China
- Author:Heller, StevenSummary:
- Author:Salzman, MarkSummary:
Mark Salzman was graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1982. With his degree in his pocket, he and his cello took to China for a two-year stint teaching English.
- Author:Calvino, ItaloSummary:
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo-Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his...
- Author:Bread, Pain NotSummary:
Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by André Alexis
For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library to get out of the rain...
- Author:Orth, StephanSummary:
An award-winning writer reveals a changing China - one conversation and adventure at a time. When Stephan Orth lands in China, he knows it's his last visit, having lied about his job as a journalist to get into the country. So, he...
- Author:Fowler, Evan, Law, NathanSummary:
In this dispatch from exile, Hong Kong political activist Nathan Law explores the meaning of freedom, and shows how easily freedoms can be eroded or dismantled. Freedom is fragile--it is not a given, and each generation must fight to...
- Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:
Hong Kong, 1995. Two years before Hong Kong is to be returned to the People’s Republic of China, the Communist government has its eye on the New Territories, and tensions are running high among the triads. A turf war breaks out in Macau...
- Author:Chan, Mary JeanSummary:
Winner of the 2019 Costa Poetry Award Winner Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and...
- Author:Westhoff, BenSummary:
Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice--and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe--were originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by...
- Author:Blackburne, LiviaSummary:
She brought honor on the battlefield. Now comes a new kind of war... The war is over. Now a renowned hero, Mulan spends her days in her home village, training a militia of female warriors. The peace is a welcome one, and she knows it...
- Author:Chang, JungSummary:
From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of the unusual woman who ruled China for 50 years, from concubine to Empress,...
- Author:Kissinger, Henry, Dr., Ferguson, Niall, Zakaria, Fareed, Li, David DaokuiSummary:
Is China's rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower...
- Author:Thien, MadeleineSummary:
At the centre of this epic tale are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing...
- Author:Gertz, BillSummary:
The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing that began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic...
- Author:Hessler, PeterSummary:
Investigates China's lurch into modernity as the author survives the advent of the nation's uniquely terrifying car culture, probes the transformation of village life, and explores China's frantic industrialization.
- Author:Sewell, BillSummary:
Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting...
- Author:ConfuciusSummary:
- Author:Manthorpe, JonathanSummary:
Tells the story of Canada's failure to construct a workable policy towards the People's Republic of China. In particular the book tells of Ottawa's failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
In this enchanting collection of fairy tales, including original stories and interpretations of Chinese folklore by master storyteller Paul Yee, a glorious procession of characters - peasants, ghosts, merchants, demons, villagers and...
- Author:Qiu, Peipei, Zhiliang, Su, Lifei, ChenSummary:
Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the “comfort station” experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War. Through...