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Guide Picks - Top 5 Books on Chinese Traditions
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Chinese customs and traditions are very very rich across the nation. Here are a few books
may help you learn some of them.
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1) Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 1
By William Theodore De Bary, et al. Hardcover, 944 pages, Dec 1998, ISBN: 0231109385
A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China.
This is the revised and expanded edition, compiled by noted China scholars Wm.
Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom.
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2) Sources of Chinese Tradition : From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, Vol. 2
Paperback, 656 pages, Mar 2001, ISBN: 0231112718
This is the volume 2 of the book. See 1) above.
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3) Autocratic Tradition & Chinese Politics
By Zhengyuan Fu, Hardcover, Jan 1994, ISBN: 0521442281
This book examines the Chinese political tradition over the past two thousand years
and argues that the enduring and most important feature of this tradition is autocracy.
It interprets the communist takeover of 1949 not as a revolution but as a continuation
of the imperial tradition. -- Book Description
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4) Passport China : Your Pocket Guide to Chinese Business, Customs & Etiquette
by Jenny Li, et al. Paperback, 96 pages, 1996, ISBN: 188507316X
This is a small concise book about the culture and customs of China.
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5) Chinese Cultural Traditions & Modernization
By Miao-Yang Wang, et al. Paperback, 1997, ISBN: 1565180682
A study about Chinese Philosophical changes in recent years.
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