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

400 millions de clients : la Chine, vue par un commerçant. [400 million customers. French]
AuthorCrow, Carl, 1883-1945Decourcelle, Claudine
PlaceParis
PublisherÉditions de France
CollectionRicci Institute Library [AM]
Edition
LanguageFrench
TypeBook
Series
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]
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Changing clothes in China : fashion, history, nation
AuthorFinnane, Antonia
PlaceNew York
PublisherColumbia University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberGT1555.F56 2008
Descriptionxvii, 359 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
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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.

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ISBN9780231143509
LCCN2007007239
China's new day : a study of events that have led to its coming
AuthorHeadland, Isaac Taylor, 1859-1942
PlaceWest Medford, MA
PublisherCentral Committee on the United Study of Missions
CollectionRicci Institute [AEC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
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.

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LCCN12012138
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)
PlaceMorristown, NJ
PublisherCollege of Saint Elizabeth Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
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.
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ISBN0962611921
LCCN92-141367
Missions to China's heartland : the letters of Hazel Todd of the China Inland Mission, 1920-1941
AuthorTodd, Hazel, 1893-1941Gardella, Robert
PlacePortland, ME
PublisherMerwinAsia
CollectionRicci Institute [AEC]
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
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)

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ISBN1878282913 ; 9781878282910
LCCN2009016060
My country and my people
AuthorLin Yutang 林語堂, 1895-1976Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker 賽珍珠, 1892-1973
PlaceLondon, Toronto, Kingswood, Engl.
PublisherW. Heinemann, Windmill Press
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
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.
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Reconstruction in China
AuthorSze, Sao-Ke Alfred [Shi Zhaoji 施肈基], 1877-1958
PlaceNew York
PublisherChinese Cultural Society
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBooklet
Series
ShelfStacks
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."
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Saishin Shina taikan 最新支那大觀
AuthorSatō Sadakatsu 佐藤定勝, b. 1904
PlaceTōkyō 東京
PublisherSeibundō Shinkōsha 誠文堂新光社
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition5版
LanguageJapanese
TypeBook
Series
ShelfReading Room
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].
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Salt and light : lives of faith that shaped modern China
AuthorBieler, StaceyHamrin, Carol Lee
PlaceEugene, OR
PublisherPickwick Publications
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
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.

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ISBN9781556359842 ; 1556359845
LCCN2009280243
woman soldier's own story : the autobiography of Xie Bingying
AuthorXie Bingying 謝冰瑩, 1906-2000Brissman, Lily ChiaBrissman, Barry, 1942-
PlaceNew York
PublisherColumbia University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
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.
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ISBN0231122500
LCCN2001-23514