China | Asian History Books

TO FREEDOM THROUGH CHINA: Escaping From Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

This is the thrilling story of how the author with two colleagues broke out of their POW camp in Hong Kong and made their way through Japanese lines into the vast expanse of China. Capture meant almost certain torture and lingering slow death. Their adventures make for spellbinding suspense. Once through Japanese lines their troubles […]
Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth Century Monk

March 22, 2015

The Buddhist monk Tanxu surmounted extraordinary obstacles–poverty, wars, famine, and foreign occupation–to become one of the most prominent monks in China, founding numerous temples and schools, and attracting crowds of students and disciples wherever he went. Now, in Heart of Buddha, Heart of China, James Carter draws on untapped archival materials to provide a book […]
A Cobra Hijacked My Camera Bag! Snakes and Stories from Taiwan

March 22, 2015

The herp is on! Hans Breuer searches for a new pet ratsnake in Taipei restaurants, loses a coral snake in his living room, confronts a cobra in complete darkness, and assumes unorthodox yogic postures to photograph kraits, habus, and bamboo vipers. Between the tree ferns of Taiwan’s lush, rugged mountains, Hans draws us along to […]
Underground Front – The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong public’s attitude towards the […]
Perfidious Albion: The Abandonment of Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

When Britain agreed to “restore” Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in 1984, British spokesmen explained that the Communist Chinese were reforming and would allow Hong Kong to continue its dynamic capitalist ways. But the brutal suppression of the Chinese student protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989 made it clear that totalitarian Beijing […]
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan

March 22, 2015

This book delineates the history and politics of gender and sexuality since postwar Taiwan. Tracking the interface between queerness and national culture, it underscores the imbrications of male homosexuality, prostitution and feminism within the modernizing process and offers a trenchant critique of the violence of sexual modernity. Sale Price:$20.00 9888083082
Field Guide to Hong Kong Mangroves

March 22, 2015

This field guide is a companion publication of Hong Kong Mangroves. It serves three purposes: 1. To provide maps indicating where mangrove plants and animals can be found. 2. To provide teachers, students and parents with tips of do’s and don’ts when they collect field data, and the safe steps for them to follow. 3. […]
Taiwan After China: Our Stories Since 1948

March 22, 2015

In 1949, the R.O.C. lost mainland China in the battle with the Communist. My parents followed the president Chung-Kai-Shek who was also the leader of Kuo Ming party, they temporarily retreated to Taiwan. The president Chiang Kai-Shek resettled ROC’s government in Taiwan. The relationship between Taiwan and China was intense at that time. What was […]
The Taipans: Hong Kong’s Merchant Princes (Oxford Paperbacks)

March 22, 2015

The Taipans is a popular account of Hong Kong’s merchant princes from the origins of the first trading houses in eighteenth-century Canton and Macau to the beginning of the First World War. The early taipans, hard-headed business men from Britain, the USA, and India, built up immense fortunes from the opium trade. In the 1830s […]
Proverbs For Kids With Pictures of Hong Kong by Sheldon Patnett

March 22, 2015

Chinese Quotes And Proverbs For Kids features 12 beautiful scenic and close-up pictures of Hong Kong photographed by Sheldon Patnett. This compilation of proverbs and quotes is carefully selected to be easily discussed in classrooms or explained by parents to children between the ages of 6 and 14. The book is ideal for introducing children […]

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