China
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The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
$30.00 Read moreThe thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express-style adventure, set in China’s republican era.
In May 19- Author: Zimmerman, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1541701704
- Language: English
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Deadly Quiet City: True Stories from Wuhan
$32.65 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by The Economist and Kirkus Reviews
From one of China’s most celebrated–and silenced–literary authors, riveting portraits of eight Wuhan residents at the dawn- Author: Xuecun, Murong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977923
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartAs we enter the “Asian century,” China demands our attention for being an economic powerhouse, a beacon of rapid modernization, and an assertive geopolitical player. To understand the nation behind th… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Jaivin, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1615198202
- Language: English
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Owlish
$16.00 Read more* FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE *
A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Ho- Author: Tse, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452359
- Language: English
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On China
$22.00 Add to cart“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.“ –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of fore- Author: Kissinger, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121316
- Language: English
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The Dark Forest
$31.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem!
Over 1 million copies of the Three-Body Problem series sold in North America PRAISE FOR THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM SERIES: “A mind-bending epic.”—Th- Series: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2
- Author: Liu, Cixin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 11, 2015
- ISBN10: 076537708X
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
$35.00 Read moreA timely, well-researched, and “illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world me… [more below]
- Author: England, Vaudine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1982184515
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
$18.95 Add to cartJun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brou
- Author: Li, Zhuqing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064390
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
$35.00 Read moreThe long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese soci- Author: Huang, Yasheng
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266367
- Language: English
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Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
$18.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century a- Author: Tsu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0735214735
- Language: English
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Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
$32.00 Add to cartThe gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state–and America’s struggle to thwart them.
In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. The- Author: Winn, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 154170195X
- Language: English
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China’s World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict
$29.99 Add to cartDr. David Daokui Li has served as an advisor to senior Chinese Communist Party leaders as well as major multinational corporations and international economic institutions. Writing in response to the g
- Author: Li, David Daokui
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393292398
- Language: English
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A Map for the Missing
$18.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2022 First Novel Prize!
“Belinda Huijuan Tang’s debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father-- Author: Tang, Belinda Huijuan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593300688
- Language: English
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Party of One: The Rise of XI Jinping and China’s Superpower Future
$0.00 Read moreFrom one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tact
- Author: Wong, Chun Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982185732
- Language: English
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I Ching, the Oracle: A Practical Guide to the Book of Changes: An Updated Translation Annotated with Cultural & Historical References, Rest
$39.95 Add to cartBenebell Wen’s (Holistic Tarot and The Tao of Craft) historic new translation of the I Ching brings the power and mysticism of The Book of Changes to contemporary readers.
Now in a beautiful hardcover- Author: Wen, Benebell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1623178738
- Language: English
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Ball Lightning
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu’s Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness
- Author: Liu, Cixin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 25, 2019
- ISBN10: 076539409X
- Language: English
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
$15.99 Add to cartFrom Locus and Ignyte finalist, Crawford Award winner, and bestselling author Nghi Vo comes the second installment in a Hugo Award-winning series
“A stunning gem of a novella that explores the complex- Series: Singing Hills Cycle #2
- Author: Vo, Nghi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250786134
- Language: English
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
$16.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Crawford Award!
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist
Winner of the 2021 Hugo Award!
A Hugo Award-Winning Series!
A 2021 Ignyte Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist
A Book Riot Best De- Series: Singing Hills Cycle #1
- Author: Vo, Nghi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24, 2020
- ISBN10: 125075030X
- Language: English
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
$21.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling account of one of history’s most brutal–and forgotten–massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China’s capital city on the eve of World War II, “piecing together th
- Author: Chang, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465068367
- Language: English
