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  • Mysteries of the Gobi

    Searching for Wild Camels and Lost Cities in the Heart of Asia

    by John Hare ...
    John Hare is a star author and one of the most well-known explorers of his generation. The Gobi is a perennially fascinating part of the world - a desert that people love to read about. China, the environment/natural world, exploration and discovery: broad and topical appeal.The Gobi is the largest, coldest and driest desert in Asia. Its shifting sands conceal ancient cities, 3,000-year-old ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Trip of One's Own

    Hope, Heartbreak, and Why Traveling Solo Could Change Your Life

    by Kate Wills ...
    Are you ready to embark on a life-altering adventure that will redefine your perspectives and open your heart to boundless possibilities?In this compelling memoir, travel writer Kate Wills fearlessly delves into her personal experiences, weaving a captivating narrative of hope, healing, and self-discovery. With courage as her compass, she embarks on solo expeditions across the globe, unearthing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens

    Reportage

    Translated by Ottilie Mulzet ...
    Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, László Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generation and the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Here, he brings us on a journey through China at the dawn of the new millennium. On the precipice of its emergence as a global power, China is experiencing cataclysms of modernity as its harsh Maoist ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Culinary History of Taipei

    Beyond Pork and Ponlai

    Series series Big City Food Biographies
    There is a compelling story behind Taiwan’s recent emergence as a food destination of international significance. A Culinary History of Taipei is the first comprehensive English-language examination of what Taiwan’s people eat and why they eat those foods, as well as the role and perception of particular foods.Distinctive culinary traditions have not merely survived the travails of recent ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Emperor Far Away

    Travels at the Edge of China

    by David Eimer ...
    In 1949, Mao Zedong announced the birth of the People's Republic of China, a proclamation to the world that, after centuries of war and social conflict, China had emerged as one nation. Since then, this idea has been propagated by broadcasts of marches and mass demonstrations of unity, designed for the benefit of the international community. For many living in the vast country, however, the old ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • From Heaven to Earth: Ancient Chinese History, 8500-1046 BC

    Where did China come from? What is China’s history? How did China become one of the leading countries of today?Those are great questions, and not always easy to answer. To do so you need to go back to the dawn of time and the very first people that came to ancient China.These ancient cultures existed as long as 10,000 years ago and they’d form the basis for the first Chinese dynasty in 2070 BC, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Chomolungma Diaries

    Climbing Mount Everest with a commercial expedition

    by Mark Horrell ...
    Series series Footsteps on the Mountain Diaries
    In April 2012 Mark Horrell travelled to Tibet hoping to become, if not the first person to climb Mount Everest, at least the first Karl Pilkington lookalike to do so.He joined a mountaineering expedition which included an Australian sexagenarian, two Brits whose idea of hydration meant a box of red wine, and a New Zealander who enjoyed reminding his teammates of the perils of altitude sickness and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Conversation in Everyday Life 1: Sentences Phrases Words

    Series Book 1 - Chinese Conversation in Everyday Life -- Sentences Phrases Words
    Have you ever been in a situation where you feel frustrated because you are unable to express yourself in Chinese? This book can help you overcome the challenges of learning Chinese by providing you with necessary words, phrases, and sentences that can be applied to various real-life situations.This book covers 7 daily conversation situations: Introduction, Movie, Library, University, Roommate, ... Read more

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  • Riding the Iron Rooster

    By Train Through China

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The acclaimed travel writer chronicles a year of train travel across China in a revealing travelogue that “gives the reader much to relish and think about” (Publishers Weekly).The author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. The always irascible, infectiously cu... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dreaming in Chinese

    Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language

    Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Travels of Marco Polo (the complete Yule-Cordier Edition)

    by Marco Polo ...
    The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, including the unabridged third edition (1903) of Henry Yule's annotated translation, as revised by Henri Cordier; together with Cordier's later volume of notes and addenda (1920). Both volumes in a single file. According to Wikipedia: "Books of the Marvels of the World (French: Livres des merveilles du monde) or Description of the World (Divisament dou monde), ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Phrases for Greeting Cards

    Do you ever find yourself at a loss for Chinese words, phrases or sayings when you write greeting cards or occasion cards? The “Chinese Phrases For Greeting Cards” offers you great ideas on what to write in Chinese characters on a card for many occasions:Chapter 1: Chinese Phrases for “Anniversary”-Anniversary to a Couple-Anniversary for Him-Anniversary for Her-Wedding Anniversary-Parent’s Wedding ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern China

    The Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty (1368-1912)

    by Jing Liu ...
    Series Book 4 - Understanding China Through Comics
    "Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read." -Asian Review of Books on Division to Unification in Imperial ChinaThe fourth volume in the Understanding China Through Comics series covers the stunningly productive Ming dynasty and its fall to the Manchus under the Qing, the last Chinese dynasty. The book also addresses Wang Yangming's School of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • My Journey to Lhasa

    The Personal Story of the only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

    This early-twentieth-century adventure travel memoir by a female explorer is “the sort of thriller yarn that keeps you up all night and is too soon over” (Ms.).In this extraordinary mix of travelogue and autobiography, Madame Alexandra David-Néel details her 1923 expedition to Lhasa as the first Western woman to enter Tibet’s Forbidden City. Recounting how she traveled with her adopted son, posing ... Read more

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  • Ghetto at the Center of the World

    Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

    There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China

    “For a real insider’s look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin.”—Sophie Beach, The EconomistDetermined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • High Road to Tibet: Travels in China, Tibet, Nepal and India

    Round The World Travels, #3

    by John Dwyer ...
    Series Book 3 - Round The World Travels
    "John Dwyer might be just the ticket to fill [Michael] Palin's well worn shoes" - HungryFeet.comOverland adventurer John Dwyer has less than three months to cross China, Tibet, Nepal and India and he has a to-do list:- Drink snake blood- Get smuggled into Tibet- Hike to Mount Everest- Watch the dead burning by the Ganges- Get from China to India in ten weeksFrom the Great Wall of China to the Taj ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Travel Beijing, China: Illustrated Guide, Phrasebook And Maps (Mobi Travel)

    This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travel Shanghai, China: Illustrated Travel Guide, Phrasebook, And Maps (Mobi Travel)

    This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lonely Planet Shanghai

    Series series Travel Guide
    #1 best-selling guide to Shanghai*Lonely Planet Shanghai is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get a feel for the latest trends in the French Concession, whizz down to Hangzhou on a high-speed train, or explore the city's traditional laneways in Jing'an -all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet

    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. This book deals chiefly with the author's adventures during a journey taken in Tibet in 1897, when that country, owing to religious fanaticism, was closed to strangers. For the scientific results of the expedition, for the detailed description of the customs, manners, etc., of the people, the larger work, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Chinglish - The Joys of Chinese English

    by Henry Hao ...
    Ridiculously funny...In a Hong Kong supermarket - "For your convenience, we recommendcourteous, ef?cient self-service."On a menu - "Spleen omelet, ?sherman’s crap soup, calf pluck, bowels"In a hotel - "You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."On a menu - "Special cocktails for women with nuts"On a contraband Liverpool Football Club shirt - "You’ll Never Pickle Again"Sign on a bus - ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China (Second Edition)

    The modern classic that redefined the travel food memoir, with a new foreword from Bee Wilson.Fuchsia Dunlop, the first Westerner to train at the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, “has done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone” (Julia Moskin, New York Times). In Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper, Dunlop recalls her rapturous encounters with China’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chinese Way in Business

    The Secrets of Successful Business Dealings in China

    This book is a comprehensive, expert guide to doing business in ChinaWestern technology, management expertise and capital have fueled an incredible expansion of China's economy. Trade with China is at an all-time high, and so are the numbers of Westerners traveling to China for business. Business from China has also picked up as Chinese firms look to expand abroad. Understanding the ins and outs ... Read more

    $10.99 USD