China
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The Crazed
Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan - who is also engaged to Yang's daughter - to care for...RM52.90 -
The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976
After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives between 1958 and 1962, an ageing Mao launched an...RM87.00 -
The Day the Sun Died
One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian notices that something strange is going on As the...RM89.90 -
The Digital Silk Road: China’s Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future
Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa’s megacities into rural America China is wiring...RM85.50 -
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire Though forged by conquest, this vast domain...RM94.00 -
The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region
An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian...RM86.90 -
The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future
Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China But...RM100.00 -
The Explosion Chronicles
With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded a thousand years ago by refugees fleeing a...RM98.90 -
The Face: Strangers on a Pier
From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told...RM35.90 -
The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History
For over a century, from the First Opium War in 1839–42 to the end of the Second World War, China was repeatedly humiliated by Western imperial...RM115.00 -
The Food of Sichuan
A fully revised and updated edition of Fuchsia Dunlop's landmark book on Sichuan cookery Almost twenty years after the publication of Sichuan...RM169.90 -
The Garlic Ballads
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations The Communist government has encouraged them to plant...RM50.00 -
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation,...RM115.00 -
The Great Empires of Asia
Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of...RM49.90 -
The Great Han: Race, Nationalism and Tradition in China Today
The Great Han is an ethnographic study of the Han Clothing Movement, a neotraditionalist and racial nationalist movement that has emerged in China...RM138.00 -
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation and the Rise of the West in World History
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West...RM108.00 -
The Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature
Although the interrelationship between oral (or performing) and written traditions in Chinese popular literature is an issue that concerns...RM315.00 -
The Invention of China
China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created...RM72.50