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The Teahouse of the August Moon

Vern Sneider

• Paperback | Engels
• American-style democracy and capitalism come to the sleepy village of Tobiki in this uplifting comedy of cultural conflict set on Okinawa at the end o... Lees meer

An American Bum in China

Tom Carter

• Paperback | Engels
• Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the farmsteads of Muscatine, Iowa, at age 21 to pursue his... Lees meer

Late Qing China and Meiji Japan

• Hardcover | Engels
• The roots of modern Sino-Japanese relations lie in the intense cultural and political exchanges which blossomed in the mid-1850s extending into the la... Lees meer

Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls

Zhao Ban

• Paperback | Engels
• Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for women and a stan... Lees meer

A Taste of Freedom

Ming-Min Peng

• Paperback | Engels
• Peng Ming-min was imprisoned by the Kuomintang regime in Taiwan during the White Terror era for subversion. He was released from prison but still unde... Lees meer

Elegy of Sweet Potatoes

Tehpen Tsai

• Paperback | Engels
• A gripping, vital account of one man's imprisonment by Taiwan's police state early in the Cold War. In 1954 Tehpen Tsai was arrested by the Kuomintang... Lees meer

India Be Damned

Peter Popham

• Paperback | Engels
• An epic thriller set in India during the last days of the British Raj. India Be Damned traces the fate of a group of Indians and foreigners who are ri... Lees meer

Inhospitable

Marshall Moore

• Paperback | Engels
• A mysterious windfall upends Lena Haze's almost-comfortable middle-class American life. Her husband Marcus has inherited some prime Hong Kong real est... Lees meer

The Flock of Ba-Hui and Other Stories

Oobmab

• Paperback | Engels
• A researcher disappears while exploring the deep caverns of mountainous Sichuan, where folklore speaks of primeval reptilian gods sleeping beneath the... Lees meer

A Korean Odyssey

Michael Gibb

• Hardcover | Engels
• Michael Gibb embarks on an eccentric odyssey around the wind-swept islands off the coast of South Korea in search of life beyond K-pop, high-tech gadg... Lees meer

Lord of Formosa

Joyce Bergvelt

• Paperback | Engels
• The year is 1624. In southwestern Taiwan the Dutch establish a trading settlement; in Nagasaki a boy is born who will become immortalized as Ming dyna... Lees meer

Barbarian at the Gate

T C Locke

• Paperback | Engels
• How did an American end up in the Taiwanese army? Spring 1996, East Asia. Alarmed by Taiwan's rapid democratization and the prominence of pro-independ... Lees meer

You Don't Know China

John Grant Ross

• Hardcover | Engels
• You Don't Know China takes a wrecking ball to misconceptions old and new. Each of the twenty-two chapters debunks a particular myth on topics ranging ... Lees meer

Formosa Calling

Allan J Shackleton

• Hardcover | Engels
• Recently occupied by the Nationalist Chinese regime, Taiwan in early 1947 was a powder keg. Anger at the corrupt misrule of the new government erupted... Lees meer

Resisting Japan

• Paperback | Engels
• This book studies less-frequently visited aspects of the mid-20th century conflict between China and Japan. Without denying the importance of the more... Lees meer

Destination Chungking

Suyin Han

• Paperback | Engels
• Destination Chungking is the fictionalized autobiography of best-selling writer Han Suyin. It tells the love story of a young Chinese couple during th... Lees meer

The Hell Screens

Alvin Lu

• Paperback | Engels
• Cheng-Ming, a Taiwanese American, rummages through the used-book stalls and market bins of Taipei. His object is no ordinary one; he's searching obses... Lees meer

The Jing Affair

D J Spencer

• Paperback | Engels
• The Jing Affair is Taiwan's standout Cold War novel, a page-turning action thriller describing the bloody resistance to a combined military coup and i... Lees meer

The Okinawa We Lost

E A Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels
• Green recruit PFC Timothy Cole is fresh off the boat in the GI paradise of Okinawa. Looking for adventure, the "cherry boy-san" finds his first true l... Lees meer

The Archeology of Lost Affection

Victor H Mair

• Paperback | Engels
• Three photographs, discarded in the dust outside Qumul train station, Xinjiang, each carefully torn to remove one man while preserving the other. For ... Lees meer

In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan

John DeFrancis

• Paperback | Engels
• John DeFrancis (1911-2009) was a legendary sinologist, linguist, and educator. His many works - the landmark ABC Chinese-English Dictionary and his my... Lees meer

Unwelcome

Quincy Carroll

• Paperback | Engels
• An anti-coming-of-age story, set between the U.S. and China, that examines themes of escapism and toxic masculinity.  In the years following his grad... Lees meer

Tokyo

Peter Popham

• Hardcover | Engels
• Tokyo, 1985. The world's first megacity is at the height of its dynamism. Forty years ago, a frenzy of creativity galvanised the Japanese capital. Fro... Lees meer

Xiamen

Robert Barge

• Paperback | Engels
• Vibrant, modern, and drenched in history from centuries as a gateway to China, this garden city of two million is a hidden gem. When the author, Rober... Lees meer