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Wittgenstein, A One-way Ticket, and Other Unforeseen Benefits of Studying Chinese by Perry Link
Booksplease Price: £32.71Whatever specific goal motivated people who study Chinese at first eventually dissolves into the larger Chinese world, and that world-its loves and joys, its stings and frustrations, in any case its... -
The Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary Culture and Social Memory in Guangdong by David B. Honey
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53What has traditionally been the main matter explored by Cantonese literati? Oceanic elements and riparian scenes contrasted with rock formations; a love for the exotic, especially local plants,... -
Fellowship by Darren Nash
Booksplease Price: £35.99Eclectic and experimental in style this poetry collection and its stylistic range reflects the diversity of research in the field of medicine. The topics examined range from health economics and... -
Wandering Spirit and Metaphysical Thoughts by Xingjian Gao
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19The present English-Chinese bilingual edition is the complete first book of poems written by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. His poems offer an array of snapshots over various themes where politics,... -
The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun 9789629960445
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.80A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first... -
The True Story of Lu Xun by David E. Pollard 9789629960605
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41A biography of the celebrated Chinese writer of the 20th century, Lu Xun. It seeks to set aside all the propaganda that has accrued over the decades since his death, and present him as a credible... -
Growing Your Own Food in Hong Kong by Arthur Van Langenberg 9789629965358
Booksplease Price: £42.65This book points the way, especially for beginners and those who may only have a balcony or a rooftop and are limited to growing in containers. It is not just about gardening in a narrow sense. It... -
The Great Archer and the Moon Goddess by Pamela Youde 9789882372559
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.87What did Chang E do to have herself ending up alone on the moon? And do you know that Yi the Great Archer did more than just shooting down nine suns? My Favourite Chinese Stories is a collection of... -
Ibsen and Ibsenism in China 1908-1997: A Critical-Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Translation and Peformance by Kwok-kan Tam (Professor, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 9789622019072
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Ibsen has often been considered as the most important source, besides Goethe, of Western influence in modern Chinese literary thinking and remains influential in both the modern Chinese theatre and... -
Southern Fujian: Reproduction of Traditions in Post-mao China by Chee-Beng Tan 9789629962333
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.96This collection of papers highlights the research achievements in the field of Chinese Anthropology, particularly those of Mainland scholars. With sophistication and sensitivity, the authors examine... -
Seventy-Two Ways of Saving Lives: Folk Remedies in Old China by Ronald Suleski 9789882373211
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.30How did lay people in old China save their lives when dealing with acute or chronic health issues? Conventional medicine was costly and might not have been an option for many. Instead, people in... -
Take Charge of Your Own Ageing: Growing Old in Hong Kong by Jean Woo 9789882373136
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Health is not just the absence of disease. In an era when living to 100 is becoming more common, our concept of ageing must evolve. While Hong Kong people enjoy the world's longest life expectancy,... -
The Genera of Orchidaceae in Hong Kong: Commemorative Edition by 9789882372696
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44The Genera of Orchidaceae in Hong Kong is a handy reference for both amateurs and professional botanists in Asia who wish to enter the field of modern orchidology. Orchid appreciation is an art... -
Collected Writings on Chinese Cultural History by Tsuen-hsuin Tsien 9789629964221
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78A major observer and writer of Chinese cultural life, Tsien Tsuen-hsin contributed profoundly to the West's understanding of the East, and vice versa, spending sixty years as a professor and curator... -
The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism by Max Ko-wu Huang 9789629962784
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08Yan Fu introduced the Chinese intellectual world to the liberalism of John Stuart Mill partly by grasping Mill's ideas, but also by misunderstanding and projecting them onto indigenous Chinese... -
The Principal's Graduation: My Heartfelt Words by Joseph Jao-Yiu Sung 9789882370845
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.88Putting admirable rationales of university education into practice is never easy. While it is popular to emphasize market values and competitive rankings, moral values and ideals sound way too lofty... -
Economic Feasibility of Projects: Managerial and Engineering Practice by S. L. Tang 9789629961152
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56This is a textbook for engineering undergraduates and postgraduate students and a reference for practicing engineers or managers who are familiar with their projects but less familiar with... -
Lu Xun Xiao Shuo Ji: Vocabulary by D. C. Lau 9789622013919
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.87The revolutionary writer and literary critic Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren, 1881-1936) is celebrated at home and abroad as one of the most groundbreaking and influential writers of modern China. A first-hand... -
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The Scattered Flock: Part V of the "Marshes of Mount Liang" by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong by Shi Nai'an 9789622019904
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21The Scattered Flock, the last volume of this new series of translations, contains chapters 91-120 that mark the disastrous end of the 108 heroes. The action in this volume can be divided into three... -
Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Lawrence Wang-chi Wong 9789882370517
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.60The present volume is a collection of selected papers of the international conference on Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, organised by the Research... -
Selected Essays of Zhou Zuoren: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition by Zuoren Zhou 9789629961985
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Zhou Zuoren (1885-1967) is one of the most controversial modern Chinese intellectuals and the brother of the writer Lu Xun. Zhou was radically at odds with many of his contemporaries and opposed the... -
Ming Erotic Novellas: Genre, Consumption and Religiousity in Cultural Practice by Richard Wang 9789629964580
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.85By analyzing a group of literary (wenyan) novellas, this study of late-Ming material culture focuses on an erotic fiction genre, the marketing and consuming strategies behind it, and the Daoist... -
White Tiger: An Autobiography of Yang Xianyi by Xianyi Yang 9789629960469
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky - her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's... -
Neonatal and Perinatal Screening by Stephen Lam 9789622017658
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789622017658Author Stephen T.S. LamFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint The Chinese University... -
Studies in Chinese Art by Cheng Te K'un 9789622012790
Booksplease Price: £44.58?This volume comprises eight articles that fall into three groups: surveys of Chinese art and archaeology and their interrelationships, the exhibition of Chinese archaeological finds, and an account... -
The Fragrant Chinese by Anthony Lawrence 9789622015722
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789622015722Author Anthony LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint The Chinese University... -
China-Yellow by Robin Hutcheon 9789622017252
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789622017252Author Robin HutcheonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint The Chinese University... -
New Challenges for Development and Modernization: Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Region in the New Millennium by Y.M. Yeung 9789629960315
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789629960315Author Y.M. YeungFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint The Chinese University... -
Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century by Bonnie S. McDougall 9789629961053
Booksplease Price: £18.18The authors and audiences for twentieth century Chinese literature, especially fiction, are examined in a fresh light in this book. While modern Chinese fictions are imaginary in that they do not... -
Renewal - The Chinese State and the New Global History by Gungwu Wang 9789629965365
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The Chinese state has been the subject of fierce debates since reformers and revolutionaries first fought to redefine it at the end of the Qing dynasty. After the 1912 Revolution, when the idea of... -
A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams by Susan Chan Egan 9789629963415
Booksplease Price: £37.60Hu Shi's life touched virtually every important aspect of society in twentieth-century China. His most significant contributions were his support of Chinese liberalism and his advocacy for the use of... -
Business Chinese by Howard Jiaying
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.00The book aims to develop competence in advanced Chinese particularly on business content. In contrast to the normal practice that language is taught in isolation from substantive content, Business... -
Meeting the Challenges: A Historical Record of China's Development - Speeches by Wen Jiabao at the World Economic Forum Events by Wen Jiabao
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56This book presents, for the first time in English, a collection of speeches delivered by Wen Jiabao, China's Premier from 2003 to 2013, at the six successive Summer Davos Forums held in China from... -
Searching for the Way: Theory of Knowledge in Premodern and Modern China by Jana S. Rosker
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.51This book deals with the analyses and interpretations of modern Chinese philosophical discourses, especially those concerning theories of knowledge. The author looks at how contemporary Chinese... -
The Best China by John Minford
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56The Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the Best Chinese Tradition of... -
Poverty in a Rich Society: The Case of Hong Kong by Maggie Lau
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.21Hong Kong's income inequality is greater than that in any developed economy. The growing unequal income distribution and poverty in Hong Kong have aroused public concern. This book is a timely and... -
An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting by Sin Wai Chan
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.51As a sequel to An Encyclopedia of Translation: Chinese-English English-Chinese, which was published in 1995, this volume, An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting, focuses on... -
Globalization After the Pandemic - Thoughts on the Coronavirus by Qin Hui
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The coronavirus pandemic that broke out in 2019 has finally calmed down in China, after the bungling occasioned by the iron hand of lockdown. But beginning in March 2020, the disaster spread abroad,... -
Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas: Drama and the Qing Imperial Court by Ye Xiaoping
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08Relying on materials uncovered by in the First Historical Archives in Beijing, the author investigates the development of imperial drama and its influence on Peking Opera, as well as the function and... -
Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain by Jin Yong
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12The story took place in Snowy Mountain in the coldest part of Manchuria, one Winter's morning in 1781. The Dragon Lodge party ran into the Horse Spring Banditry who were there to unearth a buried...