Being In Beijing
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Being In Beijing
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Author : Michael Oneal
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Being In Beijing written by Michael Oneal and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Travel categories.
Michael O'Neal's "Being in Beijing: Buses Bikes and Beer," is a maddening, hilarious, death defying, and sexually frustrating account of one man's year long stay in one of the most populated cities on earth. Mike made it a point to engage as many people as he could on an almost daily basis, from the lovely campus co-eds, to the foreign-curious waitstaff of restaurants, to the toothless street vendors staked out on every corner of the city. Board crowded buses and trains with Mike where the rides are anything but boring through his eyes. Join him on his bicycle for pedals across town where he gets bounced off buses and cabs, and has head-on collisions with other cyclists and scooters. And walk with him through the many intriguing and historic sites in and around Beijing; The Forbidden City, The Summer Palace, The Llama Temple, The Temple of Heaven, The Great Bell Temple, and of course, climb with him up the Great Wall. Mike befriends all he meets, with a genuine affinity for the Chinese People, especially the store owners who kept him supplied with pijou (beer)! "Being in Beijing" is a raucous, rapid, rambunctious, and rascally ride that will have you laughing out of your recliner, and sometimes shedding a tear over touching moments of friendship and humanity. By the end of the book, Mike will be a friend of yours. You can almost hear him telling his stories, laughing with him, feeling his frustrations to the core, and being awestruck with the beauty and antiquity of Asia. As one reader wrote, "Thanks for the bike ride, Pal!" Escape with Mike to China. You and he will have a great time together!
China Steps Out
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Author : Joshua Eisenman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-12
China Steps Out written by Joshua Eisenman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-12 with Social Science categories.
What are Beijing’s objectives towards the developing world and how they have evolved and been pursued over time? Featuring contributions by recognized experts, China Steps Out analyzes and explains China’s strategies in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America, and evaluates their effectiveness. This book explains how other countries perceive and respond to China’s growing engagement and influence. Each chapter is informed by the functionally organized academic literature and addresses a uniform set of questions about Beijing’s strategy. Using a regional approach, the authors are able to make comparisons among regions based on their economic, political, military, and social characteristics, and consider the unique features of Chinese engagement in each region and the developing world as a whole. China Steps Out will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese foreign policy, comparative political economy, and international relations.
Being Modern In China
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Author : Paul Willis
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-11-13
Being Modern In China written by Paul Willis and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-13 with Social Science categories.
This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour – shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of workers but also of a mental and ideological kind to new cultural landscapes of meaning, which include worship of the glorified city, devotion to consumerism, and fixation upon the smartphone and the internet. Massive educational expansion has been a precondition for explosive economic growth and technical development, but at the same time the school provides a cultural stage for personal and collective experience. In its closed walls and the inescapability of its ‘scores’, an astonishing drama plays out between the new and the old, with a tapestry of intricate human meanings woven of small tragedies and triumphs, secret promises and felt betrayals, helping to produce not only exam results but cultural orientations and occupational destinies. By exploring the cultural dimension of everyday experience as it is lived out in the school, this book sheds new light on the enormous transformations that have swept through China and created the kind of society that it is today: a society that is obsessed with the future and at the same time structured by and in continuous dialogue with its past.
Environmental Sciencebites
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Author : Kylienne A. Clark
language : en
Publisher: The Ohio State University
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Environmental Sciencebites written by Kylienne A. Clark and has been published by The Ohio State University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Nature categories.
This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.
14 Days In Beijing
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Author : Chancellor Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-18
14 Days In Beijing written by Chancellor Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-18 with categories.
My name is Lucky Chance. I'm a young man looking for an exciting life of travel, and I'm here in Beijing to start a teaching job. On April 4th, 2019, my luck runs out. The Beijing Police show up to my apartment unannounced and I'm arrested on drug charges. I get no information about the law, my rights, nothing. After 14 hours of sitting handcuffed in a holding cell, my destination is Beijing Jail No. 6. I am in a cell with 14 Chinese men and 9 wooden beds for 24 hours a day. I have no idea how many days I will be here, or whether I will ever receive any information. Am I the only foreigner in this jail? How does this jail even work? Does anyone even know I am here? Surely, as the time passes, my girlfriend, my friends, and my coworkers will notice I am missing eventually. Will they be able to find out where I am? How long will that take, or is this to be my future now? Will I ever leave this cell? Embark on this 14 Day Journey with me.
Beijing Payback
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Author : Daniel Nieh
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-07-23
Beijing Payback written by Daniel Nieh and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with Fiction categories.
“Propulsive. . . . Highly enjoyable. . . . It sets up a sequel, one that I very much look forward to reading.” —The New York Times Book Review A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father’s murder Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs.
The Rise Of China And The Chinese Overseas
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Author : Leo Suryadinata
language : en
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Release Date : 2017-01-25
The Rise Of China And The Chinese Overseas written by Leo Suryadinata and has been published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-25 with Political Science categories.
With the rise of China and massive new migrations, China has adjusted its policy towards the Chinese overseas in Southeast Asia and beyond. This book deals with Beijing’s policy which has been a response to the external events involving the Chinese overseas as well as the internal needs of China. It appears that a rising China considers the Chinese overseas as a source of socio-political and economic capital and would extend its protection to them whenever this is not in conflict with its core national interest. The impacts on and the responses of the relevant countries, especially those in Southeast Asia, are also examined
Beijing And Beyond
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Author : Michael Kroll
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-03-29
Beijing And Beyond written by Michael Kroll and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-29 with categories.
"In 1981, I traveled with a group of criminal justice professionals to China - or, as I like to describe it, "30 professionals and 1 anti-professional: me!" China was just opening up to the outside world. Mao Tse Tung had died only a few years before, and China's economic boom was only just being ignited. Not only was there no smog in Beijing, there were almost no cars at all. We saw wonderful things, like the Children's Palace in Shanghai, as well as scenes as depressing as both the Beijing and Shanghai prisons were, for example, or the reform school where teenage girls sang for us, tears streaming down their faces. Beyond the glimpses we were provided into a criminal justice system that was in the process of being recreated in the wake of the destructive Cultural Revolution, this is also a memoir of what it is like to travel with 30 well-heeled Americans who not only worry that there may not be enough "official work-related" visits to justify the tax write-offs they are calculating, but who also spend, spend, spend their way through China, filled with an embarrassing sense of self-importance - quick to complain when our Chinese hosts didn't quite appreciate just how important they thought themselves to be. It is based on journals I kept daily during the trip, and therefore reads as a current travelog, replete with photographs, with a difference - it being China in 1981."
The Last Days Of Old Beijing
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Author : Michael Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Walker
Release Date : 2008-06-24
The Last Days Of Old Beijing written by Michael Meyer and has been published by Walker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with History categories.
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes. Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn’t eradicate, the market economy has. Nobody has been more aware of this than Michael Meyer. A long-time resident, Meyer has, for the past two years, lived as no other Westerner—in a shared courtyard home in Beijing’s oldest neighborhood, Dazhalan, on one of its famed hutong (lanes). There he volunteers to teach English at the local grade school and immerses himself in the community, recording with affection the life stories of the Widow, who shares his courtyard; coteacher Miss Zhu and student Little Liu; and the migrants Recycler Wang and Soldier Liu; among the many others who, despite great differences in age and profession, make up the fabric of this unique neighborhood. Their bond is rapidly being torn, however, by forced evictions as century-old houses and ways of life are increasingly destroyed to make way for shopping malls, the capital’s first Wal-Mart, high-rise buildings, and widened streets for cars replacing bicycles. Beijing has gone through this cycle many times, as Meyer reveals, but never with the kind of dislocation and overturning of its storied culture now occurring as the city prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympics. Weaving historical vignettes of Beijing and China over a thousand years through his narrative, Meyer captures the city’s deep past as he illuminates its present. With the kind of insight only someone on the inside can provide, The Last Days of Old Beijing brings this moment and the ebb and flow of daily lives on the other side of the planet into shining focus.
China S Urban Communities
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Author : Peter G. Rowe
language : en
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Release Date : 2016-06-06
China S Urban Communities written by Peter G. Rowe and has been published by Birkhäuser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-06 with Architecture categories.
Cities in China are extremely dynamic and experience high pressure to grow, transform and adapt. But in what directions, on what basis and to which goals? The authors and their team have researched the intensive transformation processes of about twenty-five neighborhood communities that were created in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou in the last 30 years, ranging from inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from planning and leading up to user satisfaction studies. This in-depth overview on neighborhood typology and development in China follows the book Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities by Peter Rowe, who is among the world’s best scholars on urban transformation in East Asia, together with his colleagues Ann Forsyth and Har Ye Kan.