James David Reardon

The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, "the study of change." In this first full-length work on science in modern China, James Reardon-Anderson describes the introduction and development of chemistry in China in...

Pollution, Politics and Foreign Investment in Taiwan: Lukang Rebellion (Special Report)

Lukang is a sleepy provincial town on the east coast of Taiwan. The Lukang "rebellion" was a series of well-organised mass demonstrations in 1986 and 1987 to block construction by the DuPont Corporation of a titanium dioxide plant nearby. If this protest had occurred just a few years earlier, no dou...

Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward, 1644-1937 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In)

Reluctant Pioneers describes the migration of Chinese to Manchuria, their settlement there, and the incorporation of Manchuria into an expanding China, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The expansion of Chinese state and society from the agrarian and urban core of China proper to the...

Royal Blue

fiction Police story

Big Time Tommy Sloane

Yenan and the Great Powers: The Origins of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy, 1944-1946 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

The Study of Change: Chemistry in China, 1840-1949 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, "the study of change." In this first full-length work on science in modern China, James Reardon-Anderson describes the introduction and development of chemistry in China in...

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF ST. PAUL: From Earliest Origin to Centennial Achievement.

A Factual Narrative of the Archdiocese of St. Paul.