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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 ...
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 ...
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A revolutionary ...
An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world.
'A rollercoaster of historical narration' History Today
'This is a ...
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 ...
"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph
"sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC ...
An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present
A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp ...
'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A Scenario ...
China's past is key to the modern world. This nimble history of rogues, revolutions and rebellions can be read in a day, but will ...
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five ...
An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs
The three millennia up to the establishment of the ...
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices ...
An ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India
When European missionaries arrived ...
