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Physics professor Zee writes about how to understand the menus in Chinese restaurants, explaining the characters, what they mean, and the colorful stories behind the names of various dishes. Anne...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
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The Mad Women's Ball: The prize-winning, international bestseller and
For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane -...
Introduction to Literary Chinese
$140.00 AUD
Author: J. BrandtBinding: HardbackPublished: Frederick Ungar, 1954, Third EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book serves as a foundational text for understanding literary Chinese, providing...
Mandarin Chinese Paperback Dictionary: Your all-in-one guide to
The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning A clear, modern Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary. The essential reference book for Chinese: an up-to-date dictionary...
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture
In Revisiting Women's Cinema , Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women...
Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter
When Adeline Yen Mah's mother died giving birth to her, the family considered Adeline bad luck and she was made to feel unwanted all her life. Jung-ling's family considers her...
Jack Ma & Alibaba: A Business and Life Biography
China's economic rise and influence has been one of the most significant developments in the global economy of recent times. A driving force behind this expansion has been the private...
The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
Author: James M. Zimmerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he...
Mandarin Chinese Essential Dictionary: All the words you need, every day (Collins Essential)
Author: Collins Dictionaries Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy, affordable Chinese to English and English to...
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
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Mao: The Unknown Story
$20.00 AUD
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The Importance Of Living
$30.00 AUD
Edition: First Australian Ed.Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact. What does it mean...
Mao's Last Dancer
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Bones Of The Master
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Flowers for Mei-Ling
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Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-Ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in China in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing,...
Lift, Mix, Fling!: Machines Can Do Anything
Author: Lola M. Schaefer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 How do you make work easier With machines, of course! Acclaimed author Lola M. Schaefer and award-winning illustrator James Yang...
Mao's Last Dancer
$10.00 AUD
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Memory Piece: Barack Obama's Reading List 2024
**A BARACK OBAMA'S 2024 READING LIST title** " Remarkable . . . vividly captures the urgency of youth , and becomes a heart-breaking elegy for a communal, almost utopian approach...
The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Inside Story of the Man Who Made
For 22 years, Dr Li was Chairman Mao's personal physician, confidant and companion. He saw Mao and his country through the years of "The Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural...
Mao: The Unknown Story
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Chinese Cinderella, The Mystery of the Song Dynasty Painting
$10.00 AUD
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag...
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth...
Mao's Last Dancer: Young Readers Edition
One day, not so very many years ago, a small peasant boy was chosen to study ballet at the Beijing Dance Academy. His mother urged him to take this chance...
Chairman Mao
$25.00 AUD
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: Enter the EPIC fantasy worlds of Sarah J Maas with the breath-taking first book in the GLOBALLY BESTSELLING ACOTAR series
Author: Sarah J. Maas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The first instalment of the GLOBAL PHENOMENON and TikTok sensation, from multi-million selling and #1 Sunday Times bestselling...
Living Water: Powerful Teachings from the International Bestselling Author of The Heavenly Man
$10.00 AUD
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Kulinmaya! Keep listening, everybody!
'I want my book to be in schools and read by politicians and young people everywhere, so that they can learn about Tjukurpa Law, and realise how crucially important Tjukurpa...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
$10.00 AUD
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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 Literary Mind And The Carving Of Dragons: A Study Of Thought And Pattern In Chinese Literature
$95.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most ambitious and enduring works in classical Chinese literary criticism, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons — originally composed...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted
The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter The story of an unwanted daughter growing up during the Chinese Communist Revolution, blamed for her...
Dark Matter: The bestselling Richard & Judy book club pick
THE EXCITING 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLER. NOW WITH AFTERWORD FROM SIMON PEGG. 'The novel virtually defines a new genre: literary creepy ' JEFFEREY DEAVER 'Paver...
Mao's America: A Survivor's Warning
THE BOOK BEHIND THE VIRAL TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEW An inspiring survivor of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China makes a passionate case that history is eerily repeating itself as the Woke...
Mandarin Chinese for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Chinese:
Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken language. The revised edition contains new...
Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet
Exploring the significance of Tibetan mandalas from their ancient origins to the present day, this gorgeously illustrated volume provides a contemporary perspective on a centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe...
The Book of Master Mo
A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded....
The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene Dubois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right
$15.00 AUD
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The Mother: The relentlessly gripping, utterly unmissable Sunday Times bestselling thriller - guaranteed to keep you up all night
Author: T.M. Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 PRE-ORDER THE BRILLIANT NEW NOVEL FROM T.M. LOGAN, MASTER OF THE UP-ALL-NIGHT THRILLER Framed for murder. Now she's free . ....
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: Overview of the New Physics
The book titled The Dancing Wu Li Masters: Overview of the New Physics by the author Gary Zukav. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...