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Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: £27.95£22.55A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearThe history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.On a hike... -
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport 9780691192703
RRP: £22.00£17.36How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its... -
Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent by Alfreda Murck
RRP: £29.95£24.66Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting... -
Strategy and the Second World War: How the War was Won, and Lost Jeremy Black 9781472145109
RRP: £14.99£9.80A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..In 1941, the Second World War became global, when Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union; Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor; and... -
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls 9780374601652
RRP: £35.00£23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374601652Author Tessa HullsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 300g -
Literary Information in China: A History by Bruce Rusk
RRP: £75.00£59.09"Information" has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China's textual tradition to show the... -
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World by John Baines 9781800500266
£35.62Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in ancient civilizations across the world. The contributors are leading experts in Ancient Near Eastern... -
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle Dinny McMahon 9781408710340
RRP: £9.99£6.80'One of the clearest and most thorough statements of an argument often made about the country: that its government has relied on constant stimulus to keep growth strong, an addiction that is bound to backfire. Second, he comes closer than any previous... -
Emperor Huizong by Patricia Buckley Ebrey 9780674725256
RRP: £50.95£41.56China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to... -
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann 9780816646159
RRP: £14.99£13.41Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought... -
China's Civilian Army: The Inside Story of China's Quest for Global Power by Peter Martin
RRP: £25.49£18.34The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world. China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a... -
Rethinking Chinese Politics by Joseph Fewsmith 9781108926607
RRP: £30.99£19.99Understanding Chinese politics has become more important than ever. Some argue that China's political system is 'institutionalized' or that 'win all/lose all' struggles are a thing of the past, but, Joseph Fewsmith argues, as in all Leninist systems,... -
Bubishi: Karate & Kobudo Codex by Mark Bishop 9781008909670
RRP: £19.26£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008909670Author Mark BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g -
The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilization by Arthur John Hubbard 9780359032129
RRP: £9.11£8.04The Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can there be a permanent society, or are all doomed to decline? In the first part of this book, the author constructs several... -
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah 9780582848887 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.39£1.87What's the hook? A fascinating and moving autobiographical novel. What are the themes? Different cultures, families/generations, friendship, school life and the individual vs society. Teaching points? Excellent for multicultural work, as it is set... -
Chinese Cinderella Adeline Mah 9780582848887
£15.70What's the hook? A fascinating and moving autobiographical novel. What are the themes? Different cultures, families/generations, friendship, school life and the individual vs society. Teaching points? Excellent for multicultural work, as it is set... -
The Languages of China by S. Robert Ramsey 9780691014685
RRP: £35.00£27.74The description for this book, The Languages of China, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorS. Robert Ramsey is professor of East Asian linguistics at the University of Maryland. His books include (with Ki-Moon Lee) A History of the Korean Language... -
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong by Gordon Mathews
RRP: £19.00£18.50There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone... -
Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic by Jinghong Zhang 9780295993232
RRP: £24.99£24.14Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the "Six Great Tea Mountains" of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor... -
Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars, and Scoundrels by Isabel Sun Chao 9781954854055
RRP: £14.99£10.28WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer's Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of... -
Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy by Paul U. Unschuld 9780520292253
RRP: £92.00£72.81The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this... -
The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked Britain's Chinese Colony by John Saeki
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554615Author John SaekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 284g -
The Journey to the West, Books 22, 23 and 24 by Jeff Pepper 9781952601873
RRP: £21.95£17.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952601873Author Jeff PepperFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint Imagin8 LLCPublisher Imagin8 LLCWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 22mm -
Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region by Rory Medcalf
RRP: £14.99£10.95The definitive guide to the world's most contested region.The Indo-Pacific is both a place and an idea. It is the region central to global prosperity and security. It is also a metaphor for collective action. If diplomacy fails, it will be the theatre of... -
Imperial China, 900-1800 by Frederick W. Mote
RRP: £31.95£26.77This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to... -
Modern Chinese Warplanes: Chinese Naval Aviation - Aircraft and Units by Andreas Rupprecht 9780997309256
RRP: £19.99£14.28Due to China's strong dependence/reliance on its economic development but also due to its rising political ambitions with the aim to resume a central role in the regional and global affairs, it is vital for China to show some sort of military presence in... -
In Good Faith: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 1: 1945–65 by Sergio Miller
RRP: £16.99£12.28In Good Faith is the first of a two-volume, accessible narrative history of America's involvement in Indochina, from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The books chart the course of America's engagement with the region, from its... -
America and the China Threat: From the End of History to the End of Empire by Paolo Urio
RRP: £25.00£19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762501Author Paolo UrioFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power by Geoffrey Till 9780367607968
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view.Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected,... -
Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism by Shadi Bartsch
RRP: £28.00£21.80The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's China and how it views the West is to look at the... -
A Concise History of Hong Kong by John M. Carroll 9780742534223
RRP: £38.00£33.51When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires... -
Mao Zedong Thought by Wang Fanxi
RRP: £30.00£22.38There have been many books on Mao Zedong, but few match this indispensable study by Wang Fanxi, a leading Chinese Trotskyist and contemporary of Mao. Written more than fifty years ago during Wang Fanxi's exile in Macau, this outstanding analysis has... -
Destination Peking by Paul French
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963967Author Paul FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 438g -
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook 9781781258286
RRP: £25.00£22.19China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight... -
The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai 9780791426883
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791426883Author Shih-Shan Henry TsaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle Dinny McMahon 9781408710364
RRP: £20.00£11.65The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk. Once dominated by four state-owned banks, the nation's financial system is a... -
Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse by Shelley Rigger 9781442204805
RRP: £35.00£30.95Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Leading expert Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan... -
China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II by E. B. Sledge
RRP: £16.99£12.34Hailed as "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war" by acclaimed author Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed remains the most powerful and moving account of the U.S. Marines in World War II. Now, with his long-awaited sequel, China Marine, E. B... -
China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh 9780199361038
RRP: £15.99£13.33Most global citizens are well aware of the explosive growth of the Chinese economy. Indeed, China has famously become the "workshop of the world." Yet, while China watchers have shed much light on the country's internal dynamics-China's... -
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang by James Millward
RRP: £16.99£15.31"Eurasian Crossroads" is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. Forming one-sixth of the People's Republic of China...