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Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became ...
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The definitive story of a top Chinese politician's ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party.
When Hu Yaobang died in April 1989, throngs of ...
Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China.
Through telling the lives of ...
The first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
"Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes ...
This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought ...
China's rise to superpower is seemingly a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history. This book follows China's geopolitical transformation on the ...
As the geopolitical importance of Taiwan grows, this history provides a guide to the country.
Huang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still ...
Explores ancient India (c. 200 BCE-600 CE) through three of its major religions -Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism - to illuminate how they reflect political power, artistic ...
Explorer, Oriental scholar and diplomat, Pierre Lefevre-Pontalis (1864-1938) was a member of Pavie Mission to Laos in the 1890s, participating in drawing up the borders ...
