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  • From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy

    The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China

    by Matthew Mosca ...
    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 coast, in Xinjiang, and in Tibet. By unraveling Chinese, Manchu, and British ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Khan and the Unicorn

    Mongol Empire and Qing Knowledge in the Making of World History

    by Associate Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle Matthew W. Mosca ...
    Series Book 486 - Harvard East Asian Monographs
    The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives and widely dispersed, could not convey its far-reaching significance. The Khan and the Unicorn details how historians from different cultures collectively rediscovered their common past and transformed the scattered records of Chinggis Khan’s conquests into world history. Between the ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

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  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered North America

    by Paul Chiasson ...
    The gripping, marvel-filled account of how a native son took a casual walk up a mountain on Cape Breton Island and made an archeological discovery of world-shaking proportions.In the summer of 2002, at home for his parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on the island where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. Cape Breton ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Forever Lily

    An Unexpected Mother's Journey to Adoption in China

    by Beth Nonte Russell ...
    "Will you take her?" she asks.When Beth Nonte Russell travels to China to help her friend Alex adopt a baby girl from an orphanage there, she thinks it will be an adventure, a chance to see the world. But her friend, who had prepared for the adoption for many months, panics soon after being presented with the frail baby, and the situation develops into one of the greatest challenges of Russell's ... Read more

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  • A Short History of China and Southeast Asia

    Tribute, Trade and Influence

    by Martin Stuart-Fox ...
    China, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia, examining patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and ... Read more

    $12.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Religious Question in Modern China

    by Vincent Goossaert, David A. Palmer ...
    Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • Frontier

    by Can Xue ...
    Translated by Karen Gernant, Chen Zeping ...
    A surreal, fantastic coming-of-age novel blending Eastern and Western beliefs, from the winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Opium War, 1840-1842

    Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar

    by Peter Ward Fay ...
    This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe — the process that is ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Gunpowder Age

    China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History

    by Tonio Andrade ...
    A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global historyThe Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In ... Read more

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  • Art of War

    by Sun Tzu, Jon Han-Sun ...
    The art of war is an unlucky book. Sun Tzu’s military classic has been a victim to the revisions of his descendants, the misinterpretation of his fellow strategists, and finally, the wrongheadedness of western interpreters. Now, at last, the curse is lifted. Jon Han-Sun has accomplished nothing short of miraculous with this completely new and completely restored version of the world's oldest book ... Read more

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  • The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China

    From the Bronze Age to the Han Empire

    by Alice Yao ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in the Archaeology of Ancient States
    Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by ... Read more

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