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People's Liberation Army Air Force Operations Over Water: Maintaining Relevance in China's Changing Security Environment by Mark R Cozad 9780833098771
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833098771Author Mark R CozadFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 272g -
Patterns of Modern Chinese History by Charles Desnoyers 9780199946457
RRP: £58.99£55.44Patterns of Modern Chinese History offers a broad narrative - introductory but detailed - of the period starting with the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) to the present. With proven pedagogical features and a fluid narrative, it examines large patterns and... -
A Brief Modern Chinese History by Haipeng Zhang 9783838214412
RRP: £53.00£43.49This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership, providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late. Haipeng... -
Three Yuan Plays by Yang Zi: In English Translation with Full Annotations by Hongchu Fu 9781793653413
RRP: £96.00£84.38This is an English translation of three plays by Yang Zi—a Yuan dynasty playwright, court official, and ocean-shipping tycoon—with extensive annotations of the Chinese originals. The author conveys the way a Yuan zaju play was composed, especially in the... -
The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History by Andrew Chittick 9780190937546
RRP: £99.00£77.00This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by... -
Mingqi Pottery Buildings of Han Dynasty China 206 BC - AD 220: Architectural Representations & Represented Architecture by Qinghua Guo 9781845193218
£101.61An enormous number of burial objects have been unearthed from ancient tombs in archaeological excavations in China. These mingqi were made in all kinds of materials and in a broad range of forms, techniques and craftsmanship. In this book Quinghua Guo... -
Through a Glass Darkly: American Views of the Chinese Revolution by William Hinton 9781583671412
£19.04"Through a Glass Darkly" was William Hinton's last book. It draws on a lifetime of immersion in Chinese politics and society, beginning with the seven years he spent in China, working mainly in agriculture and land reform, until 1953. On his return to... -
Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture: The Record of a Dusty Table by Xiaofei Tian 9780295985534
RRP: £87.00£79.32Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of... -
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
RRP: £20.00£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535278Author Evan OsnosFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy by Tai Ming Cheung
RRP: £31.00£27.36Fortifying China explores the titanic struggle to turn China into an aspiring world-class military technological power. The defense economy is leveraging the country's vibrant civilian economy and gaining access to foreign sources of technology and... -
China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005 by Tyrene White
RRP: £28.99£24.96In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms, it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural reforms and childbearing preferences, was the culmination of a... -
Visions of Salvation: Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution by Daryl R. Ireland
£68.13Between the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the Communist Revolution of 1949, Chinese Christians had to compete with Nationalist and Communist ideologies over how best to save the nation. They, along with China's political parties, adopted propaganda... -
Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China by David Faure
RRP: £58.00£50.57This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage... -
Saving the Nation: Chinese Protestant Elites and the Quest to Build a New China, 1922-1952 by Thomas H. Reilly
RRP: £97.00£72.17While Protestant Christians made up only a small percentage of China's overall population during the Republican period, they were heavily represented among the urban elite. Protestant influence was exercised through churches, hospitals, and schools, and... -
Spiritual Foundation of Chinese Culture by Cho-yun Hsu
RRP: £65.00£53.34Revisiting the foundation of Chinese spiritual life, the prestigious historian Cho?yun Hsu seeks a way to connect Chinese culture with the world.This book is an insightful and lively discussion of the spiritual life of the Chinese people. Through... -
City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions by Chuck Wooldridge
£103.63Throughout Nanjing's history, writers have claimed that its spectacular landscape of mountains and rivers imbued the city with "royal qi," making it a place of great political significance. City of Virtues examines the ways a series of... -
A Medical History of Hong Kong - The Development and Contributions of Outpatient Services by Moira M. W. Chan-yeung
RRP: £59.00£53.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789882372207Author Moira M. W. Chan-yeungFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Chinese University of Hong Kong PressPublisher Chinese University of Hong Kong... -
Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937-1953 by Joshua H. Howard
RRP: £66.00£57.33This book focuses on the lives, struggles, and contrasting perspectives of the 60,000 workers, military administrators, and technical staff employed in the largest, most strategic industry of the Nationalist government, the armaments industry based in... -
China and the Barbarians: Resisting the Western World Order by Hendrik Schulte Nordholt
RRP: £45.00£44.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087282783Author Hendrik Schulte NordholtFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University PressWeight(grams) 930g -
Shanghai's Dancing World by Field
RRP: £28.95£27.51Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of sources, this study traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of the People's Republic of China... -
Freedom of the Press in China: A Conceptual History, 1831-1949 by Yi Guo
RRP: £113.00£107.55Western commentators have often criticized the state of press freedom in China, arguing that individual speech still suffers from arbitrary restrictions and that its mass media remains under an authoritarian mode. Yet the history of press freedom in the... -
The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things and Cultural Icons in Hong Kong by Helena Y.W. Wu
£111.11As a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed... -
From Bandwagon to Balance-of-Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in China, 1949-1978 by Avery Goldstein
RRP: £70.00£60.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804718509Author Avery GoldsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
China's Lonely Revolution: The Local Communist Movement of Hainan Island, 1926-1956 by Jeremy A. Murray
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438465319Author Jeremy A. MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press -
The Invisible Citizens of Hong Kong: Art and Stories of Vietnamese Boatpeople by Sophia Suk-Mun Law
RRP: £45.00£43.17On May 3, 1975, Hong Kong received its first cohort of 3,743 Vietnamese boatpeople, the beginning of a twenty-five-year chain of events developing within the larger context of forced migration in the modern world. This book intertwines historical... -
Finding China's Lost Generation: The Beijing Fifty-five by John Israel
RRP: £69.00£59.99This is a book about one of the first groups of young Red Guards who, inspired by Maoist ideology, volunteered to leave their city and become rural laborers, potentially for life. The book presents their experience of a decade in a difficult rural... -
Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction: Hu Feng and Lu Ling by Xiaoping Wang
RRP: £85.00£74.51The questions of subjectivity and the literary style of realism, as manifested in Hu Feng's theoretical writings and Lu Ling's fictional writings, occupy a unique position in modern China. By looking more closely into the theoretical and fictional texts... -
The First British Trade Expedition to China: Captain Weddell and the Courteen Fleet in Asia and Late Ming Canton by Nicholas D Jackson
£66.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888754106Author Nicholas D JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press -
Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity by Rebecca Nedostup
RRP: £41.95£34.00We live in a world shaped by secularism-the separation of numinous power from political authority and religion from the political, social, and economic realms of public life. Not only has progress toward modernity often been equated with secularization,... -
Taipei: City of Displacements by Joseph Roe Allen
RRP: £91.00£79.32Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels... -
Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900 by DR. (ENG) Li Guo
RRP: £113.00£107.55This ground-breaking volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the one hand, the traditional standard of biliteracy characteristic of literary practices in the... -
Transgressive Typologies: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China by Rebecca Doran
RRP: £33.95£27.41The exceptionally powerful Chinese women leaders of the late seventh and early eighth centuries-including Wu Zhao, the Taiping and Anle princesses, Empress Wei, and Shangguan Wan'er-though quite prominent in the Chinese cultural tradition, remain elusive... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume V.1: The Hereditary Houses of Pre-Han China, Part I by Ssu-ma Ch'ien
RRP: £50.00£43.81With Part I of the two-part fifth volume of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), we enter the world of the shih chia or "hereditary houses." These ten chapters trace the history of China's first states, from their establishment in the... -
Modern Chinese History – Revised and Expanded Second Edition by David Kenley
RRP: £13.99£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304903Author David KenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Holding up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future by Shirley Mow
RRP: £19.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558614659Author Shirley MowFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China by Stephen J. Roddy
RRP: £66.00£57.33This book is a study of the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. The author examines three works of vernacular... -
Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic by Hongmei Sun
RRP: £27.99£24.14Able to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West (Xiyou ji) and lives on... -
China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 by Austin Dean
RRP: £44.00£38.34In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver... -
Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati by William H. Nienhauser
RRP: £45.00£39.18The Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) is regarded as the golden age of classical Chinese literature. Compiled by award-winner author William H. Nienhauser, Jr., and Michael E. Naparstek, this is the first English-language biographical dictionary on this critical... -
The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth-Century Engagements by Erik J. Hammerstrom
£52.10Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion...