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The Amur River: Between Russia and China
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the...
Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and...
A Bond Undone: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 2
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD."Jin Yong's work,...
Why the Chinese Don't Count Calories
A favourite Chinese greeting is Ni chi fan le ma? - Have you eaten yet? Unlike many in the West, the Chinese see food not as a chore to prepare...
10-Minute Chinese Takeaway: Simple, Classic Dishes Ready in Just 10
10-Minute Takeaway is the fastest, easiest ever cookbook for all your favourite Chinese dishes.Cooking star Kwoklyn Wan offers over 80 inventive ways of getting food on the table in 10...
Jades from China
A magnificently produced catalog of the major exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England. Illustrating 354 Chinese jades from the collection of Brian McElney, the Peony Collection...
Battles of Ancient China
In the field of military history as in so many others, the Chinese have often been both admired and seen as something utterly mysterious and inscrutable. Chris Peers illuminates the...
The Island of Seven Cities: The Discovery of a Lost Chinese Settlement
"The Island of Seven Cities" unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus. In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to...
The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century.George Macartney's...
Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection
Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection
Small China: Early Chinese Miniatures
Small China presents Chinese miniatures from 5,000 BCE up to the fifteenth century. The pocketsized representations of supernatural beings, people, animals, or everyday objects are virtually uncharted in East Asian...
China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts...
Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China
Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in...
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its...
Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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A "New York Times" Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835 1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into...
Tiger Warrior: Fight for the Cursed Unicorn: Book 5
Jack has always wanted to meet a unicorn, and with its black coat, golden hooves and truth-telling powers, the magical xiezhi is the most amazing unicorn ever! But when the...
Self Reiki: Tune in to Your Life Force to Achieve Harmony and Balance
The first illustrated book on self reiki available on the market Harness the power of universal energy and use Reiki techniques at home - to harmonise and heal. Reiki promotes...
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Superpower Future of China shatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organisations...
The Shadow of the Empire
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'Brilliant' -Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewThe legendary Judge Dee Renjie investigates a high-profile murder case in this intriguing companion novel to Inspector Chen and the Private Kitchen Murder set in seventh-century...
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence
LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship...
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence
LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception,...
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines
As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew MarrOne of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this extraordinary journey through...
Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western
Although Chinese Marxism - primarily represented by Maoism -is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in...
Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy
In the late eighteenth century two expansive Eurasian empires met formally for the first time-the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain. The occasion...
Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937
In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s....
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body...
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills
AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIt's often said that China is in a cold war with America. The reality is far worse: the war is hot, and the body...
Mao's Last Dancer
In a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, interested more in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's...
The Fox Wife: an enchanting historical mystery from the New York Times
Longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award'Vivid, enigmatic, enchanting' M. L. Rio'Irresistible' Sunday TimesSome people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be...
Tiger Warrior: Attack of the Dragon King: Book 1
When Jack's grandpa gives him a magical jade coin, Jack finds himself caught in an ancient battle between good and evil. For he is the new Tiger Warrior, and it's...
The Fox Wife: an enchanting historical mystery from the New York [...]
Longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award'Vivid, enigmatic, enchanting' M. L. Rio'Irresistible' Sunday TimesSome people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be...
Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives
Informal finance consists of nonbank financing activities, whether conducted through family and friends, local money houses, or other types of financial associations. It has provided much-needed financing to small and...
Modeling Peace: Royal Tombs and Political Ideology in Early China
Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of...
Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately...
City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions
Throughout Nanjing's history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with "royal qi," making it a place of great political significance. City of...
Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China
During the Tang dynasty (618-907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public...
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong
'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times'An authoritative history' Financial Times'Gripping and richly researched' Rana MitterA superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian...
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its...
Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China
This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song...
The Great Wall
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Author: Luo Zewen Format: Hardback Published: 1982, Michael Joseph Condition Remarks: Very Good. ,,,Unblemished dustjacket,Minor shelf wear Description: The Great Wall by Luo Zewen - Discover the history, construction, and...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema
Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China
Author: Kwang-Ching Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Cultural and intellectual protests, while rare, were recurrent in Chinese society. This impressive and comprehensive work traces the origins of dissent to...
Chineasy (R) Travel
Author: ShaoLanFormat: Hardback, 120mm x 180mm, 200g, 96 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Chineasy (R) Travel presents over 100 of the most used and useful Chinese characters, phrases...
Liu Ye: The Book Paintings
Author: Liu YeFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 280mm, 1120g, 192 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2021The Chinese artist Liu Ye's meticulous, colorful canvases convey his love of literature in the first...
China Memories
Author: Marco PaoluzzoFormat: Hardback, 1260g, 180 pagesPublished: Benteli Verlag, Switzerland, 2011Photographer Marco Paoluzzo first became interested in China decades ago, yet the passionate world traveller refused to visit the country...