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  • Socialism

    by Lin Chun / Duke University Press ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

    $10.11 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Song of King Gesar

    by Alai ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Series series Canongate Myths
    The first English translation of Tibet's founding myth, written by the renowned Chinese poet, novelist, and winner of China's Mao Dun Prize.The Song of King Gesar is one of the world's great epics, as significant for Tibetans as the Odyssey and Iliad were for the ancient Greeks. Passed down in song from one generation to the next, it is sung by Tibetan bards even today. Set partly in ancient Tibet ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apricot's Revenge

    A Crime Novel

    by Song Ying, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    Apricot's Revenge is an absorbing detective novel and more. Song Ying uses an ingenious plot to investigate social problems in modern China, which makes the book a profound and captivating read, leaving readers thinking long after reaching the last page.A business tycoon in China is found dead; he apparently suffered a heart attack while swimming. His body is washed onto a beach in a popular ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's a Snow Leopard to You?

    A Novel

    by Chen-Fu Hsu ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    *Winner of the 2021 Taiwan Literature Award*A captivating fusion of travelogue, fiction, and cultural meditation that journeys deep into the heart of Tibet.Chen-Fu Hsu’s debut novel begins with a young Taiwanese naturalist on an arduous quest for the elusive snow leopard, weaving in excerpts from translated entries from a left behind diary of a fictional Japanese monk, which bears witness to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Transformation of Chinese Socialism

    by Chun Lin ...
    In this significant contribution to both political theory and China studies, Lin Chun provides a critical assessment of the scope and limits of socialist experiments in China, analyzing their development since the victory of the Chinese communist revolution in 1949 and reflecting on the country’s likely paths into the future. Lin suggests that China’s twentieth-century trajectory be grasped in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Was Mao Really a Monster?

    The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s "Mao: The Unknown Story"

    Edited by Gregor Benton, Lin Chun ...
    Mao: 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 power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on China by writers in ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Piano Tuner

    A Novel

    Translated by Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin ...
    by Chiang-Sheng Kuo ...
    This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha JinA widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Revolution and Counterrevolution in China

    by Lin Chun ...
    A history of revolutionary China in the 20th centuryChina under XI Jingping has been experiencing unprecedented change. From the Belt and Road initiative to its involvement in Great Power struggles with the West, China is facing the world once more in the hope of reclaiming a lost Chinese greatness. But is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" just neoliberal capitalism under another name? And, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Chinese Wonder Book

    A Classic Collection of Chinese Tales

    by Norman Hinsdale Pitman ...
    Illustrated by Li Chu Tang ...
    The Chinese Wonder Book contains some of the most beloved Chinese folktales. These stories include:The Golden Beetle or Why the Dog Hates the CatThe Great BellThe Strange Tale of Doctor DogThe Talking FishAnd many other classicsOriginally published in 1919, this book has thrilled and amused children and adults for generations, and served as an accessible introduction to Chinese folklore for ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • A Spark in the Smokestacks

    Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities

    by Jean Yen-chun Lin ...
    Winner, 2024 Robert E. Park Book Award, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological AssociationEnvironmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash problem and overflowing landfills, many first-time homeowners found their new ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Spark in the Smokestacks

    Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities

    by Jean Yen-chun Lin ...
    Winner, 2024 Robert E. Park Book Award, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological AssociationEnvironmental organizing in Beijing emerged in an unlikely place in the 2000s: new gated residential communities. After rapid population growth and housing construction led to a ballooning trash problem and overflowing landfills, many first-time homeowners found their new ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Novel Precast Concrete Structure Systems

    by Gang Wu, De-Cheng Feng, Chun-Lin Wang ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book systematically presents these findings for the first time, focusing on the composition, force mode, structural characteristics, performance advantages, and calculation methods for each new structural system, and comparing each one with traditional structural systems.In view of the persistent problems in the current equivalent cast in situ precast concrete structural systems and the ... Read more

    $170.99 USD