History - Asia - China

"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of dynastic rivalry and innovation, from...

"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of dynastic rivalry and innovation, from...

En chine: Merveilleuses histoiresEsprer, c'est vivre. Nous ne vivons vraiment que par l'attente d'on ne sait quoi d'heureux qui va probablement nous arriver tout l'heure... ce soir... demain... ou l'anne prochaine. Alors, n'est-ce pas? tout sera chang; les conditions de notre vie seront transformes;...

Part travelogue, part historical reflection, Everyday Tang is a profound, and often startling, meditation on one period in Chinese history: the magnificent and cosmopolitan Tang Dynasty (618-907). After decades living in England, writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo travelled to her native China with her...

The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family."AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN MY GRANDMOTHER became the concubine of a warlord...

An Economist Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the Year "A book that has long cried out to be written." -- Observer (UK), Books of the Year In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in...

The first volume in this easy to read, comic-style series on Chinese historyAuthor: Jing LiuPublisher: Stone Bridge PressPublished: 05/31/2016Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781611720273Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/11/2016Library Journal 05/15/2016 pg. 60School Library Journal 06/01/2016 pg. 133Booklist 08/01/2016 pg....

The astonishing and deeply personal autobiography of the most profound spiritual leader in modern history, His Holiness the Dalai Lama--revealing the remarkable inner strength that allowed him to master both the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism and the brutal realities of Chinese CommunismA spiritual journey...

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, Qing rulers, officials, and scholars fused diverse, fragmented perceptions of foreign territory into one integrated worldview. In the same period, a single "foreign" policy emerged as an alternative to the many localized "frontier" policies hitherto pursued on the...

From Pekin to Calais by LandThere are two Englishmen at present living in Shanghai who have travelled overland from Europe to China. I was told, when there, that these gentlemen are continually receiving letters from England asking for information relative to the journey from...

From Peking to Mandalay - A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and YunnanWHOSE PRESENCE IN THE EAST WOULD BRING HAPPINESS TO EXILE, AND WHOSE ABSENCE IN THE WEST HAS CAUSED HIS BANISHED FRIEND TO TURN MANY TIMES WITH LONGING TO...

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Government in Republican ChinaThe origins of Chinese society may reach half a million years into the past. Anthropologists have suggested that Sinanthropus Pekinensis, among the earliest forms of man, resembles the modern Chinese more closely than he does any other modern race. In what...

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The first illustrated English-language book dedicated to Hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han people of China, this publication was conceived and created by the Northern California Hanfu Association to present a comprehensive history of Hanfu's evolution.Richly illustrated, it features reconstructed and photographed outfits...

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and ChineseThe year 1 in Japan is the same date as 660 B.C. of the Christian era, so that Japan is now in its twenty-sixth century. Then everything began. Before that date all...

Benebell Wen's (Holistic Tarot and The Tao of Craft) historic new translation of the I Ching brings the power and mysticism of The Book of Changes to contemporary readers. Now in a beautiful hardcover format with a ribbon bookmark. Through in-depth annotations, cultural and...

Im Sattel durch Zentralasien: 6000 Kilometer in 176 TagenHiermit bergebe ich mein kleines Buch der ffentlichkeit. Es soll kein Forschungswerk sein, sondern nur das erzhlen, was ich im fernen Osten und auf dem Wege ins Innere Asiens gesehen und erlebt habe. Es soll weitere...