Enigma of China, Paperback - Qiu Xiaolong

The 8th novel in the Chinese crime series featuring Shanghai detective Chief Inspector Chen Cao. He is caught between Party politics and his princi...

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Reducere. Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in Franc...

High hopes for this crime novel set in Shanghai in 1990. Chief Inspector Chen is a detective and a poet. When called upon to investigate the death ...

Reducere. Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young national model worker, renowned for her adhere...

Minutes before he is asked to investigate a murder involving renowned poetress and courtesan Xuanji, Judge Dee receives a cryptic note attached to ...

Reducere. Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is assigned a high-profile anti-corruption case, one in which the principal figure has long si...

Reducere. Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is often assigned cases considered politically "sensitive, " and now the Minister of Pub...

Reducere. A serial killer is stalking the young women of Shanghai. The killer's calling card is to leave the victims' bodies in well trafficked locations, ea...

Reducere. "Dark, gorgeous...feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesIn Don't Cry, Tai Lak...

Reducere. Inspector Chen is excluded from a poetry case as he awaits possible disciplinary action, leaving him to reflect on his career . . . but does his pa...

The third in the acclaimed Inspector Chen series set in 1990s Shanghai - 'Sublime . . . complex and riveting' Washington Post

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Lauder Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania.'A tour de force not to be missed.' Willy Wo-Lap, Senior China Analyst at C...

A stunning set of four books that bring together classic dishes from all over China, from the imperial kitchens of Beijing to the tea houses of Sou...

For thousands of years China had a vibrant imperial urban civilization, which over the last century has been transformed into the largest urban soc...

Reducere. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history--a bests...

Reducere. Describes the awe-inspiring teamwork of one million people, who, over the course of ten years, built the Great Wall of China, as ordered by China's...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human ...

Filled with fascinating ideas about the revival of religion now sweeping across China, it explores how these changes offer a profound threat to the...

The extraordinary story of how China became the powerful country it is today, when just a century ago it was almost helpless in the face of foreign...

Experience the flavour of China by using the delicious recipes in this book! As well as being able to make food such as bang-bang chicken and fried...

A provocative account showing that "China"-and its 5, 000 years of unified history-is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political ...

Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

Publisher: Tilted Axis PressAuthor(s): Ge YanPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 34Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul l...

Publisher: Old Street PublishingAuthor(s): Linda JaivinIllustration(s): over 50 black and white illustrationsCollection: Shortest HistoryPublicatio...

Reducere. DescriptionThe First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century... Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyXiaolu Guo is one of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her ge...

Publisher: ACA Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Scott KronickIllustration(s): 26 illustrationsNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 110...

Reducere. At a time of mystery and cruelty ... in an ancient land of breathtaking beauty and exotic surprise ... a courageous woman triumphs over her world's...

Reducere. In this book we discuss the history of Blacks in China from the Neolithic up to the rise of the Southeast Asian civilizations.

Reducere. During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeat...

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Reducere. Why would anyone feel the need to polish a dragon? Well, you might, if you were making a 360-degree film about China and insisted that every shot o...

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Reducere. Two Epic Storytellers and a Clash of Ancient Civilizations A novel of the first Chinese emperor, the Great Wall of China, spiritual warfare, dragon...

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly...

Reducere. From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water ...

China's rapid rise is doubtless the most significant economic and geopolitical event in the 21st century. What has led to its rise? What does it me...