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The Immobile Empire
Written by Alain Peyrefitte
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.00
In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see... Read more >
Written by Alain Peyrefitte
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $24.00
In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see... Read more >
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The Immobile Empire
Written by Alain Peyrefitte
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.99
In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see... Read more >
Written by Alain Peyrefitte
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $13.99
In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Peking 1900
The Boxer Rebellion
Written by Peter Harrington
Illustrated by Michael Perry
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of the violent Boxer Rebellion, which swept northern China in 1900. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of the pernicious influence of the foreign powers who had gradually acquired a stranglehold on China. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to... Read more >
The Boxer Rebellion
Written by Peter Harrington
Illustrated by Michael Perry
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $15.95
Osprey's study of the violent Boxer Rebellion, which swept northern China in 1900. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of the pernicious influence of the foreign powers who had gradually acquired a stranglehold on China. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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China Airborne
The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.95
The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.95
From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China’s modernization—its plan to rival America as the world’s leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future.
In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan...
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Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $15.95
From the former New York Times Beijing bureau chief comes a closely observed story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to make the playoffs by copying the American stars of the NBA.
When the worst professional basketball team in China, the Shanxi Brave Dragons, hired former...
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Written by Stephen R. Platt
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $16.95
Winner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in History
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the... Read more >
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Written by Stephen R. Platt
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: December 11, 2012
Price: $16.95
Winner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in History
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the... Read more >
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CHINESE DEMOCRACY
Written by Andrew J Nathan
Format: eBook, 313 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Price: $15.99
What do the Chinese mean by the word “democracy”? When they say that their political system is “democratic,” does this mean that they share our ideas about liberty, civil rights, and self government? With the recent improvement in relations between China and the West, such questions are no longer merely academic... Read more >
Written by Andrew J Nathan
Format: eBook, 313 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Price: $15.99
What do the Chinese mean by the word “democracy”? When they say that their political system is “democratic,” does this mean that they share our ideas about liberty, civil rights, and self government? With the recent improvement in relations between China and the West, such questions are no longer merely academic... Read more >
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The Chinese People's Liberation Army since 1949
Ground Forces
Written by Benjamin Lai
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $18.95
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Ground Forces
Written by Benjamin Lai
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $18.95
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army since 1949
Ground Forces
Written by Benjamin Lai
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $14.95
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest army in the world. China is predicted to be on the brink of overtaking the USA as the world’s largest economy, and China’s military capabilities and global ambitions are the single greatest long-term pre-occupation of Western governments. The PLA has progressed steadily... Read more >
Ground Forces
Written by Benjamin Lai
Illustrated by Adam Hook
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $14.95
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest army in the world. China is predicted to be on the brink of overtaking the USA as the world’s largest economy, and China’s military capabilities and global ambitions are the single greatest long-term pre-occupation of Western governments. The PLA has progressed steadily... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Great Wall of China 221 BC-AD 1644
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $13.95
The most famous example of fortification in the world, the Great Wall of China stretches for more than 6,000km across inhospitable terrain. Charting its development from its earliest origins in the 7th century BC through to the present day, this account reveals the true history of the wall, and explores the... Read more >
Written by Stephen Turnbull
Illustrated by Steve Noon
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $13.95
The most famous example of fortification in the world, the Great Wall of China stretches for more than 6,000km across inhospitable terrain. Charting its development from its earliest origins in the 7th century BC through to the present day, this account reveals the true history of the wall, and explores the... Read more >
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Nanjing Requiem
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.95
A Novel
Written by Ha Jin
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.95
It’s 1937, and the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College, decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will help her safeguard the welfare of the Chinese men and women who work there. She is painfully...
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BULLS IN THE CHINA SHOP
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $18.99
Bulls in the China Shop is an engagingly anecdotal, lucidly written account of the tragicomic cultural and political misadventures that have plagues American commercial ventures over the past two decades in the People’s Republic of China.
When diplomatic tensions between the two countries were eased in the 1970s, American businesses rushed to... Read more >
Written by Randall E. Stross
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: September 19, 2012
Price: $18.99
Bulls in the China Shop is an engagingly anecdotal, lucidly written account of the tragicomic cultural and political misadventures that have plagues American commercial ventures over the past two decades in the People’s Republic of China.
When diplomatic tensions between the two countries were eased in the 1970s, American businesses rushed to... Read more >
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In Xanadu
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.
At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately... Read more >
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.
At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
In Xanadu
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.
At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately... Read more >
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $11.99
William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.
At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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China in Ten Words
Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
Written by Yu Hua
Translated by Allan H. Barr
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.00
From one of China’s most acclaimed writers: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades.
Framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular, China in Ten Words uses personal stories and astute analysis to reveal as never before the world’s most populous yet oft-misunderstood nation...
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eBook.
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China Airborne
Written by James Fallows
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $25.95
Written by James Fallows
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $25.95
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
China Airborne
Written by James Fallows
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
Written by James Fallows
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $11.99
More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China...
Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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China's Wings
War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
Written by Gregory Crouch
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $30.00
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them... Read more >
War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
Written by Gregory Crouch
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $30.00
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
China's Wings
War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
Written by Gregory Crouch
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $15.99
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them... Read more >
War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
Written by Gregory Crouch
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $15.99
From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Chinese Warlord Armies 1911-30
Written by Philip Jowett
Illustrated by Stephen Walsh
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
Discover the men behind one of the most exotic military environments of the 20th century. Humiliatingly defeated in the Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Imperial China collapsed into revolution in the early 20th century and a republic was proclaimed in 1912. From the death of the first... Read more >
Written by Philip Jowett
Illustrated by Stephen Walsh
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
Discover the men behind one of the most exotic military environments of the 20th century. Humiliatingly defeated in the Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Imperial China collapsed into revolution in the early 20th century and a republic was proclaimed in 1912. From the death of the first... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $26.95
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $26.95
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Brave Dragons
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
Written by Jim Yardley
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $11.99
The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Written by Stephen R. Platt
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $10.99
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story... Read more >
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Written by Stephen R. Platt
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $10.99
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Written by Stephen R. Platt
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $30.00
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story... Read more >
China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Written by Stephen R. Platt
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $30.00
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.
The story... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Gong Hee Fot Choy Book of Fortune revised
A Fortune-Telling Game
Written by Margarete Ward
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2012
Price: $10.99
Foretell the future using a deck of regular playing cards and a divination game, which traces its origins to the principles of astrology and Chinese numerology.
The familiar Gong hee fot choy! means "greetings of riches," and confirms the ancient belief that life's odds are three-to-one in favor of prosperity over poverty... Read more >
A Fortune-Telling Game
Written by Margarete Ward
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2012
Price: $10.99
Foretell the future using a deck of regular playing cards and a divination game, which traces its origins to the principles of astrology and Chinese numerology.
The familiar Gong hee fot choy! means "greetings of riches," and confirms the ancient belief that life's odds are three-to-one in favor of prosperity over poverty... Read more >
