Subject: China--Social conditions--1911-1949

400 millions de clients : la Chine, vue par un commerçant. [400 million customers. French]
AuthorCrow, Carl, 1883-1945, Decourcelle, Claudine
Publish_locationParis
PublisherÉditions de France
CollectionRicci Institute Library [AM]
LanguageFrench
Record_typeBook
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberDS775.2.C7614 1938
Descriptioniii, 259 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Note400 millions de clients : la Chine, vue par un commerçant . Carl Crow ; traduction de Claudine Decourcelle.
Translation of: 400 million customers.
"Ex Libris Alphonse Maillet, Shanghai, mars 1944" [collection uniformly bound]
Changing clothes in China : fashion, history, nation
AuthorFinnane, Antonia
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherColumbia University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberGT1555.F56 2008
Descriptionxvii, 359 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Note

Changing clothes in China : fashion, history, nation / Antonia Finnane.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-342) and index.
Introduction: Fashion, history, nation -- Ways of seeing -- Fashions in late imperial China -- Soldiers and citizens -- The fashion industry in Shanghai -- Qipao China -- Her brother's clothes -- The new look in the new China -- Dressed to kill in the Cultural Revolution -- Breaking with the past -- Conclusion: Fashion, history, time.

ISBN9780231143509
LCCN2007007239
China's new day : a study of events that have led to its coming
AuthorHeadland, Isaac Taylor, 1859-1942
Publish_locationWest Medford, MA
PublisherCentral Committee on the United Study of Missions
CollectionRicci Institute [AEC]
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberDS773.H4 1912
Description263 p. : front, plates, ports ; 19 cm.
NoteChina's new day : a study of events that have led to its coming / by Isaac Taylor Headland.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and index.

The break with the past -- The Chinese woman -- An educational revolution -- The Chinese church -- Medical work -- The printed page.

Also online at the Internet Archive.

LCCN12012138
Family, fields, and ancestors : constancy and change in China's social and economic history, 1550-1949
AuthorEastman, Lloyd E.
Publish_locationOxford, England
PublisherOxford University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfStacks [ASCC]
Call NumberHN733.E25 1988
Descriptionx, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note

Family, fields, and ancestors : constancy and change in China's social and economic history, 1550-1949 / Lloyd E. Eastman.

"This study synthesizes recent research on China's social and economic history, offering a perspective on the four centuries from the Ming Dynasty to the Communist revolution. Drawing on a wide array of sources, the author clarifies the complexities of Chinese society, covering a wide range of topics from population trends, class structure and religion to agriculture, commerce and manufacturing."

ISBN9780195052695 ; 9780195052701
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Fanshen : a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village
AuthorHinton, William Howard, 1919-2004
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherVintage Books
CollectionRicci Institute Library [ASCC]
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesA Vintage giant ; V-465
ShelfStacks [ASCC]
Call NumberHD866.H5 1966
Descriptionxvii, 637 p. : illus., maps ; 20 cm.
Note

Fanshen : a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village / William Hinton.

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Havoc in Hunan : the Sisters of Charity in western Hunan, 1924-1951
AuthorPendergast, Mary Carita, S.C., Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth (Convent Station, NJ)
Publish_locationMorristown, NJ
PublisherCollege of Saint Elizabeth Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfReading Room
Call NumberBV2630.P45 1991
Descriptionxvi, 251 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
NoteHavoc in Hunan : the Sisters of Charity in western Hunan, 1924-1951 / Mary Carita Pendergast, S.C.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title: The Sisters of Charity in western Hunan, 1924 - 1951.
ISBN0962611921
LCCN92-141367
Missions to China's heartland : the letters of Hazel Todd of the China Inland Mission, 1920-1941
AuthorTodd, Hazel, 1893-1941, Gardella, Robert
Publish_locationPortland, ME
PublisherMerwinAsia
CollectionRicci Institute [AEC]
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfAdmin. Office
Call NumberBV3427.T49 A4 2009
Description237 p : ill , map ; 23 cm
NoteMissions to China's heartland : the letters of Hazel Todd of the China Inland Mission, 1920-1941 / edited with notes and an introduction by Robert Gardella.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-236).

Contents: Introduction : China, the missionary project, and the career of Hazel Todd -- From Yangzhou to Hunan : the early years, 1920-1930 -- Reassignment to Anhui : the middle years, 1930-1937 -- On the front lines in Anhui : the final years, 1938-1941.

Features a small number of black-and-white in-text photographs and map (p.2)

ISBN1878282913 ; 9781878282910
LCCN2009016060
My country and my people
AuthorLin Yutang 林語堂, 1895-1976, Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker 賽珍珠, 1892-1973
Publish_locationLondon, Toronto, Kingswood, Engl.
PublisherW. Heinemann, Windmill Press
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfRare Book Stacks
Call NumberDS721.M927 L569 1936
Descriptionxviii, 363 p. : ill., tables ; 21 cm.
NoteMy country and my people / by Lin Yutang ; Introduction by Pearl S. Buck.
Reconstruction in China
AuthorSze, Sao-Ke Alfred [Shi Zhaoji 施肈基], 1877-1958
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherChinese Cultural Society
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBooklet
ShelfRare Book Stacks
Call NumberDS775.R327 S937 1935
Description15 p. ; 23 cm.
NoteReconstruction in China / by Sao-ke Alfred Sze.
"Address of His Excellency, the Chinese minister, Sao-ke Alfred Sze at the meeting of the American academy of political and social science, Philadelphia, Tuesday, November 27th, 1934."
LCCNa35-302
Saishin Shina taikan 最新支那大觀
AuthorSatō Sadakatsu 佐藤定勝, b. 1904
Publish_locationTōkyō 東京
PublisherSeibundō Shinkōsha 誠文堂新光社
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition5版
LanguageJapanese
Record_typeBook
ShelfRare Book Stacks
Call NumberDS706.S257 S352 1938
Description2, 8, 712 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
NoteSaishin Shina taikan 最新支那大觀.
Title: Shina taikan 支那大觀.
Shōwa 昭和13 [1938].
Salt and light : lives of faith that shaped modern China
AuthorBieler, Stacey, Hamrin, Carol Lee
Publish_locationEugene, OR
PublisherPickwick Publications
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
SeriesStudies in Chinese Christianity
ShelfDirector's Office
Call NumberBR1296.S25 2009
Descriptionxi, 240 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
NoteSalt and light : lives of faith that shaped modern China / edited by Carol Lee Hamrin, with Stacey Bieler.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-225) and index.

Introduction / Carol Lee Hamrin and Stacey Bieler -- Rong Hong: visionary for a new China / Stacey Bieler -- Tang Guo'an: pioneering China's rights recovery movement / Carol Lee Hamrin -- Shi Meiyu: an "army of women" in medicine / Connie Shemo -- Fan Zimei: between tradition and modernity / Fuk-Tsang Ying -- Ding Shujing: the YWCA pathway for China's "new women" / Elizabeth A. Littell-Lamb -- Mei Yiqi: university president in wartime / Stacey Bieler -- Lin Qiaozhi: the steady pulse of a quiet faith / Guowei Wright -- Wei Zhuomin: bridging national culture and world values / Peter Tze Ming Ng -- Wu Yifang: abundant life in training women for service / Mary Jo Waelchli -- Yan Yangchu: reformer with a heart for the village / Stacey Bieler.

Rong Hong (Yung Wing) 容閎 – Tang Guo'an (Tong Kwoh On) 唐國安 – Tang Jiechen (Tong Kai-son) 唐介臣 – Shi Meiyu (Mary Stone) 石美玉 – Fan Zimei (T.M. Fan, Fan Yi) 范子美 (范禕) – Ding Shujing (Ting Shu Ching) 丁淑靜 – Mei Yiqi (Yi Chi Mei) 梅貽綺 – Lin Qiaozhi (Lim Kah T'i) 林巧稚 – Wei Zhuomin (Francis Wei) 韋卓民 – Wu Yifang 吳貽芳 – Yan Yangchu (Y.C. James Yen) 晏陽初.

ISBN9781556359842 ; 1556359845
LCCN2009280243
The forty years of the China welfare institute = Zhongguo fulihui sishi nian 中國福利會四十年
AuthorChina Welfare Institute
PublisherChina Welfare Institute
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfStacks
Call NumberDS712.C456 C45 1958
Description32 p. : illus. ; 26 cm.
Note

The forty years of the China welfare institute = Zhongguo fulihui sishi nian 中國福利會四十年 / Chinese Welfare Institute

woman soldier's own story : the autobiography of Xie Bingying
AuthorXie Bingying 謝冰瑩, 1906-2000, Brissman, Lily Chia, Brissman, Barry, 1942-
Publish_locationNew York
PublisherColumbia University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
LanguageEnglish
Record_typeBook
ShelfStacks
Call NumberPL2765.W763 X532 2001
Descriptionxvii, 281 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
NoteA woman soldier's own story : the autobiography of Xie Bingying / Xie Bingying ; translated by Lily Chia Brissman & Barry Brissman.
Title: Autobiography of Xie Bingying.
Title: Nübing Xie Bingying 女兵謝冰瑩.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Childhood -- School -- War -- Prison -- Farewell, Changsha -- Shanghai days -- Beijing -- Japanese attack -- A traveling life -- Days of war.
ISBN0231122500
LCCN2001-23514