State and Society in 21st Century China
 Author: Peter Gries Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 951.06 EAN: 9780415332057 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0415332052 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: 2004-08-24 [... more]
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Treason By The Book
From Amazon.co.uk: What most Europeans--and Americans for that matter--know of 18th-century China could easily be written on the back of the hand. But that need be no barrier to enjoying Treason by the Book, the latest offering from US Sinophile and Yale [... more]
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Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters
From Amazon.com: In Opening a Mountain, Steven Heine takes a unique look at the Zen koan, delving into its mythological background and its relationship to folk beliefs. Even with available commentaries, koan are enigmatic at best, but in a virtuosic [... more]
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Peony in Love: A Novel
Love is of source unknown, yet it grows ever deeper: The old theme of star-crossed lovers takes an Oriental twist in this historical period drama about a love-struck young girl, an enamored poet, and the opera that not only brings them together but casts [... more]
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The Kite Rider
Richie's Picks: THE KITE RIDER: So, who's worse--the guy who kills your father and then burns up your house and livelihood in order to get his paws on your beautiful mother, or the great uncle who is doing his best to sell off that beautiful mother to [... more]
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China: Empire and Civilization
Wonderful into to China: I bought this book as a gift for my sister who went to China this year but I ended up keeping it for myself. So many illustrated books on Asia only pick out what's exotic and exploit it. This book, however, offers an even-handed [... more]
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Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An)
A Unique Detective Novel: During the later years of the Second World War, Robert Van Gulik translated an interesting and a unique detective novel entitled "Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An)," which was written by an anonymous author [... more]
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Peony in Love: A Novel
Love is of source unknown, yet it grows ever deeper: The old theme of star-crossed lovers takes an Oriental twist in this historical period drama about a love-struck young girl, an enamored poet, and the opera that not only brings them together but casts [... more]
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Death Of Woman Wang
You will not put this down: Although some may consider historical texts dull or dry, the ideas and situations DEATH OF WOMAN WANG confronts are timeless and universal. The thought-provoking stories of the Chinese county of T'an-Ch'eng in the 17th Century [... more]
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The Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A Supplement to Journey to ...
Journey Through the Psyche of a Mystical Monk: Almost four hundred years before movies like "The Sixth Sense" shocked audiences with surprise endings, Tung Yueh's "Tower of Myriad Mirrors" was blowing away mid 17th century China with [... more]
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The River Below
Odd Format Great Book: If you were to read only the contents of Francois Cheng's, "The River Below", you could easily believe you had just read a memoir translated from Chinese to French, and finally into English. In truth it is a novel that is [... more]
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Peony in Love: A Novel
Love is of source unknown, yet it grows ever deeper: The old theme of star-crossed lovers takes an Oriental twist in this historical period drama about a love-struck young girl, an enamored poet, and the opera that not only brings them together but casts [... more]
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