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Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong (tr Julia Lovell)
34.99 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The multi-award winning novel by one of China's greatest living writers. A Dictionary of Maqiao (pronounced ma-chow) is the story of a young man sent to work the land in a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). He encounters an upside-down world among the people of Maqiao ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran (tr Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley)
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had spent years searching for her missing husband who ...Show more
The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC - 2000 AD by Julia Lovell
55.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
In this seminal and controversial debut, Julia Lovell tackles the history of China ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàand its relationship with the wider world ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂàthrough the dramatic story of its most famous landmark. Fabled to be 2200 years old and 4300 miles long, the Great Wall seems to ...Show more
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
42.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. In the 1800s, Britain was making a mint selling Indian opium to China. In return, they were buying tea, silks and ceramics. When eventually China decided that the drug trade was ruining her people, the British declared war, declaring China 'protectionist', 'backwards-looking' and 'superstit ...Show more
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