Cultural Region/Chinese
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Top 10 Beijing
$14.99 Add to cartA city of contrasts, Beijing has ancient temples and edgy art districts, winding hutongs and futuristic architecture – all within a stone’s-throw of the awe-inspiring Great Wall of China.
Make the mos- Series: Pocket Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 024156896X
- Language: English
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Division to Unification in Imperial China: The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220-907)
$14.95 Add to cartThe second volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China’s transition from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty.
- Series: Understanding China Through Comics #2
- Author: Liu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1611720303
- Language: English
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American Sweetheart: Still Not Making the Team
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. “That day in Texas Stadium, I finally understood what I had missed out on in high s
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0997722452
- Language: English
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Basic Mandarin Chinese – Speaking & Listening Textbook: An Introduction to Spoken for Beginners (Audio & Video Recordings Included)
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the complete beginning-level course for spoken Mandarin Chinese designed to have you speaking quickly and accurately!
The Basic Mandarin Chinese series offers a complete introductory Chinese l- Author: Kubler, Cornelius C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 080484724X
- Language: English
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Essential Cantonese Phrasebook & Dictionary: Speak Cantonese with Confidence (Cantonese Chinese Phrasebook & Dictionary with Manga Illustrations)
$9.99 Add to cartLook-up words quickly and easily with this travel size Cantonese phrasebook and dictionary.
Essential Cantonese Phrasebook & Dictionary clearly and concisely presents all the everyday words, phrases a- Series: Essential Phrasebook and Dictionary
- Author: Tang, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0804847088
- Language: English
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Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China
$35.00 Add to cartThe lower Yangtze region, or Jiangnan, with its modern capital Shanghai, has been known since ancient times as a “land of fish and rice.” For centuries, local cooks have harvested the bounty of its la
- Author: Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0393254380
- Language: English
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in History
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unfor… [more below]- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0307472213
- Language: English
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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
$19.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars
In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time throug
- Author: Hanes, W. Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1402201494
- Language: English
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A Fire in the Hills
$22.00 Add to cartIn A Fire in the Hills, Afaa focuses on one of the central threads in his body of work. His ongoing project of an articulation of self in relation to the external landscape of the community and the wo… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Afaa M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 163628082X
- Language: English
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Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
$22.95 Add to cartThe earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history, Mountain Home is vital poetry that feels utterly contemporary. China’s tradition of “rivers-and-mountains” poetry … [more below]
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2005
- ISBN10: 811216241
- Language: English
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The Monocle Travel Guide to Hong Kong (Updated Version)
$9.90 Read moreA procession through Hong Kong’s outposts of good food, design, retail, and more, this definitive travel guide will make you feel like a local no matter where you are from. Vertigo-inducing skyscraper… [more below]
- Author: Monocle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 3899558766
- Language: English
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Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
$10.00 Add to cart“Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes. This bri
- Author: Pua, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: January 10 2019
- ISBN10: 194776604X
- Language: English
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Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic, 1796-1912
$50.00 Add to cartThis insightful book, written by a large team of international scholars and specialists, sprang from a simple but original ambition: to provide the reader with an understanding–told through the lives
- Series: British Museum #16
- Author: Harrison-Hall, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 050048080X
- Language: English
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
$24.99 Add to cartComrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively, and has brought it to a higher … [more below]
- Author: Tse-Tung, Mao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1638231869
- Language: English
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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
$28.00 Add to cartA new picture of China’s rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.
The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A
- Author: Akhtar, Ali Humayun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1503627470
- Language: English
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La Historia de China: Una Fascinante GuÃa de la Historia China, con Eventos Como el Primer Emperador de China, las Conquistas Mongoles de Ge
$17.97 Add to cartSi quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de China, entonces continúe leyendo…
La historia de China es compleja, posiblemente más compleja que la de otras naciones. Los grupos étnicos que conform
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160399
- Language: Spanish
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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang
$18.99 Add to cartPremier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China’s government behind the Tiananmen massacre–and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziy… [more below]
- Author: Zhao Ziyang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 1439149399
- Language: English
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Periplus Pocket Cantonese Dictionary: Cantonese-English English-Cantonese (Fully Revised & Expanded, Fully Romanized)
$6.95 Add to cartThe ideal resource for students, travelers and business people
The Periplus Pocket Cantonese Dictionary is a convenient and handy pocket-sized dictionary that contains the most common Cantonese vocab- Author: Lam, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0794607802
- Language: English
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The Importance of Living
$19.99 Add to cartThe Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang’s prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invo… [more below]
- Author: Yutang, Lin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 16 1998
- ISBN10: 0688163521
- Language: English
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Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement
$29.99 Add to cartReader’s Choice Award Winner
Throughout China’s rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Ch
- Author: Wang, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1514004135
- Language: English
