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Oracle Bones Peter Hessler 9780719564413
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler 9780593655337
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593655337Author Peter HesslerFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler 9781805462880
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than two decades after teaching English in Sichuan Province,... -
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening... -
The Buried: Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt by Peter Hessler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Tenacious, revelatory, and humane.' - Paul Theroux 'The Buried is the kind of book that you don't want to end and won't forget. With the eye of a great storyteller Peter Hessler weaves together... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler 9781805462866
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.91'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first... -
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler 9781805462859
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first... -
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural... -
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler 9780060855024
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060855024Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Peter Hessler
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060826598Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler 9780061804106
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061804106Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062206237Author Peter HesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint -
Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road Rob Schmitz 9781444791082
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' GuardianShanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of... -
Last Days of the Mighty Mekong by Brian Eyler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than... -
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.98'A unique, kaleidoscopic view of Chinese society ... A must read' Qiu Xiaolong, author of Shanghai RedemptionAs any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides... -
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China Frank Langfitt 9781474612333
Booksplease Price: £11.29As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab - and... -
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt 9781474612326
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab - and... -
Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee by Noel Rubinton 9780691244921
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40An annotated guide to the work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, teacher, and pioneer of creative nonfictionJohn McPhee has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1965 and has written more... -
Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization by Liel Leibovitz 9780393342307
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £18.30In 1872, China-ravaged by poverty, population growth, and aggressive European armies-sent 120 boys to America to learn the secrets of Western innovation. They studied at New England's finest schools... -
Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China by Leslie T. Chang
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.69'Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable'... -
Beijing: Portrait of a City by Alexandra Pearson 9789622178038
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.72"Beijing Portrait of a City" is a captivating collection of stories, essays, poetry and reminiscence by leading China authors, storytellers and academics, about a city they know from the inside. The... -
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson 9780241524947
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £15.33A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW YORKER AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping Chen, author... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 The American Society of Magazine Editors 9780231147149
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.26The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining, politically charged, and sophisticated essays. With pieces first published in The Nation, National... -
Egypt Robert Springborg 9781509520497
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to which Egypt currently is subjected and... -
Egypt Robert Springborg 9781509520480
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £46.50Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to which Egypt currently is subjected and... -
Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land by Angilee Shah 9780520270275
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.82An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his... -
China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance by Kate Merkel-Hess 9780742566590
Booksplease Price: £76.11The Beijing Olympics ensured that the world would be watching China in 2008, and the year turned out to be the most tumultuous and traumatic for the Chinese since the massive Tiananmen uprising of... -
China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance by Kate Merkel-Hess 9780742566606
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £40.75The Beijing Olympics ensured that the world would be watching China in 2008, and the year turned out to be the most tumultuous and traumatic for the Chinese since the massive Tiananmen uprising of... -
The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China Ruixue Jia 9780674295391
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.47Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the... -
Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives by Matthew Kohrman
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliche to market tobacco products... -
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future Ian Johnson 9780141997957
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Johnson's stories bring ... this history chillingly alive' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent... -
Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story of wealth, family intrigue, and political strategy on the world stage from colonialism to communism to... -
The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection by Yingyu Zhang
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £82.80This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans... -
The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection by Yingyu Zhang 9780231178631
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans... -
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the... -
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil 9781787334014
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.11A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history***LITHUB'S #1 BEST-REVIEWED NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*****A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR... -
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve by Lenora Chu
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'I couldn't put this book down. Whip smart, hilariously funny and shocking. A must-read'Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherIn 2009, Lenora Chu, her husband Rob,... -
All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O'Neill 9789774168659
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04If you've ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O'Neill recalls, you feel like a magician. If that foreign... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 9781529157178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR... -
Meet Me in Venice: A Chinese Immigrant's Journey from the Far East to the Faraway West by Suzanne Ma
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.48When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter...