Cadre Country How China became the Chinese Communist Party by John Fitzgerald
$40.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Since the founding of the Communist Party in China just over a century ago, there is much the country has achieved. But who does the heavy lifting in China? And who walks away with the spoils? Cadre Country places the spotlight on the nation’s 40 million cadres – the managers and government officials em ...Show more
Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labour by Anna Qu
$30.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A young Chinese girl forced to work in a New York sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful memoir about labour and self-worth, economic revolution, and cultural dislocation. As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her mother to work in her family's garment factory in Queens. At home, she is ...Show more
The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and its People by Michael Wood
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' - Tom Holland ... 'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want - and need - to know about the China of yesterday, today and tom ...Show more
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of theWorld by Liang Hong
$33.00 AUD
Category: Asian
After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the seismic changes in Chinese society, and a village ...Show more
1587 A Year of No Significance by Huang, Ray
$50.00 AUD
Category: Asian
"If you buy only one work on pre-modern Chinese history this year, make it this one."--W. S. Atwell, History Winner of the American Book Award for History In 1587, the Year of the Pig, nothing very special happened in China. Yet in the seemingly unspectacular events of this ordinary year, Ray H ...Show more
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
'A delightful piece of writing and research which describes the remarkable history behind the handover of this unique and exciting city' Jasper Becker 'Deeply researched and beautifully written' Mike Chinoy A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The ...Show more
Under Red Skies: The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial by Karoline Kan
$28.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understand the shifting sands of global, connected China, Karoline turns to her family ...Show more
Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back by Nathan Law
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
This urgent manifesto from a Nobel Peace Prize nominee argues that until all of us are free, none of us are.Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind.He remembers what it is li ...Show more
Wild Grass - China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Asian
A compelling history of Chinese resistance to state oppression, told through the stories of three remarkable individuals In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recou ...Show more
Long Peace Street - A Walk in Modern China by Jonathan Chatwin
$45.99 AUD
Category: Asian | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the vast granite square constructed to glorify a New China under Communist rule. To walk the street is to tra ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more
The Horde - How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
$55.00 AUD
Category: Asian
An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them--not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history.The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. In the first comprehensive history of the Ho ...Show more