The Birth of China

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

Reducere. ``A great way to learn about China's vast history ``--Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club Excels at clarifying the often-confusing transitional pe...

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

Reducere. This book was written to benefit the 120, 000 Chinese adoptees and their adoptive parents, who began adopting these children (mostly girls) beginni...

DescriptionHow does your Chinese zodiac sign influence your life? How does your lunar date of birth affect your fortune? Find out the answers to th...

Reducere. China has given birth to numerous scientific and technological inventions, and for many centuries led the world in such innovations. Indeed, some o...

When Adeline Yen Mah's mother dies giving birth to her, the family rejects Adeline. In this vivid autobiography, the author describes her, life, st...

Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth. The complacency of colonial li...

DescriptionThis stunning volume on Chinese astrology, made using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques, is the perfect guide to your inner and...

Victoria doesn't know she's lost.... A child of American missionaries disappears at a Beijing festival in 1940 and is never seen again. Although de...

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 ...

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

DescriptionIn 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western po...

Ancient History of Korea. Second Edition is a thesis that Dr. Lee presents to the worldly scholars in every sectors. Though Chinese history has tha...

Reducere. Ancient History of Korea. Second Edition is a thesis that Dr. Lee presents to the worldly scholars in every sectors. Though Chinese history has tha...

Reducere. Sun Tzu (also rendered as Sun Zi) was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Spring and Autumn period of ancient ...

Reducere. Now in paperback one of the most stirring accounts of the lives of Chinese women since Wild Swans "full of heart-rending tales....shocking, simply ...

Reducere. Despite being in an era that's distant, ancient China set into motion several societal practices and values. Other than that, it also gave birth to...

Reducere. A Chinese classic of the "inner alchemy" of Taoism, this book was first translated by Richard Wilhelm (also translator, in the 1920s, of the Chines...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten by a professional dog whisperer and dog owner, the Chinese Crested Complete Owner's Manual has the answers you may need when res...

Reducere. In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120, 000 children--mostly girls--have left China through international adopti...

An intimate investigation of the world’s largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, ...

Reducere. Poetry. Native American Studies. California Interest. The book loosely navigates the archived immigration trial of Hong On, a biracial Alaska Nativ...

Reducere. A riveting memoir of a girl's painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s. A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to...

Reducere. Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it-- and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This...

Reducere. The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis fully revised and updated edition, traces in full-color images and photographs the journey from conception to birth. A user-friendl...

DescriptionThe moving and memorable story of a girl who travels to China with her parents to adopt a new sister and discovers what family really ne...

Reducere. Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of h...

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of anci...

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Reducere. San Francisco's Chinatown--the oldest, largest, and most famous Chinese enclave outside of Asia--is more than a tourist attraction. Since its birth...

Reducere. DescriptionWidely acclaimed as one of the world's foremost experts of Chinese metaphysics and the I Ching, bestselling author Dr. Lily Chung return...

Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...

Reducere. DescriptionHigher vibrational living means something different to everyone, and your path is as unique as your fingerprint. Understanding your birt...

Reducere. Kirk Nelson reveals new insights into Edgar Cayce's psychic readings on astrology including the birth chart of Jesus, a new way of determining past...

Reducere. The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man woul...

Reducere. Bearing down with tremendous effort, she works at pushing the waiting life out of her body. Her husband wipes her beaded brow and gives her a suppo...

Reducere. So you know which star sign you are, and even your Chinese Horoscope, but what about your Egyptian Birth Sign? Are you a Sphinx, Thoth, or Anubis, ...

Reducere. Reveal hidden traits and core truths about your unique self - it's written in the stars! Discover unique facts about each astrological sign, includ...

The first and only English translation of the centuries-old Tibetan spiritual allegory of King Gesar, a tale on a par with The Arabian Nights or th...

Reducere. The six stories in Andrew Boden's debut collection comprise a reinvented history of the town of Cranbrook, British Columbia, from its birth in the ...

DescriptionALL-NEW series created by ROBERT KIRKMAN (THE WALKING DEAD, INVINCIBLE, OBLIVION SONG) and Chris Samnee (Daredevil) Owen Johnson's journ...

Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington PostAs heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning corresponde...

Reducere. What do Madeleine Albright, Helena Bonham Carter, Richard Dreyfuss, Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Springsteen and Justin Timberlake have in common? Accordi...

What do Adele, Michael Douglas, Pope Francis, Salma Hayek, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? According to the Four Pillars syst...

Reducere. DescriptionCombining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut nove...

What does the birth of babies whose embryos had gone through genome editing mean--for science and for all of us? In November 2018, the world was sh...

Exquisite and amusing miniatures regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle charm, t...

Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, grade: 2.5, course: History of Science, language: Italian, abstract: Th...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, ...

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. DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essentia...

Social Movements 1768-2018 provides the most comprehensive historical account of the birth and spread of social movements. Renowned social scientis...

Reducere. With A New Epilogue by editor Barbara GrahamIn this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode the cliches and tell the r...

For thousands of years, students of the Tao have gleaned inspiration and illumination from its parables, and these thought-provoking examples discu...

Reducere. Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD"Compellingly complex...Expands the future of the immigrant novel even as it holds us in uneasy thrall to the...

Reducere. Macabre trains and maverick railwaymen inhabit the world of THE MOTION DEMON, a translation of the highly-original short story collection from the ...

Key moments of our lives, especially at the beginning and end, are marked by gentleness--but the simplicity of that concept is misleading. Gentlene...

Reducere. Boris Kastel was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1914. A few months later the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated some 300 kilometers away in Sara...

Reducere. DescriptionJoin a family of three who spend nine whole months waiting, from a frosty winter through a sun-dappled summer, until finally . . . a bab...

From the founder of This Gathered Nest YouTube channel, an uplifting story of Angela Braniff's unusual path to becoming the mother to seven childre...

Reducere. From the founder of This Gathered Nest YouTube channel, an uplifting story of Angela Braniff's unusual path to becoming the mother to seven childre...

Reducere. The first full-scale biography of John Hay since 1934: From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, Hay was an e...

When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils, they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had vanquished the Titans. Wh...

Reducere. The break up of countries, the end of the current planetary economic model, the regionalization of economies, the birth of global supra national pr...

Rediscover the Christmas story with your children or grandchildren. Gift them visions of deserts, palaces, treasure, caravans that certainly filled...

Four Pillars of Destiny: The Ten Gods Handbook is a continuation of a series of Four Pillars of Destiny books by Feng Shui Master, Jerry King. Unde...

James Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his naval career...