Earnshaw Books: 82 books
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...
The Long Road Back to China
The Burma Road Wartime Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Well-documented and compassionate, this memoir follows journalist Carl Crow as he journeys from Rangoon to the wartime Chinese capital of Chongqing in 1939. Including interviews with senior government members, this record chronicles the daily struggle of the Chinese people under Japanese bombardment. A valuable historical resource, this firsthand account is also a gripping travel narrative.
by J.O.P. Bland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
J.O.P. Bland, the Times of London correspondent in Shanghai 100 years ago, published this delightful series of musings on the meaning of life and nature of the Chinaman from the perspective of the absolute confidence of the Anglo-Saxon in the days before the Great War. He promises a "record of...
Asia Betrayed
How Churchill Sacrificed the Far East to Save England
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
"Somebody knew. Who knew?" Did Winston Churchill lure Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor as a cynical ruse to pull the United States into the war against the Nazis to save England? Did he deliberately weaken the defenses of Singapore and Hong Kong to convince the Japanese to jump? Did he...
Beggar's Chicken
Stories from Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
An exciting and moving collection of stories, this book introduces denizens of the wildly disparate worlds populating China's most vibrant city: Shanghai. Different and unique, these spirited stories are united by the universal longing to feel connected, to be known, and to love and be loved. Told...
by Arthur Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Arthur Smith was one of the top Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century, and Chinese Characteristics is the book which best synthesizes his opinions on Chinese culture and society. He spent more than 50 years in China as a missionary and his opinions range for insightful and profound...
Tales of Old Singapore
The Glorious Past of Asia's Greatest Emporium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Using a patchwork of words and images from Singapore’s residents and visitors of yesteryear, this book shares the often untold colonial past of this busy trading port while shedding light on Asian culture. Old Singapore was an eclectic trade emporium where an ethnically and culturally diverse populace...
The Tao of Business
Using Ancient Chinese Philosophy to Survive and Prosper in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Applying the ancient wisdom of Chinese Tao to modern business, this fresh and basic guide explains how to benefit from the timeless principles of the Tao Te Ching. Offering a unique insight into the challenges of contemporary business practices and the forces of human nature underpinning them, this...
Finding The Way
A Novel of Lao Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In the sixth century BC, the legendary philosopher Lao Tzu seeks redemption and an opportunity to spread his beliefs by joining the royal court, but is greeted by a vainglorious King, a mad Queen and a deadly struggle for power in progress between the twin princes. In one of them, the thoughtful but...
Green Phoenix
A Novel of the Woman Who Re-Made Asia, Empress Xiaozhuang
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulated her lovers, sons and grandsons through war and upheaval to create an empire that lasted for 250 years. The Green Phoenix tells the story of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, born a Mongolian princess who became a consort...
The Science of War
Sun Tzu's “Art of War” re-translated and re-considered
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
For more than two thousand years, strategists in China have followed a single system of military teachings. In The Science of War, Christopher MacDonald tells how those principles and teachings first crystallized into the Sun Tzu treatise and how they guide China's military and political leaders to...
A Million People, Hadley
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Feckless journalist Hadley Arnold suspects he has an intriguing story on his hands when he finds Pakistani politician Marina Makhdoom in a sleazy Hong Kong bar. Then he loses her. Shrubs News Agency sends Hadley to Pakistan, where he becomes embroiled in the tendrils of surreal, deviant politics and...
Collecting China
The Memoirs of a Hong Kong Art Addict
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Brian McElney was born in Hong Kong in the early 1930s, and for more than two decades was one of the territory's top lawyers. But in his spare time, he also put together one of the most comprehensive collections of East Asian antiques in the world, many of them spotted by him amongst the knick-knacks...