Duke University Press, 1998. Softcover. China’s Avant-Garde Fiction brings together a group of exceptional writers (including Raise the Red Lantern author Su Tong) to the attention of an English-speaking audience. This book will be enjoyed by those interested in Chinese literature, culture, and society—particularly readers of contemporary fiction... More

New York: W W Norton & Company, 2000. Paperback. An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged with the rest of the world than we think. Whether in trade, religious belief, ideology, or..... More

Canberra: Autralian National University Press, 1981. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A book about the events leading up to the May Fourth Movement in China. More

New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Reprint. Paperback. A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of..... More

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. A report to the Ford Foundation, part of the Praeger Library of Chinese Affairs. General editor: Donald W. Klein (Columbia University). More

New York: Penguin Books, 2015. First Penguin Books Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Signed by translator on title page. A landmark new translation of the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom The I Ching, or Book of Change, has been consulted through the ages, in both China and the..... More

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1988. Illustrated Edition. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Trade Paperback. Based on newly declassified Chinese materials, this is the complete story, told for the first time, of the beginnings of the Chinese nuclear weapons program from 1955 to 1967. This illustrated edition contains 40 photographs..... More

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017. Second Edition. Paperback. China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby..... More

Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong/Contemporary China Research Prjoe, 2015. Softcover. Despite China’s consistent emphasis in its “peaceful” rise, the outside world remains skeptical. The “China threat” perception seems only to have grown with China’s comprehensive national power. Is China a threat or a helping hand in creating peace..... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1980. First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. Thinkers in Ming China turned to syncretism in their restlessness for new religious forms. A leader in this new trend was Lin Chao-en, a religious teacher of the sixteenth century, whose syncretic doctrine of the true Way was..... More

Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily life in..... More

Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. John Booth (cover design). First Edition (presumed). Softcover. A fictional autobiographical account about Chinese immigrants in New Zealand during the late 1800's through the mid 1900's. More

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J...... More