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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern age Discover the extraordinary story...
Bao Family: Recipes from the eight culinary regions of China
Full of recipes sharing their love of bao as well as other Chinese dishes, the Bao Family cookbook symbolises the bridge between two cultures: the traditions of China and the...
Chinese-ish: Home cooking, not quite authentic, 100% delicious
James Beard Award 2023 winner for Best Visuals As immigrants with Chinese heritage who both moved to Australia as kids, Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu spent their formative years living...
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the
As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later...
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...
Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
Xi Van Fleet lived through the horrors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a schoolgirl. Forced to the countryside with other young Chinese for re-education after high school, she later...
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...
The Poppy War Boxset (The Poppy War)
This collection features the novels in her historical military fantasy trilogy-The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God-a complete epic inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth...
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...
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...
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...
Kiki Xue (Multi-lingual edition)
Format: Hardback, 250mm x 320mm, 1440g, 160 pagesPublished: Editions Skira Paris, France, 2023Originally from Chengdu in China, Kiki Xue first studied mathematics before deciding to become a professional photographer. Since...
The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions
Author: Stephen H. West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 408 This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations...
Bad Kids
THE PERFECT CRIME DOESN'T EXISTOne beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a remotemountain.It's the perfect crime. Or so he thinks.For Zhang did not expect that teenager Chaoyang...
Mao's Last Dancer
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback...
The Second World War in the Far East
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The Distant Land Of My Father
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Cultural Treasures of the Ancient World
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The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico
Author: Ian Volner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall"...
Journey of a Thousand Miles: My Story
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Mao: The Unknown Story
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback...
1421: The Year China Discovered The World
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Contemporary Architecture in China
Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Architecture and civil engineering have long been central elements in China's external image and national party propaganda. When it comes to technological superiority in...
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
Author: Bob Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace...
A Chinese Perspective
Author: Brian Aldiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A major science fiction novella by the master of British science fiction. First published almost a quarter of a...