The Story of the Stone, Volume II
China
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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 Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history Historians Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle...RM166.00 -
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 -
The Invention of China
“[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism” (Foreign Policy) Bill Hayton tells the story of how ‘China’ came to think of itself as...RM85.50 -
The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery During the China and Pacific Wars
The Japanese military was responsible for the sexual enslavement of thousands of women and girls in Asia and the Pacific during the China and Pacific...RM164.90 -
The Joy Luck Club
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China United...RM39.90 -
The Land of the Five Flavours: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine
Renowned sinologist Thomas O Höllmann tracks the growth of food culture in China from its earliest burial rituals to today's Western fast food...RM182.00 -
The Last Empress
The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China’s history, marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic...RM60.00 -
The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368
The Mongol Century explores the visual world of China’s Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), the spectacular but short-lived regime founded by Khubilai...RM245.00 -
The New Chinese Medicine Handbook: An Innovative Guide to Integrating Eastern Wisdom with Western Practice for Modern Healing
The New Chinese Medicine Handbook is an essential guide to achieving total health in body, mind, and spirit Explore the powerful benefits of Chinese...RM60.00 -
The Noodle Maker
Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his...RM52.90 -
The Old Man of the Moon
'Our passion was so great Will the Old Man understand and help us once again' The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of...RM6.00 -
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China
In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with...RM50.00