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The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC - AD 2000 by Julia Lovell 9780802142979
RRP: £12.99£12.89Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, the Great Wall of China seems to make an overwhelmingly confident physical statement about the country it spans: about China's age-old sense of itself being an advanced civilization anxious to draw a... -
Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara by Chun-Fang Yu 9780231120296
RRP: £42.00£33.44By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of... -
China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923, With a New Preface by Ssu-yu Teng 9780674120259
RRP: £36.95£29.73The present confrontation of Communist China and the United States, on which the future of peace in Asia hinges, is merely the latest phase in a continuing historical process--the remaking of China's ancient society under the stimulus of Western contact... -
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China by Justin O'Connor 9781789382303
RRP: £35.95£31.77This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism, China’s position in global capitalism, the future of modernity and new ways of thinking about culture and cultural policy. Clearly... -
Changing Clothes in China by Antonia Finnane
RRP: £35.00£32.24Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century representations of Chinese dress... -
The Killing Wind: A Chinese County's Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution by Hacheng Tan 9780190622527
RRP: £33.99£30.10A spasm of extreme radicalism that rocked China to its foundations in the mid- to late 1960s, the Cultural Revolution has generated a vast literature. Much of it, however, is at a birds-eye level, and we have very few detailed accounts of how it worked... -
Chusan: The Forgotten Story of Britain's First Chinese Island by Liam James D'Arcy-Brown 9780956384775
RRP: £9.99£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956384775Author Liam James D'Arcy-BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Takeaway (Publishing)Publisher Takeaway (Publishing) -
Accidental State: Chiang Kai-shek, the United States, and the Making of Taiwan by Hsiao-Ting Lin 9780674659810
RRP: £38.95£31.69The existence of two Chinese states-one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan-is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war. Defeated by Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists fled to... -
The China Reader: Rising Power by David Shambaugh 9780199397082
RRP: £52.00£35.12The rise of China is the most significant development in world affairs in this generation. No nation in history has risen as quickly or modernized as rapidly as has China over the four decades. This sixth edition of The China Reader chronicles the... -
Notes from China by Barbara W. Tuchman 9780812986228
RRP: £18.00£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986228Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Faith, Myth, and Reason in Han China by Michael Loewe 9780872207561
RRP: £16.99£14.13In his classic study of the cultural history of Han China, Michael Loewe uses both archaeological discoveries and written records to sketch the conceptual background of various artifacts of the Han period, and shows how ancient Chinese thought is as much... -
A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 by Kevin Peraino 9780307887245
RRP: £23.00£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307887245Author Kevin PerainoFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadway BooksPublisher Broadway BooksWeight(grams) 295g -
Division to Unification in Imperial China: The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220 907) by Jing Liu 9781611720303
RRP: £10.99£9.00Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to Unification in Imperial China is series volume two. It... -
Wanderings in China: Hong Kong & Canton, Christmas & New Year 1878/1879 by Constance Gordon-Cumming 9789887554769
RRP: £9.99£6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554769Author Constance Gordon-CummingFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 105g -
Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China Xu Zhiyuan 9781781859803
RRP: £8.99£6.45In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society. Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages... -
Tibet Brief 20/20 by Michael Van Walt Van Praag 9781977232816
£28.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977232816Author Michael Van Walt Van PraagFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm)... -
China's Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future by James Miller
RRP: £22.00£17.36How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism... -
China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom by Roger Garside 9780520391703
RRP: £20.00£14.27An expert's take on how a coup in China could launch a transition to democracy. This short book predicts-contrary to the prevailing consensus-that China's leader Xi Jinping will very soon be removed from office in a coup d'etat mounted by rivals in the... -
Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 by Edward J. M. Rhoads
RRP: £24.99£24.54Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295997483China's 1911-12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that... -
Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao by Keith McMahon 9781538141946
RRP: £30.00£28.02Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to... -
Northern Wei (386-534): A New Form of Empire in East Asia by Scott Pearce 9780197600399
RRP: £71.00£65.04Emerging from collapse of the Han empire, the founders of Northern Wei had come south from the grasslands of Inner Asia to conquer the rich farmlands of the Yellow River plains. Northern Wei was, in fact, the first of the so-called "conquest dynasties"... -
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic by Xu Xu 9781611720556
RRP: £14.99£9.88Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today's readers an... -
The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power by Jennifer Rudolph 9780674237520
RRP: £18.95£17.60"Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions... Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower... -
Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 by Yang Jisheng
RRP: £20.00£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533991Author Yang JishengFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament by E. Perry Link 9780393310658
RRP: £23.50£19.56Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to "take responsibility for all under heaven," to argue the question "What can we do with China?" In this "utterly absorbing gem of a book" (Library... -
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History by Rian Thum 9780674598553
RRP: £40.95£33.23For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr-the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet-have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges... -
China in World History by Paul S. Ropp
RRP: £27.99£26.67Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed... -
America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations by Warren I. Cohen 9780231191999
RRP: £30.00£23.29America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. Written by one of America's leading diplomatic historians, this book analyzes the concerns and... -
Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia by Eric Schluessel
RRP: £30.00£23.29At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking... -
Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts by Ruth Yun-Ju Chen
RRP: £27.99£24.14How early print culture reshaped strategies for presenting medical knowledgeWhy and how did the strategy of documenting medical practices through personal experience rise to prominence in China? This question is at the heart of Good Formulas, the first... -
A History of China Morris Rossabi (Columbia University) 9781119604181
RRP: £43.95£38.82Discover the complexity of China's past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field The newly revised Second Edition of A History of China delivers a comprehensive treatment of the political, economic,... -
The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire by Brian Lander
RRP: £30.00£29.25A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China's political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological data "Over four thousand years of unsustainable growth, Chinese states replaced a diverse ecosystem with a monocropping grain... -
Body, Subject and Power in China by Angela Zito 9780226987279
RRP: £30.00£29.25This volume brings to the study of China the theoretical concerns and methods of contemporary critical cultural studies. Written by historians, art historians, anthropologists and literary critics who came of age after the People's Republic resumed... -
The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy by Yuri Pines 9780691134956
RRP: £45.00£35.32Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912. During its two millennia, the empire endured internal wars, foreign incursions, alien occupations, and devastating rebellions--yet... -
Possible Origins: A Cultural History of Chinese Martial Arts, Theater and Religion by Scott Park Phillips 9780692749012
RRP: £18.95£15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692749012Author Scott Park PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Angry Baby BooksPublisher Angry Baby BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 by Peter G. Zarrow 9780415364485
RRP: £39.99£35.46Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of... -
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China by Kai Jun Chen
RRP: £62.00£53.56A new perspective for understanding the technology behind goods "made in China"The exquisite ceramic ware produced at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory at Jingdezhen in southern China functioned as a kind of visual propaganda for the Qing dynasty... -
TheZuo Tradition / ZuozhuanReader: Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History by Stephen Durrant
RRP: £27.99£24.14Essential passages from a classic Chinese history, organized topically, introduced, and annotatedZuo Tradition, China's first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity from 722 to 468 BCE. The... -
Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth 9780312426262
RRP: £24.00£15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426262Author Martin BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis by Yiching Wu 9780674728790
RRP: £53.95£43.27Mao Zedong envisioned a great struggle to "wreak havoc under the heaven" when he launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. But as radicalized Chinese youth rose up against Party officials, events quickly slipped from the government's grasp, and rebellion...