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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “j brooks jessup”
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  • Recovering Buddhism in Modern China

    Edited by Jan Kiely, J. Brooks Jessup ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Modern Chinese history told from a Buddhist perspective restores the vibrant, creative role of religion in postimperial China. It shows how urban Buddhist elites jockeyed for cultural dominance in the early Republican era, how Buddhist intellectuals reckoned with science, and how Buddhist media contributed to modern print cultures. It recognizes the political importance of sacred Buddhist relics ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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  • Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

    China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

    by Stephen R. Platt ...
    A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, ... Read more

    Was $16.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD

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  • Manchu Decadence

    by Edmund Backhouse ...
    In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China's last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi. The man was Sir Edmund Backhouse, and his controversial memoirs, Décadence Mandchoue, were published for the first time by Earnshaw Books in 2011. This edition, renamed Manchu Decadence, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Stilwell and the American Experience in China

    1911-1945

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Barbara W. Tuchman won her second Pulitzer Prize for this nonfiction masterpiece—an authoritative work of history that recounts the birth of modern China through the eyes of one extraordinary American.General Joseph W. Stilwell was a man who loved China deeply and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Barbara W. Tuchman’s groundbreaking narrative follows Stilwell from the time he arrived in ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • As China Goes, So Goes the World

    How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

    by Karl Gerth ...
    In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China's competition for manufacturing jobs and energy resources, they have overlooked an even bigger story: China's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Korea and Her Neighbours - A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country

    by Isabella Bird Bishop ...
    This antiquarian volume contains a vivid description of nineteenth century Korea written by Isabella Bird Bishop. This account comprises an interesting and insightful narrative of travel, with an account of the vicissitudes and contemporary state of society in the country. This text is as much of an exploration of Victorian mindsets as it is an exploration of foreign lands, and will be of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dragon and Kangaroo

    Australia and China's Shared History from the Goldfields to the Present Day

    by Robert Macklin ...
    The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.Chinese 'presence' in Australia extends from well before the time of Captain Cook - trading with northern Australia long before Europeans came here - right through to the present day, with Chinese activities ranging from being the main customer for our iron ore, to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942

    by Daniel Ford ...
    Early in the Second World War, in the skies over Rangoon, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the Japanese Army Air Force, winning immortality as the "Flying Tigers." Arguably America's most famous combat unit, they were hired to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month, plus $500 for each Japanese plane shot down--fantastic money in 1941, when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dragon Rampant

    by Robin Hyde ...
    Follow this distinguished author down the rabbit hole as she discovers the barbaric realities of the Japanese occupation of China in the late 1930s.  A war that would eventually merge with World War Two is painted with the lyrical prose that only Robin Hyde could deliver. Hyde is a lone female journalist desperately evading the Japanese censors to send her accounts to Woman To-Day. She was the ... Read more

    $5.60 CAD

  • An Uprising on a Voyage in the Coolie Trade. Illustrated.

    by Edgar Holden ...
    The tale of a voyage from Macao to Havana of a shipment of Mutinous Chinese Coolies. Written at a time (1864) when the Chinese were being considered as replacements for the soon to be freed American Slaves. ... Read more

    $2.05 CAD

  • China's Ascent

    Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics

    Edited by Robert S. Ross, Zhu Feng ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a single dimension of China's increasing power, rather than on the multiple sources of China's rise, including its economic might and the continuing modernization of its military. This book offers multiple analytical perspectives—constructivist, liberal, neorealist—on the significance of the many dimensions of China's regional ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Imperial Illusions

    Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces

    by Kristina Kleutghen ...
    Series series Art History Publication Initiative Books
    In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD