Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help
Rakuten Kobo
Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


China Program Books eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters

  • Art by the Book

    Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China

    by J. P. Park ...
    Series series China Program Books
    Sometime before 1579, Zhou Lujing, a professional writer living in a bustling commercial town in southeastern China, published a series of lavishly illustrated books, which constituted the first multigenre painting manuals in Chinese history. Their popularity was immediate and their contents and format were widely reprinted and disseminated in a number of contemporary publications. Focusing on ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • A Love Story

    by App Wings ...
    Here are few sentences from the Book,"Whosoever will charge these travails with many oversights, he shall need no solemn pains to prove them."And upon the view taken of this book sithence the impression, I dare assure them, that shall observe most faults therein, that I, by gleaning after him, will gather as many omitted by him, as he shall shew committed by me. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols

    A deep and encompassing dive into the vast array of symbols and attributes that appear within the complex iconography of Tibetan BuddhismThe Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols is a portal into the rich, multifaceted, and profound symbolism of Tibetan sacred art. The succinct descriptions that accompany Robert Beer’s detailed line drawings reveal the origins, meanings, and functions of these ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • China from Empire to Nation-State

    by Wang Hui ...
    This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day. ... Read more

    $35.19 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

    $72.79 CAD

  • Terracotta Warriors

    History, Mystery and the Latest Discoveries

    by Edward Burman ...
    Terracotta Warriors provides an intriguing, original and up-to-date account of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Illustrated with a wealth of original photographs, this is the first book available for the general reader. In one of the most astounding archaeological discoveries of all time, the Terracotta Warriors were discovered by chance by farmers in 1974. We now understand that the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Body Incantatory

    Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

    by Paul Copp ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Whether chanted as devotional prayers, intoned against the dangers of the wilds, or invoked to heal the sick and bring ease to the dead, incantations were pervasive features of Buddhist practice in late medieval China (600–1000 C.E.). Material incantations, in forms such as spell-inscribed amulets and stone pillars, were also central to the spiritual lives of both monks and laypeople. In centering ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Human Body In Color Volume 3

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    A book about your body parts provides the imagination with the scaffolding needed to build ideas from basic information. This information will give the child a basis with which to form questions. How can he wonder how the heart works if the kid doesn't know what the heart is? Once a child sees what is, the child can start to formulate what could be. The imagination snowballs from there, in zones ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West

    The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Edited by Louise Tythacott ...
    Series series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
    In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China

    The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948

    by Harold M. Tanner ...
    Series series Twentieth-Century Battles
    "A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China." —Steven I. Levine author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948)The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to U.S. interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Life of Inkstones

    Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China

    by Dorothy Ko ...
    Follows the path of an everyday object, from quarry to deskAn inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object of art, a token of exchange between friends or sovereign states, and a surface on which texts and images are carved. As such, the inkstone has been entangled with elite masculinity and the values of wen (culture, ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD