Cultural Region/Chinese
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
$22.00 Read moreIn roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction b
- Author: Ngai, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036109
- Language: English
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The Coming Collapse of China
$20.00 Read more- Author: Chang, Gordon G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0812977564
- Language: English
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, with a New PostScript
$27.00 Add to cartOne of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang
- Author: Taylor, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674060490
- Language: English
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Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu Zhelong’s Work for Sustainable Farming
$9.95 Read moreThe narrator is a composite of people Pu Zhelong influenced in his work. With further context from Melanie Chan’s historically precise watercolors, this story will immerse young readers in Chinese cul
- Author: Schmalzer, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0884486354
- Language: English
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Hold Fast
$16.95 Read moreIt’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resi
- Series: A Thomas Grey Novel #1
- Author: Gelernter, J. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882470
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$14.99 Read moreThe perfect introduction to one of the world’s best-known classics.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges an- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1509827951
- Language: English
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Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives
$22.00 Read moreThe misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship
“A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship- Author: Roach, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273991
- Language: English
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The Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Through Recipes and Lore
$38.50 Add to cartAward-winning author Grace Young celebrates and demystifies the art of wok cooking for the Western home cook.
When Grace Young was a child, her father instilled in her a lasting appreciation of wok ha- Author: Young, Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0743238273
- Language: English
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Peony in Love
$18.00 Add to cart“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion m- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0812975227
- Language: English
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
$20.00 Add to cartA gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy
“A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”–The New… [more below]- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0812988116
- Language: English
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Birds of East Asia: China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Russia
$39.95 Read moreWith 234 superb color plates, and more than 950 color maps, Birds of East Asia makes it easy to identify all of the region’s species. The first single-volume field guide for eastern Asia, the book cov
- Series: Princeton Field Guides #46
- Author: Brazil, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0691139261
- Language: English
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Tao Teh Ching
$12.95 Read moreA lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar–now in a Shambhala Pocket Library edition.
Written more than two thousand years ago, the Tao Teh Ching is part poetry and par- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library #11
- Author: Lao Tzu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1611804760
- Language: English
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Port Arthur 1904-05: The First Modern Siege
$25.00 Read moreA gripping, illustrated narrative of the longest and most brutal land battle of the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War.
Growing rivalry between Imperial Russia and Imperial Japan over territorial control in C- Series: Campaign #398
- Author: Forczyk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1472855639
- Language: English
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Rumi: Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart
$24.99 Add to cartOriginally released in 2007, “Year of Rumi,” to coincide with the poet’s 800th birthday, by the pre-eminent Rumi poet Coleman Barks.
In Rumi: Bridge to the Soul, Coleman Barks–who holds an honorary
- Author: Barks, Coleman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0061338168
- Language: English
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Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
$17.95 Add to cartFuchsia Dunlop, the first Westerner to train at the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, “has done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone” (Julia Moskin, New… [more below]
- Author: Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357740
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$13.00 Add to cartThe world’s most famous military treatise, in an acclaimed translation
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of hist- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Sun-Tzu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037528
- Language: English
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Dreams of Joy
$18.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Astonishing . . . one of those hard-to-put-down-until-four-in-the morning books . . . a story with characters who enter a reader’s life, take up residence, and illumina
- Series: Shanghai Girls #2
- Author: See, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0812980549
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Li Po
$15.95 Read moreThere is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: “Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao.” He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the sam… [more below]
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0811213234
- Language: English
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Chinese Soul Food: A Friendly Guide for Homemade Dumplings, Stir-Fries, Soups, and More
$24.95 Add to cartAny kitchen can be a Chinese kitchen with these 80 easy comfort food recipes–plus tips and techniques for cooking with a wok, stocking your pantry, making rice, and more.
Chinese food is more popula… [more below]- Series: Chinese Soul Food
- Author: Chou, Hsiao-Ching
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1632174553
- Language: English
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Yin Mountain: The Immortal Poetry of Three Daoist Women
$19.95 Read moreFreshly translated poems reveal the complexity, self-realization, and spiritual freedom of three classical Daoist women poets.
Yin Mountain presents a fascinating window onto the lives of three Tang D- Author: Nie, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1645471128
- Language: English
