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Teahouse by Lao She 9789629961251
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65This is one of the famous dramas by Lao She. The drama is set in a typical, old Beijing teahouse and follows the lives of the owner and his customers through three stages in modern Chinese history... -
Rickshaw Boy by Lao She
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061436925Author She LaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher... -
Mr Ma and Son by Lao She
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son's experiences at the height of London's Jazz Age'He was in London - why be bothered looking at it? Wasn't it bad enough... -
Camel Xiangzi by Lao She 9789629961978
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Camel Xiangzi not only marks the peak of Lao She's career as a professional writer, but it also registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. The novel shows Lao... -
Lao She in London by Anne Witchard 9789888139606
Booksplease Price: £16.22'London is blacker than lacquer'. Lao She remains revered as one of China great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four... -
Teahouse: A Play in Three Acts by Professor Lao She 9780898752618
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £16.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898752618Author Professor Lao SheFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint University Press of the... -
The Judge Dee and Lao She mysteries - The Railway Conspiracy John Shen Yen Nee 9781835414255
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25A lightning-paced, kung fu-filled historical mystery in which two amateur Chinese sleuths take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in 1920s London. Perfect for fans... -
Lao She's Teahouse and Its Two English Translations: Exploring Chinese Drama Translation with Systemic Functional Linguistics Bo Wang 9780367261917
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Lao She's Teahouse and Its Two English Translations: Exploring Chinese Drama Translation with Systemic Functional Linguistics provides an in-depth application of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)... -
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The Magic Ark - The Adventures of "Ting Wang" by Peggy Wang 9780887101434
Booksplease Price: £31.40The charming children's story popularized by celebrated modern writer Lao She is here retold in simplified Chinese, with pinyin romanization and at the 700 character level.Book InformationISBN... -
Wong Kar-wai: Interviews by Silver Wai-ming Lee 9781496812841
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £74.42Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only... -
Wong Kar-wai: Interviews by Silver Wai-ming Lee 9781496820259
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only... -
The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man by H. Y. Lowe 9780691613314
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £70.85Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower... -
Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World by Pamela Kyle Crossley
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £48.02In the mid-1600s, Manchu bannermen spearheaded the military force that conquered China and founded the Qing Empire, which endured until 1912. By the end of the Taiping War in 1864, however, the... -
Tibetan Sky Ning, Ken 9781838905934
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.57Wang Mojie's dreams wilted in the Beijing heat. Leaving his failed marriage behind, he seeks meaning in Lhasa. Instead, he finds Ukyi Lhamo. The soul of every party, her studied Parisian charms hide... -
The Elm Tree (Volume 1): Seeds of Change Ma Pinglai 9781910760406
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.94Will the newest branch of a decaying house be bent or broken by these uncertain times? It has been six years since China threw off imperial rule, yet Beijing seems largely unchanged. The city... -
Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature by Qin Wang 9789813296428
Booksplease Price: £56.12This book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of configurations of the individual in modern Chinese literature through analyzing several classic texts written by Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lao She, and Mu... -
Configurations of the Individual in Modern Chinese Literature by Qin Wang 9789813296398
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of configurations of the individual in modern Chinese literature through analyzing several classic texts written by Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lao She, and Mu... -
Readings in Modern Chinese Literature by Liu Wu-Chi 9780887100727
Booksplease Price: £38.84Readings in Modern Chinese Literature is designed as a textbook for the student who, after two or three semesters of intensive study, has acquired a knowledge of colloquial Chinese and is now ready... -
Zhong Guan Village: Tales from the Heart of China's Silicon Valley by Ning Ken 9781838900205
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.901960s Zhongguancun, Beijing. A gang of young scientists toils into the night over the nation's first atomic bomb. They have no way of knowing that their work will go on to lay the foundation of... -
Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-t'o hsiang tzu by She Lao 9780824806163
Booksplease Price: £68.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLao She was born in Beijing in 1899 and spent most of his life in China. His family was very poor, and were... -
Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth: Contemporary Sri Lankan Practice and Its Origins by Rita Langer
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94In Buddhist thought and practice, death has always been a central concept. This book provides a careful and thorough analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada... -
The Four Books Yan Lianke 9780099569497
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016'One of China's greatest living authors and fiercest satirists' GuardianIn the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author,... -
The Yves Saint Laurent Revolution: The Story of 'Le Smoking' Loo Hui Phang 9780500030967
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.26The story of an outfit, a designer, his muse, and what the three of them created together: contemporary style. Paris, 1966. In the tranquility of his studio on Avenue Marceau, Yves Saint Laurent is... -
Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos by Rosalie Stolz
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to write about kinship in a way that neither falls into the trap of taking for granted... -
Researching Translator's Functional Style: A Corpus-Assisted Approach Kan Wu 9789819512201
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.74This book introduces an innovative approach to studying translator style through the lens of functional linguistics and corpus stylistics. It examines how translators recreate essential textual... -
Serve the People! by Yan Lianke 9781529113914
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A brilliantly comic satire about a love affair from the visionary, world-class storyteller.Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, this is the tale of a forbidden love affair between Liu Lian - the... -
Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'One of the masters of modern Chinese literature' Jung ChangA searing novel that traces the destruction of a community in communist China.Told through the eyes of Xiao Qiang, a young boy, this deeply... -
Into Our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective Neil Lazarus 9781835537077
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.54Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of... -
Introducing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory, Description and Application Hui Yu 9781032852577
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), covering key concepts and contributions to the field and instructing beginners to apply SFL to different... -
The Years, Months, Days: Two Novellas by Yan Lianke 9780802126658
Booksplease Price: £13.86Yan Lianke-"China's most feted and most banned author" (Financial Times)-is a master of imaginative satire, and his prize-winning works have been published around the world to the highest honors... -
Introducing M.A.K. Halliday Bo Wang 9780367763725
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52M.A.K. Halliday (1925-2018) was the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and, undoubtedly, one of the most influential linguists of his time, credited with changing the way that language... -
The Murder of Mr Ma by John Shen Yen Nee 9781835410431
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Sherlock-esque crime set in early 20th century London, packed with action and martial arts elements, this is the first book in a series to feature a daring, opium-addicted Chinese judge and his shy,... -
Fin-de-Siecle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing Fiction, 1848-1911 by David Der-Wei Wang 9780804728454
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.94The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of... -
Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics by Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 9789811687129
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £108.52This book features a collection of 10 interviews with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, who is a key figure in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and has collaborated closely with M.A.K. Halliday... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the... -
The Paper Bridge Joëlle Veyrenc 9781782509073
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Anya lives in a paper village, among delicate paper trees and paper houses, where the people are paper-light. Every year the villagers of Paperlee put stones in their pockets to avoid being blown... -
The Explosion Chronicles Yan Lianke 9781784701925
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2017 With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a... -
Into Our Labours: Work and its Representation in World-Literary Perspective by Neil Lazarus
Booksplease Price: £113.17Into our Labours explores the literary representation of work across the globe since 1850, setting out to show that the literature of modernity is best understood in the light of the worlding of... -
Heart Sutra Yan Lianke 9781529925050
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Prizewinning Yan Lianke returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptationYahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary... -
Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century: A Critical Survey by Chi Pang-Yuan
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04" . . . an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." - Choice"This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949 . . . discusses such trends as modernism, nativism,...