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Four Sisters of Hofei
Scribner 2013; US$ 15.00Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin. Now in their late eighties and early nineties, the Chang sisters lived through a century of historic change... more...
Demystifying China
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2012; US$ 23.99For westerners, China?s history is often reduced to a choice between timeless Confucian ideals or incomprehensible barbarisms such as footbinding or mass slaughter, fueled by generalizations such as ?China has five thousand years of history,? ?China was a Confucian society,? ?Chinese women were victims,? ?China is a communist country,? and many... more...
Twenty-First Century Seapower
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced naval capabilities. The emergence of rising naval... more...
Football Goes East
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 63.95Global popular culture and big business have revolutionised the East in a generation. Football, Sport of the masses and now commercial super power, has travelled with this tide of change in the East in its own right. The development of football as a major participatory sport in Japan, Korea and China makes it an ideal case study for analysis of... more...
A Bull in China
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now the one and only Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of ?the greatest economic boom since England?s Industrial Revolution.? In this indispensable new book, one of the world?s most successful investors, Jim Rogers, brings... more...
Analects
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2003; US$ 14.95This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entrée into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed... more...
The Bitter Sea
HarperCollins 2008; US$ 11.99A haunting and illuminating true story of growing up in the turbulent early years of modern China. In this exceptional memoir, Charles N. Li brings into focus the growth pains of a nation undergoing torturous rebirth and offers an intimate understanding of the intricate, subtle, and yet all-powerful traditions that bind the Chinese family. Born near... more...
1434
HarperCollins 2008; US$ 12.99The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century. The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result... more...
The Doctor Who Was Followed by Ghosts
ECW Press 2007; US$ 11.95A Communist doctor of great dedication, Li Qunying undoubtedly had fewer ghosts behind her than others, yet her life was in many ways ill-fated as she struggled to exist through vast political turmoil?the Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War, the Korean War, more...
Myths and Legends of China
The Floating Press 1922; US$ 6.99From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space (limitations which have necessitated the presentation of a very large and intricate topic in a highly compressed form), with the philosophy... more...









