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The River Within by Wang Ping 9781952335686
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952335686Author Wang PingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
The Last Communist Virgin by Wang Ping 9781566891950
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.94"Wang Ping's The Last Communist Virgin is a beauty of a collection. She has interwoven the earthiness of China and the harshness of immigrant life . . . to create a series of short stories that are... -
Aching For Beauty: Footbinding in China by Wang Ping 9780816636051
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89A fascinating and haunting exploration of the bound foot in Chinese culture.Why did so many Chinese women over a thousand-year period bind their feet, enduring rotting flesh, throbbing pain, and... -
Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China by Wang Ping 9780385721363
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721363Author Wang PingFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi by Wang Ping 9780820353920
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.07There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi... -
The Book of Touch Constance Classen 9781845200596
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.29This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of... -
Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa Gwei-Djen Lu 9780700714582
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Using modern knowledge to shed light on ancient techniques, this text examines two of the earliest therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine: acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is the... -
Daxue and Zhongyong: Bilingual Edition by Ian Johnston 9789629964450
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £53.19For eight hundred years, scholars have regarded the Daxue and the Zhongyong as essential critical studies on Confucian doctrine. In their original forms, however, these texts were part of a larger... -
The Book of Master Mo by Mo Zi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling and definitive translation, new to Penguin Classics. Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school... -
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China by Lingzhen Wang 9781478009757
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women... -
The Mingjia & Related Texts by Ian Johnston 9789629967772
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £59.70The Mingjia (School of Names) is a notional grouping of philosophers first recorded as such in the Shiji. Their identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues particularly involving the... -
A Study of China's Foreign Aid: An Asian Perspective by Yasutami Shimomura 9781137323767
Booksplease Price: £92.21This book provides a new perspective of China's controversial foreign aid strategy. The chapters offer a thorough examination of data to show how China has created knowledge in its long experiences... -
The Mother's Tongue by Heid E. Erdrich 9781844710607
Booksplease Price: £10.97Shortlisted for The Minnesota Book Awards 2006Poems in The Mother's Tongue move in images of the living world that include plants and creatures both native and non-native to American landscapes... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook by Zong-qi Cai 9780231156585
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99Designed to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduces classical Chinese to advanced beginners and learners... -
Revisiting Women's Cinema: Feminism, Socialism, and Mainstream Culture in Modern China by Lingzhen Wang
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Revisiting Women's Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women... -
Time Remaining: Poems James Lenfestey 9781571315748
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64An exuberant collection celebrating the body and the soul of language, wringing delights and amazements out of the latter years of life.In his seventh decade and seventh full length collection, poet...