History

Anónimo. - secret History of the Mongols. Kapok tree. 2000

If the Secret History of the Mongols is the excellent book of this nomadic people, inhabitant from immemorial time, in the arid prairies to the north of China, with this edition of the scholar Laureano Ramírez Bellerín it turns into an authentic "Bible" of the Mongols, in which all the aspects of his life, culture and history are appearing before us as well as the story, in more than than 3.000 notes that they accompany to the text.

Bailey, Paul J. China in the XXth century. Ariel. 2002

More explanatory global story of a country that in the XXth century he supported: Three political revolutions, changes and incredible social and cultural disorders...

Bianco, Lucien. - The origins of the Revolution China (1915-1949). Bellaterra. 1999

The years that they precede to the victory of the communist revolution in China are an epoch little known for the western reader. Few objective studies have reached the big public, abounding on the contrary you act more or less openly partisan. One of the virtues of this work is that of form diacrónicava presenting before the reader different tendencies and movements of these years, which help to understand the character and the victory of the above mentioned revolution.

Ceinos, Pedro. - Brief history of China. Silex. 2003

It is possible to encapsulate five thousand years of history of China in a few hundreds of pages and nevertheless to do an intelligible history. The author presumes to have obtained it, and to be able to present the reader across a narrative clásicamente linear, an intelligible history of China. The new edition of the year 2006, with a good number of progress on the previous edition there is not doubt that it will help to understand the history of this country.

Chen Jian. - The China of Mao and the Cold War. Paidós. 2005

This exhaustive study of the Chinese experience in the Cold War reveals the determinant role that redeemed Peking in the configuration of the slant adopted in the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of the Chinese communist revolution of 1949 arranged the stage. The problems of the war of Korea, the crises of the strait of Taiwan and the war of Vietnam — all who involved China like essential actor — they constituted the only "warm" conflicts of the period of the Cold War, since they turned the East of Asia into the principal battlefield, creating at the same time the conditions that prevented two superpowers from beginning a direct military confrontation. The rupture of Peking with Moscow and his approach to Washington transformed in a fundamental way the international balance of power and, finally, they ended in the end of the Cold War on having produced to him the collapse of the Soviet empire and the slope of the international communism. Based on sources that include some Chinese documents recently disqualified, this book offers pioneering ideas on the course and the result of the Cold War.

Chesneaux, Jean. - rural Movements in China: (1840-1949). XXI.th century 1978

Feuchtwang, Stephen. - The imperial metaphor. Bellaterra. 1999

The festive cycle of a small people of Taiwan serves like pretext to tackle the aspects least known about the Chinese popular religion. From the territorial cults and the rites of divination, to the resources of geomancia and festive banquets.

Gernet, Jacques. - The Chinese world. Criticism. 1991

This book offers a global synthesis of the evolution of China from the neolithic one a 90s. In the work society talks each other of the interrelation between, politics, economy, skill, religion and culture. It presents also in turn the interrelation of China with the world that surrounds him, that contrasts with his presentation like a world closed in works of other authors. A big work of one of the biggest scholars of the nearby country, with his almost thousand pages it opens a wide fan of ideas relative to the Chinese history.

Gil, Juan. - The India and the Catay. Alliance. 1995

The author has studied the historical documents left by travelers, military men, missionaries and historians, from the Vth century to. C until the XIVth century on the India and China, analyzing the conception that has existed in Europe of these countries.

González de Mendoza, Juan. - History of the Big Kingdom of the China. Kapok tree Editions. Madrid. 2008

The History of the Big Kingdom of the China, written by brother Juan González of Mendoza (1545-1618), turned from his publication in 1585 into an authentic one "best seller" since, before finishing the century, the editions in Castilian would overcome the ten and the translations different languages (Italian, French, English, German, Dutch, Latin...) they reached also amazing numbers for the epoch.

Groh, Jordi. - Travel round the Imperial China. Abraxas. 2000

An elegant selection of texts of the western travelers who alo length of the history have visited China. From Jean de Piano and Marco Polo, to Francisco Javier, Mateo Ricci, Jan Potocki, or Paul Claudel. The texts have been selected by taste and the reading is interesting and agreeable.

King Fairbank, John. - History of China. XIXth and XXth centuries. Alliance. 1990

During the last 200 years China has suffered more historical vicissitudes than no other country. Of the empire to the decline. Of the "patient of Asia" to a world superpower. One of the best sinólogos analyzes like nobody these transformations.

King Fairbank, John. - China, a new history.

Lardler, Keith. - Yehonala, the last empress of China. The Cultural club. 2005

A biography of the empress Cixi, indisputable protagonist of last decades of imperial government in China, serves to give a revision to the vision of the court of the events that changed forever the destination of China.

Martín Ríos Javier. - The Occident impact in the modern Chinese thought. Blue. 2003

The Movement of the New Culture provokes a rupture without precedents in the history of China. During the first decades of the XXth century, accompanying the fall of the last dynasty, China experienced a review of the concepts that had accompanied and supported the imperial reality for centuries. This book analyzes in detail these cultural processes, which knowledge is decisive to understand the present reality of this country.

Dark-haired person, Julia. - The China of the XXth century. Akal. 1994

Dark-haired person, Julia. - contemporary China, 1916-1990. Akal. 1995

From the second half of the XIXth century there begin conjugating the factors that will unleash a rough process of changes and revolutions in an old and enormous country of millennial tradition, isolated of the exterior ruled by an inoperative imperial monarchy submitted to the increasing European colonial influence. The texts selected by Julia Moreno include the last history of China: from the step of the monarchy to the republic in 1911, the constitution of the people's republic in 1949, which with the Mao death in 1976 initiates a new period, up to the Tiananmen events in 1989 that open a question on the future of the Asian colossus.

Pu Yi. - I was the last emperor of China. Noguer. 1987

Pu Yi ascended the throne at the age of 3, he was laid down to the 8. At first it continued in the Prohibited City, then it was a marionette of the Japanese in the Government of Manchuria, he lived through the exile, the jail and the rehabilitation. His history told by himself.

Relinque Eleta, Alice (Ed). the Construction of the power in the ancient China. Editions of the University of Granada. 2009

The history is not the history, but the history that they tell us. In spite of his objectivity pretensions, any history keeps on being a mythical history, a tool destined to provide a scenery in which to frame the individual, here and now. That is especially true in China where all the histories have been made up by a few very concrete interests, from the heroic scenes of the Book of History to this chronology of the Historical Records that, like the current ones, he considers to be the past like an intentional succession of facts destined only to create a glorious present. In the middle of this somewhat deformed vision of the Chinese historical reality, the essays that compose the present volume provide, on the contrary, an intelligence slight sign in the multiple realities that finished with forming the country that we call China. In them the persons stop being some walk-ons strengthened in repeating four phrases that the posterity will impute to turn into persons of a time and space, which they operate moved by a few human, tremendously human motivations.

Shaughnessy, Edward L. Ancient China, Her. Life, mythology and art. Publishing Jaguar. 2005

A sample of the art and the imagination in all his splendor: from the invention of the writing up to the dynasty Tang. Bound in hardback with numerous illustrations to color

Spence, Jonathan. - The Palace of the Memory of Mateo Ricci. Tusquets. 2002

The big historian and sinólogo Briton draws a finished panorama of two moments of special complexity: the Europe of the Counter-Reformation and the China of the dynasty Ming, and it does it taking as a pretext the figure of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci

Spence, Jonathan. - The Big Continent of the Khan. Aguilar. 1999

For some years, a series of students has devoted herself to investigate the transformation that suffers the idea of China in Occident to explain our own changes. This work uses the resource of a literary trip across the time and of the space, of Marco Polo to our days.

Unger, Jonathan. - Chinese Nationalism. Bellaterra. 1999

Nine essays of reputable specialists, they present to us one of the problems that more worries to the western ruling classes: The Chinese nationalism. Nobody doubts already that China will be a big potency in the next years. This work tries to answer us if this potency will be nationalistic or not.

Whitfield, Susan. - The life in the route of the silk. Paidós. 2000

For 1.000 years the Route of the Silk was a way of intense traffic along which merchants, missionaries, conquerors and travelers were going along from one end to other of Asia. This work describes this ambience distinguishing in the lives of some of these persons.

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