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  • China Under the Empress Dowager

    par Backhouse Bland ...
    One of the most popular and controversial Chinese history books ever written, China under the Empress Dowager is also one of the best. Authors Bland and Backhouse take you inside the Forbidden City during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861-1908), a world of power-thirsty eunuchs, concubines and Mandarins, intrigue, bitter antagonism and ruthless reprisals. The book was unique for its time in ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Chinese Account of the Opium War

    par Yuan Wei ...
    Wei Yuan was a Chinese scholar from Shaoyang, Hunan. He moved to Yangzhou in 1831, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is best known for writing Military history of the Qing Dynasty , a narrative work on the Opium War, and Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms , which consisted of Western material collected by Lin Zexu during and after the First Opium War. ... En savoir plus

    $1.36 CAD

  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    par Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Collections series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Midnight in Peking

    The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China

    par Paul French ...
    January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock is ticking down on all of it.In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreigners are jumpy. Japanese troops are poised to attack, and word has it the Chinese government is about to cut a deal with Tokyo, leaving Peking to its fate. Fear ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered North America

    par Paul Chiasson ...
    The gripping, marvel-filled account of how a native son took a casual walk up a mountain on Cape Breton Island and made an archeological discovery of world-shaking proportions.In the summer of 2002, at home for his parents’ fiftieth wedding anniversary, Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on the island where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. Cape Breton ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Terracotta Army

    par John Man ...
    The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time. 6,000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and they are thought to represent real members of the emperor's army. This is the remarkable story of their creation, the man who ordered them made, their ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Central Asia in World History

    par Peter B. Golden ...
    Collections series New Oxford World History
    A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging ... En savoir plus

    $27.19 CAD

  • Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power

    par Xuetong Yan ...
    Traduit par Edmund Ryden ...
    Collections series The Princeton-China Series
    From China's most influential foreign policy thinker, a vision for a "Beijing Consensus" for international relationsThe rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy ... En savoir plus

    $30.79 CAD

  • Empress Wu Zetian

    The Legendary Women of World History, #5

    par Laurel A. Rockefeller ...
    Collections Livre 5 - The Legendary Women of World History
    The most hated woman in Chinese history!Travel back in time over one thousand years and meet the first and only female emperor of China. Born Wu Zhao and given the reign title "Zetian" just weeks before her death in 705 CE, Empress Wu was the unwanted daughter of Chancellor Wu Shihuo -- too bright, too educated, and too politically focused to make a good wife according to contemporary ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Sketches of 19th Century Social Life in China During the Mid 19th Century

    par Justus Doolitte ...
    Written by a missionary during the mid nineteenth century this is a brief sketch of some social customs of Mid Nineteenth Century China. ... En savoir plus

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

    par Sun Tzu, Shang Yang, Tom Griffith ...
    Traduit par Yuan Shibing, J.J.L. Duyvendak ...
    Collections series Classics of World Literature
    Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson.The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years.The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • China Under Mao

    A Revolution Derailed

    par Andrew G. Walder ...
    China’s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976—an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.“Walder ... En savoir plus

    $34.09 CAD