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Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River (Portable Stanford)
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 23.65 $Traces the history and the course of the Yangtze River and examines its role in China's development
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Yangtze River
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 23.37 $Surveys the origin, geological borders, water, plant and animal life, and economic and ecological aspects of the Yangtze River.
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Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 78.19 $The U.S. Navy's patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve, the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the shoreline factories. Tolley was a young naval officer in the 1930s when assigned gunboat duty, first in the Mindanao, then in the Tutuila, and finally the Wake in August 1941. His colorful description of life as a "river rat" is filled with anecdotes about the resourceful and high-spirited sailors who manned the old riverboats in that distant land.In the process of telling their story he covers a century of Chinese history, replete with warlords and mandarins, bandits and kidnappers, missionaries and mercenaries, riots and revolution. He presents a knowledgeable summary of the political situation in China up to World War II, including the bombing of the Panay, the siege of Shanghai, and the Nanking incident. Far more than a routine account of naval operations on the great Yangtze, this book is an unforgettable reading experience that has attracted readers since 1971 when it was first published in hardcover.
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Yangtze Patrol : The U.S. Navy in China
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 28.06 $The U.S. Navy's patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve, the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the shoreline factories. Tolley was a young naval officer in the 1930s when assigned gunboat duty, first in the Mindanao, then in the Tutuila, and finally the Wake in August 1941. His colorful description of life as a "river rat" is filled with anecdotes about the resourceful and high-spirited sailors who manned the old riverboats in that distant land.In the process of telling their story he covers a century of Chinese history, replete with warlords and mandarins, bandits and kidnappers, missionaries and mercenaries, riots and revolution. He presents a knowledgeable summary of the political situation in China up to World War II, including the bombing of the Panay, the siege of Shanghai, and the Nanking incident. Far more than a routine account of naval operations on the great Yangtze, this book is an unforgettable reading experience that has attracted readers since 1971 when it was first published in hardcover.
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Yangtze! Yangtze!
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 50.85 $This is a collection of analyses, essays and interviews with prominent Chinese intellectuals, experts and politicians who are opposed to the massive and environmentally questionable project to dam the Yangtze River. The largest hydroelectric project of its kind, it will generate 17,500 MW of electricity, displace over 1 million people, create a lake over 450 miles long, and probably silt up in a few years. The book was first distributed in early 1989, but was promptly suppressed after Tiananmen Square and the author put under house arrest. This is the first time it has been available in translation outside China.
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Yangtze - The Long River [first edition]
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 450.00 $The Yangtze river flows 4,100 miles across China, traveling from its furthest westerly point in the Qinghai province to Shanghai in the east. The river is embedded in the consciousness of the Chinese, and plays a significant role in both the spiritual and physical life of the people. Using the river as a metaphor for constant change, Nadav Kander (born 1961) has photographed the landscape and people along its banks from mouth to source. "After several trips to different parts of the river, it became clear that what I was responding to and how I felt whilst being in China was permeating into my pictures," he records; "a formalness and unease, a country that feels both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself."
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The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 37.37 $This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1899 edition by John Murray, London.
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Exploring the Yangtze: China's Longest River
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 82.63 $The author describes his eighteen-month journey up the Yangtze in search of its source, and shares his impressions of the land and people along the way
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Hostage on the Yangtze: Britain, China, and the Amethyst Crisis of 1949
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 106.44 $In 1949, as the Chinese Civil War was about to enter its final, explosive stage, the small British frigate HMS Amethyst was sent on a dangerous mission up the Yangtze River to protect British citizens in Nanking. En route it was attacked by the Chinese Communists and held hostage on the river for several months before the crew managed to make a daring escape. The 'Amethyst' captured news headlines around the world and became an unlikely symbol of the cold war in Asia. This dramatic episode, hailed in the West as a triumph of the human spirit but bitterly condemned by the Chinese Communists, was to prejudice Anglo-Chinese relations for years to come. Using sources not previously available, Malcolm Murfett has written a book that is much more than an account of a single incident. It provides a sweeping survey of British naval power in China, from its faltering and inept beginnings in the late 1630s right up to the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949. In explaining the importance of the Amethyst episode in the history of Anglo-Chinese naval relations, Murfett suggests that it was the final poignant break with the past. Readers will find Hostage on the Yangtze to be a fascinating tale of high adventure, imperialistic oppression, diplomatic shortcomings, and political repercussions - a mixture that culminates in one of the most dramatic and memorable crises of the post-war world.
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The Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 39.61 $A definitive study of the Yangtze craft, complete with carefully detailed scale drawings, the result of the author's research and experience during his 30-year career as a river inspector in China. A lavishly produced volume.
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The Three Gorges on the Yangtze River
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 6.25 $Text in book is in Chinese and English
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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 101.48 $Young Fu is bound for seven years to be an apprentice to Tang the coppersmith, and his new life in the Chinese city Chungking is both exciting and terrifying. Young Fu endures the taunts of his coworkers, and must live by his wits on the streets, where restless soldiers will shoot a man if he does not carry a load for them, and beggars steal from those who pass them by.Yet for Young Fu, the pleasures of the bustling Chungking of the 1920s far outweigh its dangers. Little by little he learns the ways of the big city and plunges into adventure after adventure. Young Fu's eagerness to help others and his acts of courage earn him many friends, and finally, more good fortune than he ever thought possible.
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Gunboat on the Yangtze : The Diary of Captain Glenn F. Howell of the Uss Palos, 1920-1921
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 3.15 $Captain Glenn F. Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years. His journals now make up 202 leather-bound volumes--one of the largest sources in existence, perhaps the largest, of servicemen's observations of service in China during that country's struggle to oust one power and come to grips with a new one between World War I and II. This work presents Howell's diary from June 6, 1920, to September 23, 1921, during which time he commanded the naval gunboat USS Palos on the Yangtze River. First comes a biography of Howell, an overview of Chinese history from 1800 to 1920, and a history of the United States military involvement in China during those years. Howell's time as commander of the USS Palos is divided into three sections. Preceding each, the editor comments on the nature of the upcoming diary entries. Howell covers a range of topics, including the Chinese people, various important locales (e.g., the Three Gorges), making official visits, (his first as a captain), officer-enlisted man relations, opium, the steam navy, people who influenced him (S. Cornell Plant and Captain Joseph Miclo, skipper of the Meitan), missionaries and other foreigners in China (including U.S. military retirees), and "trackers" (China's human beasts of burden.)
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Gunboat on the Yangtze: The Diary of Captain Glenn F. Howell of the USS Palos, 1920-1921
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 28.89 $Captain Glenn F. Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years. His journals now make up 202 leather-bound volumes--one of the largest sources in existence, perhaps the largest, of servicemen's observations of service in China during that country's struggle to oust one power and come to grips with a new one between World War I and II. This work presents Howell's diary from June 6, 1920, to September 23, 1921, during which time he commanded the naval gunboat USS Palos on the Yangtze River. First comes a biography of Howell, an overview of Chinese history from 1800 to 1920, and a history of the United States military involvement in China during those years. Howell's time as commander of the USS Palos is divided into three sections. Preceding each, the editor comments on the nature of the upcoming diary entries. Howell covers a range of topics, including the Chinese people, various important locales (e.g., the Three Gorges), making official visits, (his first as a captain), officer-enlisted man relations, opium, the steam navy, people who influenced him (S. Cornell Plant and Captain Joseph Miclo, skipper of the Meitan), missionaries and other foreigners in China (including U.S. military retirees), and "trackers" (China's human beasts of burden.)
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Halfhyde On the Yangtze. [first edition]
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 75.49 $Far up the Yangtze, the Europeans resident in Chungking are threatened with rebellion and massacre by the Chinese. Tactful intervention in rescuing the terrified civilians is essential. No sooner has the naval party landed at Chungking than the unfortunate Captain Watkiss is captured, leaving Lieutenant Halfhyde with a dilemma: should he effect the safe removal of the stranded Europeans, or pursue Watkiss' Chinese captors?
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Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 20.71 $There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi is a book about how the impossible became possible―about things that happened in China and America to the people Wang Ping grew up with, met, and befriended along her journeys between these two distant rivers. This is also a story about water, alive with spirits and energy, giving birth to all sentient beings. We are water. The river runs through us. Those who live in harmony with water can ride the current of the universe―the secret of Tao, reaching all the way to the sea of miracles, one story, one droplet, and one wave at a time.A miracle is a state of mind, a way of living: how we face hardship, pain, and tragedies, how we transform them into fuels for our journey and transcend them into joy and hope. This is a book about how ordinary people perform miracles every day; how we are touched, touching, all the time, across oceans and continents, across time and space, through our stories.
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 41.02 $Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 0.65
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The Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 108.58 $A definitive study of the Yangtze craft, complete with carefully detailed scale drawings, the result of the author's research and experience during his 30-year career as a river inspector in China. A lavishly produced volume.
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Nadav Kander. Yangtze - The Long River.
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 718.12 $The Yangtze river flows 4,100 miles across China, traveling from its furthest westerly point in the Qinghai province to Shanghai in the east. The river is embedded in the consciousness of the Chinese, and plays a significant role in both the spiritual and physical life of the people. Using the river as a metaphor for constant change, Nadav Kander (born 1961) has photographed the landscape and people along its banks from mouth to source. "After several trips to different parts of the river, it became clear that what I was responding to and how I felt whilst being in China was permeating into my pictures," he records; "a formalness and unease, a country that feels both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself."
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The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time [first edition]
Vendor: Abebooks.com Price: 59.95 $An author travels up the Yangtze river from the Tibetan border to the East China Sea and attempts to get at the soul of China as he passes through the many faces of China. 12,500 first printing.
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