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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...
Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers
How does Google sell ad space and rank webpages? How does Netflix recommend movies and Amazon rank products? How can you influence people on Facebook and Twitter and can you...
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of China's leading twentieth-century intellectuals The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the...
Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for
In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. Instant New York Times Bestseller...
The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United...
Voice for the Voiceless: Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for
In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. Instant New York Times Bestseller...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China (SIGNED)
$180.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedFew books have shaken the Western world's understanding of China as profoundly as Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China — an...
Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey
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The Chinese Machiavelli: 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: chipped and worn with some damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book explores 3000 years of Chinese political-military history, drawing parallels with Machiavelli's theories on power and...
Chinese Communism And The Rise Of Mao
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of ideology and power, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao presents a penetrating account of how...
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...
Comrade Chiang Ch'Ing
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe was the most powerful woman in China — actress, revolutionary, and feared political architect of the Cultural Revolution — and Comrade Chiang Ch'ing...
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric
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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"-- New York Times Book Review ) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"--...
Letters From Burma
For the last fiftenn years of Burma's traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi has been the inspirational leader of attempts to restore democracy to her country. In these fifty-two pieces...
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...
Cai Guo-Qiang
The catalog published for the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in 2000 retraces all of the projects by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (born 1957), through documentation of...
The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher
In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher...
Beijing Spring
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Author: David and Peter Turnley, Melinda Liu, Orville SchellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1989Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeijing Spring...
The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements
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Sinkiang: Pawn Or Pivot!
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of Cold War geopolitical scholarship, Sinkiang: Pawn or Pivot? presents a dual-authored examination of the strategic and...
The New Emperors
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The Lectures Of Professor T. G. Masaryk At The University Of Chicago: Summer 1902
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1902, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and future founding president of Czechoslovakia — delivered a remarkable series of lectures...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner
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This is the first full account of one woman's heroic struggle against SLORC, the brutal military junta in power in Burma since 1988, and an expose of one of the...
Crawley Campus: The Planning and Architecture of the University of Western Australia
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Golden Age of China: Qianlong Emperor, 1736-1795
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Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire
Words of wisdom from the late Charlie Munger-Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway-collected and interpreted with an eye towards investing by David Clark,...
Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World
In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu. A pioneer in contemporary Chinese...
Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World
In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu. A pioneer in contemporary Chinese...
Changi Photographer: George Aspinall's Record Of Captivity
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most extraordinary acts of defiance and documentation in the history of warfare, a young...
Princeton
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Author: Robert GambeeBinding: HardbackPublished: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: significant yellowing to first internal page; minor wear and fraying of...
Flowers On An Iron Tree: Five Cities Of China
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact. No stickers or library stamps visible. A landmark work of...
Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed From renowned,...
More Memories Of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life In The Years Since 1919
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Author: Hume DowBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson of Australia, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the vibrant tapestry of undergraduate existence at Melbourne University, beginning in the...
Monash University: The First Ten Years
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Author: Sir Robert BlackwoodBinding: PaperbackPublished: Hampden Hall, 1968Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis institutional history chronicles the foundational decade of Monash University,...
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system...
Off Course: From Public Place to Market Place at Melbourne University
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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...
Long Live The Victory Of People's War!: In Commemoration Of The 20Th Anniversary Of Victory In The Chinese People's War Of Resistance Against Japan
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. 67pp. Published in Peking in 1965, Long Live the Victory of People's War! is one of the...
Wang Guangyi: Works and Thoughts 1985-2012
The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because...
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...
Munich: Soon to be a major movie starring Jeremy Irons
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