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  • Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market

    Edited by Merle Goldman, Edward Gu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese intellectual activity became more wide-ranging, more independent, more professionalized and more commercially ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Zhou Enlai

    The Last Perfect Revolutionary

    by Gao Wenqian ...
    Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last Communist political leader to be revered by the Chinese people. He is considered "a modern saint" who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution; an admirable figure in an otherwise traumatic and bloody era. Works about Zhou in China are heavily censored, and every hint of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • China's Ancient Tea Horse Road

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley ...
    The antique Silk Road that connected the Chinese and Mediterranean Worlds for more than a millennium, facilitating the exchange of both goods and cultures, is widely known and celebrated. Less familiar is its more southerly equivalent, the ‘Ancient Tea-Horse Road’ that once linked the lush gardens of southwest China with the frigid wastelands of Tibet and – beyond – the torrid plains of northern ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tales of Old Hong Kong

    by Derek Sandhaus ...
    Pirates, plagues, pistols and poisons; with adventure of all varieties, the third instalment of the popular 'Tales' series is a rollicking journey into colonial Hong Kong. A collection of historical odds and ends - stories, quotations, cartoons, postcards and drawings - recount in thrilling detail how a 'barren rock' seemingly destined to fail rose to become one of the richest trading outposts in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Empress Wu Zetian

    The Legendary Women of World History, #5

    by Laurel A. Rockefeller ...
    Series Book 5 - The Legendary Women of World History
    The most hated woman in Chinese history!Travel back in time over one thousand years and meet the first and only female emperor of China. Born Wu Zhao and given the reign title "Zetian" just weeks before her death in 705 CE, Empress Wu was the unwanted daughter of Chancellor Wu Shihuo -- too bright, too educated, and too politically focused to make a good wife according to contemporary ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fanshen

    A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

    by William Hinton, Fred Magdoff ...
    More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China's revolutionary process of rural reform and social change. A pioneering work, Fanshan is a marvelous and revealing look into life in the Chinese countryside, where tradition and modernity have had both a complimentary and caustic relationship in the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Taming Tibet

    Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

    by Emily Yeh ...
    The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Shanghai Manholes

    by Shanghai.Manholes ...
    While many have dedicated much time and energy to showcasing the buildings and historical sites of the former International Settlement and French Concession in Shanghai, the purpose of this book is to highlight the forgotten remnants of infrastructure – still dotting the streets – originally installed by the foreign powers that once called Shanghai home.Since the ending of foreigner controlled ... Read more

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  • Three Character Classic

    by Lim SK, Chan Kok Sing, Victor Petersen ...
    Series series Kid's Values for Success
    The Three Character Classic is perhaps the oldest textbook in the world that is still in use in schools today. First written in the late 13th century and updated several times since then, the book was the mainstay of primary school education in China.Young readers will get to learn much about China's history and even more importantly, various morals and good study habits that the Three Character ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • Old Stories Retold

    Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China

    by Andrew G. Stuckey ...
    Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin's discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Lianda

    A Chinese University in War and Revolution

    by John Israel ...
    In the summer of 1937, Japanese troops occupied the campuses of Beijing’s two leading universities, Beida and Qinghua, and reduced Nankai, in Tianjin, to rubble. These were China's leading institutions of higher learning, run by men educated in the West and committed to modern liberal education. The three universities first moved to Changsha, 900 miles southwest of Beijing, where they joined ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Filial Piety in Chinese Thought and History

    by Alan Chan, Sor-Hoon Tan ...
    The phenomenon of filial piety is fundamental to our understanding of Chinese culture, and this excellent collection of essays explores its role in various areas of life throughout history. Often regarded as the key to preserving Chinese tradition and identity, its potentially vast impact on government and the development of Chinese culture makes it extremely relevant, and although invariably ... Read more

    $65.99 USD