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£25.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800753846 | ISBN 10: 1800753845
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China’s juggernaut economy.
Although China’s economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is often based on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838856946 | ISBN 10: 1838856943
The travel memoir of a Nigerian woman in China exploring the intersections and divides between the two cultures and the lives of African economic migrants in the bustling People’s Republic.
China today is a land of opportunity for African ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780300264807 | ISBN 10: 0300264801
In this compelling and highly-readable account, Hayton shows how China’s present-day geopolitical problems—the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea—were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. He br ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526153111 | ISBN 10: 1526153114
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the site of the largest mass repression of an ethnic and/or religious minority in the world today. Researchers estimate that since 2016 one million people have been detained there without trial. In the detenti ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838955922 | ISBN 10: 1838955925
A revelatory account of what is really happening to China’s Uyghurs.
In China’s vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of intervie ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781910400920 | ISBN 10: 1910400920
China contains a multitude. Its unruly complexity is part of its grandeur.
Modern China is at once an economic powerhouse and authoritarian state, an increasingly assertive superpower and an icon of modernity. Chinese history is no less cont ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781838905064 | ISBN 10: 1838905065
‘The earth’s most powerful force is not its quake, but rather its ability to be home for myriad creatures to grow’
An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: thes ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781913348113 | ISBN 10: 1913348113
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong’s revolution.
Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787331709 | ISBN 10: 1787331709
Guy Delisle's work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the us ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702946 | ISBN 10: 1784702943
*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017*
*Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017*
*Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2018*
*Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times*
Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781611855128 | ISBN 10: 1611855128
A reissue of Edgar Snow’s classic account as the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936.
Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936 and the first to bring back an ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780892542208 | ISBN 10: 0892542209
Laurence Brahm travels through the western region of China in search of Shangri-La - only to find that it is not a place, but a state of mind. �Shangri-La has now become a source of creative inspiration, drawing China's leading figures in pop cultu ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786633408 | ISBN 10: 178663340x
The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek.
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blo ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784537241 | ISBN 10: 1784537241
In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women', where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilinea ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781444791082 | ISBN 10: 1444791087
Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordi ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846044731 | ISBN 10: 1846044731
With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy.
At a time when the country continues to transf ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781689066 | ISBN 10: 1781689067
An examination of the shifts in politics and revolution in China over the last century.
What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and in Chin ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335995 | ISBN 10: 0745335993
The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781743214343 | ISBN 10: 1743214340
Lonely Planet's China Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs.
Get more from your multi-country trip with easy-to-find phras ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408864289 | ISBN 10: 1408864282
Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Empero ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781680902 | ISBN 10: 1781680906
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorgan ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007463404 | ISBN 10: 0007463405
Few books have ever had such an impact as 'Wild Swans'. Since its first publication it has been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 million copies. Â Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - grandmother, moth ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678860 | ISBN 10: 1844678865
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorgan ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780140276046 | ISBN 10: 0140276041
Soon China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more 'Western'.
Martin Jacques' groundbreaking book overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just be economic, but c ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780745332307 | ISBN 10: 0745332307
In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new opportunities in the emerging mega-cities.
Through months of sustained interpersonal conta ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844673797 | ISBN 10: 1844673790
A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”
Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China’s leading critic shatters the myth of ... more
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£30.00 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780262015219 | ISBN 10: 0262015218
In 2006, even though he could barely type, China's most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, a ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781847674371 | ISBN 10: 1847674372
After living in China for five years, and learning the language, Peter Hessler decided to undertake an even more complicated endeavor: he acquired his Chinese driving licence. An eye-opening, often hilarious, at times maddening challenge, it enabled ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780307388377 | ISBN 10: 0307388379
The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747599074 | ISBN 10: 0747599076
A fascinating memoir of a Chinese-American family by the bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the ‘Gold Mountain’, the Chinese name for the promis ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141040226 | ISBN 10: 014104022x
Raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin's childhood revolved around the commune, his family and Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
Until, that is, Madame Mao's cultural delegates came in se ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781595584168 | ISBN 10: 1595584161
Interest in China has never been greater, but the voices of the Chinese themselves often escape notice. Here, finally, is a book that reverses the trend by giving us a rare and important portrait of contemporary life within China— “written with style ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593355 | ISBN 10: 0747593353
Running 3,000 miles from the eat-coast boomtown of Shanghai to the border of Kazakhstan in the north-west, Route 312 - China's 'Route 66' - is a road that Rob Gifford has always wanted to travel. Gifford's journey and his desire to get to the h ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745327808 | ISBN 10: 074532780x
Mao and his policies have long been demonsised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is also being surgically denigrated by the Chinese political and in ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781904915263 | ISBN 10: 1904915264
China Everyday! provides a fascinating and revealing insight into a culture and a history that still remains enigmatic to audiences the world over. China Everyday! documents the commonplace, everyday items of contemporary Chinese culture through stun ... more
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£8.99 book with CD (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781405318631 | ISBN 10: 1405318635
Learning Chinese is really difficult, right? Wrong!
Follow Easy Peasy Chinese and you’ll be able to start speaking, writing and understanding this No.1 lingo in no time.
Look out for the special headphones symbol and listen to the C ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781862079175 | ISBN 10: 186207917x
Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijiing in 1994 to work for an American PR firm. Before long, though, she was starring as 'foreign babe' Jiexi in a twenty-episode television drama that was watched by an estimated six hundred million viewers. In Foreign ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781844675357 | ISBN 10: 1844675351
One China, Many Paths gathers the opinions of economists and historians, philosophers and sociologists, writers and literary critics from all generations to debate the current issues which face the People's Republic. Among the topics debated are the ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007129744 | ISBN 10: 0007129742
Sun Shuyun grew up in China during the Cultural Revoultion. Each night she listened to her grandmother's forbidden Buddhist prayers. Each day she lived the tenets of her Communist father, an army veteran. But as the Revolution failed even her father' ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780553815221 | ISBN 10: 0553815229
In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their orders were 'to proceed all the way to the end of the ear ... more
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£6.95 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781929377213 | ISBN 10: 1929377215
The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong lets you step inside the head of China's infamous leader. From his views of communism, the U.S., women, the people, capitalism and Henry Kissinger, The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong will fascina ... more
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£23.95 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780472084517 | ISBN 10: 0472084518
In The Legacy of Tiananmen, James A. R. Miles asks whether senior leader Deng Xiaoping's gamble that prosperity would bring stability to China has worked or whether, instead, the country's economic transformation is fueling instability. The author, w ... more
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