Overview :Herbert Giles was one of the most prominent Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century and China and the Chinese was in its... Read More
Overview :Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early su... Read More
Overview :Graham Earnshaw is a publisher and media businessman who has spent most of his career in the China world. But throughout, he has been writin... Read More
Overview :Chinese characters are magic capsules of history and culture, and this book celebrates the richness that attaches to each one. The Chinese w... Read More
Overview :"The Formosa Fraud," known for most his life as George Psalmanazar, prepared his memoirs for publication after his death in 1764, but even t... Read More
Overview :Daisy Kwok's life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and "New" China in a way that no other did. This book presents stories... Read More
Overview :Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of... Read More
Overview :What kind of people would you meet if you decided to walk across the world's most populous country? The Great Walk of China is a journey int... Read More
Overview :The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West and this engaging book offers a glimpse into that world through an ass... Read More
Overview :San Francisco is a crested jewel of the California Coast, a city which has been home to convicts and charlatans, millionaires and movie star... Read More
Overview :More than 300 years ago, the island of Taiwan was a topic of hot controversy in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a French... Read More
Overview :Practice writing Chinese numbers while playing the world's greatest mind game! The puzzles in this book are exactly the same as standard Sud... Read More
Overview :Logan Jack, an Australian geologist with a keen eye for cultural detail, was stuck. He was in western China in 1900 and the Boxer Rebellion ... Read More