An Advanced Reader in Chinese International Relations

This book offers three main features. It contains a graded selection of writings by some of the most important modern Chinese writers. Secondly, all new words and phrases encountered in the lessons are defined in Chinese, so that the reader becomes accustomed to the use of dictionaries written in the Chinese language. Lastly, a series of questions is appended to each lesson, which it is hoped will lead the student to use his knowledge of Chinese to discuss the leading points presented in the lessons. All the lessons are written in modern Chinese, but they present several prose styles of differing complexity.

Source: An Advanced Reader in Chinese International Relations

Foreigners in Areas of China Under Communist Jurisdiction before 1949

Link: Foreigners in Areas of China Under Communist Jurisdiction before 1949: Biographical Notes and a Comprehensive Bibliography of the Yenan Hui

People talk about “China Hands” all the time. In this fascinating study Margaret Stanley, Daniel H. Bays, and Helen Foster Snow offer a biographical listing of the non-Chinese who were living and working in communist-controlled areas of China prior to the Communist Party’s victory over the Kuomintang in 1949.

Many of these names will be familiar to students of modern Chinese history,b but there will likely be some surprises as well.

An Advanced Reader in Chinese Literature

2009 Revised Edition of the 1978 original. The revised edition was typed in Microsoft Word with Unicode font to guarantee a searchable full-text format. Previous Zuyin (注音) phonetic markers were updated to Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音) with tone markers. Some missing Chinese characters in the first edition, due to limitation of character type font on the Chinese typewriter, were added and typos were corrected. Endnotes were changed to footnotes for easy reading. Lessons with mixed traditional and simplified characters were changed to use either traditional or simplified characters throughout.

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Breaking the Suicide Pact: US-China Cooperation on Climate Change

U.S.–China climate cooperation is the critical step toward a global climate agreement.Yet the two countries are locked in a “suicide pact”; each refuses to act before the other.

Source: pb57_chandler_final2.pdf