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Mao: The Man Who Made China by Philip Short 9781350376724
RRP: £18.99£14.59One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful... -
The Great Wall by John Man 9780553817683
RRP: £10.99£7.77China's Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world's most famous sights. Millions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a... -
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers
RRP: £14.99£11.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. ... -
Snakehead: The heart-stopping China series travels to America (China Thriller 4) by Peter May
RRP: £10.99£6.10THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more... -
Mao's Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar
RRP: £25.95£21.64The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People's Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to... -
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia by Bill Hayton
RRP: £13.99£12.25Why the world can't afford to be indifferent to the simmering conflict in the South China Sea"The greatest risk today in U.S.-Chinese relations is the South China Sea, through which passes 40% of world trade. . . . Hayton explains how this all came about... -
Jannah Jewels Book 2: The Chase In China by Umm Nura 9780986720833
RRP: £8.75£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986720833Author Umm NuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Gentle Breeze BooksPublisher Gentle Breeze BooksWeight(grams) 109g -
China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom by Roger Garside
RRP: £20.00£15.89An 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... -
The Colour of the Sky After Rain by Tessa Keswick
RRP: £30.00£21.35An extraordinary memoir of one woman's experiences in China. ******************************** Tessa Keswick first travelled to China in 1982 and immediately fell in love with its history, culture and landscape. Over the next thirty years, she... -
China: Fragile Superpower by Susan Shirk 9780195373196
RRP: £13.99£10.84Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L... -
God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan by Jonathan D. Spence 9780393315561
RRP: £19.99£17.37Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must... -
The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records by Sima Qian
RRP: £7.99£5.79'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First... -
Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan by Jonathan Manthorpe 9780230614246
RRP: £21.99£18.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang
RRP: £22.00£17.76A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was... -
Chinese Looks: Fashion, Performance, Race by Sean Metzger
RRP: £24.99£21.67From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a... -
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade 9780691178141
RRP: £22.00£17.76The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily... -
The Making of Modern Tibet by A.Tom Grunfeld 9781563247149
RRP: £41.99£37.15An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century. This book attempts to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and... -
Escape of the Amethyst by C E Lucas Phillips 9781800552814
RRP: £10.99£9.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800552814Author C E Lucas PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century by Orville Schell
RRP: £12.99£8.60By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its current phase of dynamic growth? How did a century-long succession of failures to... -
Under Red Skies: The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial by Karoline Kan
RRP: £12.99£11.95Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understand the shifting sands of... -
Way of Archery: A 1637 Chinese Military Training Manual by Jie Tian 9780764347917
RRP: £36.99£23.98The Way of Archery provides a detailed introduction to practicing archery in the traditional Chinese military style. It explains the basics of how to shoot using the Asian thumb ring: proper posture, training regimen, equipment, and avoiding pitfalls in... -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire by The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta Harrison
RRP: £35.00£27.74A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been... -
Central Asia in World History by Peter B. Golden 9780195338195
RRP: £27.99£18.56A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed... -
Modern Taiwanese Air Power: The Republic of China Air Force Today by Roy Choo
RRP: £20.99£14.94The sovereign status of Taiwan - or the Republic of China - has been a source of instability in the Asia-Pacific region for much of the last 70 years. While Taiwan aspires to be an independent and democratic nation, the communist-led People's Republic of... -
Gordon in China and the Soudan by A. E. Hake
RRP: £29.00£21.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850771654Author A. E. HakeFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Darf Publishers LtdPublisher Darf Publishers Ltd -
Chinese Power and Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges William C. Hannas (Georgetown University, Washington DC) 9781032081090
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China's rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey 9780809030750
£12.52The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German Kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency... -
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
RRP: £25.00£17.40An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens... -
China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition by John King Fairbank 9780674018280
RRP: £27.95£22.55John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. It remains a masterwork without parallel. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings... -
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in... -
Origins of the Modern Chinese State by Philip A. Kuhn
RRP: £18.99£16.72What is "Chinese" about China's modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past two centuries largely as a response to internal challenges emerging from the late empire. Well before the Opium War, Chinese... -
How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976 by Antonia Finnane 9781009359993
RRP: £25.99£21.99When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, new clothing protocols for state employees resulted in far-reaching changes in what people wore. In a pioneering history of dress in the Mao years (1949-1976), Antonia Finnane traces the... -
China’s Law of the Sea: The New Rules of Maritime Order by Isaac B. Kardon
RRP: £30.00£24.85An in-depth examination of the law and geopolitics of China's maritime disputes and their implications for the rules of the international law of the sea China's Law of the Sea is the first comprehensive study of the law and geopolitics of China's... -
The Ultimate Guide to Yin Yang: An Illustrated Exploration of the Chinese Concept of Opposites Antony Cummins, MA 9781786785152
RRP: £24.99£17.38The concept of yin yang can be found in some of the oldest writing in the world. It is fundamental to Chinese thought and the route to understanding most Chinese practices, from Traditional Chinese Medicine to Daoism and feng shui. It also offers us ways... -
Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State by Tai Ming Cheung
RRP: £38.00£33.27In Innovate to Dominate, Tai Ming Cheung offers insight into why, how, and whether China will overtake the United States to become the world's preeminent technological and security power. This examination of the means and ends of China's quest for... -
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century Dennis J. Blasko 9780415783224
RRP: £47.99£41.81The Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the... -
Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police: Fifty accounts from officers of Hong Kong's colonial-era police force by Royal Hong Kong Police Association
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963882Author Royal Hong Kong Police AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 366g -
Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Steinhardt 9780691240169
RRP: £62.00£48.22A monumental illustrated survey of the architecture of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century ChinaThe Yuan dynasty endured for a century, leaving behind an architectural legacy without equal, from palaces, temples, and pagodas to pavilions, tombs, and... -
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives by Timothy Cheek 9781108822619
RRP: £19.99£16.42Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party,...