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Télécharger le livre :  The Peking Express
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The Peking Express


James M Zimmerman


The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era.   In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John...

Parution : 2023-04-04
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : PublicAffairs
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Télécharger le livre :  The Avoidable War
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The Avoidable War


Kevin Rudd


A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world’s two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault—of...

Parution : 2022-03-22
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : PublicAffairs
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Télécharger le livre :  Three Tigers, One Mountain
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Three Tigers, One Mountain


Michael Booth


'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations, China, Korea and Japan love to hate each other. Why?In search of an...

Parution : 2020-01-16
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Blood Letters
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Blood Letters


Lian Xi


The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regimeBlood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in...

Parution : 2018-03-20
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  Asia's Reckoning
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Asia's Reckoning


Richard Mcgregor


'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017The dramatic story of the relationship between the world's three largest economies, one that is shaping the future of us all, by one of the foremost experts on east AsiaFor more than half a...

Parution : 2017-09-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Once Upon A Time in the East
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Once Upon A Time in the East


Xiaolu Guo


'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily TelegraphXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her.When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering...

Parution : 2017-01-26
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Modern China
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Modern China


Rana Mitter


China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...

Parution : 2016-02-25
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Télécharger le livre :  Modern China
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Modern China


Rana Mitter


China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...

Parution : 2016-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
Offre spéciale 6,38€
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Télécharger le livre :  China's War with Japan, 1937-1945
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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945


Rana Mitter


In Rana Mitter's tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deservesDifferent countries give different opening dates for the period of the...

Parution : 2013-06-27
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Silent Army
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China's Silent Army


Heriberto Araújo , Juan Pablo Cardenal


China's Silent Army is a revealing and gripping piece of investigative journalism into the unknown extent ofChina's global power, from China-based reporters Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto AraújoThis book stems from the remarkable, determined work of these two...

Parution : 2013-01-31
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Midnight in Peking
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Midnight in Peking


Paul French


Midnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul FrenchTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. Hurtles along from one cliffhanger to the next' SpectatorPeking, 1937:The teenage daughter of a...

Parution : 2012-05-31
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Power and Restraint
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Power and Restraint


Gu Guoliang , Richard N Rosecrance


Over several years, some of the most distinguished Chinese and American scholars have engaged in a major research project, sponsored by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (USEF), to address the big bilateral and global issues the two countries face. Historically, the...

Parution : 2009-03-03
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : PublicAffairs
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Télécharger le livre :  City of Heavenly Tranquillity
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City of Heavenly Tranquillity


Jasper Becker


The great city of Beijing, capital of China from the ninth century, and given its form for five hundred years by the Ming Dynasty, was for a millennium one of the most extraordinary places on earth. At a time when London, Paris, or Rome had only several hundred thousand...

Parution : 2008-06-05
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Six Records of a Floating Life
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Six Records of a Floating Life


Shen Fu , Leonard Pratt , Chiang Su-Hui


Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the...

Parution : 2004-09-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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