Cultural Region/Chinese
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Zao Wou-KI: Watercolors and Ceramics
$44.95 Read moreThis volume, the first to explore this major artist’s experiments in watercolor and his interesting and beautiful forays into ceramic decoration, features a brief note by Fran?ise Marquet-Zao.
Zao Wou-
- Author: Chazal, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1913875288
- Language: English
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The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
$19.99 Add to cartThe harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice.
‘A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic memoir that tells a story of pain and perseverance and makes the
- Author: Park, Jihyun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0008541442
- Language: English
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Intermediate Written Chinese Practice Essentials: Read and Write Mandarin Chinese as the Chinese Do (Audio Recordings & Printable Pdfs Included)
$16.99 Add to cartWelcome to the world’s most efficient method of learning Mandarin Chinese, whether you are striving to learn Chinese on your own or studying in a classroom setting.
Part of the widely-used and highly- Author: Kubler, Cornelius C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0804850526
- Language: English
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God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
$24.95 Read moreWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of … [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315568
- Language: English
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Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
$21.99 Add to cartA stunning biography of history’s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun
For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0312539398
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
$20.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of- Author: Lim, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190227915
- Language: English
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To a Mountain in Tibet
$17.99 Add to cart“A superb account of a pilgrimage. . . . Characteristically beautiful, though uncharacteristically haunted.” –Pico Iyer, New York Review of Books
“Thubron walks for the dead and writes for the living,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0061768278
- Language: English
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Mr. China: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartMr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese into the modern world, only to be schooled by the most resourceful a
- Author: Clissold, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0060761407
- Language: English
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On Guerrilla Warfare
$9.99 Add to cartThe book is written in the context of China’s guerrilla war against Japanese occupiers; this conflict is mentioned often by Mao. In this book Mao discusses the differences between guerrilla and “ortho… [more below]
- Author: Tse-Tung, Mao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 12 2007
- ISBN10: 956310014X
- Language: English
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Collected Writings of Chairman Mao: Volume 3 – On Policy, Practice and Contradiction
$19.95 Add to cartMao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country, he ruled the People’s Republic of China from its est… [more below]
- Author: Zedong, Mao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1934255246
- Language: English
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Chinese Fast Wrestling: The Art of San Shou Kuai Jiao Throws, Takedowns, & Ground-Fighting
$22.95 Add to cartSan Shou Kuai Jiao (Fast Wrestling for Fighting) is the Chinese martial art of throws and takedowns. A San Shou Kuai Jiao throw can cause tremendous damage to your opponent while keeping you safely on
- Author: Liang, Shou-Yu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 1997
- ISBN10: 1886969493
- Language: English
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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thir… [more below]
- Author: Yi, Henry Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1602397325
- Language: English
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
$18.99 Add to cartNow in paperback one of the most stirring accounts of the lives of Chinese women since Wild Swans “full of heart-rending tales….shocking, simply told…a very powerful polemic” (The New York Times B… [more below]
- Author: Xinran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1451610947
- Language: English
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I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
$39.95 Add to cartLate one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo–China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08–and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 No
- Author: Link, Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0231206348
- Language: English
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Cultivated Stones: Chinese Scholars’ Rocks from the Kemin Hu Collection
$50.00 Read moreThe original readymade: a pioneering volume on the ancient tradition of the scholar’s rock
Lose yourself in the endlessly rich variety of Chinese scholars’ rocks, or gongshi, in this catalog featuring
- Author: Bloom, Phillip E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218020804
- Language: English
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The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodojin: Japan’s Great Poet and Landscape Artist
$39.99 Add to cartThe most comprehensive book on Kodojin’s art ever published–beautiful and mysterious–a collection of more than 100 paintings with English translations of the inscribed poems.
The Art and Life of Fuk- Author: Marks, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317779
- Language: English
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The Korean Kimchi Cookbook: 78 Fiery Recipes for Korea’s Legendary Pickled and Fermented Vegetables
$17.99 Add to cartKimchi is the newest star on the Asian culinary stage. These kimchi recipes are an appetizing way to add more vegetables with probiotics, vitamins, and enzymes to your healthy diet.
This delicious Kor- Author: O-Young, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0804848602
- Language: English
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Beginning Chinese Characters: Learn 300 Chinese Characters and 1200 Mandarin Chinese Words Through Interactive Activities and Exercises (Ideal for H
$16.99 Add to cartLearn the essential Mandarin Chinese characters and words in everyday use in China
Anyone planning to learn Chinese knows that there are 300 primary characters they must understand to function in Chi- Author: Liao, Haohsiang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0804845077
- Language: English
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Cultivating the Empty Fields: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
$16.95 Read moreCultivating the Empty Field is a modern translation of the core of Chinese Ch’an master Hongzhi’s Extensive Record.
First to articulate the meditation method known to contemporary Zen practitioners as- Series: Tuttle Library of Enlightenment
- Author: Leighton, Taigen Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0804832404
- Language: English
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Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present Day
$29.99 Add to cartFeaturing over 450 archival photographs and line drawings, Chinese Dress traces the evolution of Chinese clothing from court and formal costumes to the everyday fashions of twenty-first century China.… [more below]
- Author: Garrett, Valery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0804852561
- Language: English
