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China: A History by John Keay 9780007221783
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese... -
Really Big Questions For Daring Thinkers by Stephen Law
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40- Have you ever wondered what your pet is thinking?- Or asked yourself if aliens really exist?- Have you pondered the meaning of life or tried to think about nothing, absolutely nothing at all?These... -
An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism: Ritual, Emotion, and Rational Principle by Guo Wu 9781793654311
Booksplease Price: £81.47An Anthropological Inquiry into Confucianism provides a chronological, historicized reappraisal of Confucianism as a belief system and a way of life that revolves around three key concepts: ritual... -
Classical Confucian Political Thought: A New Interpretation by Loubna El Amine 9780691163048
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25The intellectual legacy of Confucianism has loomed large in efforts to understand China's past, present, and future. While Confucian ethics has been thoroughly explored, the question remains: what... -
Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy: The Connective Mindshift by R. S. Zaharna
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37Over the past decade, scholars, practitioners, and leading diplomats have forcefully argued for the need to move beyond one-way, mass-media-driven campaigns and develop more relational strategies. In... -
The Eternal Tao Te Ching: The Philosophical Masterwork of Taoism and Its Relevance Today by Benjamin Hoff
Booksplease Price: £22.08From the bestselling author of The Tao of Pooh, a uniquely authentic translation of the enduring Tao Te Ching based on the meanings of the ancient Chinese characters in use when the Taoist classic... -
Confucius Biography: Most Famous & Top Influential People in Chinese History (Part 1), Self-Learn Reading Mandarin Chinese, Vocabulary, Easy Sentences, HSK All Levels (Pinyin, Simplified Characters) by Qing Qing Jiang 9781955647786
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £32.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955647786Author Qing Qing JiangFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Quora ChinesePublisher Quora... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Books Daniel Smith 9781789294781
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.70The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining... -
Twenty-One Ways to Give Your Kids the Shirt Off Your Back by Wanda A. Landrey: And Twenty-One Reasons Why Maybe You Shouldn't by Con-Pew-Shus (Great-Great-Great-Grandson of the Wise Old Philosopher Confucius) by Wanda a Landrey 9781480939783
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480939783Author Wanda a LandreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co... -
Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation: Chinese and Western Perspectives by Michael A. Peters
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Educational philosophies of self-cultivation as the cultural foundation and philosophical ethos for education have strong and historically effective traditions stretching back to antiquity in the... -
Decoding Dao: Reading the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching) and the Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) by Lee Dian Rainey 9781118465752
Booksplease Price: £76.30Written by a leading authority on Chinese philosophy, Decoding Dao uniquely focuses on the core texts in Daoist philosophy, providing readers with a user-friendly introduction that unravels the... -
99 Questions About: The Song Dynasty Annabel Stones 9781445187020
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Discover the fascinating world of the Song Dynasty through 99 questions and answersHow big was the Song civilisation? Why was Confucius so important to the Song? And did the Song really invent... -
A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship, Volume III: Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, and Early Tang: The Decline of Factual Philology and the Rise of Speculative Hermeneutics by David M. Honey
Booksplease Price: £113.12This exciting third volume of David M. Honey's comprehensive history of Chinese thought begins with China after nomadic invaders overran the northern regions of the historic kingdom. The... -
The World According to China by Elizabeth C. Economy 9781509537495
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.80An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to lead in the... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Books by Daniel Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the nature of our extraordinary species and imagining... -
The Student: A Short History Michael S. Roth 9780300280159
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom "[Roth] has a clear vision for what it ought to mean to be a student: Learn what... -
Disney and Philosophy: Truth, Trust, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust Richard Brian Davis (Tyndale University College in Toronto) 9781119538318
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.84Take a magic carpet ride through Disney's wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring stories Philosophy begins in wonder, and... -
The World According to China by Elizabeth C. Economy 9781509537501
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.88An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to lead in the... -
A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship, Volume II: Qin, Han, Wei, Jin: Canon and Commentary by David M. Honey 9781680539615
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £79.78Volume II of David M. Honey's comprehensive history of Chinese thought covers a vital 500-year stretch in China's history, from national unification in 221 BCE to the first post-imperial... -
The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy Fung Yu-Lan 9781138996410
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1947.The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius,... -
Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization by Lionel M. Jensen 9780822320340
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £84.45Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? In Manufacturing Confucianism, Lionel M. Jensen reveals this very fact, demonstrating how sixteenth- and... -
Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization by Lionel M. Jensen
Booksplease Price: £39.87Could it be that the familiar and beloved figure of Confucius was invented by Jesuit priests? In Manufacturing Confucianism, Lionel M. Jensen reveals this very fact, demonstrating how sixteenth- and... -
The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power by Jennifer Rudolph 9780674237520
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.34"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... -
Comparative Rhetoric: The Art of Traversing Rhetorical Times, Places, and Spaces by LuMing Mao 9781138376618
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Rhetoric and Communication scholars have recently made notable advances in discovering and/or recovering rhetorical practices of various under-represented and under-recognized cultures. Building on... -
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China: A Comparative Analysis Michael Loewe 9781350445123
Booksplease Price: £28.85Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled one-half of the earth's population in... -
Mencius by Mencius
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended and expanded. The Mencius, in which he recounts his dialogues with... -
In the Jaws of the Dragon: America's Fate in the Coming Era of Chinese Dominance by Eamonn Fingleton 9780312561628
Booksplease Price: £16.61Long-time Asia scholar and economist Eamonn Fingleton sounds an alarming wake-up call to those who dream that China will embrace the American values of free-market capitalism. With cool precision,... -
Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities by Anna Sun 9780691155579
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.50Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout... -
Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities by Anna Sun 9780691168111
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout... -
Xi Jinping's Adages:: A Guide to the Chinese Leader's Classical Allusions by China Central Television
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.19Where China's leadership and the sages of antiquity see eye-to-eye Since taking office, General Secretary Xi Jinping has promoted the 'Chinese Dream of National Rejuvenation' - a concept which... -
China Through European Eyes: 800 Years Of Cultural And Intellectual Encounter by Kerry Brown
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.72China Through European Eyes provides a reader's perspective on the conceptualisation of China by Europeans over the last 800 years. With annotated excerpts of their key China related writings by... -
Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology by Aaron B. Creller 9781498547086
Booksplease Price: £86.43Making Space for Knowing: A Capacious Approach to Comparative Epistemology is an intervention in mainstream Western epistemology, especially as it relates to theories of knowledge, knowing, and... -
Turning Points in Historiography - A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Q. Edward Wang
Booksplease Price: £33.22An examination of how historical thinking has changed in recent years, through a comparison between Eastern and Western epochs. Until recently almost all histories of historiography have focused... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave 9781399405959
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions. In showing how the... -
Great Books of China by Frances Wood 9781837930210
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in... -
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China: A Comparative Analysis Michael Loewe 9781350445116
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.20Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled one-half of the earth's population in... -
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Chan Wing-Tsit
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.55A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peoples and a monumental contribution to the cause of... -
Great Minds by Dr Joan Dritsas Haig 9781800783539
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.65Discover 19 brilliant thinkers and their unique ideas that changed the world over 2,500 years! Aristotle's ideas shaped our understanding of the natural world for hundreds of years. Yacob's Hatata... -
The Journal of Wu Yubi: The Path to Sagehood by Wu Yubi 9781624660436
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £34.66In this rare firsthand account of an individual's pursuit of sagehood, the early Ming dynasty scholar and teacher Wu Yubi chronicles his progress and his setbacks, as he strives to integrate the... -
Philosophy and Argumentation in Third-Century China: The Essays of Hsi K'ang by His K'Ang 9780691613383
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90A valuable source of information on third-century Chinese argumentation and thought, the essays are eloquent, clear, and to the point; humorous at times; philosophically subtle; and psychologically...