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Creators of Modern China (British Museum) - 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912 by Jessica Harrison-Hall (Editor); Julia Lovell (Editor)
60.00 AUD
Category: History
Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China. This book sprang from a simple but original ambition: to provide an understanding - told through the lives of 100 significant individuals - of how China transformed from dynastic empire ...Show more
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
24.99 AUD
Category: History
"Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" --The Times (London). For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authorit ...Show more
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
35.00 AUD
Category: History
Since the heyday of Mao Zedong, there has never been a more crucial time to understand Maosim.Although to Western eyes it seems that China has long abandoned the utopian turmoil of Maoism in favour of authoritarian capitalism, Mao and his ideas remain central to the People? Republic and the legitimacy o ...Show more
Sky Burial by Xinran (tr Julia Lovell & Esther Tyldesley)
19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
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