China category: 3065 books
Easy Xi'an and Xining for Solo Travellers
Photos, Tips and Notes from the Roads
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Following her Solo Jordan (Amazon Most Wished For), Aisyah Saad continues her visit to two ancient cities on the Silk Road, Xi'an and Xining. With extensive fast and bullet train network connecting these ancient and new cities in China, one shouldn't miss the opportunity of a lifetime to China. This...
Rebellions and Revolutions
China from the 1880s to 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
This is a study of China from the 1800s to the present day. It focuses on China's problems of development - the decay and collapse of the Chinese Empire, its failure to recover in the first half of the twentieth century, and its rapid emergence in world affairs since the Communist Party Revolution...
Im Jahr des Tigerochsen
Zwei chinesische Jahre
Language: German
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Nach "Allein unter 1,3 Milliarden" und "Bliefe von dlüben" ist "Im Jahr des Tigerochsen" das dritte China-Buch von Christian Y. Schmidt. Zum größten Teil beruht es auf Kolumnen, die auf der "Wahrheit", der Satireseite der taz, erschienen sind. So geht es...
In China essen sie den Mond
Ein Jahr in Shanghai
Language: German
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Ein Haus an der Alster, die Schaukel im Garten, die Biokiste vor der Tür – eine junge Familie scheint am Ziel ihrer Träume angelangt. Wäre da nicht das Jobangebot aus China: Miriam, 35, Tobias, 37, und Amélie, 3, ziehen nach Shanghai, wo sie es als einzige Langnasen in chinesischer Nachbarschaft...
The Devil Soldier
The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
“So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is.”—Los Angeles Times
With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, The Alienist, Caleb Carr tells the...
China Under the Empress Dowager
The History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of the most popular and controversial Chinese history books ever written, this account explores the Forbidden City during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (18611908). Entertaining and enlightening, this record examines a world of power-thirsty eunuchs, concubines, and Mandarins. Filled with...
The Banished Immortal
A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai—also known as Li Po
In his own time (701–762), Li Bai's poems—shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life—were...
The Voice that Remembers
One Woman's Historic Fight to Free Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
When Adhe Tapontsang--or Ama (Mother) Adhe, as she is affectionately known--left Tibet in 1987, she was allowed to do so on the condition that she remain silent about her twenty-seven years in Chinese prisons. Yet she made a promise to herself and to the many that did not survive: she would not let...
by Lim SK, Chan Kok Sing, Victor Petersen
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The Three Character Classic is perhaps the oldest textbook in the world that is still in use in schools today. First written in the late 13th century and updated several times since then, the book was the mainstay of primary school education in China.
Young readers will get to learn much about...
Shenzhen
A Travelogue from China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle’s observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a...
by Newton Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
What is a dragon? Is it real? And what is so special about Chinese dragons? This book is the classic explanation of the origins and temperament of Chinese dragons and their complex role in the history of China over thousands of years. L. Newton Hayes, born in China and a great lover of Chinese culture,...
A Thousand Pieces of Gold
Growing Up Through China's Proverbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
In this poignant memoir the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah, provides a fascinating window into the history and cultural soul of China. Combining personal reflections, rich historical insights, and proverbs handed down to her by her grandfather, Yen Mah shares...
Midnight in Peking
How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils
Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela...
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia.
Half a lifetime ago, Paul Theroux...