Weijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Americans view China, and h
Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula and two islands strung together like a three-bead necklace. It was time to find a life for myself. To make something out of nothing. The end of hope and t
Wang (Chinese, Princeton U.) explores a period that has been left out of the history of the Southern court and its writings in sixth-century China, but also both condemned and championed for its unres
Sean Semineaux, on a merchant ship, coming out of New Zealand in 1986, has to fight for his survival as the ship sinks in the middle of the Pacific in the midst of strange circumstances. Semineaux sur
The moving and memorable story of a girl who travels to China with her parents to adopt a new sister and discovers what family really needsTwelve-year-old Emily is flying with her parents to China to
Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. Her biographers have collected 18 of her stories and reportage on Chinese women, all out of print and most unavailable even in public l
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the w
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the w
Born in China in 1916, Charles Chao was, in the words of Dr Loraine Boettner, "a man of God - with untiring devotion".His life's work was for China. Despite persecution from Chinese communists, narrow
With this outrageous new novel, China Mieville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is
This keynote work sets out China's diplomatic paths and achievements since 1949. China is now a key player on the world political and economic stage, but this wasn't always the case. Sixty Years of Ch
Tells the story of the work carried out by von Gerkan, Marg and Partners at the National Museum of China. The conversion and extension of the National Museum of China forms a link between the former C
For more than 2,000 years hordes of mounted nomadic archers from the vastness of the steppe and from Central Asia spewed out into China, the Middle East, and Europe. Feared and reviled, they were a fo
From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritari
Grab your suitcase and prepare to explore China: its major cities, culture, way of life, food, language, and history. Find out about Chinese fashion, music, popular culture and sport, as well as quirk
