1,243円 When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she b...

1,555円 “Spence draws upon his extensive knowledge of Chinese politics and culture to create an illuminating picture of Mao. . . . Superb.” (Chicago Tribune) From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak lead...

827円 Read here one of the four great classics of Chinese Literature, Hung Lou Meng: Dream of the Red Chamber, BOOK II The novel follows the loves and troubles of Chia Pao-Yu, heir to the Chia clan as the clan rises in fortune and eventually falls from grace.

12,933円 In August 1904 Sir Francis Younghusband's invasion force reached the forbidden city of Lhasa. The British invasion of Tibet in 1903 acted as a catalyst for change in a world transformed by revolution, war and the rise of a new order. Using unofficial government sources, private papers and the dia...

5,300円 From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, a cache of letters from one of China’s prominent families, the Lius of Shanghai, sheds light on a tumultuous era. Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh show how the family confronted war, civil unrest, and social upheaval, and howーin the midst o...

12,933円 Sun Tzu and other classical Chinese strategic thinkers wrote in an era of social, economic and military revolution, and hoped to identify enduring principles of war and statecraft. The twenty-first century is a time of similarly revolutionary change, and this makes their ideas of particular relev...

1,326円 Some of the most creative of human expression has originated in the collision of cultures. So it is with this extraordinary archive. The Corporal and the Celestials publishes for the first time a truly absorbing collection of photographs of China in the early years of the twentieth century, taken...

1,709円 Emily Wu’s account of her childhood under Mao opens on her third birthday, as she meets her father for the first time in a concentration camp. A well-known academic, her father had been designated an “ultra-rightist” and class enemy. As a result, Wu’s family would be torn apart and subjected to u...

510円 While China rises to challenge the United States for world supremacy, Americans suffer from a seriously flawed perspective on past U.S.- China relations. America's view of the critical period when Mao Zedong rose to power is based on a fairytale. In that fable, the hero leads a popular revolution...

403円 The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician, and it was believed to have been compiled during the early Warring States period. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of ...

627円 L'arte della guerra (Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ, 孫子兵法) è un trattato di strategia militare attribuito, a seguito di una tradizione orale lunga almeno due secoli, al generale Sunzi (in cinese: 孫子; pinyin: Sūnzǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu), vissuto in Cina probabilmente fra il VI e il V secolo a.C. Importante è ...

1,122円 A fascinating insight into the life of the vast majority of Chinese people at the end of 19th century. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in ...