China category: 3065 books
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaobeidian : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaobeidian : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Gaobeidian : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Laiyang : (China) Travel Guide
Ultimate Handbook Guide to Laiyang : (China) Travel Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Laiyang : (China) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.
Reisender - über das Reisen in Asien und das Leben in China
Eine Reiseerzählung, die einen durch Sri Lanka, Indien, Nepal, Singapur, Malaysia, Indonesien, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Kambodscha, Myanmar und China führt
Language: German
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Ein Reisender erzählt humorvoll, ehrlich und mit Hingebung von seinen Erfahrungen und Gedanken. Mit seinen Worten führt er uns durch weite Teile Asiens und berichtet von Indischen Wahrsagern, von Begegnungen mit Flussdelfinen und Orang-Utans, von Porno-Mönchen, schamanischen Wundern und schließlich...
by Roman Plesky
Language: German
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: December 21, 2017
China ist eines der vielfältigsten Reiseländer der Welt. Im bevölkerungsreichsten Land der Welt gibt es nicht nur faszinierende Zeugnisse einer uralten Kultur. Beeindruckend ist auch das Tempo, mit dem die Gesellschaft ihren Platz in der modernen Welt erobert hat. Es ist nicht leicht, sich für...
Shanghai Grand
Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
On the eve of WWII, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century's most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the fabulously wealthy Sir Victor Sassoon. ??
Emily Hahn was a legendary New Yorker writer who would cover China for nearly fifty...
by Ross Terrill
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
"Indispensable to understanding the inseparable relationship between Mao and events in China over the last century. What's more, it's fascinating reading." - Chicago Sun-Times. "Journalistic yet authoritative . . . lively and readable . . . insightful in . . . unraveling Mao's contradictions."...
by Li Zhi-Sui
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University
From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly...
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
China's Eternal First Lady
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The first biography of one of the most controversial and fascinating women of the twentieth century.
Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-shek seized unprecedented power during China’s long and violent civil war. She passionately argued against Chinese Communism in the...
by Lim SK, Li En / Wong Huey Khey, Fu Chunjiang
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
This engaging book provides readers with descriptive articles and information on key figures and events that occurred in China from 1840 to 1949. Understanding the impact they had on China's modern history will give readers a better grasp of China's politics today.
Foundations of Chinese Civilization
The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty (2697 BCE - 220 CE)
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
This is the only comic or graphic novel of its kind that addresses Chinese history both accessibly and accurately for all age levels.
Taps into librarians, educators, and parents who are looking for ways to get students and children reading about China, and who are often looking for such resources...
Our Story
A Memoir of Love and Life in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Begun by the author when he was eighty-seven years old and mourning the loss of his wife, Our Story is a graphic memoir like no other: a celebration of a marriage that spanned the twentieth century in China, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.
Rao Pingru was twenty-four-year-old soldier...
Forever Lily
An Unexpected Mother's Journey to Adoption in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
"Will you take her?" she asks.
When Beth Nonte Russell travels to China to help her friend Alex adopt a baby girl from an orphanage there, she thinks it will be an adventure, a chance to see the world. But her friend, who had prepared for the adoption for many months, panics soon after being...
by Philip Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
The 1937-1945 war between China and Japan was one of the most bitter conflicts of the twentieth century. It was a struggle between the two dominant peoples of Asia. Millions of soldiers fought on each side and millions of soldiers and civilians died. Philip Jowett's book is one of the first photographic...
Marco Polo
The Journey that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
"I have read everything written on Marco Polo, and John Man's book is, by far, my favorite work on the subject. It's not only an over-due and important historical study, it's an entertaining ride every step of the way." — John Fusco, Creator of the Netflix original series Marco Polo
The...