Asia - China
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El Arte de la Guerra
$11.95 Add to cartSi conoces al enemigo y a ti mismo, tu victoria ser? segura; si conoces el Cielo y conoces la Tierra, puedes lograr que tu victoria sea completa .
El arte de la guerra es el m?s reconocido tratado de- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 8494709208
- Language: Spanish
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A Social History of Maoist China
$35.00 Add to cartWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to ‘turn society upside down’. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and disillusionment. Th… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to Asian History
- Author: Wemheuer, Felix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: March 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1107565502
- Language: English
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Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
$33.00 Read moreFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dik?tter, a commanding new history of China’s path to Communism.
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in th- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1639733973
- Language: English
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Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China That Changed History
$22.99 Add to cartSilk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable – war and humiliation. Much … [more below]
- Author: Pembroke, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1761451987
- Language: English
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The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
$30.00 Add to cartAn indelible, deeply reported human narrative of contemporary China in which the country’s carefully regulated internet offers a lens into the broader national tension between freedom and control
In t- Author: Liu, Yi-Ling
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593491858
- Language: English
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Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict
$29.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of the roots of China and Mongolia’s historic rivalry–and why it matters today.
The Great Wall of China–stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 163936997X
- Language: English
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
$22.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness
Winner of the National Book Award in nonfiction- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535272
- Language: English
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People’s China at 75 – The Flag Stays Red
$30.00 Add to cartWhen the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed on 1 October 1949, China was one of the poorest and most wretched societies on earth. Illiteracy was as high as life expectancy was low but as Chines
- Author: Bennett, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1899155392
- Language: English
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At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Baifang Schell Book Prize – 2025 Orwell Prize Finalist
One of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of 2024 “A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along.” —The Wal- Author: Wong, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1984877402
- Language: English
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Zhou Enlai: A Life
$39.95 Add to cartA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the exces- Author: Chen, Jian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0674659589
- Language: English
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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
$32.00 Add to cartA concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan
Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New Statesman * BBC History Magazine As tensions over Taiwan escalate,- Author: Khan, Sulmaan Wasif
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605047
- Language: English
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China in Ten Words: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartFrom one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades.
Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words- Author: Hua, Yu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0307739791
- Language: English
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping’s China
$29.00 Add to cartAn intimate, deeply reported investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an… [more below]
- Author: Feng, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593594223
- Language: English
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China as a Twenty-First Century Naval Power: Theory, Practice, and Implications
$37.95 Read moreXi Jinping has made his ambitions for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) perfectly clear, there is no mystery what he wants, first, that China should become a “great maritime power” and secondly, that… [more below]
- Author: McDevitt, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1557501130
- Language: English
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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreChina today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese ‘economic miracle’. It seems to be… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mitter, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198753705
- Language: English
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Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
$30.00 Read moreTaiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.
When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas we- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362091
- Language: English
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Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
$30.00 Add to cartTaiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.
When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas we- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362091
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
$38.00 Add to cartThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple paths,- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267088
- Language: English
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Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
$35.00 Add to cart“Astonishing…Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire” – The Telegraph
Control the sea, and you control everything…a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1399417738
- Language: English
