Return to Kashgar
Author: Gunnar Jarring
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
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A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
Author: Suzanne Joinson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1408830914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie and their zealous leader Millicent at the ancient city of Kashgar to establish a mission. As they encounter resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar...In present-day London, Frieda opens her door to find a man sleeping on the landing. Tayeb, a Yemeni refugee, has arrived in Frieda's life just as she learns that she is next-of-kin to a stranger, a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises. The two wanderers embark on a journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva's.
Night Train to Turkistan
Author: Stuart Stevens
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780871131904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first account of travel in Chinese Turkistan, closed to foreigners since 1949, shows a world where bureaucratic hazards often loom larger than geographical ones. First serial to Esquire.
Through Asia
The Dragon from the Mountains
Author: Matthew McCartney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1108834159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Utilising the contemporary China-Pakistan relationship, economic theory and history, this book evaluates if China can spark Pakistan's growth.
To Begin Again
Author: Virginia Jean Wesley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-02-19
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1462826563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →BEGIN AGAIN is Virginia Wesley’s first book written from a compilation of personal journals, letters, e-mails, and conversations with friends and family. Her most valuable tool is her memory and instant recall. Her favorite names for herself are Miracle Girl, GiGi as she is known to her grandchildren and Gin or Ginny as her friends and family know her. Ginny owned Mountain Moppets, a very beloved children’s boutique for 25 years in Old Colorado City on the Westside of Colorado Springs. She sold the business to someone who loved it as much as she did in 2006. Ginny continues to live in “The Springs” where she dotes on her daughter, Page, and her husband Chas and their beautiful children, Taylor Sage, 5 years, and Griffin Michael, 2 1⁄2. She has traveled the world including all of Europe, England,, Scotland, Canada’s British Columbia, South America’s Peru, Jamaica. The US Virgin Islands, and most recently China. She loves her own country, The United States of America, the most because she believes we have a very special kind of freedom like no other nation in the world. She also believes Colorado Springs is the most perfect and beautiful place she has ever known.
The Diplomat of Kashgar
Author: James McCarthy
Publisher: Proverse Hong Kong
Published: 2015-10-02
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9789888228140
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The subject of this biography, Sir George Macartney, was of mixed Scottish-Chinese parentage. Based in remote Kashgar on the famous Silk Road, he was caught up in the great 19th and early 20th century power-struggle between Britain, China and Russia over control of Central Asia in what came to be known as 'The Great Game'. Here he met the scheming Russian Consul Nicolai Petrovsky who was to prove a cunning adversary in the political contest for control in this turbulent region. Much of the book is concerned with Petrovsky's devious machinations to outflank the British agent. Macartney's wife, Catherine, has provided intimate descriptions of their domestic life and some of the hazardous journeys they made with their family when travelling to and from the United Kingdom on leave. Her very few visitors were unstinting in their praise for her courage and adaptability, not least when seriously threatened by revolutionaries. They also recognised that only George Macartney, with his renowned tact and diplomacy, allied to steely determination, could have maintained the British position with so little external support. His dangerous encounter leading a mission to the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tashkent made for a dramatic finale to his extraordinary career in a restive region now causing concern to the Chinese government.
The Emperor Far Away
Author: David Eimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 140881322X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Travelling through China's most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.
The Empire And the Khanate
Author: L. J. Newby
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9004145508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on Qing archival sources, from the Qianlong era to the mid-19th century, this study charts the changes in Qing policy that characterized the empire's relations with the Central Asian khanate of Khoqand, and shows how these developments impacted on the northwestern frontier of Xinjiang.
Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashgar (Formerly Chinese Tartary)
Author: Robert Shaw
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
Published: 2015-02-08
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781294947301
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