China category: 3065 books
by Jane Carswell
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Winner of the Travcom/Whitcoulls Travel Book of the Year 2010 Runner- up, Ashton Wylie Book Award 2010
‘This is a wonderful story of mid-life opportunity. Jane Carswell is a courageous woman and a spirited writer. Her book is a warm invitation to us all to risk a deeper kind of journey.’...
by Peter B. Golden
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern...
Nanjing 1937
Battle for a Doomed City
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A true story of the Sino-Japanese conflict: A “valuable account of a little-known event [and] a grim reminder of the darker side of war” (Military History Monthly).
The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the twentieth century, and is among the...
A Comrade Lost and Found
A Beijing Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A “suspenseful, elegantly written” account of the author’s return to China after thirty years to search for the woman she betrayed to the authorities (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from Canada to Beijing...
The Great Wall
The Extraordinary Story of China's Wonder of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
It is a wonder of the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists journey to the Great Wall of China, and a myriad of photographs have made it familiar to millions more. Yet its story remains mysterious and steeped in myth.
In this riveting account, John Man travels the entire length...
The Early Years
China to Me, Hong Kong Holiday, and England to Me
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Memoirs of an exotic, unconventional life in Asia and Great Britain in the 1930s and 1940s, from a colorful, prolific New Yorker writer ahead of her time.
China to Me: A proud feminist and fearless traveler, Emily Hahn set out for China in 1935 and stayed through the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese...
Tibet Unconquered
An Epic Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
A fabled country in the far reaches of the Himalayas, Tibet looms large in the popular imagination. The original home of the Dalai Lama, one of the great spiritual leaders of our time, Tibetan Buddhism inspires millions worldwide with the twin values of wisdom and compassion. Yet the Chinese takeover...
Mao's Long March
An Epic of Human Courage
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The Long March (October 1934 – October 1935) was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. There was not one Long March, but a series...
by The Royal Asiatic Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch, 2016 edition.
by The Royal Asiatic Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch, 2017 edition.
Manchu Decadence
The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China’s last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz’u Hsi. The man was Sir Edmund Backhouse, and his controversial memoirs, Décadence Mandchoue,...
Décadence Mandchoue
The China Memoirs of Edmund Trelawny Backhouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China’s last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz’u Hsi. Published now for the first time, the controversial memoirs of Sinologist Sir Edmund...
News Is My Job
A Correspondent in War-Torn China
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
One of the first women journalists in China, Edna Lee Booker arrived in 1922 and threw herself into the story, snagging a number of exclusive interviews with warlords and also with Sun Yat-sen and Mao Tse-tung. She worked on the Shanghai newspaper China Press, and was also the Shanghai stringer for...
by Kirby Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Prose, Poetry, and Photos set in China and Hong Kong.