China
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The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845
This study utilises a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and...RM92.50 -
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes But the Chinese political model does not fit...RM85.00 -
The Chinese
Since 1994, Chinese artist Liu Zheng has been working on his ambitious photographic project The Chinese Inspired by the examples of August Sander and...RM150.00 -
The Chinese Art Book
The Chinese Art Book presents a definitive selection of 300 works, from the earliest dynasties to the new generation of contemporary artists...RM270.00 -
The Chinese Typewriter: A History
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today Chinese...RM69.50 -
The Cinema of Ang Lee: The Other Side of the Screen
Born in Taiwan, Ang Lee is one of cinema's most versatile and daring directors His ability to cut across cultural, national, and sexual boundaries...RM132.00 -
The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media and Authoritarian Rule in China
Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech...RM102.00 -
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