Cultural Region/Chinese
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Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy
$16.99 Add to cartHow did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? … [more below]
- Author: Stevenson-Yang, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 173942431X
- Language: English
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise
$19.00 Add to cartAs the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scot
- Author: Rozelle, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0226824012
- Language: English
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Foundations of Chinese Civilization: The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty (2697 BCE – 220 CE)
$14.95 Add to cartThe first volume in this easy to read, comic-style series on Chinese history
- Series: Understanding China Through Comics #1
- Author: Liu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1611720273
- Language: English
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Taoist Astrology: A Handbook of the Authentic Chinese Tradition
$16.95 Read moreThis guide brings Chinese astrology back to its ancient roots, providing all the information you need for understanding one of the world’s oldest systems of divination.
The ancient Chinese people deve… [more below]- Author: Levitt, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0892816066
- Language: English
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Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity: The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907 – 1368)
$14.95 Add to cartThe third volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China’s relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!
- Series: Understanding China Through Comics #3
- Author: Liu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1611720346
- Language: English
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Chinese Astrology: Exploring the Eastern Zodiac
$16.99 Add to cart“He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise.” –Lao-Tzu
The quest for self-knowledge has been a universal human pursuit for millenniums. Who are we? And could our destiny be written i
- Author: Wu, Shelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 15 2005
- ISBN10: 1564147967
- Language: English
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories)
$19.99 Add to cartLong considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in … [more below]
- Author: Songling, Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0804849080
- Language: English
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The Language of Threads
$22.00 Add to cartReaders of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the silk house as a girl, grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel t
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267568
- Language: English
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Golden Lotus: A Saga of Ambition, Murder and Lust in Medieval China (Unabridged Edition)
$29.99 Add to cart“The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced.” —Pearl S. Buck
A saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical- Author: Xiaoxiao Sheng, Lanling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0804856729
- Language: English
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Hold Your Breath, China
$18.99 Add to cartInspector Chen is on the case of a serial murderer when he is called away to report on environmentalists trying to tackle the pollution issues in China.
Chief Inspector Chen and Detective Yu Guangmin- Series: Inspector Chen Mystery #10
- Author: Xiaolong, Qiu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1780296916
- Language: English
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The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery
$13.00 Add to cartPoisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and t… [more below]
- Series: Judge Dee Mysteries
- Author: Van Gulik, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226848787
- Language: English
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An Excess Male
$17.99 Add to cartOne of the Washington Posts’ “The 5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2017”!
James Tiptree, Jr Literary Award Honor List
A B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog “Best SFF of 2017” pick!
A Kirkus “Best of
- Author: King, Maggie Shen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2022
- ISBN10: 0062662554
- Language: English
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Flower Net
$22.00 Add to cart“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the publ… [more below]
- Series: Red Princess Mysteries #1
- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 31 2007
- ISBN10: 0812978684
- Language: English
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Becoming Madame Mao
$19.99 Add to cartIn a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival an
- Author: Min, Anchee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127003
- Language: English
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Night of Many Dreams
$22.00 Add to cartNight of Many Dreams is the bestselling novel from Gail Tsukiyama that tells the tale of two sisters separated by ambition, bound by tradition
As World War II threatens their comfortable life in Hong K- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312199406
- Language: English
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Becoming Inspector Chen
$18.99 Add to cartChief Inspector Chen, facing possible disciplinary action, is excluded from a new investigation that has seen a poem said to be criticising the current government removed from the Internet. Left feari… [more below]
- Series: Inspector Chen Mystery #11
- Author: Xiaolong, Qiu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 178029753X
- Language: English
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The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Epic Tale of Brotherhood, Bravery and Rebellion in Imperial China
$29.99 Add to cart“[The Water Margin] is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made of any people.” –Pearl S. Buck
The Water Margin is an epic tale set in 12th century Imper- Author: Naian, Shi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 4805317876
- Language: English
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The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome the Tiger: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes)
$24.95 Add to cartThis exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.
The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical- Author: Guanzhong, Luo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0804843953
- Language: English
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A Bond Undone: The Definitive Edition
$29.00 Add to cartA Bond Undone is the second book in Jin Yong’s epic Chinese classic and phenomenon Legends of Condor Heroes, published in the US for the first time!
In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the- Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes #2
- Author: Yong, Jin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1250250110
- Language: English
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A Snake Lies Waiting: The Definitive Edition
$24.00 Add to cartA Snake Lies Waiting is the next in Jin Yong’s high stakes, tension-filled epic Legends of the Condor Heroes, where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung
- Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes #3
- Author: Yong, Jin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1250250129
- Language: English
