Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
So glad someone finally wrote this book: Factory Girls is a non-fiction book written by an Chinese-American journalist. It focuses on the stories of girls who immigrate from rural Chinese villages to factories in more urban areas of China. The girls work [... more]
$26.00
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One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and ...
Author: James Z. Lee Author: Feng Wang Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 304 EAN: 9780674007093 ISBN: 0674007093 Number Of Pages: 268 Publication Date: 2001-12-21 [... more]
$26.50
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The Seven Emotions: Psychology and Health in Ancient China
Author: Claude Larre Author: Elisabeth Rochat De LA Valle Author: Caroline Root Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 152 EAN: 9781872468082 ISBN: 187246808X Number Of Pages: 190 Publication Date: 1996-01 [... more]
$35.00
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Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in ...
What Mao's China felt really like from the inside: This book -- together with Gao Anhua's "To the Edge of the Sky", Jung Chang's "Wild Swans" and Nien Cheng's "Life and death in Shanghai" -- shows what Mao's China really [... more]
$16.99
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
History for those who (think they) don't like history: A brilliant evocation of 85 years of modern Chinese history. It has been said by some critics that this is a book to read for research and not for pleasure -- an opinion I would call a neat inversion [... more]
$18.00
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Behind the forbidden door: Travels in unknown China
Still Relevant: Tiziano's dream of China is shattered when he finally arrives there. He travels widely finding only the ruins of old China along with some temples glued together for the benefit of tourists who do not yet exist. Locals are excluded from [... more]
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A Thousand Miles Of Miracle
An enamoring account of an English missionary family: Missionary annals are full of thrilling episodes, but few stories are more thrilling than those connected with the Boxer uprising in China in 1900. I first heard this book read on a Family Radio show [... more]
$12.99
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Gold Jewelry from Tibet and Nepal
Author: Jane Casey Singer Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 739 EAN: 9780500974421 ISBN: 050097442X Number Of Pages: 142 Publication Date: 1997-01 [... more]
$35.00
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Asia/Pacific Cinema (Positions East Asia Cultures ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 791 EAN: 9780822365204 ISBN: 0822365200 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2002-12 [... more]
$14.00
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Karmapa: The Politics of Reincarnation
Highly Recommended: Lea Terhune writes a captivating investigation into the events surrounding, Urgyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa's life, escape from Tibet and the political intrigue that surrounds his recognition as the head of the Karma Kagyu [... more]
$14.95
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The Tso Chuan
Ian Myles Slater on History Disguised as Commentary: The "Tso Chuan" is a massive history -- or set of chronicles and stories -- of early China, originally presented as commentaries on the extremely concise "Spring and Autumn Annals" [... more]
$31.00
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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
A great soldier handed an impossible task: This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of American military affairs. Barbara W. Tuchman's book is a "riveting" biography of General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, who was one [... more]
$31.00
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