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Wind and Water
$10.00 AUD
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
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The Oracle Of Change: How To Consult The I Ching
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor millennia, the I Ching — the ancient Chinese Book of Changes — has served as one of humanity's most enduring tools...
Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as...
Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World
India: it's a nation of geeks, swots and nerds. Almost one in five of all medical and dental staff in the UK is of Indian origin, and one in six...
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949
Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...
Macartney At Kashgar: New Light On British, Chinese, And Russian Activities In Sinkiang, 1890-1918
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of the Great Game — that shadowy contest of empires played out across the rooftop...
Song Full Of Tears: Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake
Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years...
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
$20.00 AUD
Author: Kevin Rudd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural...
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu...
Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Cold War to the Australian recognition of the...
Tang China
$15.00 AUD
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Shanghai Fury: Australian Heroes of Revolutionary China
The third in the 'Fury' trilogy, following on from the bestsellers Pacific Fury and Anzac Fury. Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were...
The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer
The definitive story of a top Chinese politician's ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party. When Hu Yaobang died in April 1989, throngs of mourners converged on the Martyrs' Monument...
In Love with the Way: Chinese Poems of the Tang Dynasty
The poetry selected for this volume comes from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), an era when the influence of Buddhism was at its strongest in China. The best loved and most...
Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China
A riveting study of the booming rosewood trade between China and Madagascar uncovers an alternative approach to environmentalism that disrupts Western models. Rosewood is the world's most trafficked endangered species...
Rebel, Bully, Geek, Pariah
The truth is that jail is a place where you can still hold on to hope - hope you'll be bailed out, hope you'll be found innocent, hope you'll get...
Learning Chinese: Speak, Read and Write Chinese with Manga! (Free
Everything you need to learn Chinese is in this book at a fraction of the cost of expensive language kits! This book teaches you all the basics of the Chinese...
From Rice to Riches: a Personal Journey Through a Changing China
Jane Hutcheon's connection to China goes back more than one hundred and fifty years, when her great-great-grand-uncle Phineas, a Scottish tea merchant, was drawn to its shores. When Jane became...
Crouching Kanga, Hidden Hippo!: Kung Fu Roo 2
From Australia's Number 1 bestselling author Anh Do comes the next thrilling chapter in this unmissable full-colour graphic novel series! Kai, Charley and Harry are beyond excited to discover that...
Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to
$15.00 AUD
The Dalai Lama meets The Player-from the Himalayas to Hollywood, a fantastic journey into the West's longstanding dream of Tibet. What has made remote, mountainous Tibet and its only real...
Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China's Yangzi Delta Silk
Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused...
Rebel, Bully, Geek, Pariah
Author: Erin Lange Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The truth is that jail is a place where you can still hold on to hope - hope you'll...
From Rice to Riches: A Personal Journey through a Changing China
$10.00 AUD
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It's Chinese New Year, Curious George!
Everyone's favorite curious little monkey celebrates Chinese New Year with his friend Mei in this playful rhyming tabbed board book. Curious George joins his friend Mei and her family as...
Feng Shui: Ancient Chinese Wisdom on Arranging a Harmonious Living
$12.00 AUD
Book about Feng Shui--helpful information and tips for incorporating its practices.
Han And T'Ang Murals: Discovered In Tombs In The People's Republic Of China And Copied By Contemporary Chinese Painters
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the renaissance of Western art, Chinese painters of the Han and T'ang dynasties were producing breathtaking...
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and
In Stranger in a Strange Land , Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation - as a Freud-like interpreter of the inner world of...
People Watching: The BRAND-NEW Small-Town, Strangers-to-Lovers Romance
Introducing Prue and Milo in the brand new heart-warming and spicy strangers-to-lovers romcom, and the start of a new duet, from viral TikTok author Hannah Bonam-Young! The instant New York...
The China Tangle: The American Effort To China From Pearl Harbor To The Marshall Mission
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the crossroads of the Second World War and the dawn of...
Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons: The Rise of Hellfire
Lucas, Dustin, and Mike embark on a high-fantasy adventure with classmate Eddie Munson and his Hellfire Club in this new four-issue mini-series, collected here as a graphic novel! Lucas, Dustin,...
Chinese Stories for Language Learners: A Treasury of Proverbs and
The highly anticipated next book in Tuttle's Stories for Language Learners series is here! This book presents 22 classic Chinese proverbs and the traditional tales behind them. The stories are...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Fifty Machines That Changed The Course Of History
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsFifty Machines That Changed The Course Of History by Eric Chaline presents a compelling overview...
The Language Machine
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA provocative and rigorous critique of modern linguistic theory, The Language Machine completes Roy Harris’s celebrated trilogy—following The Language-Makers (1980)...
Tank: The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable
An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of...