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An intimate portrait of the dynasty that ruled China from the C14th to the C17th, by our foremost scholar of the period.

Sons of Heaven: Family and Dynasty in Ming China

Craig Clunas

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From perhaps the greatest historian of modern China, this is the gripping - and startling - story of how a tiny sect established in 1921, plied with money and munitions from Moscow, came to ... read more

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity ...

Frank Dikötter

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A new translation of this ancient text. From Norton, who have produced excellent new versions of The Tale of Genji and the Daodejing.

The Analects: A Contemporary Translation

Confucius

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Looks at the rich cultural exchange between both Eastern and Western artists during a period of ruthless commerce, highlighting the artists' technical experimentation and mutual influence. W... read more

Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750 ...

Laurel O Peterson

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The Writer as Migrant

Ha Jin

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33 years after publication of her huge bestseller Wild Swans, JC picks up where she left off... in 1978, leaving Chengdu as a student bound for London. 'It was like landing on Mars...' What ... read more

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Jung Chang

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A deadpan memoir of hard-scrabble work in the gig economy with its performance metrics, night shifts and low pay. This has been a best-seller in China.

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living

Hu Anyan

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A new translation of the work of China's most celebrated classical woman poet: separated from us by a millennium, her voice is clear, her themes familiar, her images vibrant.

The Magpie at Night

Qingzhao Li

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Ravishingly illustrated with ink wash and brush, this is a tale about a mythological creature that inhabits China's primeval forests and a mischievous wind. Together they encounter a lake, a... read more

Take a Walk with the Wind

Xiong Liang

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A small girl braves her fears in her quest to find her mother a life-saving flower, guarded by dragons. Richly illustrated and exciting, for ages 4-7.

Dragon Flower

Chen Jiang Hong

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This delicious book derives from an album of watercolours and sketches made by the wife of the British Consul after the First Opium War, when the Treaty Ports were opened. Full of reproducti... read more

The Alcock Album: Scenes of China Consular Life, 1843-1853 ...

Andrew Hillier

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China: The Cookbook

Kei Lum Chan

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This glorious book contains reproductions of 95 gouaches that belonged to an C18th Swedish vice-admiral. The images are exquisite and romantic; the accompanying text is informative and light... read more

The Sampans from Canton: F H af Chapman’s Chinese Gouaches ...

Kurt Almqvist

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A young woman is pulled half-dead from a river. Her amnesia gives way to fragmentary recollection as the years go by. Initially praised in China, it was subsequently withdrawn from sale for ... read more

Soft Burial: A Novel

Fang Fang

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Her year in China in 1924 has hitherto been not simply mysterious but invoked by the British Establishment as proof of Wallis's immoral character. This serious book by the author of Midnight... read more

Her Lotus Year: China, The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis S ...

Paul French

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Famous for his vast terrestrial empire and the founding of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai also understood that maritime power would be key to China's success - and built the largest ships the worl... read more

Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China ...

Jack Weatherford

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Hanshan - whose name translates to 'Cold Mountain' - was a C9th Buddhist monk, who wrote poems in his rocky hermitage. In the pocket Everyman series.

Hanshan: Cold Mountain Poems

Hanshan

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An extraordinary glimpse of life in an old Mandarin household in 1949, just as the Communists arrive in Peking. The author - a very young American teaching English - married the daughter of ... read more

Peking Story

David Kidd

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'Princeling' by birth, he was exiled during the Cultural Revolution before his political rehabilitation and rise to absolute power.

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

Michael Sheridan

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Argues that the British/Chinese relationship has shaped the modern world. While Britain dominated in the age of the Opium Wars, the balance has now decisively shifted.

The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power ...

Kerry Brown

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Two stints of teaching (in the 1990s and then 2019-2021) and a journalist's eye inform this keen account of the changing lives of ordinary people.

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

Peter Hessler

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This literary master craftsman spins a web around a man and his myths in C20th China. This has sold 3 million copies there...

The Colonel and the Eunuch

Mai Jia

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The story of a girl who grows up in China during the 1970s and 1980s, and takes part in the demonstration. An international bestseller, whose author - not surprisingly - uses a pseudonym.

Tiananmen Square

Lai Wen

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The Invention of China

Bill Hayton

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Understanding the India-China Border: The Enduring Threat of War in Hi ...

Manoj Joshi

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Hard Like Water

Yan Lianke

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The distinguished historian of China, author of Vermeer's Hat, argues that it was not so much the Manchu invasion as climate change that brought collapse to the Ming Dynasty.

The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China ...

Timothy Brook

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From the home of the indigenous Formosans to a European trading post, from a Japanese colony to the last bastion of the Republic of China. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understan... read more

Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan

Jonathan Clements

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Ghosh weaves his own family history into the story of Papaver somniferum and its world-wide reach.

Smoke And Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

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A thorough, readable history of the East's influence, from the Ancients to today.

The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East ...

Christopher Harding

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An expansion on his widely acclaimed and influential, Empireland.

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe ...

Sathnam Sanghera

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Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China ...

Noo Saro-Wiwa

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Critics of the regime have been inventive in finding ways to evade surveillance, document famines, purges, clashes, virus outbreaks, etc.

Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the ...

Ian Johnson

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Xi Jinping is head of the CCP, head of state and commander-in-chief of the military, with an indefinite period in office; he's centralised power, increased state control of the economy and i... read more

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Futu ...

Chun Han Wong

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Street scenes, portraits, people at work, a classroom, children: this is powerful and poignant record of Kashgar as it used to be. All the photographs were taken in 1998, on the cusp of swee... read more

The Uyghurs: Kashgar Before the Catastrophe

Kevin Bubriski

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The author escaped but a million of his compatriots are interned.

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China ...

Tahir Hamut Izgil

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