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Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China by Dominic Ziegler 9780143109891
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109891Author Dominic ZieglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976: Revised Edition by Zhihua Shen
RRP: £20.00£15.89Today, the People's Republic of China is North Korea's only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of "brotherly affection" based on shared political ideals-an alliance... -
The Promise by Xinran Xue
£37.36At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar... -
Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 by Richard King
RRP: £31.00£24.14Forty years after China's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, this book revisits the visual and performing arts of the period - the paintings, propaganda posters, political cartoons, sculpture, folk arts, private sketchbooks, opera, and ballet. Probing... -
A Culinary History of Taipei: Beyond Pork and Ponlai by Steven Crook
RRP: £37.00£34.27There is a compelling story behind Taiwan's recent emergence as a food destination of international significance. A Culinary History of Taipei is the first comprehensive English-language examination of what Taiwan's people eat and why they eat those... -
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman 9780231186674
RRP: £30.00£23.29China's dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a misguided social experiment and a rejection of the disastrous policies that produced... -
The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road by Xin Wen
RRP: £42.00£33.04An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King's Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a... -
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China by Matthew H. Sommer
RRP: £24.99£22.07This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing that the eighteenth century in China was a time of profound change in sexual matters. During this time, the... -
The Cold War's Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the UK, 1950 - 1958 by Steve Tsang
£33.26The relationship between the USA and the People's Republic of China (PRC) was the defining factor in the Cold War in Asia - the potentially explosive conflict which, as seen in the Korean War, brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. The PRC... -
The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China by Peter Thilly 9781503634107
RRP: £23.99£20.84From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national, and imperial finances, and the people who piloted the trade were... -
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of the World by Liang Hong
RRP: £16.99£14.10After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the... -
The Panthay Rebellion: Islam, Ethnicity and the Dali Sultanate in Southwest China, 1856-1873 David G. Atwill 9781804290545
RRP: £25.00£20.30The Panthay Rebellion of 1856-1873 held the armies of the Qing dynasty at bay for nearly two decades. This account by David Atwill offers a remarkable panorama of the cosmopolitan frontier society from which the rebellion sprang.The rebel leader, Du... -
Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China by Laurence Coderre
RRP: £21.99£19.19Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible... -
Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality, and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950 by Xiaoyuan Liu
RRP: £70.00£60.71The author's purpose in writing this book is to use the Mongolian question to illuminate much larger issues of twentieth-century Asian history: how war, revolution, and great-power rivalries induced or restrained the formation of nationhood and... -
The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC - AD 2000 by Julia Lovell 9781843542155 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China's Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the 'barbarians' at its borders. But behind the Wall's... -
A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel: Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China by Pin Ho 9781610392730
RRP: £28.00£20.02The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached all the way to China's new president Xi Jinping.The scandalous story of the... -
Flying Tiger Ace: The story of Bill Reed, China's Shining Mark by Carl Molesworth
RRP: £25.00£19.28The moving biography of Lt Col William Norman Reed, a World War II fighter ace who fought with the Flying Tigers and died in defence of the two nations he loved. Bill Reed had it all - brains, looks, athleticism, courage and a talent for leadership... -
Power of Freedom: Hu Shih's Political Writings by Carlos Lin 9780472055265
£40.54Dr. Hu Shih (1891-1962) was one of China's top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941, Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial... -
The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei by Chu T'ien-Hsin 9780231141123
£36.21Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the... -
Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society by John Alekna 9781503638570
RRP: £29.99£24.95Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in... -
Xuanzang: China's Legendary Pilgrim and Translator by Benjamin Brose
RRP: £23.00£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807226Author Benjamin BroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Breaking Bamboo by Tim Murgatroyd
RRP: £8.99£6.34Central China, 1264. When Mongol armies storm into the Middle Kingdom, the descendents of Yun Cai (Taming Poison Dragons) are trapped in a desperate siege that will determine the fate of the Empire. Guang and Shih are identical twins, one a heroic... -
Victims of the Cultural Revolution: Testimonies of China's Tragedy by Prof. Youqin Wang
RRP: £50.00£46.81Between 500,000 to 2 million people died in the Cultural Revolution. Yet a silence remains as to why. Over eleven years in Mao's China, an all-out assault on 'class enemies' took place. Teenagers smashed their teachers' skulls. Doctors were tortured... -
Paradoxes of Post-Mao Rural Reform: Initial Steps toward a New Chinese Countryside, 1976-1981 Frederick C. Teiwes 9780367597351
RRP: £37.99£33.78The decollectivization of Chinese agriculture in the early post-Mao period is widely recognized as a critical part of the overall reform program. But the political process leading to this outcome is poorly understood. A number of approaches have... -
Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China by Margaret Hillenbrand
RRP: £22.99£20.01When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the... -
The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection by Janet Chen 9780393920857
£34.65The new edition of this outstanding documents collection displays a stronger blend of social history-pieces reflecting everyday life, family, social networks, and culture-and political history-critical proclamations, treaties, laws, and other public acts... -
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC): The Archaeological Evidence by Lothar von Falkenhausen
RRP: £29.00£28.60Winner of the 2009 Society for American Archaeology Book Award Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that,... -
Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's <i>Family</i> by Kristin Stapleton
RRP: £23.99£20.84Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his... -
The Morality of China in Africa: The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent by Stephen Chan 9781780325668
RRP: £21.99£21.89Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa. The book starts with an excellent introductory... -
The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to its Dissident Problem by Ethan Gutmann
RRP: £19.99£18.32The inside story of China's organtransplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, especially the adherents of Falun Gong. Mass murder is alive and well. That is the stark conclusion of... -
The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory by Lydia H. Liu 9780231162913
RRP: £30.00£23.29He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism,... -
The Great Smog of China – A Short Event History of Air Pollution by Anna L. Ahlers
RRP: £14.99£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304927Author Anna L. AhlersFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai by Mark Swislocki
RRP: £23.99£20.84Culinary Nostalgia is the first Western-language book to explore the unique significance that the Chinese people attach to their country's many distinct regional foods, as well as the shifting roles that Western food plays in urban life. Author Mark... -
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China by John Pomfret 9780805086645
RRP: £19.99£12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805086645Author John PomfretFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
The Silk Road: A Captivating Guide to the Ancient Network of Trade Routes Established during the Han Dynasty of China and How It Connected the East and West by Captivating History 9781647486730
RRP: £19.97£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486730Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)... -
The Emperor's Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China by Jane O'Connor
RRP: £19.99£12.78Lintong County, People's Republic of China, March 1974Three farmers are digging a well when suddenly their shovels hit something hard. It is a clay head of a mad who stares back at them, open-eyed and amazingly real looking. The farmers have never seen... -
Critical Race Theory and Woke Culture: America's Dangerous Repeat of China's Cultural Revolution by Mike Zhao 9781662854514
RRP: £16.50£13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662854514Author Mike ZhaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Liberty Hill PublishingPublisher Liberty Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)... -
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim 9780199347704
RRP: £20.99£16.12On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining event remains buried in China's modern history, successfully expunged from... -
Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society by John Alekna 9781503636675
RRP: £125.00£107.88Contemporary developments in communications technologies have overturned key aspects of the global political system and transformed the media landscape. Yet interlocking technological, informational, and political revolutions have occurred many times in... -
The China Paradox: At the Front Line of Economic Transformation Paul G. Clifford 9781501515743
RRP: £24.50£18.75Featured as Book of the Week by The Wire China in August 2020! If your business has anything to do with China or you simply seek to understand the rise of China, you need to read this book. In The China Paradox, business strategist and historian...