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

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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The International bestselling novel that is an unforgettable, sweeping tale of nineteenth-century China.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Edw...

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Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.

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Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. It was also considere...

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Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of...

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Erik J. Hammerstrom recasts the history of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism by examining how Huayan Buddhism was imagined, taught, and practiced ...

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Publisher: Tate PublishingAuthor(s): Nicolette JonesIllustration(s): 46 illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 246 x 30...

A portrayal of the adult world in Peking of the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of a little girl. The five sequential stories in the volume are con...

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Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism on the contemporary political landscape twenty-five years after the Berlin Wal...

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The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

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