Everything Under the Heavens

Author: Howard W. French
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353332
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer. Steeped in deeply researched history as well as on-the-ground reporting, this is French at his revelatory best.

Under Heaven

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 110118700X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description
Award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of 8th-century China in an masterful story of honor and power. It begins simply. Shen Tai, son of an illustrious general serving the Emperor of Kitai, has spent two years honoring the memory of his late father by burying the bones of the dead from both armies at the site of one of his father's last great battles. In recognition of his labors and his filial piety, an unlikely source has sent him a dangerous gift: 250 Sardian horses. You give a man one of the famed Sardian horses to reward him greatly. You give him four or five to exalt him above his fellows, propel him towards rank, and earn him jealousy, possibly mortal jealousy. Two hundred and fifty is an unthinkable gift, a gift to overwhelm an emperor. Wisely, the gift comes with the stipulation that Tai must claim the horses in person. Otherwise he would probably be dead already...

Everything Under the Heavens

Author: Howard W. French
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385353324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
"From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy." / Verlagsinformation

Everything Under Heaven

Author: A. Edwards
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780333383445
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Under the Heavens

Author: Emma J. Swain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789357740555
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
""A humble collection of poems to remind people that although we may find ourselves in all manner of seasons, purpose can be found in them all. """"There is a time for everything, and a reason for every activity under the heavens."""" Ecclesiastes 3:1""

Everything Under the Heavens

Author: Dana Stabenow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936666997
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Raised in a prosperous family of 14th century Chinese merchants, by the age of sixteen Wu Johanna's world reaches from Japan in the east to Tajikistan in the west. It's a world seen from camelback, through tent flaps, and in the cool, shaded caravanserai where travelers and traders gather along the Silk Road. Hers is a world of spice merchants and pearl divers, bandits and troubadours, servants and sheikhs. A world in which trust is more valuable than gold, and the right name can unlock a network of contacts from Japan to North Africa. Johanna is, after all, the granddaughter of Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, however, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little. Amid the shifting dynastic loyalities and political maneuverings of the Khan's disintegrating court, she must leave almost everyone and everything she knows behind. If she's to find a fture for herself, it will mean crossing thevast expanse of Asia to the very edge of the known world."--Publisher's description.

All Things Under Heaven

Author: Scott Godfrey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781329332720
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Under the Heavens

Author: Ruth Fox
Publisher: Ark Trilogy
ISBN: 9780744304701
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Even the darkest secrets will come to light. Bubbly social media star Hannah Monksman is captaining Seiiki and carrying the last of Earth's whales to a new paradise planet. Viewers have been following Hannah's journey, but what they don't know is her true identity--Kim Teng who won her role as Caretaker with the help of underground operatives known as the Crusaders. Kim forms a close bond with the whales in her care, and their mental Link allows conversation on the lonely spaceship. But when one of the whales, Adonai, begins acting strange, Kim begins to suspect that she is a pawn in a secret mission meant to ensure the whales never reach their destination. Or it may just be the isolation getting to her.

The Book of the Mysteries of the Heavens and the Earth

Author: Baḫayla Mîkâʾêl
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays
ISBN: 9780892540877
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Originally published: London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1935. With new foreword. This ed. lacks the facsimiles of the original manuscript published in the 1935 ed.

The Story of the Heavens (Classic Reprint)

Author: Robert S. Ball
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331865769
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664

Book Description
Excerpt from The Story of the Heavens I have also to thank Dr. Copeland and Mr. Steele for their kindness in reading through the entire proofs; while I have also occasionally availed myself of the help of Mr. Cathcart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.