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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

  • Drunk in China

    Baijiu and the World's Oldest Drinking Culture

    par Derek Sandhaus ...
    2020 Gourmand Award in SpiritsGold Medal winner in the Independent Book Publishers AwardsChina is one of the world’s leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to business and warfare. Yet to the outside world, China’s most famous spirit, baijiu, remains a mystery. This is about to change, as baijiu is now being served ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Baijiu: The Essential Guide to Chinese Spirits

    The Essential Guide to Chinese Spirits

    par Derek Sandhaus ...
    Drawing on interviews with baijiu aficionados, distillers and key players in the alcoholic beverage industry, Sandhaus introduces the history and development of alcohol in China – the birthplace of grain-based alcohol. Distillation and production processes, the landscape of the industry today, and a page-by-page guide to the major varieties, distilleries and brands all feature in Baijiu: The ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Décadence Mandchoue

    In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China's last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi. Published now for the first time, Décadence Mandchoue, the controversial memoirs of sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, provides a unique and shocking glimpse into the hidden world of China's ... En savoir plus

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  • Tales of Old Hong Kong

    par Derek Sandhaus ...
    Pirates, plagues, pistols and poisons; with adventure of all varieties, the third instalment of the popular 'Tales' series is a rollicking journey into colonial Hong Kong. A collection of historical odds and ends - stories, quotations, cartoons, postcards and drawings - recount in thrilling detail how a 'barren rock' seemingly destined to fail rose to become one of the richest trading outposts in ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Tales of Old Peking

    par Derek Sandhaus ...
    Old Peking was the cultural and political center of a nation in flux. This book provides a glimpse of that world with a mish-mash of photos, clippings and writings, bringing to life those far-off days. ... 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

    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

  • China

    A History

    par John Keay ...
    Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower it is today. From the dawn of legend to the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Opium War

    Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

    par Julia Lovell ...
    Collections series Picador Collection
    ‘A gripping read as well as an important one’ – Rana Mitter, The GuardianIn The Opium War, professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature Julia Lovell offers a compelling account of the causes and fallout of the Opium Wars.In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Imperial Twilight

    The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

    As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD