Cultural Region/Chinese
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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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The Bonesetter’s Daughter
$9.99 Add to cart“The Bonesetter’s Daughter dramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth. . . . A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic character… [more below]
- Author: Tan, Amy
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 29 2002
- ISBN10: 804114986
- Language: English
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Friends Are Friends, Forever
$18.99 Add to cartA picture book based on the author’s own immigration story, the infinite impact of friendship, and passing on love and kindness around the world.
On a snowy Lunar New Year’s Eve in Northeastern China- Author: Liu, Dane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250778182
- Language: English
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
$25.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR. From an eminent international security scholar, an urgent examination of the conditions that could produce a catastrophic conflict between … [more below]
- Author: Allison, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1328915387
- Language: English
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Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking
$39.99 Add to cartFuchsia Dunlop trained as a chef in China’s leading Sichuan cooking school and possesses the rare ability to write recipes for authentic Chinese food that you can make at home. Following her two semin
- Author: Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0393089045
- Language: English
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Boxers & Saints Boxed Set
$40.98 Add to cartThe Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work.
In two volumes, Boxers & Saints te- Series: Boxers & Saints #1
- Author: Yang, Gene Luen
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1596439246
- Language: English
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book)
$20.99 Add to cartA Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!
This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel
A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time!- Author: Lin, Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 316114278
- 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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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
$40.00 Add to cart“Feeding Ghosts reminds us how much the personal is political . . . an audacious, awe-inspiring feat. For me, it was an essential read.” –Ling Ma, author of Bliss Montage
An astonishing, deeply movin- Author: Hulls, Tessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 374601658
- Language: English
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The Food of Sichuan
$40.00 Add to cartAlmost twenty years after the publication of Land of Plenty, considered by many to be one of the greatest cookbooks of all time, Fuchsia Dunlop revisits the region where her own culinary journey began
- Author: Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1324004835
- Language: English
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The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China
$32.00 Add to cartA war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable.
The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is p- Author: Rudd, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701291
- 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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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor
$17.99 Read morePercy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys a… [more below]
- Series: Zachary Ying
- Author: Zhao, Xiran Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1665900709
- 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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Did You Eat Yet?: Craveable Recipes from an All-American Asian Chef
$32.50 Add to cartFrom renowned chef and beloved food personality Ronnie Woo, a cookbook of over 100 craveable all-American Asian-inspired recipes.
If you were ever to visit Ronnie Woo, chef and beloved food personality
- Author: Woo, Ronnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 358581699
- Language: English
