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  • Chinese Comfort Women

    Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves

    by Peipei Qiu ...
    Series series Contemporary Chinese Studies
    Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan’s wartime “comfort women” have provoked international debate in the past two decades. While personal narratives of “comfort station” survivors have been published in English, there has been a dearth of information about the women forced into service in these stations in Mainland China – a major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Through personal ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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  • Auschwitz

    A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

    by Miklos Nyiszli ...
    Translated by Tibere Kremer, Richard Seaver ...
    When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death”: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Forgotten Ally

    China's World War II, 1937–1945

    by Rana Mitter ...
    A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: "Superb" ( The New York Times Book Review).In 1937, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, Chinese troops clashed with Japanese occupiers in the first battle of World War II. Joining with the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, China became the fourth great ally in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Leaving Mother Lake

    A Girlhood at the Edge of the World

    by Yang Erche Namu, Christine Mathieu ...
    The haunting memoir of a girl growing up in the Moso country in the Himalayas -- a unique matrilineal society. But even in this land of women, familial tension is eternal. Namu is a strong-willed daughter, and conflicts between her and her rebellious mother lead her to break the taboo that holds the Moso world together -- she leaves her mother's house. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan

    by Yang Chengfu ...
    Translated by Louis Swaim ...
    The publication in 1934 of Yang Chengfu's book, Essence and Applications of Taijiquan (Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu) marked a milestone in the modern evolution of the art of taijiquan. Using what is best-termed demonstration narrative, the author presents form postures and suggested applications from his own perspective, as he performed them. This methodology renders Yang Chengfu's direct, hands-on ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • The Porcelain Thief

    Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

    by Huan Hsu ...
    A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family’s hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before.In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu’s great-great-grandfather Liu’s Yangtze River hometown of Xingang, Liu was forced to bury his valuables, including a vast collection of prized antique porcelain, and undertake a decades-long ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong

    The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet

    by Gyalo Thondup, Anne F Thurston ...
    Shortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Art of the Deal in China

    A Practical Guide to Business Etiquette and the 36 Martial Strategies Employed by Chinese Businessmen and Officals in China

    by Laurence J. Brahm ...
    Extremely useful to newcomers and old china hands alike, this Chinese business guide explains how Chinese history and classical literature play a huge role in negotiating in China.Negotiating a deal in China requires patience-a wellknown Confucian virtue; persistence-something which comes with time; and survival instincts-something that comes with persistence. For both the uninitiated, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

    $62.69 CAD

  • China's Next Strategic Advantage

    From Imitation to Innovation

    by George S. Yip, Bruce McKern ...
    A book for everyone who does business with China or in China.The history-making development of the Chinese economy has entered a new phase. China is moving aggressively from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation. Driven both by domestic needs and by global ambition, China is establishing itself at the forefront of technological innovation. Western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • China Ink

    The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism

    by Judy Polumbaum ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This lively book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth, and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and understanding on a global scale. Through a series of engaging oral histories, Judy Polumbaum puts a human ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • 49 Myths about China

    by Marte Kjær Galtung, Stig Stenslie ...
    Communism is dead in China. “China Inc.” is buying up the world. China has the United States over a barrel. The Chinese are just copycats. China is an environmental baddie, China is colonizing Africa. Mao was a monster. The end of the Communist regime is near. The 21st century belongs to China. Or does it? Marte Kjær Galtung and Stig Stenslie highlight 49 prevalent myths about China’s past, ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD