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Télécharger le livre :  The Struggle for Taiwan
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The Struggle for Taiwan


Sulmaan Wasif Khan


'A rigorously researched and gripping account... a beautifully written book' - Kathrin Hille, Financial Times 'Excellent and timely… Khan’s book suggests that military conflict is not inevitable and that calm heads, open communication and the spirit of compromise...

Parution : 2024-05-14
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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14,99
Télécharger le livre :  The Secret History of the Mongols
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The Secret History of the Mongols


Christopher P. Atwood


A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or...

Parution : 2023-07-27
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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10,99
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 :  Out of China
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Out of China


Robert Bickers


SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZEThe extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today.Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated...

Parution : 2017-03-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Scramble for China
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The Scramble for China


Robert Bickers


In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest...

Parution : 2016-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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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 :  The Badlands
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The Badlands


Paul French


The Badlands by Paul French - a gripping criminal portrait of pre-communist Peking, from the interntional bestselling author of Midnight in PekingThe Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home...

Parution : 2013-04-11
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
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  On China
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On China


Henry Kissinger


For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly...

Parution : 2011-05-17
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Éditeur : Penguin
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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 :  The Penguin History of Modern China
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The Penguin History of Modern China


Jonathan Fenby


'China's reemergence as a global economic powerhouse has compressed into a single generation an industrial and urban revolution on a scale the world has never seen. Its transformation looks to many foreigners, and to millions of newly prosperous Chinese, like a...

Parution : 2008-05-29
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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