China
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The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 Bc-89 Ad: The Struggle of China and a Steppe Empire Told Through Its Key Figures
$34.95 Read moreThrough a series of novelistic biographies that showcase the pivotal roles and actions of those involved, dive into a centuries-long fight for survival for the Han empire that resulted in a golden age… [more below]
- Author: Crawford, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1526790661
- Language: English
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The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir
$20.00 Read moreThe Frozen Chosen is an account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the 1st Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korea
- Author: Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1472824881
- Language: English
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China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen
$21.95 Read moreA beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by renowned author and translator David Hinton.
Buddhism migrated from India to China in the first century- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1611807131
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
$35.00 Read moreChina’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time–from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 unti
- Author: Van de Ven, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983505
- Language: English
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Red Butterfly
$8.99 Read moreA young orphaned girl in modern-day China discovers the meaning of family in this “heartbreaking, heartwarming, and impressive debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) told in verse, in the traditio… [more below]
- Author: Sonnichsen, A. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1481411101
- Language: English
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Empire of Horses: The First Nomadic Civilization and the Making of China
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative and rich history of the remarkable Xiongnu culture–a lost empire which preceded the Mongols and even China itself.
The author of landmark histories such as Genghis Khan, Attila, and- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1643136917
- Language: English
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No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs
$28.99 Read more*Shortlisted for the Moore Prize on Human Rights Literature*
A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel that lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur H… [more below]
- Author: Turkel, Nury
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1335469567
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
$20.00 Add to cartAs China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0345803027
- Language: English
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The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation
$17.00 Read more“To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary–is this not me?”
Confucius is recognized as China’s firs
–Confucius- Series: Classics of Ancient China
- Author: Ames, Roger T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0345434072
- Language: English
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China
$14.95 Read moreChina is poised to become the world’s largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Wes… [more below]
- Series: Polity Histories
- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1509541489
- Language: English
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China RX: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine
$25.00 Read moreMillions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don’t know it–and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for imp… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Rosemary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1633883817
- Language: English
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In the Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony
$15.99 Read moreHow China used a network of surveillance to intern over a million people and produce a system of control previously unknown in human history
Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been u- Author: Byler, Darren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1735913626
- Language: English
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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 Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, with a New PostScript
$27.00 Read moreOne 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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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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Lin Yi’s Lantern
$9.99 Add to cartMeet Lin Yi — a little boy with a big heart and a talent for bargaining. Tonight is the moon festival and he wants nothing more than a red rabbit lantern; but first he must buy the things his mother … [more below]
- Author: Williams, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1846867932
- 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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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
