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Chinese and Americans: A Shared History
Guoqi XuUsing culture rather than politics or economics as a reference point, Xu Guoqi highlights significant yet neglected cultural exchanges in which China and America have contributed to each other’s national development, building the ...
Strangers on the Western Front
Guoqi XuThis is a fresh work of history that crosses thematic boundaries: Chinese history, WWI history, world history, migration and labor history.
Asia and the Great War: A Shared History
Guoqi XuRobert Gerwarth and Erez Manela wrote recently that: The First World War is hardly a neglected subject of historical research. Yet—understandably perhaps, given the centrality of the fighting in Western Europe—most of the literature ...
Sport and Nationalism in China
Zhouxiang Lu65. Fan and Lu, The Politicisation ofSport in Modern China: Communists and Champions. 66. Ibid. 67. Guoqi Xu, “Sports, Nationalism, and Global Politics: Why China Wanted the Olympics,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed May 6, 2013, ...
Reactive Nationalism & Its Prospects for Conflict: The ...
Michael Alan Brittingham... conscious efforts made to expand the system beyond China's more immediate neighbors (e.g., the voyages of the Ming treasure fleet)." Instead. Guoqi Xu suggests that "close-mindedness and self- imposed isolation might be called the main ...
The Chinese Historical Review
More editionsCharles W. Hayford Independent Scholar, Visiting Professor, Northwestern University Guoqi Xu, Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008. Cambridge , Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. xi, 377. ISBN 9780674028401.
The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 1, ...
Preview... the war,presenting an opportunity to consider the war's regional and global dimensions. Uncoveringthefull scope of 'North America's War' requires evaluating Britain's dominant position The OttomanEmpire Mustafa Aksakal Asia Guoqi Xu ...
China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National ...
Guoqi XuWhere are the studies like Frederick Dickinson's work on World War I Japan?15 The current scholarship in this area leaves many key questions unanswered. Was this period, as is commonly supposed, simply a politically confused warlord era, ...
Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008
Guoqi XUBut will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This book approaches questions about the nature and future of China through the lens of sports—particularly as sports finds its utmost international expression in the Olympics.
The Rural Modern: Reconstructing the Self and State in ...
Kate Merkel-Hess... and Politics in Republican China, 1919–1937 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 1990), 223, 226. 32. Guoqi Xu, Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Cambridge, MA: ...
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