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  • The Early Chinese Empires

    Qin and Han

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 1 - History of Imperial China
    In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia.The Qin and Han constitute the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • China between Empires

    The Northern and Southern Dynasties

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 2 - History of Imperial China
    After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Honor and Shame in Early China

    by Mark Edward Lewis ...
    In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups. Over centuries, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought

    by Mark Edward Lewis ...
    Series series Elements in Ancient East Asia
    This Element examines evolving methods of cultivating the embodied self, including healing diseases and creating a superior person, in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia. It analyses many topics, including the textualization of bodily regimens and therapies, their systematization, their dissemination among different (and sometimes rival) social groups, and the diversity of traditions ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons

    A Seventeenth-Century Novel

    The dramatic story of a girl who became a goddessThe Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) into vernacular short fiction, legends, plays, sutras, and stele inscriptions at temples where she is ... Read more

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  • China’s Cosmopolitan Empire

    The Tang Dynasty

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 3 - History of Imperial China
    The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Guerrilla Teleselling

    New Unconventional Weapons and Tactics to Sell When You Can’t Be There in Person

    by Jay Conrad Levinson, Mark S. A. Smith, Orvel Ray Wilson ...
    Narrated by Edward Lewis ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    The first book to apply guerrilla sales and marketing tactics to the unique, high-pressure environment of electronic communications, this groundbreaking resource is packed with valuable tips, expert advice, and insider secrets on finding, closing, and increasing sales by phone and fax as well as via e-mail and the Internet. ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mount Putuo and Its Gazetteers

    by Marcus Bingenheimer ...
    Among Chinese religious sites, Mount Putuo, the "Island of Guanyin," stands out as a fascinating embodiment of China's vibrant Buddhist tradition. A small island in the East China Sea, it has been the single most important pilgrimage site for the worship of Guanyin, the beloved Bodhisattva of Compassion, who is venerated from Sri Lanka to Japan. Attracting thousands of visitors every year, the ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Mapping China and Managing the World

    Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • The Art of War

    Sun Zi's Military Methods

    by Sun Zi ...
    Translated by Victor Mair ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations, and while numerous editions of the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The I Ching

    A Biography

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the worldThe I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine

    Heritage and Adaptation

    by Paul U. Unschuld ...
    Translated by Bridie Andrews ...
    A leading authority explains the ideas and practice of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in antiquity to today. Paul U. Unschuld describes medicine's close connection with culture and politics throughout Chinese history. He brings together texts, techniques, and worldviews to understand changing Chinese attitudes toward healing and the significance of traditional Chinese medicine in both China ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD