in 1934, is Johnston's account of that period, during which he was uniquely placed to observe the twilight years of the Ch'ing Dynasty.
| Author | : Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 1913 |
| Genre | : Buddha (The concept) |
| ISBN | : |
"L'ouvrage traite dans les sept premiers chapitres du développement du bouddhisme Mahayana en Chine puis dans les six derniers chapitres de deux sites très réputés en Chine pour leurs activités religieuses, plus particulièrement bouddhistes. Le premier de ces sites est la montagne sacrée Jiuhua située dans la province d'Anhui. Le second site est la célèbre île de Putuo ou Putuoshan, située au large des côtes de la province du Zhejiang.
| Author | : William Bell |
| Publisher | : Seal Books |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2010-10-15 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0385674120 |
Seventeen-year-old Alex Jackson comes home from school to find that his father, a CBC news cameraman, wants to take him to China's capital, Beijing. Once there, Alex finds himself on his own in Tian An Men Square as desperate students fight the Chinese army for their freedom. Separated from his father and carrying illegal videotapes, Alex must trust the students to help him escape. Closely based on eyewitness accounts of the massacre in Beijing, Forbidden City is a powerful and frightening story.
| Author | : Paula Volsky |
| Publisher | : Spectra |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2011-02-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307784258 |
In a fragile alliance, the natives are stirring uneasily under their foreign rulers. Rebellion is brewing, and at the heart of the conflict lies the bloody and powerful cult of the god Aoun, whose followers will stop at nothing to rid their land of alien domination. So civil servant Renille vo Chaumelle, scion of a proud, conquering line mingled with native blood, is conscripted as a spy and ordered to penetrate the fortress-temple known as the Fastness of the Gods. There he is to discover the secrets of the priests of Aoun and - if the chance presents itself - assassinate the lead priest, named in legend as the god's own son. But in the holiest depths of the temple, Renille finds there is more to the cult than his superiors suspect - far more than they will ever believe. What he learns leads him to the beautiful princess Jathondi, daughter of the native ruler, who is fated to be the crux of a violent confrontation between the fanatic followers of a flesh-hungry god and their arrogant overlords. Together, Jathondi and Renille must brave a whirlwind of revolution and apocalyptic magic that could shatter a nation, and open the long-sealed portal between heaven and earth.
| Author | : Edward Behr |
| Publisher | : Bantam |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780553344745 |
Tells the story of Pu Yi, who became Emperor of China at age three, was made puppet emperor of Manchuria by the Japanese, was captured by the Russians, and was reeducated in Red Chinese prison
| Author | : Deborah A. Wolf |
| Publisher | : Titan Books |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2018-05-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1785651129 |
The second book in The Dragon's Legacy, an epic fantasy series in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey. "A world of large-scale epic fantasy... This is a rare find and not to be missed." New York Times bestselling author Barb Hendee.Sulema Ja'Akari is an elite warrior, one of the desert people known as the Zeeranim. She is also the daughter of the Dragon King of Atualon, whose magic is the only thing that prevents the earth dragon from waking. Should the dragon end her sleep, their world will be destroyed.The Dragon King is dying. As heir to his throne Sulema must be trained to take his place, yet the more she learns, the less she trusts the sinister agendas that surround her. Knowing that her life hangs in the balance, Sulema seeks to return to the Zeera.Salvation may lie with her mother, Hafsa Azeina, who walks the dark and deadly pathways of the Dreaming Lands. To save her daughter, the dreamshifter will be forced to strike a pact with her greatest enemy, a huntress who would rather kill her than assist her.Upheaval stretches far beyond Atualon—to the forbidden city of Khanbul where the emperor rules with an iron hand. An elite cadre of rebel conspirators chafes beneath his rule and plots to overthrow him.Among them is Jian de Allyr, the half-dae prince born of a human mother and a twilight lord. If they are to challenge the emperor in his stronghold, however, Jian and his co-conspirators must secretly raise an army...
| Author | : Kassy Tayler |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2012-11-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0312641788 |
A whirlwind of adventure, romance, conspiracy and the struggle to stay alive in a dystopian world where nothing is as it seems.
