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Sirk on Sirk by Jon Halliday
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.34Douglas Sirk is one of the most neglected directors in American cinema. This book aims to rectify that and, through a survey of his career, to re-establish Sirk as one of the great stylists of... -
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jon Halliday
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.43The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many... -
China and the New Maoists by Kerry Brown 9781783607594
Booksplease Price: $40.17Forty years after his death, Mao remains a totemic, if divisive, figure in contemporary China. Though he retains an immense symbolic importance within China's national mythology, the rise of a... -
The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions by Tom Ryan 9781496822376
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a distinctive... -
The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions by Tom Ryan 9781496817983
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.06Best known for powerful 1950s melodramas like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, The Tarnished Angels, and Imitation of Life, Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) brought to all his work a distinctive... -
Three Brothers: Memories of My Family by Yan Lianke
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45In this heartfelt memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his boyhood home in Song County, Henan Province, painting a richly detailed portrait of rural China during the Cultural RevolutionIt is a... -
![Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Gregor Benton](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/818924/818635/9780415493307__83808.1687674519.jpg?c=1 "Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Gregor Benton")
Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Gregor Benton
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster - equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin - and a fool who won... -
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of... -
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.07Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how... -
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China Jung Chang 9780008661069
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.61THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION 'Painful. Astonishing. Honest. Profoundly revealing as a... -
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang 9780008661076
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.87THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION 'Painful. Astonishing. Honest. Profoundly revealing as a...