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The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism by Minxin Pei 9780691223339
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.27A provocative book that demystifies China's great democratic leap backward under Xi Jinping, revealing why the country's embrace of capitalism has given rise to hard authoritarianism, mass... -
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre by Liao Yiwu
Booksplease Price: $17.31Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu-a master of contemporary Chinese... -
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum 9781398510388
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Freezing Order... -
Zhou Enlai: A Life Jian Chen 9780674303492
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $29.05A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People's Republic of China, who protected his country against the... -
Pah-La by Abhishek Majumdar 9781786827104
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.96"I just lit up. I did not burn" In a remote Tibetan village, Deshar, a young runaway has disowned her father Tsering and become a Buddhist nun. In Lhasa, Chinese Commander Deng is working for... -
London: The Hidden Corners For Curious Wanderers Jack Chesher 9780711294981
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $13.79From the alleyways of Soho to the medieval remains of Moorgate, the new book by Sunday Times bestselling author Jack Chesher takes you on a journey through London and its history, showing you its... -
Tiger on the Brink: Jiang Zemin and China's New Elite by Bruce Gilley 9780520213951
Booksplease Price: $72.21This path breaking book is the first full-length study of the rise to power of Jiang Zemin, now the central figure in China's 'third generation' of leaders. Tracing Jiang's beginnings as a student in... -
Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China by Matthew Kohrman 9780520226456
Booksplease Price: $41.98Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Keenly attentive to how bodies are embedded in... -
Fiona and the Easter Egg Hunt by Richard Cowdrey 9780310143994
Booksplease Price: $19.67Join your favorite hippo, Fiona, the beloved internet sensation from the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, as she plans an Easter egg hunt for her animal friends at the zoo! Fiona and the Easter... -
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens: WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD by Shankari Chandran 9781761151408
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD "Deftly traversing time, culture and continent to weave a tale of both home and unbelonging, this is truly a novel not to be missed." - Maxine Beneba Clarke, author... -
Eclipsing the West: China, India and the forging of a new world by Vince Cable 9781526179845
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.82With a new postscript addressing the changing global situation under Trump 2.0, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future. The Western-dominated world we... -
A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains Li Si 9781915641304
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.26A non-fiction exploration of the Song dynasty through ancient Chinese paintings.About the AuthorLi Si has 11 years' experience teaching art to children aged 3 to 12 years. She is a teacher in the Art... -
The Ledgers of Merit and Demerit: Social Change and Moral Order in Late Imperial China by Cynthia Joanne Brokaw 9780691608792
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.22The ledgers of merit and demerit were a type of morality book that achieved sudden and widespread popularity in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Consisting of lists of good and... -
Humanity by Weiwei Ai 9780691181523
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.09Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography,... -
From Tao Guang Yang Hui to Xin Xing: China's Complex Foreign Policy Transformation and Southeast Asia by Pang Zhongying 9789814881807
Booksplease Price: $12.37This article traces China's foreign policy transformation from 2013 to the present. It also examines Deng Xiaoping's doctrinal response to the political crises of 1989-91 and compares it to current... -
Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel
Booksplease Price: $57.55What changes in China's modern military policy reveal about military organizations and strategySince the 1949 Communist Revolution, China has devised nine different military strategies, which the... -
Lessons in Immunity: From Single-cell Organisms to Mammals by Loriano Ballarin 9780128032527
Booksplease Price: $118.51Lessons in Immunity: From Single-cell Organisms to Mammals stems from the activity of the Italian Association of Developmental and Comparative Immunobiology (IADCI), represented by the editors. This... -
AUP New Poets 8 by Anna Jackson 9781869409456
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $11.98In AUP New Poets 8, Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng come together to produce a volume of remarkable inventions and intoxications. Lily Holloway leads off with her collection 'a child in... -
Zhu Mao by Mark Sweet 9781869694791
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.92In 1984, architect Scott Warren comes to China on a scholarship to study Daoist buildings, just at the time when the liberalisation policies of Deng Xiaoping are unfolding and Chinese people are... -
What is the What by Dave Eggers
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil warsValentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to... -
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RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.11What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil warsValentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to... -
Contemporary China: Between Mao and Market by Francois Godement 9781442225374
Booksplease Price: $146.34This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a leading scholar offers a deeply informed assessment of China's last decade-its debates and political infighting, its rising and assertive... -
Chinese Educated Youth Literature: Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories by Gabriel F. Y. Tsang 9781032827780
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $55.57This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC.By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history,... -
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The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer 9780571243990 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.39In the summer of 1976, Mao lay dying, and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded history,... -
Build Your Inner Strength: through the Chinese Philosophy of Wang Yangming's School of Mind by Jueren Wang
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $15.56Normality today is to be enslaved by the material world to the point where individual happiness has not kept pace with increasing material prosperity. Have we lost our original nature in the pursuit... -
Education through the Ages: Teaching and Learning from 2500 BC to the Present by Aidan Warlow 9781805141860
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62There have been schools of many kinds over the past five thousand years. This book traces their evolution from the teaching of cuneiform in Ancient Sumeria to the use of digital technologies. ... -
An Amish Christmas Gift: Three Amish Novellas by Amy Clipston 9780718039653
Booksplease Price: $17.58Naomi's Gift by Amy ClipstonNaomi has begun to believe that she isn't meant to find love, but she might receive more than she has ever hoped for this Christmas.Twenty-four-year-old Naomi King has all... -
Silent Night, Holy Night: A Colleen Coble Christmas Collection by Colleen Coble 9780718001759
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.00'Tis the season for mystery and romance featuring characters from two of Colleen Coble's most popular series!Silent NightAs Christmas day nears, Bree Matthews and her faithful search-and-rescue dog... -
Teaching Spivak-Otherwise: A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory Farrago by Jerry D. Leonard 9781433163517
RRP: $93.65Booksplease Price: $90.53Grounded in the revolutionary Marxist view that "theory ... becomes a material force when it has seized the masses," Teaching Spivak-Otherwise: A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory... -
China's Modern Economic Statecraft: A Wealth-Power Dialectic by Zhang Xiaotong (Shanghai, China) 9781032218717
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $30.37This compelling exploration delves into President Xi Jinping's ambitious efforts to restore China to its historical role as a global leader through innovative economic means. Bridging the... -
The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism by Janos Kornai 9780691003931
Booksplease Price: $142.61To understand the dramatic collapse of the socialist order and the current turmoil in the formerly communist world, this comprehensive work examines the most important common properties of all... -
The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History by Lan Yan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.89Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century to present day. The history of the Yan family is... -
Cute FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 200 Super-sweet Facts Kate Olesin 9781804661833
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.39Follow an ingenious trail of 200 facts about all things cute, cosy and sweet. You'll meet the pygmy hippo called Moo Deng whose ears wiggle when she sleeps and encounter the world's tiniest teddy... -
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: My Untold Story of the Struggle for Tibet by Anne F. Thurston
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09For over half a century, noodlemaker Gyalo Thondup has been a familiar figure in the Himalayan hill town of Kalimpong. But it was not until 2010 that the townsfolk discovered his true identity: Gyalo... -
Soft Power: The New Great Game by Robert Winder
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75In recent years the modern world has developed a brave new concept: 'soft power'. It is the power of friendly persuasion rather than command, and it invites nations to compete (as they did in the... -
When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King by Jerrold M. Post 9780300063141
Booksplease Price: $44.76The illness or disability of a world leader can change the course of history. When Lenin became too infirm to remove Stalin from a position of power, when the shah of Iran's terminal cancer was kept... -
I Live in the Slums: Stories by Can Xue 9780300247435
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature "There's something... -
The Third Revolution: Xi Jingping and the New Chinese State by Elizabeth C. Economy
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $25.65In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in China today. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has unleashed a powerful... -
Soft Power: The New Great Game for Global Dominance by Robert Winder
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $9.57In recent years the modern world has developed a brave new concept: 'soft power'. It is the power of friendly persuasion rather than command, and it invites nations to compete (as they did in the... -
Shanghai: The Story of China's Most Dynamic City Michael Dillon 9780300270631
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.53A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city...