The Green Phoenix
Alice PoonA novel of Empress Xiaozhuang, the woman who re-made Asia. With the fate of East Asia hanging in the balance, one Mongolian woman manipulated her lovers, sons and grandsons through war and...
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Douglas ClarkWar, riots, rebellion, sedition, corruption, assassinations, murder, infidelity, and even a failed hanging. These were just some of the many challenges faced by the British and American...
View ArticleFinding The Way
A novel of Lao Tzu. By Wayne NgA Novel of Lao Tzu. In the sixth century BC, the legendary philosopher Lao Tzu seeks redemption and an opportunity to spread his beliefs by joining the royal court, but...
View ArticleJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society China
Royal Asiatic Society ChinaThe 2017 edition of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, China BranchPlease email us to buy.
View ArticleScience of War
Christopher MacDonaldSun Tzu’s “Art of War” re-translated and re-considered. For more than two thousand years, strategists in China have followed a single system of military teachings. In The Science...
View ArticleTales of Old San Francisco
Graham EarnshawSan Fransisco is a crested jewel of the California Coast, a city which has been home to convicts and charlatans, millionaires and movie stars. The last stop on the journey West across...
View ArticleThe Tao And Its Characteristics
James LeggeThe Taoist canon, the Daodejing, has been translated many times, but the version by the great translator James Legge is one of the best, but also one of the least known. This edition...
View ArticleThe Republican Party and the Rise of China
David PetrielloHow an American political party helped create modern China. No man - or country - is an island, and China’s emergence over the past two centuries was not solely the product of internal...
View ArticleA War Away
An American woman in Vietnam, 1967-1974. By Tess JohnstonTess Johnston has spent her life seeking adventure and excitement but the pinnacle of her experiences was seven years in Vietnam, 1967-74,...
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