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The Tao of Spycraft: Intelligence Theory and Practice in Traditional China, Paperback - Ralph D. Sawyer

240,99 RON

In The Tao of Spycraft, for the first time anywhere Ralph Sawyer unfolds the long and venerable tradition of spycraft and intelligence work in trad...

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Peking: An Epic Novel of Twentieth-Century China, Paperback - Anthony Grey

126,99 RON

This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope...

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Hidden Treasures: A Letter to the Children of Mother's Love, Guangxi, China, Paperback - Kit Ying Chan

101,99 RON

Hidden Treasures is the true story of a young woman whose brief visit to Nanning, Guangxi, China in 1992 sparked the beginning of nearly two decade...

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Objectionable Li Zhi. Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China, Paperback - ***

183,99 RON

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A Society Without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China, Paperback - Cai Hua

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. The Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution of marriage. Na brothers and sisters live together their entire live...

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Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China, Paperback - Margaret Hillenbrand

191,99 RON

When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hill...

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In the Name of Justice. Striving for the Rule of Law in China, Paperback - Weifang He

294,99 RON

As one of China's most influential law professors, He Weifang has been at the forefront of the country's treacherous path toward justice and judici...

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Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Paperback - G. William Skinner

77,99 RON

Publisher: Association for Asian StudiesAuthor(s): G. William SkinnerNumber of pages: 150Collection: AAS MonographsPublication date: 2021Dimensions...

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Pirates and Publishers. A Social History of Copyright in Modern China, Paperback - Fei-Hsien Wang

159,99 RON

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Fei-Hsien WangIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 368Collection: Studies of th...

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The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China, Paperback - Xavier Naville

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. A snobbish French executive arrives in Shanghai with his expensive shoes and ties, expecting a short career-boosting posting before returning to Pa...

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Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese. Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society, Paperback - Joshua Esler

282,99 RON

This study examines the changing role of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It analyzes how Tibetan B...

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The Chinese Prophecies: Decoding the Past, Present and Future of China with the Tui Bei Tu, Paperback - Yin Zhe

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe world is witnessing the unprecedented rise of China. But will it last? This is a book that reads the past, present and future of Chi...

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A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions (Revised Edition), Paperback - Constance A. Cook

289,99 RON 310,99 RON

Reducere. The Revised Edition of A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions offers English translations and commentary on over eighty-two important...

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Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea. HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, Paperback - Rod Macdonald

140,99 RON

A stunning and forensic look at the wrecks of two of the most famous British capital ships lost during WWII Provides details of the construction an...

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The Art of Modern China, Paperback - Julia F. Andrews

263,99 RON

In the early twenty-first century, China occupies a place on center stage in the international art world. But what does it mean to be a Chinese art...

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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China, Paperback - Henry Pu Yi

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi ...

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The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China, Paperback - Julia Lovell

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

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Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China, Paperback - Lihong Shi

147,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Lihong ShiChina's patrilineal and patriarchal tradition has encouraged a long-standing preference for male heirs within fam...

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Decade of Upheaval. The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, Paperback - Andrew G. Walder

193,99 RON

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Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China, Paperback - Rachel DeWoskin

112,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Rachel DeWoskinDetermined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a fiery life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops ...

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I See the Sun in China, Paperback - Dedie King

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. The first in the I See the Sun Series, readers follow a young girl as she travels from a small town in China to the city of Shanghai to spend time ...

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Citizens of Beauty. Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China, Paperback - Louise Edwards

183,99 RON

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Shanghai Free Taxi. Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China, Paperback - Frank Langfitt

62,99 RON

Real lives in modern Shanghai - a portrait of a dynamic city struggling against a repressive regime

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The Lacquered Talisman: A Novel of Fourteenth Century China, Paperback - Laurie Dennis

132,99 RON

A sweeping coming-of-age epic, The Lacquered Talisman launches the story of one of the most influential figures in Chinese history. He is the son o...

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As Found Houses: Experiments from Self-Builders in Rural China, Paperback - John Lin

204,99 RON

In rural China, an informal wave of building jump-started by economic and social transformations over the past 40 years has rendered some villages ...

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The Trouble with Taiwan. History, the United States and a Rising China, Paperback - ***

109,99 RON

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Kalley Wu Tzu (Independent Scholar, Taiwan) HuiNumber of pages: 272Collection: Asian ArgumentsPublic...

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Aspiring to be Global. Language and Social Change in a Tourism Village in China, Paperback - Shuang Gao

189,99 RON

This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of...

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Believing in Ghosts and Spirits. The Concept of Gui in Ancient China, Paperback - Hu Baozhu

309,99 RON

The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China. The main foc...

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Being Modern in China: A Western Cultural Analysis of Modernity, Tradition and Schooling in China Today, Paperback - Paul Willis

164,99 RON

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading et...

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A New China: An Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese - Revised Edition, Paperback - Chih-P'Ing Chou

347,99 RON

Originally published in 1999, A New China has become a standard textbook for intermediate Chinese language learning. This completely revised editio...

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Kitchen Chinese: A Novel about Food, Family, and Finding Yourself, Paperback - Ann Mah

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. "Ann Mah's Kitchen Chinese is a delicious debut novel, seasoned with just the right balance of humor and heart, and sprinkled with fascinating cult...

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Chinese For Kids 50 More Characters Ages 5+ (Simplified): Chinese Writing Practice Workbook, Paperback - Queenie Law

61,99 RON 66,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionChinese for Kids 50 More Characters Ages 5+ Simplified is for children ages 5 and older to practice writing simplified Chinese. Fun and ...

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Mandarin Chinese for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Chinese (Fully Romanized and Free Online Audio), Paperback - Yi Ren

91,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Yi RenAuthor: Xiyuan LiangThis user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by...

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Chinese Takeout: Cookbook of Famous Chinese Takeout Recipes and Street Food, Paperback - Lukas Prochazka

45,99 RON 49,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDid you know Hong Kong's street food stalls made the Michelin list not too far back? If Chinese street food listed is in the prestigious...

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Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication, Paperback - Xing Lu

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...

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Red Star Over China. The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism, Paperback - Edgar Snow

80,00 RON

One of the most influential books on Western understanding and sympathy for Red China in the 1930s

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China in Ten Words, Paperback - ***

61,00 RON

Framed by ten words and phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words reveals as never before the world's most populous yet often mi...

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Chinese Americans, Paperback - Elizabeth Andrews

49,99 RON 53,99 RON

Reducere. This book explores the story of Chinese Americans. Readers will learn about the history of Chinese immigration to the United States. Entertaining t...

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Thirty-Six Stratagems: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese: The Art of War Companion, Chinese Strategy Classic, Includes Pinyin, Paperback - Sun Tz

51,99 RON 55,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sun TzuAuthor: Zhuge LiangAuthor: This unique edition of Thirty-Six Stratagems features both English, Chinese and Pinyin si...

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Chinese Flash Cards Hsk Levels 1 & 2 Elementary Level: For Beginners (Kids and Adults), Practice Chinese Characters, Paperback - Xiongmao Publishing

42,99 RON 45,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFlash cards remain one of the most effective tools for rapid memorization. Learn Chinese Mandarin characters quickly and easily. A flash...

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88 Chinese Medicine Secrets. How the wisdom of China can help you to stay healthy and live longer, Paperback - Angela Hicks

61,00 RON

This book is for anyone who wants ot sustain their health and provides guidelines to enable you to do so.

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Learn Mandarin for Kids: Basic Chinese Words For Kids - Bilingual Mandarin Chinese English Book, Paperback - Wei Ling

61,99 RON 66,99 RON

Reducere. This is the best way to learn Mandarin Chinese for kids by English, Mandarin Chinese words and Pictures.Learn Mandarin for Kids: Basic Chinese Word...

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Raging Waters in the South China Sea: What the Battle for Supremacy Means for Southeast Asia, Paperback - Rachel a. Winston

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations, maps, and timelines, this enlightening and provocative book on the South China Sea conflict is...

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I'll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China, Paperback - Ramin Mazaheri

109,00 RON

"I'LL RUIN EVERYTHING YOU ARE: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China" is a compilation of serialised articles published by The Saker and The Grean...

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After Eunuchs. Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China, Paperback - Howard Chiang

155,99 RON

Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role i...

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Future Conditional. Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China, Paperback - Eric S. Henry

191,99 RON

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The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, Paperback - Nicholas Lardy

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionChina's extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabate...

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Book of Lord Shang. Apologetics of State Power in Early China, Paperback - Yang Shang

170,99 RON

Compiled in China in the fourth-third centuries BCE, The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to rule over society. In Yuri Pine...

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Children of the Tide. An Exploration of Surfing in Dynastic China, Paperback - Nik Zanella

118,99 RON

The radical journey of an Italian surf punk studying Chinese in the late 1980s, fuelling surf adventures in the 1990s through work as a Mandarin in...

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Rural Origins, City Lives. Class and Place in Contemporary China, Paperback - Roberta Zavoretti

183,99 RON

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Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, Paperback - Craig Clunas

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...

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A Military History of China, Paperback - David A. Graff

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Gaining an understanding of China's long and sometimes bloody history can help to shed light on China's ascent to global power. Many of China's imp...

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Two Lives. Tales of Life, Love and Crime. Stories from China., Paperback - A. Yi

62,99 RON

Seven stories, seven whispers into the ears of life: A Yi's unexpected twists of crime burst from the everyday, with glimpses of romance distorted ...

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Hygienic Modernity. Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China, Paperback - Ruth Rogaski

209,99 RON

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in th...

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The Life and Times of General China, Paperback - Myles Osborne

165,99 RON

No episode in African history is more controversial than the Mau Mau Uprising, and within it, no figure more polarizing than Waruhiu Itote, or "Gen...

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City Integration and Tourism Development in the Greater Bay Area, China, Paperback - Chi Fung Lam

149,99 RON

City Integration and Tourism Development in the Greater Bay Area, China explores the tourism development related issues of city integration in the ...

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Accidental Holy Land. The Communist Revolution in Northwest China, Paperback - Joseph W. Esherick

199,99 RON

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joseph W. EsherickIllustration(s): 6 color illustrations; 11 maps; 2 tablesNumber of pages: 346...

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Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific, Paperback - Robert D. Kaplan

85,99 RON

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYFINANCIAL TIMESFrom Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy ...

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Chinese For Kids My Family Workbook Ages 5+ (Simplified): Mandarin Chinese Writing Practice Activity Book, Paperback - Queenie Law

61,99 RON 66,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis workbook introduces children to basic Chinese words for family members and pets with practice writing pages. Use pencils, color pen...

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Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy: A Brief Outline of Chinese Philosophy and the Issues It Entails, Paperback - Esther C. Su

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. Chinese philosophy is often dismissed as either too underdeveloped or too mystical in comparison to the well-developed philosophies of the West. Ho...

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Coral Reefs, Paperback - Jason Chin

49,99 RON 53,99 RON

Reducere. During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reef...

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Chinese Medicine, Paperback - Ted J Kaptchuk

125,99 RON

A revised and expanded edition of the widely considered most authoritative work on Chinese medicine. B/w line diagrams.

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Chinese Love Poetry, Paperback - ***

62,99 RON

Selection of classical and modern Chinese love poems, illustrated with brushwork calligraphy and scenes from rarely exhibited paintings and prints ...

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China Business Handbook, Paperback - ***

444,99 RON

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London (Chinese), Paperback - Sara Pink

31,99 RON

The latest Pitkin guide to London celebrates the most famous icons in our English heritage, as well as introducing the newest architectural additio...

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China Dialogues, Paperback - TJUP

129,99 RON

China Dialogues is a rigorously selected collection of insightful interviews that the book's author Vladimir Belogolovsky has conducted with 21 lea...

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Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China, Paperback - Jen Lin-Liu

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. A memorable and mouthwatering cook's tour of today's China As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a r...

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Recovering Histories. Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China, Paperback - Nicholas Bartlett

193,99 RON

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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, Paperback - Philip P. Pan

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. Now in paperback, an intimate, elegant account of a society in turmoil: the most important book in a generation about the Chinese people and their ...

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Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China, Paperback - Kwang-Chih Chang

160,99 RON

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient Ch...

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