Pioneers of modern China : understanding the inscrutable Chinese / / Lee Khoon Choy

• Autore: Lee Khoon Choy <1924->
• Pubblicazione: River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific Pub., c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (574 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.05/0922; B
• Soggetto geografico: China Politics and government 1976-2002
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-525) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword; Acknowledgments; CONTENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1 Fujian Ren & Lin Ze Xu: The Fuzhou Hero Who Destroyed Opium; Chapter 2 Guangdong Ren & Sun Yat Sen: The Founder of the Republic of China; Chapter 3 Zhejiang Ren & Chiang Kai Shek: The Christian President Who Ruled China with an Iron Hand; Chapter 4 Hunan Ren & Mao Ze Dong: Leader and God; Chapter 5 Hubei Ren & Lin Biao: Mao's Named Successor; Chapter 6 Sichuan Ren & Deng Xiao Ping: The Hero of China's Modernization; Chapter 7 Jiangsu Ren & Jiang Ze Min: Former President of the People's Republic of China ; Chapter 8 Henan Ren & Zhao Zi Yang: The Pioneer of China's Market EconomyChapter 9 Shandong Ren: Wan Li and Gang of Four; Chapter 10 Jiangxi Ren: Hu Yao Bang's Grand Tomb; Chapter 11 Anhui Ren & Hu Jin Tao: The New Star in Communist China; Chapter 12 Tianjin: Birthplace of the New Prime Minister, Wen Jia Bao; Chapter 13 Beijing: Mei Lan Fang, Poets, Writers & Painters; Chapter 14 Shanghai: Du Yue Sheng, the Gangster Chief; Chapter 15 Taiwan & The Dream for an Independent State; Chapter 16 Hong Kong in the Experiment of "One Country, Two Systems"; Chapter 17 Macau: The Las Vegas of the East ; BibliographyIndex: People; Index: Places + Landmarks; Index: Ethnic Groups; Index: Miscellaneous
• Sommario/riassunto: Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rén are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rén are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rén are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Rén are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan Rén are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than an
• Titolo autorizzato: Pioneers of modern China
• ISBN: 1-281-37262-5; 9786611372620; 981-270-090-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822959103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II