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'On an August day in 1271, if the story is to be believed, a four-masted sailing ship sailed into the crowded harbor of Zaitun in southeast China, carrying a gray-bearded Italian Jewish trader named Jacob. 'An account of Jacob's voyage, placing him in China four years before Marco Polo arrived, has surfaced in Italy. It provides extraordinary images of a civilisation that was the most dazzling in the world, describing everything from mass-circulation pornography to an early flamethrower. It recounts how he spent six months in Zaitun and became embroiled in Chinese political debates so fierce he had to flee for his life. 'Scholars say that if the manuscript is authentic, it is an immensely important find, a major new source of information about life in medieval Asia ... while it lacks the scope of Marco Polo's epic tale, it has similar historical significance and perhaps greater drama' - Nicholas Kristof (For this item please quote stock ID 6230) ISBN: 9780349108957

First published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1983. (For this item please quote stock ID 6455) ISBN: 9787119034638

Covers such cultural landmarks as the Forbidden City, the Summer Palaces, and the Ming Tombs 'For those with short attention-spans this anthology of excerpts is a great find ... excellent companion for latter-day Marco Polos and Peter Fleming's attempting to negotiate the maelstrom of freeways and luxury department stores that constitute the modern Chinese capital' - Jeremy Atiyah, Independent on Sunday. 'Interesting selection of travellers and writers recording, or speculating on, the splendour and squalor of the place' - Colin Donald, The Scotsman. From the time of Marco Polo, Peking has held a fascination for travellers and has been an inspiration to those who lived there. This nostalgic collection of quotations, quips, anecdotes and descriptions conveys the spirit, atmosphere, society, art, and architecture of Beijing from the 14th century to the end of the Qing dynasty. The contributors range from missionaries, traders, and diplomats to famous visitors such as Somerset Maugham, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell. Readership: General. Visitors to China; armchair travellers; residents (especially foreign) of Beijing; anyone who enjoys literary curiosities. (For this item please quote stock ID 6714) ISBN: 9780195903041

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For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized in Kipling's Kim. When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of India. This book tells the story of the Great Game through the exploits of the young officers, both British and Russian, who risked their lives playing it. Disguised as holy men or native horsetraders, they mapped secret passes, gathered intelligence, and sought the allegiance of powerful khans. Some never returned. (For this item please quote stock ID 8100) ISBN: 9780192802323

In this remarkable, and ultimately tragic narrative, Peter Hopkirk recounts the forcible opening up of this medieval land during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the extraordinary race between agents, soldiers, missionaries, mountaineers, explorers, and mystics from nine different countries to reach Lhasa, Tibet's sacred capital. Readership: Those with a general interest in the Far East, history, and adventure. (For this item please quote stock ID 8101) ISBN: 9780192802057

This book introduces the principal themes of Australia?s relationship with Asia. Asia is now regarded as the most important part of the world in terms of Australian foreign relations, not because it represents a threat, but because it is a region of opportunity and a source of economic prosperity. There are, therefore, few bigger contemporary issues confronting Australia than its relationship with Asia. Australia & Asia focuses on the period since the Second World War, it looks at how these relationships have evolved, what they involve, their significance, as well as likely future developments. Issues such as cultural ties and perceptions, immigration, trade and economic restructuring, regional economic cooperation, and political and security ties are each addressed from an Australian perspective. These topics are highlighted further by scrutiny of Australia?s bilateral relationships with China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and Vietnam. (For this item please quote stock ID 10721) ISBN: 9780195539059

'In the mid-19th century, the major powers of Europe descended on East Asia, determined to forge empires. The French, who came to what is now Vietnam and Cambodia, sought to join their holdings there to the scattered French colonies farther north in China, but they were faced with a problem: the Mekong River, which laces through Indochina, was not mapped. In the dry season, it was little more than a wide stream, but in the monsoon season the Mekong was a formidable obstacle. In 1866 a party of six French explorers, led by a young officer named Doudart de Lagrée and his lieutenant, Francis Garnier, set out to travel the river to its unknown source. Though de Lagrée died of fever in Cambodia, the remaining French explorers, led by Garnier, ventured onward into the mountains of southwestern China. Garnier and his men travelled across more than 4,000 miles of uncharted territory in their two-year journey, but never reached the Mekong's source, which remained unknown until just recently. Turning defeat to advantage, however, they mapped major portions of the then-unknown Red River, opening it to French trade. First published in 1975, Milton Osborne's adventure-filled narrative of their dangerous journey is a fine contribution to the history of exploration, and makes for enjoyable reading - Gregory McNamee, Amazon. (For this item please quote stock ID 11584) ISBN: 9780871137524

'Everyone knows where Peking (Beijing) is to be found; but where is Tamatave? 'Readers familiar with East Africa will recognise it as the place name of a major port on the east coast of the present Republic of Madagascar. The roots of the Rowlands family reveal the author as an authentic internationalist, a child of missionary parents, born in North China. On her mother?s side she is a Scot: her professional qualifications are from Edinburgh University. On her father?s side she is Welsh. She feels at home in England. Marriages landed some of her ancestors in Madagascar, others in North China. 'The Rowlandses were missionaries of the London Missionary Society. Their 'missionary children' ? a distinctive type of cross-cultural human ? were partly educated in England?s home counties at schools set up to cater for their needs (and, no doubt, to make them English and cover over traces of cultures conferred on them in infancy). 'The book falls into three closely related parts: The Rowlands Family: Wales and Madagascar; The Cormack Family: Scotland and China; The Rowlands and Cormack Family: Scotland and China. In this book a descendant of two remarkable families has...enabled some of the dead to speak' - Dr John Garrett, Pacific Historian, of the Pacific Theological College in Fiji and the Institute of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific. (For this item please quote stock ID 14462) ISBN: 9780868066998

Chosen as one of the ten best adventure books of all time by National Geographic Adventure, The Travels of Marco Polo remains a wondrous and exciting story. Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from his birthplace, Venice, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, the land of the Tartars, Tibet, and, most important, China. There he stays at the court of Kublai Khan, venturing to both the capital of Beijing and Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem 'Xanadu.' We become travelers along with Polo, visiting cultures he only heard about in tales that seemed more like legends than reality. He records small details of domestic life, as well as commenting on how medicine is practiced and how marriages are arranged. He finds that the Chinese actually do use paper currency instead of the gold and silver currency of the West. He is amazed by a black stone that burns for hours to heat their homes, thus learning about coal. Engaging with people who follow Islam and Buddhism, he perceives their religions as best he can through the lens of his own Christianity. And he regales the reader with the great battles fought during Kublai Khan's reign. Finally he returns to Venice after a three-year journey and almost twenty years away. Going by way of India and Sumatra, being kidnapped and robbed, he is no longer the youth of seventeen. A few years after his return, he is taken in battle with the Genoese and dictates this book to a fellow prisoner. Now, seven hundred years later, it is still a gripping look at a legendary place and time. This classic edition uses the traditional lyrical Marsden translation. To make it more accurate, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yule's magisterial two-volume work, including a chapter missing from the Marsden. The artist Witold Gordon created thirty-two woodcut illustrations for the original publication of this edition, which are presented here in their original colour version. (For this item please quote stock ID 17316) ISBN: 9780871406576

'Far more than a travel narrative, this is a major book on an important topic and is recommended for all libraries' - Library Journal Few places on earth match the splendor of the Yangzi River's Three Gorges. Replete with precipitous temples and sites of ancient battles, this 150-mile stretch of shoals and chasms has inspired millennia of poets, princes, and paupers. In Through the Dragon's Mouth: Journeys into the Yangzi Gorges, Ben Thomson Cowles takes a look at China's past, present, and future, and the fate of the Yangzi River's Gorges. As the son of missionary parents, Ben Cowles was spellbound by tales of danger and daring from those who had ventured into the famed 'Dragon's Mouth' of China's great waterway. In 1946, amid the ruins of World War II and just prior to the Communist takeover, Ben Cowles set out to experience the gorges first-hand. For nineteen days he immersed himself in the life of the river, sharing cramped quarters with 65 crewmen aboard a 95-foot junk. Along the way they encountered bandits, sages, revolutionaries, birth and death, and, ultimately, a sense of meaningfulness that has accompanied the author ever since, an awareness that we are all 'brothers on the long river.' Ben Cowles is a Christian theologian, but this book is full of reverence for Oriental philosophy, with running commentary from the I Ching. Lyrical, thought-provoking, and suspenseful, this is armchair adventure travel writing at its best. Illustrated throughout with photographs and line illustrations, the book also contains a 16-page section of colour photographs. Ben Thomson Cowles was born in Kentucky, raised in South China, and educated at Haverford College and Union Theological Seminary, where he studied under Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr. He earned a masters degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate from the University of Southern California. Ordained a Presbyterian minister, he has served as pastor in churches in Long Beach, San Marino, Santa Monica, and Whittier, California. He has written articles and conducted seminars on Chinese history, Christian ethics, psychology, and pastoral counseling. He is the author of Free to Be Responsible. (For this item please quote stock ID 19970) ISBN: 9781564742940

Encounters with China spans a turbulent century that began when foreigners first secured a foothold in China in the 1840s, and ended when China again retreated into self-imposed isolation following the birth of the People's Republic in 1949. This handsome book evokes an era of extraordinary encounters between East and West, between the aggressive breed of merchants that were a product of Europe's industrial revolution and the complacent mandarins of the world's oldest civilisation, the Middle Kingdom of Manchu China. 'A valuable addition to the study of modern China' - The Far Eastern Economic Review. (For this item please quote stock ID 21901) ISBN: 9789627283706

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First published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1944 (For this item please quote stock ID 22281) ISBN: 9787119034591

First published by The Vanguard Press, New York, 1933 (For this item please quote stock ID 22282) ISBN: 9787119034805

First published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1938 (For this item please quote stock ID 22283) ISBN: 9787119034690

First published by New World Press, Beijing, 1960 (For this item please quote stock ID 22284) ISBN: 9787119034584

First published by New World Press, Beijing, 1965 (For this item please quote stock ID 22285) ISBN: 9787119034799

First published by Haldeman-Julius Publications, Girard, 1949 (For this item please quote stock ID 22286) ISBN: 9787119034744

First published by Viking Press Inc, New York, 1938 (For this item please quote stock ID 22287) ISBN: 9787119034652

First published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1939 (For this item please quote stock ID 22289) ISBN: 9787119034713

First published by Bergstrom & Boyle Books Limited, London, 1975 The war against Japan in North China remained almost unknown to the outside world from 1938 to 1944. This book contains the only photographic record by a foreign observer who worked in the Chinese Communist organisation during this period. (For this item please quote stock ID 22290) ISBN: 9787119034812

First published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1940 (For this item please quote stock ID 22291) ISBN: 9787119034782

First published by William Sloane Associates, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1948 (For this item please quote stock ID 22292) ISBN: 9787119034775

First published by All India Kotnis Memorial Publication Committee, New Delhi, 1986 (For this item please quote stock ID 22293) ISBN: 9787119034768

First published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1979 (For this item please quote stock ID 22294) ISBN: 9787119035321

First published by Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1947 (For this item please quote stock ID 22296) ISBN: 9787119034737

First published by CHINA BOOKS & Periodicals, San Francisco, 1990 (For this item please quote stock ID 22297) ISBN: 9787119034669

First published by New World Press, Beijing, 1989. (For this item please quote stock ID 22298) ISBN: 9787119035239

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~'May you not live in interesting times' is a Chinese blessing. William Stenhouse Hamilton was an officer of the Australian Embassy at Nanjing (then known as Nanking, and the national capital of China) from May 1947 to October 1949. This work is not a comprehensive history of China, but rather a collection of local snapshots, charmingly lit by personal impressions from the past. (For this item please quote stock ID 22496) ISBN: 9781740760454

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An extensive, mainly photographic record, of the various Jewish communities in China from the mid-19th century through to the the 1950s. (For this item please quote stock ID 23904) ISBN: 9787801138811

An extensive, mainly photographic record, of the various Jewish communities in China from the mid-19th century through to the the 1950s. (For this item please quote stock ID 23905) ISBN: 9787508501802

An extensive, mainly photographic record, of the various Jewish communities in China from the mid-19th century through to the the 1950s. (For this item please quote stock ID 23906) ISBN: 9787508501796

Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. Born in China to missionary parents, Luce was a kind of lay preacher, anxious to mould the American mind and advance his ideological program: intervention, capitalism, democracy (when appropriate) and Christian activism. The most celebrated and influential editor of his day, Luce was also obsessed with the American mission in the world, and with China and East Asia. Luce tried to 'sell' this mission to a sometimes reluctant public. A passionate anti-Communist interventionist, he also convinced Americans that the US had perversely 'lost' China to the Communists. A fervent advocate of the Vietnam intervention, Luce, author of the American Century edited incoming cables so that magazines might conform to his ideas. For the first time, we see how Luce did this. Using hitherto inaccessible or neglected sources, Herzstein produces a gripping portrait of a great but tragic figure. (For this item please quote stock ID 25354) ISBN: 9780521835770

This introduction to Marco Polo examines the man, his background, the countries he visited, and the writings he penned more than 700 years ago. Painting a vivid picture of the world of trade in the 13th century, this book follows Marco Polo in his travels through Turkey (Constantinople), Armenia, Turkestan (Samarkand), the Gobi Desert, China, the Yangtze River, India, Burma, and Venice. It details Marco Polo's amazement with the East's agriculture, industry, commercial organisations, technology, urbanisation, and standards of living. Galia Dor has lived and travelled in Asia for many years. (For this item please quote stock ID 25635) ISBN: 9789654941846

A unique story of travel and adventure on the Great Wall of China. An honest and moving story of love under the most extreme conditions. Includes history and mythology of the Great Wall - the world's greatest manmade structure. A must-read for all those who thrive on adventure or only dream of it. When reporter Polly Greeks interviews a man whose goal is to walk the entire length of the Great Wall of China, she is so inspired she throws in her job and joins him. In Embracing the Dragon, Greeks vividly recounts her remarkable journey, crossing jagged mountain passes, visiting villages which have never seen a European woman, and enduring hunger, blizzards and illness. She also traces her increasingly tempestuous relationship with her lover - and with the Wall itself. (For this item please quote stock ID 25774) ISBN: 9780958250917

In 1774, the head of the East India Company in Bengal, Warren Hastings, determined to open trade relations with the hitherto impenetrable court of imperial China. To this end he entrusted the young Scotsman George Bogle to be the first British envoy to Tibet. Once there, Bogle attempted to enlist the influence of the Panchen Lama in a bid to attract the sympathy of the Qianlong Emperor; a hard task, for the imperial court generally viewed trade with disdain, and took an altogether dim view of the British Empire. But what began as an unprecedented diplomatic mission soon acquired a different character. Bogle became smitten by what he saw, and in particular by the person of the Panchen Lama himself, with whom he struck up a remarkable friendship, fuelled by a reciprocal desire for understanding. And as for Tibet: 'When I look upon the time I have spent among the Hills it appears like a fairy dream.' Bogle's letters and journals, by turns playful, penetrating, self-deprecating and packed with engaging detail, were to help create the myth of Tibet in the West, the Shangri-La so familiar to us today. This book tells the story of the British attempt to reach the Qianlong Emperor's ear, a narrative of two extraordinary journeys across some of the harshest and highest terrain in the world: Bogle's mission, and the Panchen Lama's state visit to China, on which British hopes were hung. Piecing together the narrative from Bogle's private papers, Tibetan biographies of the Panchen Lama, the account of a wandering Hindu monk, and the writings of the Qianlong Emperor himself, Kate Teltscher deftly reconstructs the momentous meeting of four very different worlds. (For this item please quote stock ID 26687) ISBN: 9780747584841

The Silk Road was the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome with distant China. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold, ivory, plants and animals, art and knowledge. A thousand years after it fell into disuse, a Swede, Sven Hedin, stumbled onto one of its lost towns and began a race to plunder the treasures buried beneath the desert sands. Defying local legends of vengeful demons, archaeologists carried off vast quantities of wall-paintings, sculptures, silks, and manuscripts. Readership: Those with a general interest in archaeology, and more specifically Asian archaeology. Also of interest to the reader of travelogues. (For this item please quote stock ID 8099) ISBN: 9780192802118

'When you were so sick in infancy, and there was little hope of your recovery, did I not earnestly pray that the Lord would spare your life that you might live for His glory', wrote the devout Emily Lydston Bliss in 1891 to her oldest son and the author's father, Edward, upon hearing that he had chosen to become a missionary doctor in China. 'Relying on letters from and conversations with his father and others, as well as his own recollections of living in China as the son of two missionaries, Bliss offers a lovely account of his father's lifelong devotion to China and its people. The author perfectly balances an objective description of his father's contributions as a physician and Christian missionary with a genuine warmth and respect for him. As a backdrop to the primary story of his father's work, Bliss describes the larger sociopolitical events taking place both in China and around the world - recalling that his father once described himself and his fellow American missionaries as 'the first anti-isolationists'. 'Bliss senior suffered bouts of malaria, plagues and floods, but it would only be in the wake of Mao's rise to power that Edward would leave China. Bliss succeeds beautifully in painting a private view of a transformative period in world history through the eyes of one man. Readers will recognise Bliss's name from his long and distinguished career in broadcast journalism, which will contribute to sales of this excellent book - From Publishers Weekly. (For this item please quote stock ID 14470) ISBN: 9780471397595

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Published by New World Press, Beijing, 1989 but originally released in the U.S.A. in 1949. (For this item please quote stock ID 4386) ISBN: 9787119034614

Great book - pity about the bad cover design! (For this item please quote stock ID 22478) ISBN: 9787119035475

A traveller's view of China, from the earliest adventures of Marco Polo in 1271 to photographs that reflect Australia's re-engagement in the 1970s. Viewed through the perspective of more than 150 items drawn from the National Library?s Asian, Map, Pictures, Manuscript and Ephemera collections, the exhibition tells a tale of how the country has been perceived by Western observers. Features: the Munster atlas of 1550; Jesuit engravings depicting the Yuan Ming Yuan summer palace; a 19th century lithograph showing an apartment in a Mandarin?s house; Richard Hakluyt?s account, The Principal Navigations ... and Discoveries of the English Nation, published 1599-1600; Australian architect Hardy Wilson's drawings from 1922 of China?s imperial architecture; a travel account by Australian journalist George 'Chinese' Morrison (1862-1920); and rarely-seen photographs portraying Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai in the 1930s. Xanadu reflects a China that doesn't exist anymore. Through the drawings and photographs depicting aspects of court and street life, readers will gain a greater understanding of the history of the country and its society. (NLA Exhibition Catalogue: 19 August?14 November 2004) (For this item please quote stock ID 26006) ISBN: 9780642276124

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For decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China as she had done in Taiwan - face to face, over an extended period of time. At last in the late 1980s she set out on an excursion to Sichuan Province. That visit was the first of many she would make there on a remarkable double adventure: to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese women and to complete a difficult passage in her own life. Looking for Chengdu is her memoir of these trips. By turns analytic, witty, and bittersweet, Gates's observations on contemporary China are enlivened by a keen eye for the oddities of human behavior, including her own. The vast, inland province of Sichuan was the birthplace of the Chinese economic reforms of the 1970s, and is now speeding from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Was its economic boom transforming women's lives, Gates wondered? After a generation of socialist rule, would women risk the challenge of entrepreneurship? A feminist, she was especially curious to learn what Chinese of both sexes defined as women's rights. Gates traveled - by boat, train, bus, car, bicycle, and foot (her preference) - across the spectacular countryside, gleaning insight into China's massive bureaucracies from her experiences on an obligatory vacation, in a Tibetan dance-hall, and at a shouting match in her Chengdu home. She met dozens of hard-working, stylish women running family firms, and crossed paths with scholars and sailors. Her book is rich in anecdotes and compelling moments, from her journey through mountain villages in search of five thousand women with bound feet to low-voiced conversations about the Chengdu equivalent of the events at Tiananmen Square. A fascinating glimpse into the deeply personal vocation of anthropology, Gates's memoir will change the way readers think about the Chinese people. (For this item please quote stock ID 7313) ISBN: 9780801486326

First published by Chinese Materials Center, Inc, San Francisco, 1978. (For this item please quote stock ID 11887) ISBN: 9787119034560

The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organiser who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China's highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years. Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China's efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years. (For this item please quote stock ID 12145) ISBN: 9780822326670

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In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships with China's emerging revolutionary leaders. His 1938 classic, Red Star over China, strongly influenced American views of the Chinese Communists and is still in print nearly sixty years later. This biography breaks fresh ground with its unique and extensive use of Snow's diaries of over forty years. These writings convey Snow's private hopes and fears, his moods and motivations. Thomas skillfully links them with Snow's public writings and deeds. By recreating the milieu in which Snow worked in China, Thomas provides a clearer understanding of both the man and his times. Snow came to China devoid of any political agenda or sinological background. He returned home a politically astute China hand and famed journalist-author. His writing had taken on the nature of political action, which resulted in troubled soul-searching that Snow usually confined to his diary. Thomas's portrait of Ed Snow reveals a man caught up in an important historical moment, a man who profoundly influenced, and was influenced by, the events that swirled around him. (For this item please quote stock ID 13293) ISBN: 9780520202764

What does it mean to be 'thrice alien'? Isabelle Zimmer Maynard is one who knows. Born in 1929 in Tientsin, China, Maynard was the only child of Russian Jewish parents who had fled the Communists and sought refuge in this teeming city on the North China Sea. They subsequently survived the Japanese invasion of China and ultimately escaped to San Francisco when the Chinese Communists seized power. China Dreams, like a string of beguiling pearls, is a collection of autobiographical stories of an amazing childhood. Maynard's ability to reconstruct her world in the moment will delight and enchant readers. She says, 'I have carried China all my life. I do not claim accuracy of history ? only accuracy of the heart.' Her keen eye and fetching wit provide an arresting, poignant, highly personal portrait of a now-vanished world once shared by thousands of European Jews. (For this item please quote stock ID 16012) ISBN: 9780877455714

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From the respected author of one of the best books on World War II combat, comes an equally captivating saga of battle recovery, healing, and homecoming. China Marine is the long-awaited sequel to E. B. Sledge?s critically acclaimed memoir, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division, traces his company?s movements and charts his own 'difficult passage to peace' following his horrific experiences in the Pacific. He reflects on his duty in the ancient city of Peiping ? now Beijing ? and recounts the difficulty of returning to his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and resuming civilian life haunted by the shadows of close combat. Distinguished historians have praised Sledge?s first book as the definitive rifleman?s account of World War II, ranking it with the Civil War?s Red Badge of Courage and World War I?s All Quiet on the Western Front. Although With the Old Breed ends with the surrender of Japan, marines in the Pacific were still faced with the mission of disarming the immense Japanese forces on the Asian mainland and reestablishing order. For infantrymen so long engaged in the savage and surreal world of close combat, there remained the personal tasks of regaining normalcy and dealing with suppressed memories, fears, and guilt. In China Marine, E. B. Sledge completes his story and provides emotional closure to the searing events detailed in his first memoir. He speaks frankly about the real costs of war, emotional and psychological as well as physical, and explains the lifetime loyalties that develop between men who face fear, loss, and horror together. That bond becomes one of the newfound treasures of life after battle. With his hallmark style of simplicity, directness, and lack of sentimentality, 'Sledgehammer' has given us yet another great document of war literature. E. B. Sledge was a World War II marine veteran widely known for his landmark book, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. He was a biology professor at the University of Montevallo, Alabama. He died in 2001. (For this item please quote stock ID 17852) ISBN: 9780817311612

A Traveller's History of China provides a concise but fascinating journey from the country's earliest beginnings right up to the creation of the economic powerhouse that is today's China. Stephen Haw carries the reader back in time to the prehistoric civilizations of 4,000 years ago, and from there to the centuries of China's silk trade with the less-developed countries of Europe. Some of the most significant inventions of the pre-modern world, including paper, gunpowder and the magnetic compass originated in China and were then transmitted to the West. The author describes the glories of the Tang and Song Dynasties, which saw the creation of the great Chinese cities to the period of its decline and the efforts of Europe to conquer and subdue this giant land. It covers the tumult and triumphs of the Chinese revolution and the dramatic changes in political policies since the late 1970s, which have now made it one of the world's fastest-developing countries. Stephen Haw read Chinese at the University of Oxford and has an MA degree from the University of London. He first visited China in 1980 and then lived there for two years as a student and teacher at the University of Shandong. He is the author of The Lilies of China and China: A Cultural History. (For this item please quote stock ID 19973) ISBN: 9781566564861

First published by University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1996 (For this item please quote stock ID 22288) ISBN: 9787119034706

First published by People's Publishing House, Bombay, 1945 (For this item please quote stock ID 22295) ISBN: 9787119034645

~The story of an ?Aussie hero? who became the most famous and influential journalist reporting for The Times on China before, during and after the Boxer Rebellion.

~The Man Who Died Twice is the compelling story of 'Morrison of Peking', who bestrode continents, helped bring down a dynasty and chronicled his times so brilliantly that he not only wrote history but changed it as well.

~George Ernest Morrison's strong sense of courage and devotion to reporting the truth led him, at only 20, to expose the Australian Kanaka slave trade. He then walked, alone and unaided, from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne only 21 years after explorers Burke and Wills had perished in the same endeavour. And in attempting the first crossing of New Guinea, he was almost killed in an ambush which left two spear tips embedded in his body.

~However, it was Morrison's work as a correspondent for the London Times in the decadent and dangerous Chinese capital at the turn of the century that brought him international fame, not least when he helped to organise the defence of the legations during the 55-day siege of the Boxer Uprising. Then, as adviser to the fledgling Chinese government, he was a pivotal figure in the fall of the last Emperor and the birth of the Chinese Republic.

~Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin have written a powerful and gripping biography of an Australian journalist and adventurer who paused only to tell his stories and to plan his next foray among the great events and leading figures of his day.

Contents: >Prologue Peking 1900

Part I 1862-1894: >1 Shoe Leather >2 The Noblest Profession >3 Exposing the Slavers >4 Following Burke & Wills >5 New Guinea Disaster >6 Doctor's Orders >7 Eastern Promise >8 A Pleasant Journey

Part II 1895-1911: >9 Moberly's Man >10 Secret Agent >11 Chinese Puzzle >12 Dragon Empress >13 The Boxer Uprising 1900 >14 Rescue & Retribution >15 Morrison's War >16 The Northcliffe Touch >17 Revolution!

Part III 1912-1920: >18 China's Champion >19 The Entwined Heart >20 Perfidious Nippon >21 Dynasty of Dunces >22 Sentimental Journey >23 The Final Struggle

>Epilogue The Noble Professional >Notes >Sources & Bibliography >Index (For this item please quote stock ID 22366) ISBN: 9781741140125

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Jane Hutcheon's connection to China goes back more than 150 years, when her great-great-grand-uncle Phineas, a Scottish tea merchant, was drawn to its shores. When Jane became the ABC's China correspondent in 1995, she began her own journey through an ancient and intriguing culture that is undergoing rapid change.

~Like learning to eat a dish of slippery braised pig's face, Jane had to learn the etiquette of reporting in China - a country where people often give interviews in lowered voices, or with a glance over their shoulders to see who might be listening. Though China has transformed itself into a heady capitalist republic, the country's new façade covers up a multitude of the same old problems. And in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the clash between new and old is more pronounced than ever.

~By talking with ordinary people - a glamorous Amway couple, a traffic cop, a rubbish collector and members of the Falun Gong, among others - Jane provides intimate insights into China's radical transformation. In the process, she discovers that the real China is intense, humorous, cynical and, quite often, bizarre.

~Travelling with a television crew, coping with a serious bout of 'banquet intolerance' and dealing with the frustration caused by Chinese bureaucracy, Jane takes us on a bumpy ride across a country the world is fascinated with, and that everyone is dying to get their chopsticks into.

~Jane Hutcheon became the Autralian Broadcasting Corporation's China correspondent in 1995 and remained in the post for five years. (For this item please quote stock ID 25019) ISBN: 9780330422017

At midnight on 30 June 1997 Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty after 150 years of British rule. The moment when the flag came down was dramatic enough but the ten years leading up to it were full of surprising incident and change. These letters from Hong Kong are both an unusual historical record and a heartwarming account of women's domestic, intellectual and political activity. An epilogue brings the history up to date ten years after the handover. (For this item please quote stock ID 28002) ISBN: 9780954405670

'If you want to write good short stories', Lao She once observed, 'you have to give it everything you've got. The world will allow the existence of a very imperfect novel, but it won't be that polite with a short story. Art, after all, is not like a pig - the fatter the better'. Lao She's stories proved to be very good indeed, moving and delighting readers for many years and establishing him as a master of classic modern fiction. Thankfully we now have access to a rich collection of his short stories in superb English translations. These stories showcase the varied facets of Lao She's impressive talent and draw us effortlessly into his world-and we emerge the better for it. This is a writer eternally immersed in and fascinated by the kaleidoscope of humankind. The stories are characterised by humour and by intensely sympathetic explorations of human relationships. Some of them are unsettling. Many are poignant. Most of them make us laugh. All evoke the colour and energy of life, for Lao She is also a connoisseur of the everyday with a keen appreciation of the concrete detail. A plate of steaming dumplings, the gleam of gold-capped front teeth, rickshaws dragging along alleys, punishing winter winds, rolls of bright silk, a pair of chopsticks - these things are the stuff of Lao She's fiction and the essence of his metaphors, and he cherishes such little details of life more than the abstractions of politics or philosophy. Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899 and spent most of his life in China. His family was poor, and were it not for a rich uncle who sponsored his education, it is likely that he would have been illiterate. From 1924 until 1930, he taught Chinese language and literature at London University's School of Oriental Studies. He read widely in English literature and particularly admired the works of Charles Dickens, to whom he has been compared. His life was distinguished by dynamic energy and constant hard work, resulting in a body of literature that has endeared him to his readers. He died during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. (For this item please quote stock ID 10334) ISBN: 9780824818036

Author Sidney Shapiro taught Chinese in the U.S. Army during the Second World War and arrived in Shanghai in 1947 for a ?look around? but ended up spending the rest of his life in China! A foreigner in an alien land, he fell in love with and married Phoenix, a Chinese beauty and active revolutionary. Entranced by Chinese culture and society, Shapiro gradually became involved in highly dramatic developments . . Through My China: The Metamorphosis of A Country and A Man runs the theme of an unusual love - for a Phoenix and a Dragon. During his nearly 50 years of marriage to Phoenix, she teaches him to appreciate the Dragon, and his increasing understanding of the Dragon intensifies his love for the charming, tempestuous Phoenix . . . At the age of 80 years, after 50 years in China, Sidney Shapiro has been able to see the whole picture, savour it to the hilt, and wrote this book. Speaking from an inside vantage point not available to many, he tells a warmly fond yet coolly objective China story, a rich and thought-provoking tour de force. (For this item please quote stock ID 12543) ISBN: 9787800053382

Ye emperors, kings, dukes, marquises, earls and knights and all other people desirous of knowing the diversities of the races of mankind, as well as the diversities of kingdoms, provinces and regions of all parts of the East, read through this book, and ye will find in it the greatest and most marvelous characteristics of the peoples especially of the Armenia, Persia, India and Tarary as they are severally related in the present work by Marco Polo a wise and learned citizen of Venice, who states distinctly what things he saw and what things he heard from others. For this book will be a truthful one. It must be known, then, that from the creation of Adam to the present day, no man, whether Pagan, or Saracen, or Christian, or other, of whatever progeny of generation he may have been, ever saw or enquired into so many and such great things as Marco Polo above mentioned. Who, wishing in his secret thoughts that the things he had seen and heard should be made public by the present work, for the benefit of those who could not see them with their own eyes, he himself being in the year of our lord 1295 in prison at Genoa, caused the things which are contained in the present work to be written by master Rustigielo, a citizen of Piza, who was with him in the same prison at Genoa; and he divided it into three parts. (For this item please quote stock ID 29950) ISBN: 9787560013671

First published by The University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1997. (For this item please quote stock ID 22279) ISBN: 9787119034676

In the early 1990s China finally opened for business, and Wall Street wanted to get in on the act. When the investment bankers arrived from New York with their Harvard MBAs, pinstripes and tassled loafers, ready to negotiate with the Old Cadres, the stage was set for a collision between Wall Street?s billions and the world?s oldest culture. This is the true story of a tough Wall Street banker who had reached the top and found that it wasn?t enough. Looking for glory, he came to China to surf the next new investment wave and teamed up with an ex-Red Guard and an Englishman living in Beijing. Together, they raised over $400 million and bought up factories all over China. They thought the contracts were watertight. But then they began learning the hard way that China doesn?t play by anyone else?s rules. Left sitting in their boardrooms while their Chinese partners marched off in their own different directions, they watched their millions begin sliding towards the abyss. Faced with no option but to fight, they embarked on a series of desperate battles to regain control of their businesses. Their struggle reveals the human face of this vast and complex country that knows it must modernise but throughout history has always kept the advantage when dealing with outsiders. Clissold tells his at times surreal story with amusement and affection, and the result is exhilarating, an eye-opening account of the arcane world of traditional Chinese business and an instructive insight into the limitations of Wall Street and Western business-school training. He opens a window of understanding between East and West in a truly exciting human-interest story that is a mix of adventure, farce and high finance. (For this item please quote stock ID 23038) ISBN: 9781740513609

G.E. Morrison, the resident correspondent to Beijing of The Times, travelled in Kansu, Sinkiang and the other provinces of Northwest China for half a year (from Jan. to July) in 1910. He took more than one thousand photographs that showed the places, people and the progress of the Reform Movement of Qing Court during his journey. He then sorted and completed several albums totally in 658 photographs with brief captions. This book was published just on the basis of his albums. The book reflected the true features of West China. The readers will understand the situation of geography and climate of Northwest China, the existence of different kinds of minority nationalities, achievement of the Reform Movement, e.g. the Provincial Assemblies in the localities. The book shows the vital and rich image materials for understanding and studying the modern history and the social development of China.

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An extensive, mainly photographic record, of the various Jewish communities in China from the mid-19th century through to the the 1950s. (For this item please quote stock ID 17247) ISBN: 9787508501789

~Longtime Hong Kong resident Arthur Hacker applies the eye of an artist and the knowledge of a historian to the hundreds of images presented in China Illustrated. The collection spans the period between the arrival of the first foreign traders in the mid-sixteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War. The images are presented with a short commentary on the history of the period that allows the reader to follow the dramatic changes in Chinese civilisation.

~The magnificent old engravings, rare hand-coloured lantern slides, stunning studio portraits, candid amateur photographs, fascinating postcards, and charming hand-coloured prints come from the author's private collection. The informative text brilliantly captures the atmosphere of China throughout the centuries. The result is a lavishly illustrated social history, and an exciting hodgepodge of merchants, mercenaries, missionaries, and adventurers set against the great backdrop of China's cities and ancient culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 23539) ISBN: 9780804835190

In the wake of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, Sigmund Tobias and his parents left their home in Berlin and made plans to flee a Germany that was becoming increasingly dangerous for them. Like many European Jews, they faced the impossibility of obtaining visas to enter any other country in Europe or almost anywhere else in the world. One city offered shelter without requiring a visa: Shanghai, the world's notorious pleasure capital. Seventeen thousand Jewish refugees flocked to Hongkew, a section of Shanghai ruled by the Japanese, and created an active community that continued to exist into the early 1950s. Tobias's own coming-of-age story unfolds alongside his descriptions of this exotic sanctuary: the prostitution and black market profiteering, the tensions between Chinese and Japanese during the war, and, afterward, paralysing inflation, the approach of the communist 'liberators', and the anguish of the refugees when news of the Holocaust finally reached them. Richly detailed, Strange Haven opens a little-documented chapter of the Holocaust and provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of these foreigners in a foreign land. (For this item please quote stock ID 13371) ISBN: 9780252024535

'Superior to all other accounts of Hatem's life' - Choice. 'At last Ma Haide, a major figure in American non-governmental interaction with 20th-century China, has found a rigorous and painstaking biographer...The portrait Porter paints of "Dr. Ma," the first Westerner to join the Chinese Communist Party, is memorable: an idealistic yet prudent adventurer, a medical man with a feel for politics, a one-filial son who turned his back on his family for the cause of revolutionary China. Porter has done prodigious research and conducted revealing interviews. He has empathy for his subject yet a searching gaze. He nicely balances the private and public faces of this enigmatic American-Chinese physician who penetrated the heart of Communist China. No one interested in America's relation to the Chinese Revolution should miss this book' - Ross Terrill, Harvard University. 'In Porter?s adept hands, Hatem becomes a window on some of China?s most important events this century. The revolutionary era of the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese military offensive, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and reforms of the 1980s are all examined through the eyes of an American doctor trained in a completely different health care system' - The Lancet. 'There is little evidence of ambition or arrogance in Hatem's story, which surely sets him apart from many other foreigners working in China; and the genuineness of his service as a health worker seems indisputable...Few can claim a life so well spent' - China Review International, 1998. 'Very good...written in a lucid and interesting style...I definitely recommend this book' - Journal of Oriental Studies, 1997. The young George Hatem journeyed to Shanghai in 1933 to practice medicine and see the sights. The deplorable health and social conditions he found there caused his sympathies to veer quickly to the revolutionary efforts of the Chinese Communist party, and before long he joined the underground Party members in conspiratorial meetings and activities. In 1936 he left Shanghai on a secret Province after completing the Long March. For the next 14 years, Hatem served the Communist troops as physician and adviser. He took the name Ma Haide and became the first foreigner admitted into China's Communist Party. After the Communist victory in 1949, he became the first foreigner granted citizenship in the People's Republic. Over the next 40 years, his reputation grew as one of the leading public health physicians in the world. Until his death in 1988, he showed absolute allegiance to the Party. Few foreigners have been accepted into Chinese society as readily as he and certainly none have had such intimate access to 20th century China's most powerful figures. (For this item please quote stock ID 11850) ISBN: 9780824819057

'This book, recounting the first serious attempt to eliminate opium addiction among the Chinese, is an important contribution to the understanding of the coming of modern China.' - American Historical Review 'Lodwick skillfully weaves into her narrative all the actors on both sides of the struggle.' - American Historical Review 'Indicates that the history of Christian missions in China can be a revealing part of modern Chinese history.' - Journal of the History of Christianity in Modern China 'Discusses the effect of opium on the Chinese population, the attempt to control the drug's damaging effects, and the involvement of Protestant missionaries in the campaign which led to the suppression of opium in China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.' - Journal of Oriental Studies (For this item please quote stock ID 10078) ISBN: 9780813119243

These three volumes contain more than 500 photographs from the late Qing dynasty to the early part of the Republic of China. The photographs have been selected from G.E. Morrison's papers in the State Library of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). The three volumes have individual titles: Morrison of Peking, Catastrophe at the Turn of the Century, and Eyewitness of the Reformation. This collection is accompanied by prefaces, background information, chapter introductions and detailed captions. All text is in English and Chinese. (For this item please quote stock ID 26461) ISBN: 9787533441142