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  • Cover image of book The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
    The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism - by Keyu Jin

    £25.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800753846 | ISBN 10: 1800753845

    A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China’s juggernaut economy.  Although China’s economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is often based on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa
    Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China - by Noo Saro-Wiwa

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838856946 | ISBN 10: 1838856943

    The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People’s Republic.  China today is a land of opportunity for African ... more

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  • Cover image of book Capitalist China and Socialist Revolution by Simon Hannah
    Capitalist China and Socialist Revolution - by Simon Hannah

    £5.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780902869219 | ISBN 10: 0902869213

    The economic and political growth of China and its transformation into a capitalist world power is one of the defining features of the modern age. It has shifted economic relations and the balance of power. Hundreds of millions of workers in China †... more

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  • Cover image of book China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
    China in Ten Words - by Yu Hua

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780715654903 | ISBN 10: 071565490x

    A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words.   People. Leader. Reading. Writing. Revolution. Grassroots. Through these and other common vernacular words and phrases, Yu Hua – widely regarded as one of China’s grea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Indelible City: Dispossesion and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
    Indelible City: Dispossesion and Defiance in Hong Kong - by Louisa Lim

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781922458513 | ISBN 10: 1922458511

    The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths: to Britain, a ‘barren rock’ with no appreciable history; to China, a part of Chinese soil from time immemorial that had at last returned to the ancestral fold. To its inhabitants, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
    The Invention of China - by Bill Hayton

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300264807 | ISBN 10: 0300264801

    In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China’s present-day geopolitical problems—the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea—were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. He br ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China
    The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China's Mass Detention of Uyghurs - by Michael Clarke (Editor)

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526153111 | ISBN 10: 1526153114

    The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today. Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have been detained there without trial. In the detenti ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Camps: Life in China
    In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony - by Darren Byler

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838955922 | ISBN 10: 1838955925

    A revelatory account of what is really happening to China’s Uyghurs.   In China’s vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of intervie ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
    The Shortest History of China - by Linda Jaivin

    £12.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781910400920 | ISBN 10: 1910400920

    China contains a multitude. Its unruly complexity is part of its grandeur.   Modern China is at once an economic powerhouse and authoritarian state, an increasingly assertive superpower and an icon of modernity. Chinese history is no less cont ... more

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  • Cover image of book Distant Sunflower Fields by Li Juan
    Distant Sunflower Fields - by Li Juan

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838905064 | ISBN 10: 1838905065

    ‘The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake, but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow’   An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: thes ... more

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  • Cover image of book City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran
    City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong - by Antony Dapiran

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781913348113 | ISBN 10: 1913348113

    A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution.  Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China by Guy Delisle
    Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China - by Guy Delisle

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787331709 | ISBN 10: 1787331709

    Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the us ... more

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  • Cover image of book Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up by Xiaolu Guo
    Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up - by Xiaolu Guo

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702946 | ISBN 10: 1784702943

    *Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2018* *Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times*   Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism by Edgar Snow
    Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism - by Edgar Snow

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781611855128 | ISBN 10: 1611855128

    A reissue of Edgar Snow’s classic account as the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936.   Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936 and the first to bring back an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Searching for Shangri-La: Off the Beaten Track in Western China by Laurence J.Brahm
    Searching for Shangri-La: Off the Beaten Track in Western China - by Laurence J.Brahm

    £19.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780892542208 | ISBN 10: 0892542209

    Laurence Brahm travels through the western region of China in search of Shangri-La - only to find that it is not a place, but a state of mind. �Shangri-La has now become a source of creative inspiration, drawing China's leading figures in pop cultu ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Practice and Contradiction by Mao Tse-Tung, with an introduction by Slavoj Žižek
    On Practice and Contradiction - by Mao Tse-Tung, with an introduction by Slavoj Žižek

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786633408 | ISBN 10: 178663340x

    The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek.  These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China by Xu Zhiyuan
    Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China - by Xu Zhiyuan

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781859803 | ISBN 10: 1781859809

    In Paper Tiger the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society.   Xu Zhiyuan describes the many ... more

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  • The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains - by Choo Waihong

    £17.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784537241 | ISBN 10: 1784537241

    In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilinea ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Child: Life, Love and Parenthood in Modern China by Mei Fong
    One Child: Life, Love and Parenthood in Modern China - by Mei Fong

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786070562 | ISBN 10: 1786070561

    Tang Shuxiu and her husband are on an 800-mile train journey from Beijing to Shifang, where they believe their only child has perished in a recent earthquake. Three days after the event, Tang is too dehydrated to cry.   Liu Ting becomes a nati ... more

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  • Cover image of book Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz
    Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road - by Rob Schmitz

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781444791082 | ISBN 10: 1444791087

    Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher
    Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China - by Leta Hong Fincher

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783607891 | ISBN 10: 1783607890

    In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era.   Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
    The Woman Warrior - by Maxine Hong Kingston

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447275220 | ISBN 10: 1447275225

    With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo   A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America.   When we Chinese girls listened to the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China
    Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations - by Xinran

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846044731 | ISBN 10: 1846044731

    With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy.   At a time when the country continues to transf ... more

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  • Cover image of book China
    China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality - by Wang Hui, edited by Saul Thomas

    £19.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781689066 | ISBN 10: 1781689067

    An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century.  What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in Chin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class by Immanuel Ness
    Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class - by Immanuel Ness

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335995 | ISBN 10: 0745335993

    The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land ... more

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  • Cover image of book Lonely Planet: China Phrasebook & Dictionary by Lonely Planet
    Lonely Planet: China Phrasebook & Dictionary - by Lonely Planet

    £5.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781743214343 | ISBN 10: 1743214340

    Lonely Planet's China Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs.  Get more from your multi-country trip with easy-to-find phras ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China by David Eimer
    The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China - by David Eimer

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408864289 | ISBN 10: 1408864282

    Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Empero ... more

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  • Cover image of book China
    China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State - by Nick Holdstock

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784531409 | ISBN 10: 1784531405

    One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. With Islamic terrorism in China likely to increase over the ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon: Stories of Repression in the New China by Xu Youyu and Hua Ze (Editors)
    In the Shadow of the Rising Dragon: Stories of Repression in the New China - by Xu Youyu and Hua Ze (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781137278791 | ISBN 10: 113727879x

    Over the last decade China has undergone a transformation. After the dark days of the Cultural Revolution, it has emerged as one of the twenty-first century’s most powerful economies, with millions of citizens now entering the middle class. Yet, desp ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scattered Sand: The Story of China
    Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants - by Hsiao-Hung Pai

    £19.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680902 | ISBN 10: 1781680906

    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorgan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Barnaby Martin
    Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei - by Barnaby Martin

    £14.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571280469 | ISBN 10: 0571280463

    "You must write down this story as a record because very soon I will forget. And I realize it can be a very important record because it shows the general condition of this state, of this judicial system, of this kind of mentality and behaviour."(Ai W ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
    Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - by Jung Chang

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007463404 | ISBN 10: 0007463405

    Few books have ever had such an impact as 'Wild Swans'. Since its first publication it has been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 million copies.  Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - grandmother, moth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scattered Sand: The Story of China
    Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants - by Hsiao-Hung Pai

    £16.99   hardback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678860 | ISBN 10: 1844678865

    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorgan ... more

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  • Cover image of book When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques
    When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order - by Martin Jacques

    £16.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780140276046 | ISBN 10: 0140276041

    Soon China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more 'Western'.   Martin Jacques' groundbreaking book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just be economic, but c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Accidental Capitalist: A People
    The Accidental Capitalist: A People's Story of the New China - by Behzad Yaghmaian

    £22.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332307 | ISBN 10: 0745332307

    In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities.  Through months of sustained interpersonal conta ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui
    The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity - by Wang Hui

    £17.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844673797 | ISBN 10: 1844673790

    A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”   Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China’s leading critic shatters the myth of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ai Weiwei
    Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 - by Ai Weiwei, translated by Lee Ambrozy

    £30.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780262015219 | ISBN 10: 0262015218

    In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler
    Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip - by Peter Hessler

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847674371 | ISBN 10: 1847674372

    After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening, often hilarious, at times maddening challenge, it enabled ... more

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  • Cover image of book Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China by Leslie T. Chang
    Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China - by Leslie T. Chang

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330447362 | ISBN 10: 033044736x

    Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces behind China’s economic boom: they work very hard and for little money to make the trainers, ornaments, designer h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu
    The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up - by Liao Yiwu

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780307388377 | ISBN 10: 0307388379

    The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Country to Red China: One Girl
    Black Country to Red China: One Girl's Story from War-torn England to Revolutionary China - by Esther Cheo Ying

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536031 | ISBN 10: 009953603x

    Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
    China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation - by Xinran

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099501480 | ISBN 10: 0099501481

    China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words – for the first and perhaps the last time – the vast changes that have overt ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Gold Mountain: A Family Memoir of Love, Struggle and Survival by Lisa See
    On Gold Mountain: A Family Memoir of Love, Struggle and Survival - by Lisa See

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747599074 | ISBN 10: 0747599076

    A fascinating memoir of a Chinese-American family by the bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.  In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the ‘Gold Mountain’, the Chinese name for the promis ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mao
    Mao's Last Dancer - by Li Cunxin

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141040226 | ISBN 10: 014104022x

    Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.  Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change by Edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher
    Challenging China: Struggle and Hope in an Era of Change - by Edited by Sharon Hom and Stacy Mosher

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781595584168 | ISBN 10: 1595584161

    Interest in China has never been greater, but the voices of the Chinese themselves often escape notice. Here, finally, is a book that reverses the trend by giving us a rare and important portrait of contemporary life within China— “written with style ... more

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  • Cover image of book China
    China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges - by Edited by Minky Worden

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781583228432 | ISBN 10: 1583228438

    With contributions from some of the most well-respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China today as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olymp ... more

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  • Cover image of book The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney
    The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage - by Alexandra Harney

    £18.99   hardback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781594201578 | ISBN 10: 1594201579

    A landmark eyewitness exposé of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future.  In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Road: One Man
    China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China - by Rob Gifford

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593355 | ISBN 10: 0747593353

    Running 3,000 miles from the eat-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel.  Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Battle for China
    The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution - by Mobo Gao

    £24.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745327808 | ISBN 10: 074532780x

    Mao and his policies have long been demonsised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is also being surgically denigrated by the Chinese political and in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Music, Food and Love: A Memoir by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow
    Music, Food and Love: A Memoir - by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780749929343 | ISBN 10: 0749929340

    "There was a saying in my childhood that you could always tell when it was six o'clock in the evening, because at that moment the entire city would begin to vibrate with the force of everybody's chopping. And in the courtyards you could always tell w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long March by Sun Shuyun
    The Long March - by Sun Shuyun

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007194803 | ISBN 10: 0007194803

    Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March.  In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops. Walking more than 1 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
    Mao: The Unknown Story - by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099507376 | ISBN 10: 0099507374

    Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biog ... more

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  • Cover image of book China Everyday! by Zhang Yao and Bu Yi
    China Everyday! - by Zhang Yao and Bu Yi

    £19.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904915263 | ISBN 10: 1904915264

    China Everyday! provides a fascinating and revealing insight into a culture and a history that still remains enigmatic to audiences the world over. China Everyday! documents the commonplace, everyday items of contemporary Chinese culture through stun ... more

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  • Cover image of book Easy-peasy Chinese: Mandarin Chinese for Beginners by Elinor Greenwood
    Easy-peasy Chinese: Mandarin Chinese for Beginners - by Elinor Greenwood

    £8.99   book with CD   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781405318631 | ISBN 10: 1405318635

    Learning Chinese is really difficult, right? Wrong!   Follow Easy Peasy Chinese and you’ll be able to start speaking, writing and understanding this No.1 lingo in no time.  Look out for the special headphones symbol and listen to the C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China by Rachel DeWoskin
    Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China - by Rachel DeWoskin

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781862079175 | ISBN 10: 186207917x

    Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijiing in 1994 to work for an American PR firm. Before long, though, she was starring as 'foreign babe' Jiexi in a twenty-episode television drama that was watched by an estimated six hundred million viewers.  In Foreign ... more

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  • Cover image of book One China, Many Paths by Chaohua Wang (Editor)
    One China, Many Paths - by Chaohua Wang (Editor)

    £21.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781844675357 | ISBN 10: 1844675351

    One China, Many Paths gathers the opinions of economists and historians, philosophers and sociologists, writers and literary critics from all generations to debate the current issues which face the People's Republic. Among the topics debated are the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud by Sun Shuyun
    Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud - by Sun Shuyun

    £14.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007129744 | ISBN 10: 0007129742

    Sun Shuyun grew up in China during the Cultural Revoultion. Each night she listened to her grandmother's forbidden Buddhist prayers. Each day she lived the tenets of her Communist father, an army veteran. But as the Revolution failed even her father' ... more

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  • Cover image of book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World by Gavin Menzies
    1421: The Year China Discovered the World - by Gavin Menzies

    £10.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780553815221 | ISBN 10: 0553815229

    In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their orders were 'to proceed all the way to the end of the ear ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
    The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices - by Xinran

    £9.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780099440789 | ISBN 10: 0099440784

    For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous throughout the country for its unflinchi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Red Dust by Ma Jian
    Red Dust - by Ma Jian

    £10.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780099283294 | ISBN 10: 0099283298

    'My painter friends think I am a die-hard conservative, my writer friends think I am a man of loose morals. In Jushlin Temple I am a quiet disciple, in the Propaganda Department I am a decadent youth. Women call me a cynical artist, the police call m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong by Julian Smith
    The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong - by Julian Smith

    £6.95   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781929377213 | ISBN 10: 1929377215

    The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong lets you step inside the head of China's infamous leader.  From his views of communism, the U.S., women, the people, capitalism and Henry Kissinger, The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong will fascina ... more

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  • Cover image of book Comrades and Capitalists: Hong Kong Since the Handover by Rowan Callick
    Comrades and Capitalists: Hong Kong Since the Handover - by Rowan Callick

    £9.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9781871204148 | ISBN 10: 1871204143

    Much has been written about Hong Kong before the handover. Of more historic importance was the first year under Chinese rule. Nothing turned out as expected. Capitalism, not communism, caused the problems. Hong Kong's sharemarket fell, its impact mad ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray by James A. R Miles
    The Legacy of Tiananmen: China in Disarray - by James A. R Miles

    £23.95   paperback   (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780472084517 | ISBN 10: 0472084518

    In The Legacy of Tiananmen, James A. R. Miles asks whether senior leader Deng Xiaoping's gamble that prosperity would bring stability to China has worked or whether, instead, the country's economic transformation is fueling instability. The author, w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Voices from Tiananmen Square: Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement by Edited by Mok Chiu Yu and J. Frank Harrison
    Voices from Tiananmen Square: Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement - by Edited by Mok Chiu Yu and J. Frank Harrison

    £12.99   paperback   (1990) - ISBN 13: 9780921689584 | ISBN 10: 0921689586

    During May and June 1989, just a few months short of the 40th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, a desperate cry for democracy rang out in Tiananmen Square.   Until June 4th, hope had been high that it might be possible the crisis w ... more

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