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The Coming Collapse Of China
The world sees a glorious future for China. Beneath the veneer of modernisation however, it's another story. The Coming Collapse of China predicts the imminent implosion of the economy and...
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
' Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' Guardian Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day 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...
Getting Stuck in For Shanghai: Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from
In this First World War Special, historian Robert Bickers explores the contradictions, patriotic fervour and battlefield experiences of the largest contingent of Shanghai Britons to fight the Kaiser's forces in...
Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past
"A travel writer with a cult following."- The New York Times "There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off....
A China Moment
'A China Moment' is Clare Bagshaw's informed and insightful account of the rewards and challenges of living, working and travelling across the breadth of China and beyond. Clare battles through...
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 Mitter A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong...