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  • Sky Burial

    An Epic Love Story of Tibet

    by Xinran ...
    In 2002 Xinran’s Good Women of China became an international bestseller, revealing startling new truths about Chinese life to the West. Now she returns with an epic story of love, friendship, courage and sacrifice set in Chinese-occupied Tibet.Based on a true story, Xinran’s extraordinary second book takes the reader right to the hidden heart of one of the world’s most mysterious and inaccessible ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Miss Chopsticks

    by Xinran ...
    Translated by Esther Tyldesley ...
    Sisters Three, Five and Six don't have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn't produced a son, and they only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian and easily broken.But when they leave their home in the countryside to seek their fortune in the big city, their eyes are suddenly and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

    Stories of Loss and Love

    Translated by Nicky Harman ...
    by Xinran ...
    Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions or hideous economic necessity, these women had to give up their daughters for adoption, others were forced to abandon them - on city streets, outside ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Good Women of China

    Hidden Voices

    by Xinran ...
    An unprecedented, intimate account of the lives of modern Chinese women, told by the women themselves -- true stories of the political and personal upheavals they have endured in their chaotic and repressive societyFor eight groundbreaking years, Xinran hosted a radio program in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother

    Stories of Loss and Love

    by Xinran ...
    Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history.Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • China Witness

    Voices from a Silent Generation

    by Xinran ...
    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 overtaken China's people over a century. The book is at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • What the Chinese Don't Eat

    by Xinran ...
    Since June 2003 Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools.Each of her columns inspired letters and questions and more opportunities for Xinran to shed ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • China Computational Art

    First CCF Conference, CCAC 2025, Jinan, China, September 23–25, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Xiaobing Li, Kejun Zhang, Yun Wang, Yun Tie, Xinran Zhang, Qingwen Zhou ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First CCF Conference on China Computational Art, CCAC 2025, held in Jinan, China, during September 23–25, 2025.The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Survey in Computational Art; Computational Interactive Visual Art; Computatinal Music Art. ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The Promise

    Love and Loss in Modern China

    by Xinran Xue ...
    Translated by William Spence ...
    At the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar backgrounds – and as such were recognized as a good match - they also had a shared passion in their deep love of ancient Chinese poetry. They went on ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Family, Children, and Tourism in China

    Edited by Mimi Li, Xinran Lehto ...
    This edited volume explores various issues in family tourism studies and complements the dramatic development of this market segment in China. The book concentrates on family and children tourism, and through its chapters, hopes to enrich the landscape of family tourism in academia.The family market in tourism has received increasing attention over past decades. Yet academic endeavors in this area ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Music Intelligence

    Second Summit, SOMI 2023, Beijing, China, October 28–30, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Xiaobing Li, Xiaohong Guan, Yun Tie, Xinran Zhang, Qingwen Zhou ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Summit on Music Intelligence, SOMI 2023, held in Beijing, China, during October 28–30, 2023.The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Music, Neural Science and Music Therapy, Multimodality in Music and Music Generation. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Book of Secrets

    A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

    by Xinran Xue ...
    The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today.Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook