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China’s economic rise has surprised the world, and most governments and large corporations feel the need for a China-strategy to shape their relations with this emerging super-power. What do they know, however, about the educational ideas and achievements that have contributed to this economic success? Names of political figures such as Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin are household words, yet how many people have heard of Li Bingde, Gu Mingyuan, Lu Jie or Ye Lan? Substantial research has been done on Chinese educational development by Sinologists and Comparative Educationists, making a wealth of data and analysis available to the specialist reader. Most of these studies have been framed within Western social science parameters, integrating an objectivist assessment of Chinese education into the international research literature. This book conveys an understanding of China’s educational development from within, through portraits of eleven influential educators whose ideas have shaped the educational reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. They are portrayed in the context of their cultural heritage, families, communities and schools, offering their own deeply reflective interpretations of Chinese education. The book is written for the general reader and provides glimpses into the educational context of China’s recent move onto the world stage. Ruth Hayhoe is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, President Emerita of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Past President of the Comparative and International Education Society, and an Associate Member of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. (ISBN:9628093401) (For this item please quote stock ID 26250) ISBN: 9628093401

This historical novel is based on the true story of the affair between the Chinese orphan Martha Herop and her English lover, son of the founder of Lloyd's, in the 18th century. (For this item please quote stock ID 5983) ISBN: 9780195842005

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Zhuge Liang Zhuge Liang,was a great astrologer in Eastern Han Dynasty. He not only made indelible contributions to the development of astronomy in our country,but also demonstrated his outstanding ability and extensive knowledge in mathematics,geography,painting,literature and other fields. Wu Zetian The female politician of Tang Dynasty,the only female Emperor in China. After Wu crowned herself,she encouraged the development of imperial examination system and brooked routes to choose talents; she rewarded farming and developed the economy; which led to a golden period of the Chinese feudal dynasty-----Kai Yuan prosperous period. (For this item please quote stock ID 28811) ISBN: 9787884082056

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. His leadership of the communist revolution and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, after two decades of civil war and Japanese invasion, earned him the title Chairman Mao and the Great Leader. The Life & Times series from Haus Publishing is carefully researched and lavishly illustrated. Mao Zedong is a thorough biography that includes many quotes from the Chairman himself. Author Jonathan Clements has studied Chinese and written extensively on other historical figures. The text covers Mao's early life, education (shortened by his "spoilt, rebellious nature" that caused his expulsion from several schools), early political involvement, four wives, leadership of the nascent Communist Party and the Long March, the failure of farm collectivization that resulted in widespread famine, meetings with Khrushchev and Nixon, and the deaths of about 70 million Chinese to famine and oppression. About the author Jonathan Clements is the author of Confucius: A Biography, The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs, and Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. He studied Chinese and Japanese at the University of Leeds. (For this item please quote stock ID 29372) ISBN: 9781904950332

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~Sir David Akers-Jones (Zhong Yat-kit) has been a major figure in the life and government of Hong Kong for many years. In this book he writes with a light and distinctive touch about his life, focusing more on the human than the administrative, but nonetheless providing many insights into the recent history of Hong Kong.

~The story starts with his leaving the Sussex Downs to serve as a young Merchant Navy officer in the last years of World War II. As his ships tramped around the ports of South East Asia, his life-long enthusiasm for Asia was born and, talking with the seamen, his facility with Asian languages. But most of the story takes place in Hong Kong and China, and especially in the New Territories where he spent a large part of his career. There, as development spread from the packed streets of Kowloon to the paddy fields, he developed the trust and affection for the Chinese people of Hong Kong that has been such a characteristic and formative part of his attitude to Hong Kong and its future.

~Growing out of his work for the Yuen Long football team, Sir David became an active participant in the international organisation of soccer. This led to opportunities for wide travel in China and exceptional opportunities to learn directly about the People's Republic, experiences that set him apart from his colleagues in the colonial administration. These experiences give a distinctive perspective to his account of the events leading up to 1997 and the controversies of that period.

~This is a book for everyone with an interest in the recent history of Hong Kong and in an exceptional man who played a major part in that history as he ploughed a distinctive and individual, and sometimes controversial, path from District Officer to Acting Governor to Hong Kong Affairs Advisor. (For this item please quote stock ID 23146) ISBN: 9789622096646

When Kevin Rudd became Labor leader in December 2006, many Australians had never heard of him. A few months later, his presence has galvanized the Labor party into an effective opposition, and he appears on the on the brink of becoming the leader of this country. But who is Kevin Rudd? What is his experience, both political and personal? What sort of man is he? What role does his religion play in his life? How has his wife's multimillion-dollar business influenced him? In short, what sort of Prime Minister might he make? In this biography of Rudd, author, journalist and former Prime Ministerial press secretary Robert Macklin analyses the public and private record, including Rudd's time as a diplomat in China and his role in Wayne Goss's Queensland Government. Macklin has conducted exclusive interviews with Rudd's former employers and colleagues to reveal the man away from the spotlight. And he has had full access to the Rudd family, and to Rudd himself, who talks about the enduring legacy of his childhood, through the tragedy of his early teens to the moment when he decided 'to get determined'. This is a human story as much as a political one - sometimes funny, sometimes touching - written with great pace and drama. It is a timely book full of insights into the man who would be Prime Minister. Robert Macklin was born in Brisbane and after a stint jackarooing in Western Queensland began his journalistic career at the Courier-Mail. He worked in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery for The Age and in 1967 joined Sir John McEwen as Press Secretary. Shortly afterward Prime Minister Harold Holt drowned and McEwen became Prime Minister. Macklin later joined The Canberra Times where he was associate editor until 2002. (For this item please quote stock ID 28959) ISBN: 9787533449049

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Jiang Zemin?s life and leadership sweep through almost eighty tumultuous years of Chinese history: Japanese occupation, Civil War, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, and, more recently, dramatic economic growth, tensions with Taiwan, and opportunities and confrontations with America. Jiang?s story is an epic of war, deprivation, revolution, political turmoil, social convulsion, economic reform, national transformation, and international resurgence. To Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a longtime China observer, understanding the legacy of Jiang Zemin is essential for understanding the challenges of contemporary China. By examining Jiang?s life, we observe the clash between China?s traditional culture and chaotic history, and we appreciate how its changes impact the entire world. In The Man Who Changed China, Kuhn - who was cited by the Asian Wall Street Journal for the 'unprecedented access' he was given in the course of writing this book - has produced what the Journal called 'probably the closest thing to an authorized biography that?s possible in Communist China.' Here a reader will find a complex and nuanced portrait of China?s senior leader, whose policies continue to exert great influence over the course of his country. Kuhn offers insight into how the Japanese occupation during Jiang?s teenage years imprinted his psyche for life, how he became a Communist, and how, decades later, he struggled to transform the Party in the face of withering criticism. In a sense, Kuhn argues, Jiang?s early skeptics got it right: He was a transitional figure ? but not in the way they had meant. With unshakable if paternalistic vision, a lifelong love of Chinese civilisation, and backroom political skills that no one had anticipated, Jiang Zemin became an unexpected agent of change, effecting the transition from a traumatized society to a confident, prosperous country rapidly ascending in the new world order. Kuhn shows how Jiang led China through an amazing metamorphosis ? from a fretful country destabilised by the turmoil and crackdown in Tiananmen Square into a vibrant nation that became a primary engine of global economic growth. Above all Jiang is a Chinese patriot ? and it is important to appreciate what that really means. In offering this unusually intimate and comprehensive personal and political biography, Kuhn demonstrates that Jiang Zemin?s life personifies the history of contemporary China, giving invaluable insight into what China is today and will become in the future. (For this item please quote stock ID 25193) ISBN: 9787532736553

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Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacy?so much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. In Taiwan, he is the object of a veritable cult; in the People?s Republic of China, he is paid homage as 'pioneer of the revolution', making possible the Party?s claims of continuity with the national past. Western scholars, on the other hand, have tended to question the myth of Sun Yat-sen by stressing the man?s weaknesses, the thinker?s incoherences, and the revolutionary leader?s many failures. (For this item please quote stock ID 4420) ISBN: 9780804731706

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), the first president of the Republic of China, has left a supremely ambivalent political and intellectual legacy ? so much so that he is claimed as a Founding Father by both the present rival governments in Taipei and Beijing. In Taiwan, he is the object of a veritable cult; in the People?s Republic of China, he is paid homage as 'pioneer of the revolution,' making possible the Party?s claims of continuity with the national past. Western scholars, on the other hand, have tended to question the myth of Sun Yat-sen by stressing the man?s weaknesses, the thinker?s incoherences, and the revolutionary leader?s many failures. This book argues that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted both by the creation of the myth and by the attempts at demythification. Its aim is to provide a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement. The Sun Yat-sen who emerges from this rigorously researched account is a muddled politician, an opportunist with generous but confused ideas, a theorist without great originality or intellectual rigor. But the author demonstrates that the importance of Sun Yat-sen lies elsewhere. A Cantonese raised in Hawaii and Hong Kong, he was a product of maritime China, the China of the coastal provinces and overseas communities, open to foreign influences and acutely aware of the modern Western world (he was fund-raising in Denver when the eleventh attempt to bring down the Chinese empire finally succeeded). In facing the problems of change, of imitating the West, of rejecting or adapting tradition, he instinctively grasped the aspirations of his time, understood their force, and crystallised them into practical programs. Sun Yat-sen?s gifts enabled him to foresee the danger that technology might represent to democracy, stressed the role of infrastructures (transport, energy) in economic modernisation, and looked forward to a new style of diplomatic and international economic relations based upon cooperation that bypassed or absorbed old hostilities. These 'utopias' of his, at which his contemporaries heartily jeered, now seem to be so many prophecies. 'By setting Sun Yat-sen in his proper historical context, this excellent biography not only resuscitates a major historical figure but constitutes one of the best histories we have of the late Qing and early Republican period.' - Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley 'This is a most welcome book, one that everyone interested in modern China has wanted for a long while. It is a readable, balanced, and judicious study . . . the most thorough book about Sun in a Western language, and so minutely researched that it goes far beyond any existing study.' ? American Historical Review (For this item please quote stock ID 4421) ISBN: 9780804740111

In this compelling memoir of his colonial childhood in Hong Kong in the 1950s, Martin Booth writes from his child's perspective of the years where he was able to roam freely around the streets of Hong Kong. Filled with an enormous curiosity about the exotic and colourful world around him, Martin quickly gains a grasp of pidgin-Cantonese and uses it to roam the streets and gain access to some of the most colourful parts of Hong Kong, including opium dens, the headquarters of ruthless criminals and a leper colony. In honouring a promise that he makes early on to a British naval officer, seven-year-old Martin tries every food that is offered to him, among them snakes, one hundred-year-old eggs and boiled water beetles. Martin's adventures are thrown into relief by the volatile backdrop of his warring parents. Martin's mother, like her son, was open to the Chinese culture which she embraced along with its people. By contrast Martin's father was an irascible bully of a man whose failure to progress in the navy had left him with a bitterness that he took out on his family. Booth takes us on a journey through Chinese culture and an extinct colonial way of life through the innocent eyes of a child, told with infectious curiosity and humour. The recent diagnosis of a life threatening brain tumour adds extra poignancy to his quest to rediscover his extraordinary childhood in a city he loved. (For this item please quote stock ID 4628) ISBN: 9780385607766

Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as 'class enemies', Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramped attic. The details of their day-to-day existence - the endless quest for enough food, its preparation, Cao's schooling and friends, the stirrings of sexual desire, his dreams and fantasies - are brought brilliantly to life in spare yet evocative prose. The memoir illuminates a world largely unknown to Westerners, one where human pettiness, cruelty, joy, and tenderness play themselves out against a backdrop of political upheaval and material scarcity. Reminiscent of the concise style of classical Chinese memoirs, Cao's lean, elegant prose heightens the emotional intensity of his story. Perceptive and humorous, his voice is deeply original. It is a voice that demands to be heard - for the historical moment it captures as well as for the personal revelations it distills. (For this item please quote stock ID 4819) ISBN: 9780520204058

Ch'en's recollections encompasses the struggle between the Kuomintang (the Chinese National party) and the Chinese Communist party, including portrayals of some of the personalities who shaped modern China. (For this item please quote stock ID 5096) ISBN: 9780817992729

Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of the last emperor and the Communist Revolution, Yu-i led a life marked by a series of rebellions that changed the course of her life. Chang tells her great aunt's story, the saga of a woman born in Shanghai at the turn of the century. (For this item please quote stock ID 5133) ISBN: 9780553506501

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This is the true story, culled from letters, photographs, and memories, of the author's grandmother, brought to America from China as a young concubine by a traveller. It is also the story of the same man's abandoned wife and children, and of author Chong's discovery of those children 60 years later. One man's exploits resulted in a family living on two continents: a traditional wife in a village in South China and a concubine working in the Chinatowns of the West Coast. A tangled web of a story expertly told by Chong, an economist and writer. 'The Concubine's Children gives readers far more than just another shading of the truth. Beautiful, haunting and wise, it lingers in the mind like a portrait one returns to often in a family album, and elicits the same mysterious response of love, melancholy and pride' - New York Times Book Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 5730) ISBN: 9780140254273

Supplementary reader for Read Chinese series, in traditional and simplified characters with pinyin and Yale romanisations (For this item please quote stock ID 5779) ISBN: 9780887100109

Pearl S. Buck was one of the most renowned, interesting, and controversial figures ever to influence American and Chinese cultural and literary history - and yet she remains one of the least studied, honoured, or remembered. In this richly illustrated and meticulously crafted narrative, Conn recounts Buck's life in absorbing detail, tracing the parallel course of American and Chinese history. This 'cultural biography' thus offers a dual portrait: of Buck, a figure greater than history cares to remember, and of the era she helped to shape. (For this item please quote stock ID 6047) ISBN: 9780521639897

A Chinese-Eurasian's autobiographical novel tracing a woman's dual quest for a writing career and romance Ironically, Winnifred Eaton published most of her works under a Japanese-sounding name, Onoto Watanna, but she was of Chinese ancestry. In Me: Book of Rembrance her narrator is called Nora Ascouth, but in the plot, as Nora journeys from her birthplace in Canada to the West Indies and to the United States, Eaton recounts her own early life and writing career. One of sixteen children, Nora leaves her destitute family in Quebec to earn a living. Only seventeen and with ten dollars in her pocket she sets sail for Jamaica and the chance to do newspaper work. Nora ends up in Chicago, moving from job to job, trying all along to sell stories she writes in her spare time. When she discovers that the man with whom she is in love is married, she moves to New York and gains achievement as a novelist. Against this nineteenth-century sensibility of Nora's search for success and love, Eaton conveys the powerlessness of the typical young woman of the working class. Her autobiographical plotline discloses a remarkable secret, Eaton's reticence about her own half-Chinese ancestry. Despite the silence of the text, Me: Book of Rembrance reveals turn-of-the-century views on race, gender, and class. In Jamaica Nora describes the racial inequities and disparities. Moreover, when she says, 'I myself was dark and foreign-looking, but the blond type I adored,' she reveals the extent of her own internalized oppression. Although the author believes her own mixed ancestry precludes prejudice on her part, the text proves otherwise. Like other ethnic immigrants, Nora is indoctrinated into America's Anglo preference. Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) was born in Montreal but lived most of her life in New York, Hollywood, and Calgary. Linda Trinh Moser is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Davis. (For this item please quote stock ID 6654) ISBN: 9780878059928

A biography of Soon Ching Ling (Madam Sun Yatsen), widow of the renowned revolutionary who was a leader in the 1911 Revolution which overthrew the millennial monarchy. But she was more than a widow. Surviving Sun Yatsen through 56 years of perils and triumphs, she was associated closely with major events and personalities both domestic and foreign. She died in 1981 as Honorary President of the People's Republic of China. The aim of this first extensive biography of Soong Ching Ling in English, written by the author Israel Epstein, 'is to have the reader meet the subject. Wherever possible, the story is told in her own words, drawn from all available written material, including hundreds of personal letters, the testimony of participants and eyewitnesses and my own recollections over four decades'. Soong Ching Ling can be said to be an epitome of a modern Chinese, relevant not only to her time but to this generation and for some time to come. Biographer Israel Epstein was born in Poland but raised in China and there began his journalistic work. His association with Soong Ching Ling - which extended over 40 years - began in 1938-45 in the wartime China Defence League in Hong Kong and Chongqing (Chungking). (For this item please quote stock ID 6779) ISBN: 9787800052835

'Gao?s moving account, which is surprisingly even-handed, viividly captures the pervasive sense of fear and uncertainty that washed over China during the tumultuous period from 1966-1969' - Houston Chronicle. 'The most detailed account of those difficult years I have read ... Incredible as the events may seem, they are believable' - New York Times Book Review. 'Although many memoirs of the Cultural Revolution have been published in recent years, Born Red stands out for the immediacy of its portrait of the Red Guards. Without ever abandoning the voice of someone on the edge of childhood, Gao Yuan creates a nuanced and complex picture of the lives of his peers ...G ao?s narrative is powerful, compelling, and deeply disturbing' - American Historical Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 7278) ISBN: 9780804713696

'Of all the personal histories to have emerged out of China?s twentieth-century nightmare, Wild Swans is the most deeply thoughtful and the most heart-rending I?ve read. It moves, in part, like a ghastly oriental fairytale, but the authority and the reticent passion with which Jung Chang speaks her memories ? and those of others ? is unmistakable.' - Colin Thubron, Spectator 'Wild Swans is a very unusual masterpiece. Everything about it is extraordinary. Not only has it been a popular bestseller, because it is impossible to put down; it has also received the most serious critical attention. The book arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness' - Minette Martin, Sunday Telegraph 'Mesmerising. Like all great stories of survival, no matter what tragedies and horrors are encountered along the way, Wild Swans is ultimately an uplifting book: it is the courage and spirit of this family which will, I believe, be my abiding impression (even if memories of the horrors endured will take a long time to fade)' - Antonia Fraser, The Times (For this item please quote stock ID 8683) ISBN: 9780007176151

This album is a pictorial record of Zhou Enlai?s life after the founding of the People?s Republic of China. It records many important historical moments and is of great photographic and artistic value. (For this item please quote stock ID 10222) ISBN: 9787102017488

A Chinese daughter reflects on happiness, spiritual beliefs and universal wisdom. 'To become enlightened, the transformation has to come from within yourself.' Adeline Yen Mah became known to millions of readers world-wide through her first book, 'Falling Leaves'. They will welcome this stimulating, personal interpretation of Chinese wisdom and beliefs. 'Chinese thought, if properly translated, can be of interest to Western minds.' Through her conversations with her grandfather and her aunt, through her knowledge of Chinese traditions and history, Adeline Yeh Mah brings to western readers an easy understanding of eastern wisdom and philosophy. She shows us how those in the west can benefit form the teachings of the east. 'The most precious gift we can leave our children is not money, but knowledge' (For this item please quote stock ID 10462) ISBN: 9780002570992

The autobiography of a Chinese working woman as told to Ida Pruitt by Ning Lao T?ai-t?ai. First published in 1945 but reprinted many times. (For this item please quote stock ID 11888) ISBN: 9780804706063

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This intimate, revealing and never before published portrait of Mao Zedong come from the recollections of his personal body-guard, Li Yinqiao. After 15 years of devoted service, Li received a request from Mao: 'If what happens in my family is a secret to others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about me while I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully when you do'. For the first time, the personal, inside story of China's dynamic leader and world statesman is told - the life and thought of Mao, the husband, father, comrade-in-arms, the peasant's son. The recollections provide the reader with a refreshingly different perspective from any of the other works about Mao. Highlighting the book are photographs, many published here for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 11979) ISBN: 9787119014449

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Deng Xiaoping has been vastly important in the entire history of China in the twentieth century. This volume explores Deng's rise to power, and his leadership of the country since 1977. The distinguished contributors provide a careful and comprehensive assessment of Deng's statesmanship, and of China under his mixture of economic reform and political repression. Readership: Academics and students in China Studies departments. (For this item please quote stock ID 12516) ISBN: 9780198289333

This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress to her marriage and partnership with Mao Zedong, the controversial years of power after Mao?s death, her final years of disgrace and imprisonment, and her suicide in 1991. 'A fascinating portrait...Wildly successful in his global search for new sources...Terrill has produced the most complete biography that in all likelihood will ever be published on the fatally flawed yet fascinating Madame Mao' - Philadelphia Inquirer. (For this item please quote stock ID 13275) ISBN: 9780804729222

Adeline Yen Mah's childhood in China during the civil war was a time of fear, isolation and humiliation. The cause of this was not political upheaval but systematic emotional and physical abuse by her step-mother and siblings, and rejection by her father. Falling Leaves is the story of a 'Fifth Younger Daughter' and her determination to survive the pain of a lonely childhood. (For this item please quote stock ID 14567) ISBN: 9780140265989

An intensely personal chronicle of a young woman's experience during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. A controversial and widely-read book in China both for its harrowing portrayal of society in troubled times and for its daring sexual content. One of the first post-Cultural Revolution texts to deal openly with sex, its emotional honesty and spirited tone made it one of the most widely read and controversial works of contemporary Chinese literature. This translation follows the original unexpurgated text which caused such a stir in China. '... a frightening account of ... endless persecution and deprivation...' - The China Quarterly (For this item please quote stock ID 15188) ISBN: 9789622013834

Yo-Yo Ma is an internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso. This book is the compelling story of his early life, from cradle to his early Harvard University days, told by his mother. Written by Dr. John Rallo in a fluent, warm and conversational style, the book highlights the events in the development of this young music talent and is enriched by numerous photographs from the family album. Marina Ma, in telling the story of her son, hopes that other young people realise that hard work is a part of growing up, even for talents, and pain is sometimes inevitable. Life is full of hope, though a continuous struggle, and love is the main force that sustains and keeps families together especially during difficult times. Of interest to parents, teachers, music educators and, in fact, to anyone interested in the development of Yo-Yo Ma?s talent from his childhood to a world renowned performer. (For this item please quote stock ID 15307) ISBN: 9789622016408

What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the United States. Each of the chapters is crafted by a writer who reflects back to that time in a more nuanced manner than has been possible for Western observers. The authors attend to gender in a way that male writers have barely noticed; they also reflect on their lives in the United States. The issues explored here are as varied as these women?s lives: The burgeoning rebellion of a young girl in northeast China. A girl?s struggles to obtain for herself the education her parents inspired her to attain. An exploration of gender and identity as experienced by two sisters. Some of Us offers insight into a place and time when life was much more complex than Westerners have allowed. These eloquent writings shatter our stereotypes of persecution, repression, victims, and victimizers in Maoist China. Xueping ZHONG is an associate professor of literature at Tufts University. She is the author of Masculinity Besieged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature. Wang Zheng is an associate professor of women?s studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories. Bai Di is an assistant professor of Chinese at Iowa State University. Praise for Some of Us 'This collection makes a fascinating read. Each of the nine memoirs is crafted with skill and honesty.' - Dorothy Ko, professor of history, Barnard College (For this item please quote stock ID 15421) ISBN: 9780813529691

The Girl from Purple Mountain is a true story of love, betrayal and healing, set against the shifting tides of 20th century China. Mei-en was one of the first women admitted into a Chinese university in an era when most women in China were illiterate and had bound feet. Later she would defy tradition and refuse to marry the man her family had chosen for her, instead choosing his younger brother as her husband. During World War II, she served as Lady Mountbatten?s interpreter in China and as the Japanese Army advanced across the country, her foresight and quick thinking kept her family alive. After the war, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family to what, until her death, seemed a happier and more peaceful life. (For this item please quote stock ID 15850) ISBN: 9780312302702

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This album of photographs was compiled to honour the 130th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) and has just become available in the West. The album comprises more than 500 pictures, a good number of which have never published before. Each photograph is accompanied by a carefully researched caption (in English and Chinese), and each chapter is prefaced by relevant biographical details. (For this item please quote stock ID 16828) ISBN: 9787208024601

Sold at 12 as a child bride for 5,000 yuan by an ambitious father and hostile stepmother, this beautiful and talented Chinese girl fled to become a famous actress and revolutionary. It is only a part of the true story of Wang Ying, born into the feudal China of 1915, who rebelled against the destiny planned for her and surged into an astonishing life. An intellectual who left a successful movie carer before age 20, Wang Ying was jailed by the Kuomintang in the 1930s and in the USA during the McCarthyite 1950s. She died in prison in 1974 during the Cultural Revolution. (For this item please quote stock ID 17040) ISBN: 9787119004020

For the first time, a complete version of the autobiography of Xie Bingying (1906-2000) provides a fascinating portrayal of a woman fighting to free herself from the constraints of ancient Chinese tradition amid the dramatic changes that shook China during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Xie´s attempts to become educated, her struggles to escape from an arranged marriage, and her success in tricking her way into military school reveal her persevering and unconventional character and hint at the prominence she was later to attain as an important figure in China´s political culture. Though she was tortured and imprisoned, she remained committed to her convictions. Her personal struggle to define herself within the larger context of political change in China early in the last century is a poignant testament of determination and a striking story of one woman's journey from Old China into the new world. 'At a time when Chinese women were trying to find new modes of identity, it was Xie Bingying who pioneered the literary construction of a soldier image for women . . . and thereby influenced this kind of literature in China for decades.' - Charles A. Laughlin, professor of modern Chinese, Yale University 'In lyrical, flowing prose, this absorbing autobiography interweaves politics, family relations and romance as it chronicles an extraordinary woman's struggle to free herself from traditional Chinese society.' - Publishers Weekly (For this item please quote stock ID 17207) ISBN: 9780231122504

Born into a family of intellectuals, Sun Fan received a good education from his family, school and society and is now studying in California at the Science and Technology University of USA. This collection of 99 compositions written by Sun Fan during his study in primary and middle schools is a true record of the experiences which forged his growth and development. (For this item please quote stock ID 18396) ISBN: 9787801278838

Wu Ho-Su (1919-1986) pioneered business ventures ranging from cloth and synthetic fibre industries to department stores and life insurance. This son of a crippled former coolie began as a labourer for a Japanese cloth-importing company in the 1930s, but eventually became a manager and then an independent entrepreneur. Overcoming business obstacles in Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist-ruled Taiwan after 1945, Mr. Wu painstakingly built Shinkong into Taiwan's sixth-largest business enterprise by the 1980s. This account of Wu Ho-Su's life, developed by Mr. Wu working directly with Dr. Huang Chin-shingm of the Academia Sinica, one of Taiwan's most distinguished historians, is instructive for the lessons it offers about both business practices in East Asia and their interplay with Confucian values. The book recounts with graphic examples the changing role of family and other networks in Taiwan's economic 'miracle' and in the region more generally. The blend that Mr. Wu evidenced of business acumen and concern for Confucianism, in turn, raises broader questions of the type that scholars and businesspeople have strenuously debated since the time of Max Weber about the compatibility of Confucian norms and modern business practices. (For this item please quote stock ID 19176) ISBN: 9780880860475

This is not another history of Shanghai, or of the foreign settlements, but of one man's life and activities and the growth of his business which was later transferred to Hong Kong. George Marsden was a legend in his times and this book sketches some of the detail which helped build that legend. It explains how the city became such a focal point for Western and Chinese enterprise in the years before the Pacific war, and how Hong Kong was shaken into a new life after the war, when China closed down its contracts with the West as it sought to work out a viable political framework for its one billion people. (For this item please quote stock ID 19599) ISBN: 9780646382609

A book about Deng Xiaoping from remarkable and unique perspective Deng Rong, nicknamed Maomao, was born in Southwest China?s Chongqing City, the fourth child of Deng Xiaoping. In the early 1980s, she worked for four years first as attaché and then third secretary in the Consulate Section of the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC. Returning home, she worked in the Research Office of the General Office of the National People?s Congress. Appointed the office deputy director, she engaged in research in the legislation and legislative systems. She was a deputy to the Eighth National People?s Congress and the executive member of the Sixth All-China Women?s Federation. Deng Rong is now vice-chairwoman of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, vice-chairwoman of the China Charity Federation, vice-chairwoman of the Sino-Russia Committee for Peace, Friendship and Development and executive president of the Beijing Music Festival. Also a member of the Chinese Writers Association, she has published many articles in newspapers and magazines. In 1993, she published the biography My Father Deng Xiaoping. This is the first English edition of Deng Xiaoing & the Cultural Revolution. It was originally published in Chinese in 2000. The translator: Sidney Shapiro, an American lawyer, became a Chinese citizen in 1963, and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People?s Political Consultative Conference in 1983. He belongs to the Chinese Writers Association, and is on the boards of directors of the Chinese Translators Association and the Soong Ching Ling Foundation. His literary translations, ranging from the classical to the modern, include the Ming Dynasty masterpiece Outlaws of the Marsh and famed 20th century outcries against bigotry and backwardness such as Ba Jin?s The Family and Mao Dun?s Spring Silkworms. (For this item please quote stock ID 20070) ISBN: 9787119030401

Considered an authentic account of the historical roots of the Tiananmen Square events, Wang Fan-hsi's autobiography, Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary, documents events in China for the years 1919-1949, and the fate of those who dared challenge the rule of the Chinese Communist Party. Wang participated in the Chinese student movement of his youth, escaped from Kuomintang jailers in 1927, and fled to Moscow. There he discovered Trotsky, was eventually expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for being a Trotskyite, and spent six years in jail. The original publication of Wang's autobiography in 1950 consisted of only 20 mimeographed copies, to be read chiefly by those Trotskyites who had survived Mao Tse-tung's rise to power. Since then, it has been published in Japanese, French, German, and English. For this second English edition, the author has written a new preface, translator Gregor Benton has revised and updated his introduction, and material cut from the first English edition has been restored. Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary is an extremely important document about past events in China by someone who was there, on the inside. Contents: >1. My First Contact with New Ideas >2. Two Years of University Life >3. From Wuhan to Moscow >4. Chinese Students in Moscow >5. My Second Year in Moscow >6. Working under Chou En-lai >7. Unification of the Four Groups >8. Prision Life >9. The Founding of Struggle & the Darkest Days of my Life >10. Ch'en Tu-hsiu, the Chinese Trotskyists, & the War of Resistance >11. The Pacific War & a New Split in the Organisation >12. From War Revolution >13. Thinking in Solitude (For this item please quote stock ID 20125) ISBN: 9780231074537

In this second volume of memoir, following his acclaimed Colours of the Mountain, Chen arrives in Beijing, armed with a dogged determination to learn English and familiarise himself with 'all things Western', he must compete with every other student to win a chance to study in the US - a chance that rests in the shrewd and corrupt hands of the all-powerful professors. In this remarkable book - by turns poetic, ribald, hilarious, and heartbreaking - Chen retains his indomitable spirit, but will he be any closer to attaining his goal? (For this item please quote stock ID 20268) ISBN: 9780099453826

Based on the true story of Madame Qian Xiuling - regarded as the 'Mother of Belgium' - and General von Falkenhausen. This is a remarkable thriller, a novel which tells of the lives of more than one hundred resistance fighters facing the dreaded Gestapo. (For this item please quote stock ID 20318) ISBN: 9787119031590

An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life, as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists. Over the course of her writing life, Amy Tan's essays and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies, much to the delight of her fans. And here, for the very first time and with her own inimitable voice and magic touch, she has put together her musings on what she sees as the opposties of fate. Published in a beautifully designed and decorated gift hardback, The Opposite of Fate will illuminate her much-loved fiction and also give her readers a rare glimpse into her heart and mind. Born into a family that believed in fate, Amy Tan has always looked for ways to make sense of the world - ways other than the excuse of destiny. From retelling the tales of her ancestors to redecorating her house, and from seeing ghosts to strapping on skis, her narrative journey reflects on fate's opposites - lucky accidents, choice, memory - as well as on the comfort of accepting her past. (For this item please quote stock ID 20891) ISBN: 9780007169696

A new edition of one of the bestselling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author The publication of Wild Swans in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the bestselling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year award. Through the story of three generations of women - grandmother, mother and daughter - Wild Swans spans China's tumultuous 20th century, from sword-bearing warlords to Chairman Mao, from the Manchu Empire to the Cultural Revolution. At times terrifying, at times astonishing, always deeply moving, Wild Swans has all the passion and grandeur of a great novel. 'Of all the personal histories to have emerged out of China?s twentieth-century nightmare, Wild Swans is the most deeply thoughtful and the most heart-rending I?ve read. It moves, in part, like a ghastly oriental fairytale, but the authority and the reticent passion with which Jung Chang speaks her memories ? and those of others ? is unmistakable.' - Colin Thubron, Spectator 'Wild Swans is a very unusual masterpiece. Everything about it is extraordinary. Not only has it been a popular bestseller, because it is impossible to put down; it has also received the most serious critical attention. The book arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness' - Minette Martin, Sunday Telegraph 'Mesmerising. Like all great stories of survival, no matter what tragedies and horrors are encountered along the way, Wild Swans is ultimately an uplifting book: it is the courage and spirit of this family which will, I believe, be my abiding impression (even if memories of the horrors endured will take a long time to fade)' - Antonia Fraser, The Times (For this item please quote stock ID 20892) ISBN: 9780007166114

Edgar Snow (1905-1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and post-revolutionary periods. He first became famous in the mid-1930s when he broke through a Nationalist blockade and reached the Communists in northwest China. For nearly a decade, no foreign reporter had seen the Communists, who were widely regarded as a ragtag bandit army. Snow took them seriously as a national movement. His reporting in the now-famous book Red Star over China was major news, even to the Chinese, thousands of whom joined the Communists after reading it. It has remained a seminal reference on the early Chinese Communist movement. In this award-winning biography, journalist John Maxwell Hamilton follows Snow from his birth in Kansas City to his rise as a celebrated foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, his ostracism during the cold war, and his role as a singular journalistic bridge between Communist China and the United States. With a new preface by the author, this revealing portrait of the widely misunderstood Snow firmly establishes him as a model for the kind of committed reporting that is crucial to understanding our interdependent world. 'A better-than-fiction tale of the adventures of a remarkable American and a portrait of Asia in transition from the colonial period' ? Seymour Topping, New York Times Book Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 21140) ISBN: 9780807129128

In the tradition of Wild Swans and Falling Leaves, this is a powerful true story of one woman's struggle to survive China's Cultural Revolution. (For this item please quote stock ID 21645) ISBN: 9780143018728

A Chinese daughter reflects on happiness, spiritual beliefs and universal wisdom. 'To become enlightened, the transformation has to come from within yourself.' Adeline Yen Mah became known to millions of readers world-wide through her first book, Falling Leaves. They will welcome this stimulating, personal interpretation of Chinese wisdom and beliefs. 'Chinese thought, if properly translated, can be of interest to Western minds.' Through her conversations with her grandfather and her aunt, through her knowledge of Chinese traditions and history, Adeline Yeh Mah brings to western readers an easy understanding of eastern wisdom and philosophy. She shows us how those in the west can benefit form the teachings of the east. 'The most precious gift we can leave our children is not money, but knowledge' (For this item please quote stock ID 21820) ISBN: 9780006531548

~In 1940 the Chinese writer Chiang Yee arrived in Oxford as a refugee from the London Blitz, his lodgings having been bombed. He came to Oxford, he writes, 'in rather a turmoil'. What was meant to be a brief escape turned into a five-year stay, an affectionate relationship with the city, and the fifth in the Silent Traveller series. (For this item please quote stock ID 22497) ISBN: 9781902669694

~The saga of modern China is told through the voices of three generations, who were, in their own ways, caught up in their country?s revolutions and wars. Part memoir and part history, Brave Land puts a personal face on the past century of social upheaval. It is also the story of a Chinese-American?s passionate journey to reclaim his past. This quest took him to virtually every corner of China, where he encountered everyone from distant relatives in distant villages to students in Tiananmen Square. Along the way, Ray Hu discovered a personal mission ? to tell the fascinating, tangled history of 20th century China from the perspective of those relatives who lived it. Thoroughly researched and presented in the form of a collective, literary memoir, Brave Land is a loving story of China based on the memories of those people who became a part of history by making history.

~Born in Taipei in 1963, Ray Hu grew up in Texas and currently commutes between Hong Kong and mainland China.

~'In the lovingly written Brave Land, Ray Hu explores a century of Chinese social upheaval through the eyes of three generations of his relatives - Joyce Hor-Chung Lou, HK Magazine (For this item please quote stock ID 22722) ISBN: 9789628783113

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a murderer of millions, a brutal oppressor. Yet in his homeland, Mongolia, he is the revered father of the nation. The Chinese honour him as the founder of a dynasty. And in his so-called mausoleum, in Inner Mongolia, worshippers seek his blessing. In a supreme paradox, the world's most ruthless conqueror has become a spirit of peace and reconciliation. But how much do we really know about this man? Using his first-hand experiences in China and Mongolia, John Man highlights the extent of the Khan's influence today. He was the first westerner to visit the valley where Genghis died and one of the few to climb the mountain where he is said to be buried. (For this item please quote stock ID 22727) ISBN: 9780593050446

A biography of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, who held the supreme power in China from 1861 to 1908. It explores her complex personality and also portrays a country in rapid decline, as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty. (For this item please quote stock ID 22892) ISBN: 9780099165910

~Sir David Akers-Jones (Zhong Yat-kit) has been a major figure in the life and government of Hong Kong for many years. In this book he writes with a light and distinctive touch about his life, focusing more on the human than the administrative, but nonetheless providing many insights into the recent history of Hong Kong.

~The story starts with his leaving the Sussex Downs to serve as a young Merchant Navy officer in the last years of World War II. As his ships tramped around the ports of South East Asia, his life-long enthusiasm for Asia was born and, talking with the seamen, his facility with Asian languages. But most of the story takes place in Hong Kong and China, and especially in the New Territories where he spent a large part of his career. There, as development spread from the packed streets of Kowloon to the paddy fields, he developed the trust and affection for the Chinese people of Hong Kong that has been such a characteristic and formative part of his attitude to Hong Kong and its future.

~Growing out of his work for the Yuen Long football team, Sir David became an active participant in the international organisation of soccer. This led to opportunities for wide travel in China and exceptional opportunities to learn directly about the People's Republic, experiences that set him apart from his colleagues in the colonial administration. These experiences give a distinctive perspective to his account of the events leading up to 1997 and the controversies of that period.

~This is a book for everyone with an interest in the recent history of Hong Kong and in an exceptional man who played a major part in that history as he ploughed a distinctive and individual, and sometimes controversial, path from District Officer to Acting Governor to Hong Kong Affairs Advisor.

~'From his first arrival in Hong Kong in 1957, David Akers-Jones made it his business to understand and get to know the people of Hong Kong, their culture, their history and their ambitions. That deep understanding pervades this excellent, informative and fascinating book' - Lord Wilson of Tillyorn.

~'Sir David Akers-Jones is a shining example of a loyal and dedicated civil servant, characterised by a heartfelt affection for Hong Kong. His book recounts an important part of Hong Kong's recent history and provides a valuable insight to events that have had a profound influence on Hong Kong's future development' - Victor Fung

~'This riveting personal journey spanning several decades from district administration to leadership in the centre of the Hong Kong government is set against a socio-political landscape that is constantly evolving, interpolated with well-known figures in the contemporary history of Hong Kong and Sino-British relations. The evocation of these characters and their chemistry by an "expatriate" who, after retirement, adopts Hong Kong as his home, gives the book its special charm' - Ambrose Y. C. King (For this item please quote stock ID 23145) ISBN: 9789622096554

An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life, as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists. Over the course of her writing life, Amy Tan's essays and articles have appeared in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies, much to the delight of her fans. And here, for the very first time and with her own inimitable voice and magic touch, she has put together her musings on what she sees as the opposties of fate. The Opposite of Fate illuminates Tan's much-loved fiction and also give her readers a rare glimpse into her heart and mind. Born into a family that believed in fate, Amy Tan has always looked for ways to make sense of the world - ways other than the excuse of destiny. From retelling the tales of her ancestors to redecorating her house, and from seeing ghosts to strapping on skis, her narrative journey reflects on fate's opposites - lucky accidents, choice, memory - as well as on the comfort of accepting her past. (For this item please quote stock ID 23350) ISBN: 9780007170401

Combining an exceptional love story with a gripping tale of incarceration in Stalin's gulag and later in Mao's concentration camps, Patrick Lescot's Before Mao is a deeply moving, beautifully told saga of Li Lisan, Mao's predecessor at the head of the communist party, a key member of the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Told in an engaging, highly dramatic style that reads more like a novel than a standard history, Lescot skilfully unfolds this page-turning biography. Li, who led the Chinese communist party in the 1920s, was a rare survivor among the Chinese members of the Internationale. He was eventually allowed to return to China after having been elected, in absentia, to Mao Zedong's government. When Mao and Khrushchev fell out of power after 1959, the Chinese communist party demanded that Li divorce his wife, Lisa. When the couple refused to do so, Lisa was only allowed to stay by becoming a Chinese citizen. Soon after, both would be victims of the Cultural Revolution. Lisa was taken from her husband shortly before he was again arrested, imprisoned, and tortured - this time fatally. She spent eight years in solitary confinement. Moving from China to France to the Soviet Union and finally back to China, Before Mao is an extraordinary chronicle of the indomitable human spirit 'allowing us to share in some true moments of emotion, where love wins over totalitarianism's destruction of individuality' (Le Monde). (For this item please quote stock ID 23878) ISBN: 9780060084653

The first major English-language biography of one of the key figures of the 20th century - the man who 'lost' China to the Communists - or the man from whom the Communists won China. (For this item please quote stock ID 24226) ISBN: 9780743231459

The creator of the world?s greatest empire is one of history?s immortals. He is also at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries - how and where was he buried? Its solution might, conceivably, reveal a treasure on a scale not seen since the discovery of Tutankhamen?s tomb. (For this item please quote stock ID 24298) ISBN: 9780553814989

Jiang Zemin?s life and leadership sweep through almost eighty tumultuous years of Chinese history: Japanese occupation, Civil War, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, and, more recently, dramatic economic growth, tensions with Taiwan, and opportunities and confrontations with America. Jiang?s story is an epic of war, deprivation, revolution, political turmoil, social convulsion, economic reform, national transformation, and international resurgence. To Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a longtime China observer, understanding the legacy of Jiang Zemin is essential for understanding the challenges of contemporary China. By examining Jiang?s life, we observe the clash between China?s traditional culture and chaotic history, and we appreciate how its changes impact the entire world. In The Man Who Changed China, Kuhn - who was cited by the Asian Wall Street Journal for the 'unprecedented access' he was given in the course of writing this book - has produced what the Journal called 'probably the closest thing to an authorized biography that?s possible in Communist China.' Here a reader will find a complex and nuanced portrait of China?s senior leader, whose policies continue to exert great influence over the course of his country. Kuhn offers insight into how the Japanese occupation during Jiang?s teenage years imprinted his psyche for life, how he became a Communist, and how, decades later, he struggled to transform the Party in the face of withering criticism. In a sense, Kuhn argues, Jiang?s early skeptics got it right: He was a transitional figure ? but not in the way they had meant. With unshakable if paternalistic vision, a lifelong love of Chinese civilisation, and backroom political skills that no one had anticipated, Jiang Zemin became an unexpected agent of change, effecting the transition from a traumatized society to a confident, prosperous country rapidly ascending in the new world order. Kuhn shows how Jiang led China through an amazing metamorphosis ? from a fretful country destabilised by the turmoil and crackdown in Tiananmen Square into a vibrant nation that became a primary engine of global economic growth. Above all Jiang is a Chinese patriot ? and it is important to appreciate what that really means. In offering this unusually intimate and comprehensive personal and political biography, Kuhn demonstrates that Jiang Zemin?s life personifies the history of contemporary China, giving invaluable insight into what China is today and will become in the future. (For this item please quote stock ID 24521) ISBN: 9781400054749

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Intersections: Asian & Pacific American Transcultural Studies Growing up in revolutionary China, Sheldon (Xicheng) Lou was among the millions forced to adopt the goals of Mao's new society. His captivating memoir, written against the backdrop of the early decades of the People's Republic, offers a rare and personal look at China's dream of a Communist paradise - from Mao's preposterous campaign to rid the country of sparrows to the communes and backyard steel-making of the Great Leap Forward to the madness of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Sheldon Lou was born in Sichuan in 1941 and raised in Beijing. As a young graduate of Qinghua University, he spent ten months in a rural village as a working team member and returned to the capital in time to witness the birth of the Cultural Revolution. Three years later he was ordered to a factory in Inner Mongolia, where he remained, separated from his family, for six years. Lou arrived in the United States in 1980 and obtained his master and Ph.D. degrees from MIT?s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He became a research scientist at MIT and later joined the Faculty of Management at the University of Toronto. He is currently professor of operations management at California State University, San Marcos. (For this item please quote stock ID 24886) ISBN: 9780824829032

A profusely illlustrated and rare account of a turbulent moment in Chinese history written in the 1930s by a young American businessman working for Texaco. Among the subjects treated are the fall of Tsingtao, the leisurely life of expatriates in Chungking at the end of the gunboat era and the marked contrast between the enclosed treaty-port world and the backcountry world of poor Chinese villages. The author travelled extensively, visiting, among other cities, Peking, Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, Hong Kong, Swatow, Jinan and Dairen. Many of the photographs were taken by the author at the time. An appendix is devoted to a 1930s Hong Kong newspaper interview with Peiping Lily Lee, a film actress with whom the author had a serious affair and who was accused, falsely, of spying for the Japanese. (For this item please quote stock ID 25422) ISBN: 9780975880005

This sweeping memoir by veteran journalist Israel Epstein (1915-2005) - eyewitness to the Chinese Communist Revolution - spans over 80 years and offers an unprecedented, highly personal look into one of the most fascinating and controversial social struggles of the 20th century. A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Chinese history. (For this item please quote stock ID 25449) ISBN: 9781592650422

Ida Pruitt, born of American missionaries and raised in a rural Chinese village at the end of the nineteenth century, witnessed almost a century of China's revolutionary upheavals. She was the first Director of Social Service at the Peking Union Medical College, where she established social casework in China. She later served as the executive secretary of the American Committee in Support of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, the only U.S. aid agency to provide support to both Nationalist and Communist regions during the Chinese Civil War. Pruitt was also one of the early advocates for U.S. diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China. Her two notable books, A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman, Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai and Old Madam Yin: A Memoir of Peking, 1926-1938, have become classics in Chinese Studies and Women's Studies. China's American Daughter: Ida Pruitt (1888?1985) tells the story of this remarkable woman, and brings a unique perspective to the study of modern Chinese history. Marjorie King, Ph.D., an independent historian, has taught at the Beijing Foreign Affairs College and the China Youth College for Political Science. She is a member of the International Committee in Support of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and is a co-director of the Ida Pruitt Memorial Scholarship Project at the Shandan Bailie School. Currently, she teaches at the National Experimental High School in Hsinchu, Taiwan. (For this item please quote stock ID 25609) ISBN: 9789629960575

The authoritative biography of the great Mongol ruler, by the author of Genghis Khan and Attila. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. Kublai Khan inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan, and which he extended further, creating the biggest empire the world has ever seen: from China to Iraq, from Siberia to Afghanistan. His personal domain covered 60% of all Asia, and 20% of the world?s land area. The West first learnt of this great Khan through the reports of Marco Polo. Kublai had not been born to rule, but had clawed his way to leadership, achieving power only in his 40s. He inherited Genghis Khan?s great dream of world domination but unlike his grandfather he saw China and not Mongolia as the key to controlling power, and turned Genghis?s unwieldy empire into a federation. Using China?s great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle governance, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it today. He gave China its modern-day borders and his legacy is that country?s resurgence, and the superpower China of tomorrow. (For this item please quote stock ID 26245) ISBN: 9780593054499

Sirin Phathanothai was born into one of Thailand's most privileged and politically prominent families. But, at the age of 8, her life changed dramatically. She and her brother were sent to be brought up in Beijing under the direct auspices of Premier Zhou Enlai as his wards. Sirin went swimming with Mao, was privy to major political and historical events and lived through Mao's economic Great Leap Forward. Then, during the Cultural Revolution, her world was torn asunder. Her brother was expelled from China and she was saved only by joining the People's Liberation Army deep in the countryside. But, unlike some of her friends, she survived - and went on to play a pivotal role in China's opening to the West. Sometimes harrowing, and always highly illuminating, Sirin Phathanothai's story is a unique historical document. (For this item please quote stock ID 26285) ISBN: 9781416522287

Revolutionary and ruler, Marxist and nationalist, liberator and despot, Mao Zedong takes a place among the iconic leaders of the twentieth century. In this book, Maurice Meisner offers a balanced portrait of the man who defined modern China. From his role as leader of a communist revolution in a war-torn and largely rural country to the disasters of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, the relationship between Mao?s ideas and his political action is highly disputed. With unparalleled authority, Meisner shows how Mao?s unique 'sinification of Marxism' provides the key to looking at this extraordinary political career. The first part of the book is devoted to Mao?s revolutionary leadership before 1949, in particular the influence of the liberal and anarchist ideas of the May Fourth era, his discovery of Marxism?Leninism and his conviction that peasants held the potential for revolution. In the second part, Meisner analyses Mao?s early successes as a nationalist unifier and moderniser, the failure of his socialism and his eventual transformation into a tyrant. (For this item please quote stock ID 26329) ISBN: 9780745631073

John Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane - as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s - or telling the story of his life. In Lessons Out of School, he doesn?t spare himself or others, or gloss over unpleasant bits. Raised by an abusive mother, he learned detachment and the ability not to see himself as victim. The proof is in these riveting tales of survival at home and on the streets of Detroit negotiating gangs and peer pressure. Along with toughness he learned to follow his curiosity, creative impulses, and love of learning, which eventually led to his pioneering of alternative medical modalities, most notably CranioSacral Therapy. At the core of each of the stories in this powerful blend of autobiography and inspirational guide ? and the reason for its inclusion ? is the spiritual lesson Upledger found there that he now shares with readers. (For this item please quote stock ID 26919) ISBN: 9781556436154

Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Ann-ping Chin. Now in their late 80s and early 90s, the Chang sisters lived through a century of historic change in China. In this extraordinary work, assembled with the benefit of letter, diaries, family histories, poetry, journals, and interviews, Ann-ping Chin shapes the story of this family into a riveting chronicle that provides uncanny insight into the old China and its transition to the new. From their father, the Chang sisters inherited reason and a belief in the virtues of modern education. From their mother they learned about the human spirit and the art of finding an appropriate path. Their nurse-nannies - uneducated widows from the Hofei countryside - contributed their own traditional beliefs and opinions on modern ways. As the sisters grew up, one broke with tradition to marry an actor, one survived the most violent political years of Communist rule, one married one of China's greatest novelists, and one, raised separately by her devout Buddhist great-aunt, was taught to be a rigorous practitioner of China's classical arts. The Chang sisters' prolific correspondence provides a rare glimpse of private life in China during the 20th century, as well as a chronicle of the country from prosperity to persecution, from foreign wars to Cultural Revolution. In Chin's expert prose, Four Sisters of Hofei is an intensely personal story that illustrates the complex history of a complex land. (For this item please quote stock ID 26934) ISBN: 9780747561880

A modern day WILD SWANS - an extraordinary, moving account of the lives of three generations of Chinese women. From 1920s rural China to the bustle of colonial pre-Second World War Hong Kong and present-day Manchester; from poverty and murder to Triad associations, gambling addictions, alcoholism, bankruptcy and the isolation of being an immigrant family - each successive generation of the Tse family has been rocked by both international social and political upheaval and a rollercoaster of personal challenges. Battling against circumstances and often a traditional, male-dominated society, it fell to the strong women of each generation to overcome the odds and rescue the family. Extraordinary and moving, Sweet Mandarin is the story of their battle for survival and of the one thread that was their lifeline ? food. Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative true story recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes them from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to the West. Their lives were as dramatic as the times they lived through. A love of food and a talent cooking pulled each generation through the most devastating of upheavals. Helen Tse's grandmother, Lily Kowk, was forced to work as an amah after the violent murder of her father. She honed her famous chicken curry recipe as she crossed the ocean from Hong Kong in the 1950s, and she eventually opened her own restaurant where her daughter, Mabel, worked from the tender age of seven. But gambling and the Triads were pervasive in the Chinese immigrant community, and they tragically lost the restaurant. It was up to Helen and her sisters, the third generation of these exceptional women, to re-establish their grandmother's dream. SWEET MANDARIN shows how the most important inheritance is wisdom, and how recipes - passed down the female line - can be the most valuable heirloom. About the author Helen Tse is a spokesperson for the Chinese community in the UK and is also the first British born Chinese author. (For this item please quote stock ID 27719) ISBN: 9780091920197

This book was written by He Zhenliang's wife Liang Lijuan, a senior journalist from the People's Daily. He Zhenliang, known as China's Mr. Olympics, is the honorary president of the Chinese Olympic Committee, former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and former Deputy Minister of the State Sport Commission of China, the predecessor of the General Administration of Sport. This book is a memoir of his personal life stories and diplomatic experiences in the sports field. It gives accurate and detailed depictions of the inside stories of a number of significant events in China's history of sports dealing with the outside world, including opposition to "two Chinas" in international sports organizations in the 1950s, the founding of the Games of the Newly Emerging Forces (GANEFO) in the 1960s, restoration of China's legitimate seat on the International Olympic Committee in the 1970s, the 1990 Beijing 1lth Asian Games, and Beijing's bids for the 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games. The story of the breaking down of barriers to sports exchanges across the Taiwan Straits is particularly fascinating. (For this item please quote stock ID 27793) ISBN: 9787119047201

Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, Rachel DeWoskin went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was not just exploring, but making Chinese culture, as the sexy and aggressive, fearless Jiexi, star of a wildly successful soap opera. A Chinese counterpart to Sex and the City, revolving around Chinese-Western culture clashes, the show was called Foreign Babes in Beijing.Living the clashes in real life while playing out a parallel version onscreen, Rachel forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China. In only a few years, billboards, stylish bars and discos, international restaurants, fashion shows, divorce, foreign visitors, and cross-cultural love affairs transform the face of China's capital. Foreign Babes in Beijing is as astute and informative as it is witty, moving and entertaining. (For this item please quote stock ID 28738) ISBN: 9781862079052

In this book,David A.Williams goes into detail about his happy life in China.He tells every foreigner,especially his fellow Americans,to take the leap to China.Whether it is to find more job opportunities,a good wife or husband,lots of friends,a fast,developing economy,a low cost,safer standard of living,or just more adventure,China iS the place.He tells foreigners how to quickly integrate with the Chinese,how to become an?old China hand?and what it can mean for the successful career and social life of new foreigners living in China.He explains how he leamed Chinese on his own in nine months,and how that propelled his success in winning over the Chinese people and finding many jobs. (For this item please quote stock ID 28783) ISBN: 9787119050874

'I contemplate my own mission impossible. How will I find a stranger in a country of 1.3 billion. The bittersweet irony is that, 33 years after I turned her in, I am on a planeload of mainland Chinese returning home of their own free will .' Jan Wong first arrived in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the 1970s as a fervent young Maoist. Determined to change the world, instead she found her own world turned upside down. The result was a groundbreaking memoir, Red China Blues. In Beijing Confidential Wong returns to witness one of history's most extreme makeovers as the city feverishly prepares for its moment on the world stage for the 2008 Olympics. But she has a much more compelling personal reason to revisit her past. Haunted by her guilty conscience, Wong is convinced she ruined the life of a former fellow student, Yin Luoyi, all those years ago. When Yin asked for help to get to America, Wong promptly reported her comrade. More than three decades later she needs to make peace with herself and the woman she betrayed. But finding absolution proves difficult in a country where cultural amnesia has become a way of life ... . (NB: restore sentence after this from original if we have room ? Kate, can we compare notes on this later) Beijing Confidential is a fascinating journey into China's past and present as two extraordinary women's journeys come full circle against the backdrop of a city in the midst of yet another historic transformation. (For this item please quote stock ID 28863) ISBN: 9780732287474

Han Xu, the man who stands out as the preeminent symbol of friendship in my life-time experience with diplomats, died July 19 in aBeijing hospital after a long bout with cancer. In his death the American people lost a good friend. In the first address to an American audienceby a diplomat of the People's Republic of China,Han Xu urged the 1978 graduates of Illinois Col-lege in Jacksonville to reach out cordially to peoplein other countries and to pass the spirit of friend-ship from one generation to another. He carriedthis message eloquently and effectively all of hislong productive and eventful life. When in 1978 Governor James Thompsonasked me to organize an agricultural trade mis-sion to China, Han paved the way with a success-ful agenda. Shortly before Han's departure as deputychief, I hosted a fun-filled luncheon for him in the U.S Capitol building.It was a rollicking success.In his work, Han always presented the position ofthe Chinese government in the best light possibleand some of the assignments were not easy. In every approach, he was positive, vigorous,smiling, courteous, anddeferential. Han Xu kept friendship ties strong even inadversity. It mattered not whether either of us wasin office or out. Year after year, he kept invitingthe Findleys to dinners and receptions while hewas in Washington and on his return to China, tobe his guests for a holiday there. For Han Xu,friendship was forever. (For this item please quote stock ID 29386) ISBN: 9787119047874

Yuan Longping, the renowned and respected Chinese scientist often taken for a farmer, has found the world a way out of famine. Undeterred by the prevailing ignorance of heterosis in rice and other self-pollinating plants, he has dedicated himself to research into hybrid rice since the 1960s, and his feats have won him the accolade "father of hybrid rice" and earned him the honor of being made foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Why is Yuan so obsessed by hybrid rice research? How did he manage with such simple conditions, scarce materials, backward technology and insufficient information? What global impacts will Yuan and his team have? This book may give the answers. (For this item please quote stock ID 29387) ISBN: 9787119051093

This is an original take on a classic story - how a child of immigrants moves between two cultures. In place of piety and predictability, however, Unpolished Gem offers a vivid and ironic sense of both worlds. It combines the story of Pung's life growing up in suburban Footscray with the inherited stories of the women in her family - stories of madness, survival and heartbreak. Original and brave, this is a girl's own story that introduces an unforgettable voice and captures the experience of Asian immigrants to Australia. (For this item please quote stock ID 29522) ISBN: 9781863951586

Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory ? but listen more closely to the dinner-table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one?s feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great-grandfather?s Chinese village. Here are well-known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat-Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more. (For this item please quote stock ID 29523) ISBN: 9781863951913

Divided into four sections - Fire, Paper, Water and Earth, this title is neither fiction, nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of Chinese 'talk-story' in which real and imagined worlds intrude upon and enrich each other, built upon stories of war. From the anti-war protests in Hawaii to Kingston's own conversations with Vietnam veterans, the author takes us inside the hearts and minds of a host of characters, not least of whom is her own Mama, the veteran woman warrior Brave Orchid, who watches over her in the seminal years of rebuilding following the fire and her father's death. (For this item please quote stock ID 21818) ISBN: 9780436233937

Cao Zhi (192-232) was the son of the great statesman and military strategist, Cao Cao (155-220) and lived in the turbulent years of the late Han Dynasty and the early Three Kingdoms period. He was a younger son but had such great talent that there was at one time a prospect that he might become his father's heir. But Cao Zhi entered into a keen rivalry with his elder brother, Cao Pe (187-226) who was bitterly jealous of Cao Zhi's brilliance and greater poetic gifts. Cao Pe's selection as heir was the cause of great disappointment and frustration to Cao Zhi. However, this political failure did not prevent him from becoming one of the first figures in Chinese history to be remembered primarily for his ability as a poet. A highly readable and informative book by Hugh Dunn that is not only an introduction to some fine classical Chinese poetry, but is also a fascinating study of an intriguing man whose life was largely a tragedy of wasted talent. (For this item please quote stock ID 6591)

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From the moment that she was born in Rangoon "In the Shadow of the Golden Pagoda" Gillian (Byrd) Boyer's destined path took her on a journey mingled with tears and joy, mystical fascination and deep despair. From the Far East, to war-torn England and then to Africa, Gillian had an amazing Grand Adventure of a life that sometimes defied the realms of reality. While living in Africa, she met and married Stuart and moved countries again. Gillian and Stuart settled in Australia but divorced sixteen years later. Times were tough Gillian raising five daughters as a single mum but she always believed that eventually good luck would smile on her. She survived breast cancer as she worked hard to provide a loving and stable home for her children. When her family had "flown the nest" she settled in Queensland with her hard of Dexter cattle. A septuagenarian now, Gillian lives in the Mary Valley in footprint of the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam. If the Dam is approved she will once again "pack two suitcases" and, inspired by her family battle cry, Trust and go forward to build yet another interesting life. (For this item please quote stock ID 29859) ISBN: 9780980336528

This book contains the touching life stories of 11 young Chinese people who have struggled to realize their dreams, experienced success and failure, learned lessons and occasionally felt regret. The stories are presented without embellishment and in their original form as interviews; they feature marital upsets, inter-personal conflicts, frustration arising from failure, the struggles of a UN official trying to keep peace in Liberia, the new life of a former champion figure-skater after retirement, the happiness found by a young man despite losing a leg, a girl's dream to travel around the world, and more. (For this item please quote stock ID 30064) ISBN: 9787802285644

When Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People?s Republic. Using classified documents spirited out of the China, he offers an objective human portrait of the real Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People?s Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. Often touted as the last perfect revolutionary, Zhou is a modern saint who offered protection to his people during the Cultural Revolution, and an icon who allows modern Chinese to find an admirable figure in what was a traumatic and bloody era. But his greatest gift was to survive, at almost any price, thanks to his acute understanding of where political power resided at any one time. (For this item please quote stock ID 30219) ISBN: 9781586486457

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About the Author: Rena Krasno was born in Shanghai, China, in 1923 and lived there until 1949. Her parents, stateless Russian Jews from Siberia, arrived in China in the early 2oth century. In her professional life, Krasno worked as a simultaneous freelance interpreter for international organizations in Europe and Asia. Krasno has lectured at Stanford University, U.C.L.A., U.C. Berkeley, the Commonwealth Club, and other well-known institutions in America, Asia, and Europe. She is currently Public Affairs Officer of the Sino-Judaic Institute in Menlo Park, California, as well as a member of the Editorial Committee of their publication, Points East. Krasno was featured in several documentaries including the Chinese one (Sanctuary Shanghai. Chen Yifei, 1999). Nine of Rena's books have been published, including Floating Lanterns and Golden Shrines (Pacific View Press, Berkeley, a winner of 2002 Benjamin Franklin Publishers Award). Three of her published books have been translated into Chinese. ?It is hard to express the joy that overwhelmed me. Back home to Shanghai? At the same time my heart was gripped with apprehension. My parents had passed away, all my friends were gone and Shanghai must have become a totally different city. As we were about to land, I trembled with excitement but the moment my feet touched the earth, I knew I was at home.? (For this item please quote stock ID 31097) ISBN: 9787508513447

How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give readers a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China?s government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and was dethroned for his efforts.

When China?s army moved in, killing hundreds of students and other demonstrators, Zhao was placed under house arrest at his home on a quiet alley in Beijing. China?s most promising change agent had been disgraced, along with the policies he stood for. The premier spent the last sixteen years of his life, up until his death in 2005, in seclusion. An occasional detail about his life would slip out: reports of a golf excursion, a photo of his aging visage, a leaked letter to China?s leaders. But China scholars often lamented that Zhao never had his final say.

As it turns out, Zhao did produce a memoir in complete secrecy. He methodically recorded his thoughts and recollections on what had happened behind the scenes during many of modern China?s most critical moments. The tapes he produced were smuggled out of the country and form the basis for Prisoner of the State. In this audio journal, Zhao provides intimate details about the Tiananmen crackdown; he describes the ploys and double crosses China's top leaders use to gain advantage over one another; and he talks of the necessity for China to adopt democracy in order to achieve long-term stability.

The China that Zhao portrays is not some long-lost dynasty. It is today?s China, where the nation?s leaders accept economic freedom but continue to resist political change.

If Zhao had survived?that is, if the hard-line hadn?t prevailed during Tiananmen?he might have been able to steer China?s political system toward more openness and tolerance.

Zhao?s call to begin lifting the Party's control over China's life?to let a little freedom into the public square?is remarkable coming from a man who had once dominated that square. Although Zhao now speaks from the grave in this moving and riveting memoir, his voice has the moral power to make China sit up and listen.

ZHAO AT TIANANMEN BEFORE THE MASSACRE ?I was trying to persuade them to end the hunger strike . . . I felt it was a waste for these young students to end their lives like this. [The students could not] imagine the treatment in store for them.?

ZHAO ON EVADING HIS JAILERS ?After I played at Chang Ping Golf Course, the news was released . . . Both Jiang Zemin and Li Peng became extremely anxious. They condemned the decision and began an investigation to find out who had allowed me to go out to play golf.?

ZHAO ON HOW CHINA MUST CHANGE ?Not only should [China] implement a market economy, it must also adopt a parliamentary democracy as its political system.?

About the Author
ADI IGNATIUS is an American journalist who covered China for The Wall Street Journal during the Zhao Ziyang era. He most recently served as Time magazine's deputy managing editor.

BAO PU, a political commentator and veteran human rights activist, is a publisher and editor of New Century Press in Hong Kong.

RENEE CHIANG is a publisher and the English editor of New Century Press in Hong Kong. As a teacher in Beijing in 1989, she was an eyewitness to the Tiananmen Square crackdown. (For this item please quote stock ID 31374) ISBN: 9781439149386

It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky - her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after experiencing many misfortunes and dangers. The dream was prophetic. The child was his mother's only male child and his father died of illness when the boy was only five. He grew up during wartime and a period of political turmoil in China, encountered many troubles, and had a very distinguished career. He is Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature. This delightful memoir of Yang Xianyi gives a candid and entertaining account of himself as a lighthearted and mischievous young man who immersed himself in the learning of European culture, ancient and modern, when he studied at Oxford in the 1930s. But it is also the illuminating self-portrait of a deeply patriotic intellectual living in a China under the throes of change, giving rare insight into the survival of a courageous, witty and principled individual during the harsh century of Chinese liberation. Born in 1915 and educated in Oxford, Yang Xianyi is a world-renowned translator. He has translated, with his wife Gladys Yang, numerous Chinese classics such as A Dream of Red Mansions, The Scholars, Selected Works of Lu Xun, which are considered translations par excellence. This book will appeal to scholars and students of translation as well as general readers who want to know more about Yang and his time. (For this item please quote stock ID 18967) ISBN: 9789629960469

This book explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (1764-1849), a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War, before traditional institutions and values became altered by incursions from the West. His distinction as an official, scholar, and patron of learning has been recognised by both his contemporaries and modern scholars. He was also exulted as an honest official and an exemplary man of the 'Confucian persuasion'. His name is mentioned in almost all the works on Qing history or Chinese classics because of the wide range of his research and publications. A number of these publications are still being reprinted today. This is the first full-length biography of Ruan Yuan in English, and the only one focusing on all aspects of the man's life and work in the context of his time. It follows Ruan Yuan from his childhood in Yangzhou, expansion of his intellectual horizons and political network in Beijing, his long service in the provinces handling some of the most thorny issues of the day in security and control, to the glory as a senior statesman in the capital, and retirement in Yangzhou. 'For her biography of Ruan Yuan, Dr Betty Peh-T'I Wei has scoured the world for new materials, visiting a dozen cities and as many libraries on three continents. She has tracked down and talked - sometimes in the Yangzhou dialect - with Ruan descendants, gaining access to family lore both written and oral. Her book, based on published and archival sources, adds new dimensions to our knowledge of this important figure' - Beatrice Bartlett, Professor Emeritus, Yale University Betty Peh-T'I Wei is a research historian currently holding honorary appointments at the Institute of Qing History of People's University, Beijing, and the Centre of Asian Studies and the Department of History, the University of Hong Kong. Her research interest is focused on the early 19th-century China, Europe, and the United States. Now retired as Head of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, she has remained active in research and writing. Her research on Ruan Yuan has taken her to libraries in Asia, the United Kingdom and the United States. (For this item please quote stock ID 27053) ISBN: 9789622097858

The autobiography of a Chinese peasant boy who, by an extraordinary turn of fate, emerged from the abject poverty and oppression of the Cultural Revolution, to become one of the world's great ballet stars - a beautiful, rich account of an inspirational life. (For this item please quote stock ID 21148) ISBN: 9780670040247

The first major English-language biography of one of the key figures of the 20th century - the man who lost China to the Communists. (For this item please quote stock ID 21877) ISBN: 9780743231442

This intimate, revealing and never before published portrait of Mao Zedong come from the recollections of his personal body-guard, Li Yinqiao. After 15 years of devoted service, Li received a request from Mao: 'If what happens in my family is a secret to others, it is not a secret to you. But don't write about me while I'm still alive; wait until I die, and write truthfully when you do'. For the first time, the personal, inside story of China's dynamic leader and world statesman is told - the life and thought of Mao, the husband, father, comrade-in-arms, the peasant's son. The recollections provide the reader with a refreshingly different perspective from any of the other works about Mao. Highlighting the book are photographs, many published here for the first time. (For this item please quote stock ID 24219) ISBN: 9787119014456

At the time of Professor Liu Ts'un-yan's 80th birthday in 1997 a number of his friends and colleagues presented him with a collection of papers prepared in his honour. These works have since been revised and published to celebrate his 85th birthday - they reflect not only the regard in which such a doyen of Sinology is held but his wide- ranging interests and experience. Liu 'Ts'un-yan is a most distinguished representative of a time-worn tradition: Chinese learning fully receptive to the West. Born in Peking, he was well-trained in the texts of Confucianism - his father was one of the last graduates of the old examination system. Professor Liu's first research was in early popular literature, and he received his doctorate in that field from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. He has maintained his concern with modern and classical Chinese literature and theatre, and he is the author of a major novel and several plays. From literature, Professor Liu extended his interests to Chinese philosophy - not only the Confucian tradition, but also Buddhism, ancient Mohism, and both classical and popular Taoism. He is expert in the Taoist canon, and his work is in wide demand by scholars everywhere. He has published over twenty-five books and many articles in both Chinese and English, notably two volumes of Selected Papers & Excursions from the Hall of Harmonious Wind, his studio name. Professor Liu went to the Australian National University in 1962 and was appointed Head of the Department of Chinese in 1966, a post which he held until his retirement in 1982. During that time he was twice Dean of the Faculty and a long-serving member of Council. He is a founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in 1992 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. Professor Liu has been a visiting scholar at many universities overseas, including Columbia, Harvard, Paris, Hawaii, Tokyo, Malaysia and Singapore. (For this item please quote stock ID 22133) ISBN: 9780975032107

This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, a warrior for Genghis Khan and one of the greatest generals in military history. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operations surpassed those led by any other commander in the ancient world. Under Subotai?s direction, Mongol armies moved faster, over greater distances, and with a greater scope of maneouver than any army had ever done before. When Subotai died at age seventy-three, he had conquered thirty-two nations and won sixty-five pitched battles, according to Muslim historians. Had the great Khan not died, Subotai likely would have destroyed Europe itself. (For this item please quote stock ID 26386) ISBN: 9780806137346

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Huang Hua just celebrated his 96th birthday. A graduate of Yenching University, he is a typical Chinese progressive intellectual of his time. In old China the suffering of the common people and the pressing danger of losing the sovereignty of the entire nation led Huang Hua and millions of young people to join the struggle for China's liberation. Huang Hua's memoir is a book describing his more than 70 years of activities as a revolutionary and a diplomat. It reflects also many significant aspects of China's modern political history. In his posts as ambassador and foreign minister he witnessed a great range of events in international relations and participated in the realization of the foreign policy of New China. As to the book's style of writing, it is just like the character of the author-clear and straightforward, so it is easy to read and comprehend. About the author: Mr. Huang Hua was born in 1913. His revolutionary and diplomatic activities have lasted over 70 years. In his youth he emerged as a leader of the student movement in Beijing for resistance against Japanese aggression and for national salvation. In 1936 Huang Hua accompanied US journalist Edgar Snow to northern Shaanxi Province to interview fighters of the Red Army and Mao Zedong of the Chinese soviet regime in Yenan, and worked together with the US Army Observer Group there. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Huang Hua began to engage in diplomatic activities on behalf of his motherland, including attending international conferences and political negotiations, and serving as ambassador to Ghana, Egypt and Canada, and as China's permanent representative to the United Nations. It was Huang Hua who negotiated with Dr. Henry Kissinger on the latter's secret visit to China. During his term as China's foreign minister, Huang Hua oversaw the signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Peace and Friendship and the establishing of diplomatic ties with the US. He also made strenuous efforts to improve China's relations with India and the Soviet Union. In addition, he has maintained a long-term friend-ship with many friends of China and renowned personages all over the world. (For this item please quote stock ID 30813) ISBN: 9787119049540

The author Chen Jinhua recollects through his personal experiences the major decisions regarding China's economic development and industrial modernization reached by the Chinese government and the Communist Party of China (CPC) since the 1970s, and their implementation process. This book is of great value for research into the history of the CPC's governance and China's economic development. Chen Jinhua, born in July 1929, is a native of Qingyang, Anhui Province, China. From the 1950s to the 1990s, he served as Secretary to the Minister of Textiles, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Executive Vice Mayor of Shanghai, General Manager of the China National Petrochemical Company, Director of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economy and Director of the State Planning Commission. He was Vice Chairman of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from March 1998 to March 2003. In July 2001 he became a member of the National Council for Social Security Fund. Chen Jinhua is currently President of the China Enterprise Confederation and China Enterprise Directors Association, China's Chief Delegate to the Boao Forum for Asia and consultant to the China Economic and Social Council. His other major works include Guiding Macro-Control to a Soft landing, and On the Compatibility of Socialism and the Market. (For this item please quote stock ID 30814) ISBN: 9787119051918

December 2, 1997 marked the 100th anniversary of Rewi Alley?s death, and this book includes articles written by his friends in China and elsewhere. The publication of this title is aimed at honouring the memory of this remarkable man. (For this item please quote stock ID 2787) ISBN: 9787800053214

The autobiography of a Chinese peasant boy who, by an extraordinary turn of fate, emerged from the abject poverty and oppression of the Cultural Revolution, to become one of the world's great ballet stars - a beautiful, rich account of an inspirational life. (For this item please quote stock ID 25186) ISBN: 9781740947886

Offers a portrait of the real Zhou, a man who lived his life at the heart of Chinese politics for fifty years, who survived both the Long March and the Cultural Revolution, but not thanks to ideological or personal purity, but because he was artful, crafty and politically supple. (For this item please quote stock ID 26964) ISBN: 9781586484156

[Indent] This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley, utilising both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from Western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the most famous, or indeed infamous, foreigners in modern China: Rewi Alley, who arrived in China in 1927 from New Zealand and lived there for the rest of his life. Alley was regarded as a great humanitarian and internationalist. Later he became an outspoken 'foreign friend' of the Chinese regime and prolific propagandist on the new China. This book examines the myth and reality of his life, using them to explore the role of foreigners in China's diplomatic relations and their sensitive place in China after 1949, laying bare the important role of China's 'foreign friends' in Chinese foreign policy. 'Brady's analysis is on the whole a very fair one and a useful account of Alley's role in Sino-New Zealand relations' - Derek Round, December 2002. 'Alley's inner world, the world he grew increasingly wary of sharing either in conversation or in letters, can only be imagined. This book lays the ground for enabling us to begin to penetrate this world' '[Anne-Marie Brady] has opened up the path for a clearer and more balanced understanding of one of the most colourful and remarkable lives ever lived by a New Zealander' - Jack Body, The Gay Red, December, 2002. 'Before this book, almost everything that New Zealanders (journalists, politicians, academics) had written about Alley was hagiographic drivel ... it would be nice to think that Brady's temperate, reasonable and well-documented book does provoke at least some red faces' - Nicholas Reid, November, 2002. 'Anne-Marie Brady is amongst the first to tackle the subject of sexuality in self-imposed exile' - Frances Wood, China Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 21748) ISBN: 9780700714933

This book is a tribute to China's 30 years of reform (1978-2008). The best way to comprehend a period of history is to provide a record of the lives of various people in this period. This collection of articles unfolds the thirty years of history through the recounting of people's life experience. The 30 individuals selected for it include Yuan Geng, one of the earliest contributors to the country's measures of opening and reform; and private entrepreneurs who distinguished themselves in the transformative process and even today remain supportive towards the sound and rapid development of the national economy. Most of the stories are about ordinary people from all walks of life who now live under vastly different circumstances. (For this item please quote stock ID 30380) ISBN: 9787119054391

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This large and beautifully presented limited edition has been published to coincide with the centenary of Mao Zedong's birth. With its truthful and lively images, this album provides details of Mao's life and his noble thoughts and feelings. Its contents include, 'A Revolutionary Family', 'Fatherly Tender Love', 'Sincere Sentiment for Native Place', and 'Profound Memory'. Anyone with an interest in China and its notable figures will find this photographic album a fitting homage to one of the great men of world history. A collector's item. (For this item please quote stock ID 9495) ISBN: 9787507301243

Hello, Deng Xiaoping is a historical record of Deng Xiaoping?s many years in government and politics and his life at home. Here too can be found the finest works of the famous Chinese photographer, Lu Xiangyou, taken over more than thirty years. The pictures in this album have been carefully selected from the thousands of photographs of Deng Xiaoping taken by Lu Xiangyou since the 1950s. The book is divided into six sections: Images of a Great Man, For Tomorrow, Amongst Comrade-in-Arms, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Friendly Contacts, and After State Affairs. (For this item please quote stock ID 10221) ISBN: 9787119017365

'Being biracial is a topic often left out of the Great American Dialogue on Race. Oddly, even the U.S. Census dodges the question: 'biracial' was not one of the myriad racial categories on the forms this year. Rekdal, half-Chinese, half-Norwegian, hailing from Washington State, cleverly dissects what it means to be biracial in America and overseas in this artful collection of essays. The essays recall experiences from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in America and as a student and teacher...' - Booklist (For this item please quote stock ID 19971) ISBN: 9780375409370

Recorded in this book are the personal stories of 13 ordinary Chinese who come from all walks of life, including a dedicated teacher, a retired photographer who, unwilling to stay idle, makes continued contributions to society, a ouclic interest lawyer, a service person, a casual laborer, a stock trader, an intellectural and two journalists. Despite their different backgrounds and jobs, they all devote themselves to realizing their life values, achieving their ideals and pursuing their dreams. 'Their struggles and trials, successes and failures, strike a chord in the hearts of Ordinary people just like Us. And since they are still struggling and trying, and may still fail, we can learn from them, and draw courage and strength from their stories as we identifiy with them. They are like mirrors which'enable us to see ourselves in them.' --An Dun (For this item please quote stock ID 32161) ISBN: 9787510404078

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Reviews: "The articles for the China Daily include one of the best that I have seen on the experiences of the foreigner in China." Ken Robertson Former Associate Dean of UWA Business School, University of Western Australia "A really interesting and entertaining collection of experiences away from the CCTV-9 news studio." Sheng Yilai Chief Director of CCTV International "Edwin Maher shares with us not only his experiences in his first year of work in China but also his humour and his unique perspective from the ?down under?. " Li Xing International News Editor of China Daily (For this item please quote stock ID 28744) ISBN: 9787560067414

Stanley Hunt was born Chan Pui-Tak in Shekki Zhongshan county, Guangdong province, China. The Japanese had invaded North China and were beginning to bomb Shekki and the nearby coastal areas of South China when he, his mother and two younger siblings, left home to join his father in Australia. Reunited in Sydney on 5th April 1939, the small family travelled north to the country town of Warialda where his father ran a general store.

Australian troops were fighting in Europe and Asia the country was still suffering lingering effects of the Great Depression, and his father was on the verge of bankruptcy. Twelve year old Stanley began working as a man alongside his father, and the challenges of his new environment soon fast-tracker his learning and thinking. Meanwhile, on the timely advice of a travelling salesman, who would become a lifelong friend, his father saved himself from financial ruin by negotiating new repayment terms for his accounts. Those were times of rations and quotas, but the family value-added to their limited supplies, worked very hard and paid off their debts before relocating to Sydney in early 1945. Father and son worked well as a team, and in the city they acquired businesses that grew and prospered.

Throughout is adult life, Stanley had played a leading role in Australian community activities. To acknowledge his longstanding contributions, the Australian Nursing Home Foundation named a block of apartments for underprivileged elderly Chinese the Stanley Hunt Centre. In the 1980s he funded the construction of a sixteen-classroom school building and a library in his father?s home village of Ma-shan.

In Australia he has received the Order of Australia Medal and the New South Wales Premier?s Community Award, and in China he has been awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Doumen District and the City of Zhuhai.

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For eight ground breaking years, Xin Ran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, 'Words on the Night Breeze' became famous throughout the country for its unflinching portrayal of what it meant to be a woman in modern China. Centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons had made women terrified of talking openly about their feelings. Xin Ran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories. This unforgettable book is the story of how Xin Ran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through the vivid intimacy of her writing, the women's voices confide in the reader, sharing their deepest secrets for the first time. Whether they are the privileged wives of Party leaders or peasants in a forgotten corner of the countryside, they tell of almost inconceivable suffering: forced marriages, sexual abuse, separation of parents from their children, extreme poverty. But they also talk about love, about how, despite cruelty, despite politics, the female urge to nurture and cherish remains. Their stories changed Xin Ran's understanding of China for ever. Her book will reveal the lives of Chinese women to the West as never before. (For this item please quote stock ID 26621) ISBN: 9780099440789

It all began with a dream. A young woman saw a white tiger leap into her lap. It was both auspicious and unlucky - her son, the fortune-teller said, would grow up with no brothers, and his father's health would be endangered by his birth. That son, however, would have a distinguished career, after experiencing many misfortunes and dangers. The dream was prophetic. The child was his mother's only male child and his father died of illness when the boy was only five. He grew up during wartime and a period of political turmoil in China, encountered many troubles, and had a very distinguished career. He is Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature. This delightful memoir of Yang Xianyi gives a candid and entertaining account of himself as a lighthearted and mischievous young man who immersed himself in the learning of European culture, ancient and modern, when he studied at Oxford in the 1930s. But it is also the illuminating self-portrait of a deeply patriotic intellectual living in a China under the throes of change, giving rare insight into the survival of a courageous, witty and principled individual during the harsh century of Chinese liberation. Born in 1915 and educated in Oxford, Yang Xianyi is a world-renowned translator. He has translated, with his wife Gladys Yang, numerous Chinese classics such as A Dream of Red Mansions, The Scholars, Selected Works of Lu Xun, which are considered translations par excellence. This book will appeal to scholars and students of translation as well as general readers who want to know more about Yang and his time. (For this item please quote stock ID 18968) ISBN: 9789629960704