China
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Asia’s First Republic: The Story of China 1912-1961
- £20.00
- An official illustrated narrative of 20th Century Chinese history from the perspective of The Republic of China (aka Taiwan) rather than the PRC in Beijing.
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Dragon Seed
- £12.00
- Dragon Seed styled as Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China, immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Some characters seek protection in…
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Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain (Faber monographs on pottery & porcelain)
- £25.00
- Describes the wares of that interesting Chinese period which extends from about the ninth to the fourteenth century (front jacket flap). A volume in the Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain series. 4 colour plates, 96 b/w. Basil Gray was the former Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum
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History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
- £10.00
- Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict…
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Mao Zedong (Life & Times)
- £7.00
- Mao Zedong went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but also in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists…
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Sea of Poppies – a novel
- £50.00
- Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday Times At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old…
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T’ang Pottery and Porcelain (Faber monographs on pottery & porcelain)
- £25.00
- During the rich and colourful T'ang dynasty, which lasted from 618 to 906, Chinese civilization reached one of its high peaks, some would say its highest peak of all. Territorial expansion and international trade led to an unprecedented influx of foreign merchants and diplomats, of new ideas and fashions. There…
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The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
- £35.00
- This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC.…
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Asia’s First Republic: The Story of China 1912-1961
- £20.00
- An official illustrated narrative of 20th Century Chinese history from the perspective of The Republic of China (aka Taiwan) rather than the PRC in Beijing.
- Add to basket
-
Dragon Seed
- £12.00
- Dragon Seed styled as Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942. It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China, immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937. Some characters seek protection in…
- Add to basket
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Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain (Faber monographs on pottery & porcelain)
- £25.00
- Describes the wares of that interesting Chinese period which extends from about the ninth to the fourteenth century (front jacket flap). A volume in the Faber Monographs on Pottery and Porcelain series. 4 colour plates, 96 b/w. Basil Gray was the former Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum
- Add to basket
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History Has Begun: The Birth Of A New America
- £18.00
- What if America hasnÕt yet peaked? What if a new America has only just begun? Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? HistoryÕs great civilisations have always lasted much longer,…
- Add to basket
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat
- £10.00
- Kai Lung is a Chinese storyteller whose travels and exploits serve mainly as excuses to introduce substories. He is a man of very simple motivations; most frequently, he is animated by a desire for enough taels to be able to feed and clothe himself. This character usually comes into conflict…
- Add to basket
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Mao Zedong (Life & Times)
- £7.00
- Mao Zedong went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but also in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists…
- Add to basket
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Sea of Poppies – a novel
- £50.00
- Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday Times At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old…
- Add to basket
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T’ang Pottery and Porcelain (Faber monographs on pottery & porcelain)
- £25.00
- During the rich and colourful T'ang dynasty, which lasted from 618 to 906, Chinese civilization reached one of its high peaks, some would say its highest peak of all. Territorial expansion and international trade led to an unprecedented influx of foreign merchants and diplomats, of new ideas and fashions. There…
- Add to basket
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The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
- £35.00
- This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of China. The Terracotta Army is evidence of the organisational power of the Qin Dynasty that unified China in 221 BC.…
- Add to basket