Cultures in collision : the Boxer Rebellion / William J. Duiker.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Huaqiao zhengce yu haiwai minzu zhuyi (1912-1949) 華僑政策與海外民族主義（一九一二~一九四九） = The origin of overseas Chinese nationalism, 1912-1949 / Lee Ying-hui 李盈慧 [Li Yinghui]

Oil for the lamps of China / Alice Tisdale Hobart 

Includes bibliographical references.

Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth (1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring "light" and progress to China in the form of oil and oil lamps, but who is caught between Chinese revolutionary nationalism in the 1920s and the heartless American corporation which has built his career. The title became a catch phrase for expansive American dreams of the vast China market even though the novel itself, written at the beginning of the Great Depression, was skeptical of large business and any supposed American ability to "improve" China. The author presents a clear portrait of Western idealism versus Eastern pragmatism in the doubly exotic setting of Mainland China before the advent of large-scale industrialization. The portrayal is unflattering to both sides. While some might now regard the more sympathetic treatment of the young American as out of date, others would counter that the picture is both historically and contextually accurate. -- Publisher's Description

The nomadic leviathan : a critique of the Sinocentric paradigm / by Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The habit of thought -- The state before the Sinocentric paradigm -- Inner Asia before the Sinocentric paradigm -- The Sinocentric scheme : aim, origins, and theory -- Kinship turn and evolutionary schemes -- Beyond evolutionary materialism : the military pathway -- The Sinocentric paradigm in (frontier) history -- The nomadic leviathan : extrahuman transportation and the military constitution -- The tribal inner Asia : Biblical ethnology.

"Devised to legitimize the Republic of China's claim over Inner Asia, the Sinocentric paradigm stems from the Open Door Policy and Chinese nationalism. Advanced against the conquest theory, and rationalized as the pathfinding ecological theory, it is an evolutionary materialist scheme that became the vision of history. Exposing the initial agenda of this paradigm and revealing its fundamental contradictions, The Nomadic Leviathan debunks it as a myth. Resurrecting the conquest theory, and reinforcing it with the idea of extrahuman transportation, this book places pastoralism at the origin of the state and civilization, and the Eurasian steppe at the center of human history; the political emerges as the primary and fundamental order defining the social and economic"-- Provided by publisher.

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