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  • Sojourners in a Strange Land

    Jesuits & Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China

    by Florence C. Hsia ...
    Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. ... Read more

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  • Myths & Legends of China

    by ETC Werner, GP Editors ...
    In this fascinating and comprehensive collection of Chinese myths and legends, E. T. C. Werner drew upon material readily available to him as a member of the Chinese government's' Historiographical Bureau in Peking. A former barrister and British consul in Foochow, Werner presents a wealth of information illuminating the ideas and beliefs that governed the daily lives of the Chinese people long ... Read more

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  • Chinese Martial Code

    The Art of War of Sun Tzu, The Precepts of War by Sima Rangju, Wu Zi on the Art of War

    by A. L. Sadler ...
    Chinese Martial Code provides clear, easy-to-follow translations of three of the most respected Chinese works of military strategyIt features a masterful translation of The Art of War of Sun Tzu-the most respected of all works of military strategy-as well as the less famous but equally wise The Precepts of War by Sima Rangju and Wu Zi On the Art of War.Additionally, A. L. Sadler's translation is ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Written in the Ruins

    Cape Breton Island’s Second Pre-Columbian Chinese Settlement

    by Paul Chiasson ...
    2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award — ShortlistedPaul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans.From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497, at least a century ... Read more

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  • Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens

    Reportage

    by László Krasznahorkai ...
    Translated by Ottilie Mulzet ...
    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE!The only nonfiction work by Krasznahorkai available in English, a bracing account of traveling through China at the turn of the 21st centuryKnown for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Carl Crow—A Tough Old China Hand

    The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai

    by Paul French ...
    Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • Fortifying China

    The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy

    by Tai Ming Cheung ...
    Fortifying China explores the titanic struggle to turn China into an aspiring world-class military technological power. The defense economy is leveraging the country's vibrant civilian economy and gaining access to foreign sources of technology and know-how. Drawing on extensive Chinese-language sources, Tai Ming Cheung explains that this transformation has two key dimensions. The defense economy ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun

    How I Survived Chinas Wartime Atrocity

    by Homare Endo ...
    Translated by Michael Brase ...
    An unforgettable memoir of the horrors suffered by a Japanese family trapped in Changchun, China, at the end of WW2.Over 150,000 innocents died of starvation in Changchun, northeastern China, after the end of WW2 when Mao's army laid siege during the Chinese Civil War. Japanese girl Homare Endo, then age seven, was trapped in Changchun with her family. After nomadic flight from city to city, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Socrates in Sichuan: Chinese Students Search for Truth, Justice, and the (Chinese) Way

    by Peter J. Vernezze ...
    When Peter J. Vernezze took a leave of absence from his position as a philosophy professor to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in China, he supplemented his main task—teaching English—with leading a weekly philosophical discussion group with Chinese undergraduate and graduate students at Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu. In each session the students debated topics as diverse as the status of ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Behind the Gate

    Inventing Students in Beijing

    by Fabio Lanza ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism. Through an investigation of twentieth-century Chinese ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Marco Polo's China

    A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan

    by Stephen G. Haw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia
    Marco Polo’s famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy. One recent work on the subject argues that Marco Polo never went to China at all, and other scholars have pointed out apparent mistakes and important omissions in Marco’s writings, including his failure to mention the Great Wall, and his apparently erroneous description of ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Sage and the People

    The Confucian Revival in China

    by Sebastien Billioud, Joel Thoraval ...
    Winner of the 2015 Pierre-Antoine Bernheim Prize for the History of Religion by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres After a century during which Confucianism was viewed by academics as a relic of the imperial past or, at best, a philosophical resource, its striking comeback in Chinese society today raises a number of questions about the role that this ancient tradition might play in a ... Read more

    $41.39 USD