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  • Western Reports on the Taiping

    A Selection of Documents

    by Prescott Clarke, J.S. Gregory ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
    This book, first published in 1982, collects together a wide range of Western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century China. The extracts are contemporary, from eyewitnesses, and come from diplomatic and missionary reports, from books, newspapers, private journals, travel accounts and diaries. They provide a good overview of the response to this major crisis of Chinese society over a ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (Vol. 1-3)

    Enriched edition. Complete Edition

    by William Hickling Prescott, Savannah Clarke ...
    William Hickling Prescott's monumental work, "The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic," spans three volumes and offers a detailed and compelling narrative of the political and social upheavals during the late 15th century in Spain. Prescott employs a rich and eloquent literary style, employing both rigorous historical analysis and vivid storytelling, reflecting the Romantic ... Read more

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    China Under the Empress Dowager: Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzŭ Hsi by J. O. P. Bland and Sir E. Backhouse offers a comprehensive and detailed account of one of the most influential figures in late Qing Dynasty China. Published in 1911, this historical work provides an in-depth look at the life and reign of Empress Dowager Cixi, a key player in China's political and social ... Read more

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  • Sun Tzu's The Art of War

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    by Sun Tzu ...
    Translated by Lionel Giles ...
    Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded.Now available in its complete form, including the Chinese characters and English text, this essential examination of the art of decisive military ... Read more

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  • The Dragon Empress

    Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China

    by Marina Warner ...
    From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of "foreigners"; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; ... Read more

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  • Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty

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    This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice.From humble origins, Coxinga's father became the richest man in China and Admiral of the Emperor's navy during the Ming Dynasty. As his eldest son, Coxinga was given the best education and developed a love of poetry and the study of Confucius. From this unlikely beginning, it took ... Read more

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  • China Only Yesterday, 1850–1950

    A Century of Change

    by Emily Hahn ...
    A fascinating journey through 100 years of Chinese history, beginning with the historic Treaty of Nanking and ending with Mao Tse-tung's creation of the Chinese People's Republic, by the the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China from 1935 to 1941For centuries, China's code of behavior was incomprehensible to Westerners whom the Chinese viewed as irredeemable barbarians. Presenting ... Read more

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  • The Immobile Empire

    by Alain Peyrefitte ...
    In 1793, Lord George Macartney and an enormous delegation—including diplomats, doctors, scholars, painters, musicians, soldiers, and aristocrats—entered Beijing on a mission to open China to British trade. But Macartney’s famous refusal to perform the traditional kowtow before the Chinese Emperor was just one sign that the two empires would not see eye to eye, and the trade talks failed. The ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of the First Bulgarian Empire

    by William Miller ...
    LIKE the Serbs, but unlike the Albanians, the Bulgarians are not autochthonous inhabitants of the Balkan country to which they have given their name. It was not till 679 that this Finnish or Tartar race, after numerous previous incursions into the Balkan provinces of the Byzantine Empire, definitely abandoned the triangle formed by the Black Sea, the Dnieper, and the Danube (the modern Bessarabia) ... Read more

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  • The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes

    by The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley ...
    First published in 1958. This volume translates and places in the appropriate historical context a number of private documents, such as diaries, autobiographies and confessions, which explain what the Opium War felt like on the Chinese side. ... Read more

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  • The Truth about Opium / Being a Refutation of the Fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade

    by William H. Brereton ...
    The object of these lectures is to tell you what I know about opium smoking in China—a very important subject, involving the retention or loss of more than seven millions sterling to the revenue of India, and what is far more precious, the character and reputation of this great country. With respect to the former, I would simply observe that I do not intend to deal with the question on mere ... Read more

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