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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road Rob Schmitz 9781444791082
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of... -
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Wasserstrom Jeffrey
RRP: £11.99£8.00On the frontlines of the battle for democracy in ChinaThe rise of Hong Kong is the story of a miraculous post-War boom, when Chinese refugees flocked to a small British colony, and, in less than fifty years, transformed it into one of the great financial... -
Awakening China: Politics, Culture, and Class in the Nationalist Revolution by John Fitzgerald 9780804733373
RRP: £27.99£24.54This innovative work is the first to approach the awakening of China as a historical problem in its own right, and to locate this problem within the broader history of the rise of modern China. It analyzes the link between the awakening of China as a... -
The Battle For China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution Mobo Gao 9780745327808
RRP: £29.99£23.02--Shows that the Mao era was benficial for most Chinese citizens-- "A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang's recent book on Mao,... -
My Hong Kong by Malcolm Jack 9781398457133
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398457133Author Malcolm JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Beijing Bastard: Coming of Age in a Changing China by Val Wang
RRP: £15.99£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409426Author Val WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
A History of China by John A. G. Roberts 9780230249844
£28.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Shanghai and Nanjing 1937: Massacre on the Yangtze Benjamin Lai 9781472817495
RRP: £16.99£14.10From 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of... -
Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America, 2n d Edition by W Shan
RRP: £16.99£11.94Foreword by Janet Yellen Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and how the Chinese view life in... -
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter 9780674984264
RRP: £23.95£17.79A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearChinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"-a key foundation of China's rising nationalism... -
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia by Peter C. Perdue
RRP: £23.95£20.14From about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia, the Manchu rulers defeated the Zunghar... -
The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong by Pu Songling 9780197606308
RRP: £22.99£19.96The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute by one... -
Forgotten Kingdom: Nine Years in Yunnan by Peter Goullart 9781780601113
RRP: £14.99£9.80Peter Goullart spent nine years in the all-but-forgotten Nakhi Kingdom of south west China. He had a job entirely suited to his inquiring, gossipy temperament: to get to know the local traders, merchants, inn-keepers and artisans to decide which to back... -
The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar by Peter Ward Fay 9780807847145
RRP: £46.95£44.02This work tells the story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the... -
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development by Yuhua Wang
RRP: £30.00£23.29How social networks shaped the imperial Chinese stateChina was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? The... -
A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China’s Past Through its Proverbs by Adeline Yen Mah 9780007124510 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.43The author of the international bestsellers Watching the Tree and Falling Leaves has always been fascinated by proverbs and their importance and use in China. Both her book titles are based on such proverbs. The majority of Chinese proverbs... -
Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu 9780231209397
RRP: £30.00£23.29In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of... -
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping by Roger Faligot
RRP: £35.00£32.24In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start. Unearthing previously... -
Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel 9780691210339
RRP: £25.00£19.59What changes in China's modern defense policy reveal about military organizations and strategyActive Defense offers the first systematic look at China's military strategy from the mid-twentieth century to today. Exploring the range and intensity of... -
The Coming Collapse Of China by Gordon G. Chang
RRP: £15.99£11.61Fully revised and updated edition covering China's new membership of the WTO and with a new introduction. 'Damning data and persuasive arguments that should set some Communist knees a-knocking.' Kirkus Reviews'A compelling account of the rot in China's... -
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu
RRP: £37.50£31.98A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries "Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early... -
The Dragon Throne: China's Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu by Jonathan Fenby
RRP: £12.99£8.60They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The... -
Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers by Norman H. Rothschild 9780231169394
RRP: £28.00£21.80Wu Zhao (624-705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she-in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society-ascend the dragon throne?... -
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang 9781501700200
RRP: £108.00£93.80WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis... -
Friends and Enemies: The Past, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China by Kerry Brown 9781843317814
RRP: £14.99£14.68'Friends and Enemies' delivers a lucid and provocative history of one of the world's largest and most successful political organizations, the Chinese Communist Party. In tracing the traumatic and bitter struggles that forged modern China and analysing... -
'My' Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China by Kiki Tianqi Yu 9781474474122
RRP: £21.99£17.97This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.Book InformationISBN 9781474474122Author Kiki Tianqi... -
Selected Poems of T'Ao Ch'Ien by Tao Chien
RRP: £13.00£6.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556590566Author Tao ChienFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 141g -
Early China: A Social and Cultural History by Feng Li 9780521719810
RRP: £26.99£20.39'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization. Li Feng's new... -
Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1880s to 2000 by Jack Gray 9780198700692
RRP: £41.99£38.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement by Wang
RRP: £22.99£18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514004135Author Hannah NationFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 162mm * 20mm -
Daisy Chain: a novel of The Glasgow Girls Maggie Ritchie 9781529366389
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A wholly delightful novel' Allan Massie, Scotsman'An excellent homage to The Glasgow Girls... both heart-breaking and hopeful' - Amy Jefferies, Scots MagazineLily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their... -
Song of Arirang by Nym Wales 9781885030566
RRP: £22.00£14.84An intimate telling of the life and times of teenage Korean revolutionary Kim San First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager... -
China's Vision of Victory by Jonathan D T Ward 9780578438108
RRP: £19.06£13.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578438108Author Jonathan D T WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Atlas Publishing and Media CompanyPublisher Atlas Publishing and Media... -
Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war by Steven K. Bailey 9781472860101
RRP: £25.00£17.62Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just... -
China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History by Rebecca E. Karl
RRP: £18.99£15.65China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "great rejuvenation," a story narrated as the return of China to its "rightful"... -
The Ultimate I Ching: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to the Book of Changes by Antony Cummins
RRP: £25.00£16.38Pick up The Ultimate I-Ching and you will be able to start working with the hexagrams straightaway, guided by the easy-to-follow bite-size teachings, unique explanatory graphics and clear, non-mystical hexagram readings. This is the only book to compare... -
Ten Lessons in Modern Chinese History by Zheng Yangwen
RRP: £19.99£14.52This book is a timely and solid portrait of modern China from the First Opium War to the Xi Jinping era. Unlike the handful of existing textbooks that only provide narratives, this textbook fashions a new and practical way to study modern China. Written... -
Record of the Listener: Selected Stories from Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi by Hong Mai 9781624666841
RRP: £16.99£14.13"Scholars who know classical Chinese have been reading and citing Hon Mai's wonderful collection for many years. Now students can access these informative materials through Zhang's lively English translations. They are both fun to read and deeply... -
Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History by Victor Cunrui Xiong
RRP: £43.99£38.44The resurgence of modern China has generated much interest, not only in the country's present day activities, but also in its long history. As the only uninterrupted ancient civilization still alive today, the study of China's past promises to offer... -
The Us vs China: Asia's New Cold War? by Jude Woodward 9781784993429
RRP: £30.00£26.95This book addresses the most important question in geopolitics today - the future of relations between the US and China. Concerned that the rise of China will challenge the its hegemony in world affairs, the US has decided to reassert its influence in...