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Beijing by Linda Jaivin
32.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: CityScopes | Reading Level: General Adult
Beijing is an intimate and informed portrait of a city at the centre of one of the world's oldest civilizations and the capital of one of its newest superpowers. For hundreds of thousands of years, humans and their ancestors - Peking Man among them - have lived here. Over three and a half millennia, cit ...Show more
Eat Me by Linda Jaivin
12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
Introduced by Krissy Kneen First published in 1995, Eat Me became an instant international bestseller-and caused a scandal in the US. Julia is a photographer, Chantal edits a fashion magazine, Helen is a feminist academic and Philippa is a writer. These four friends haunt the cafes of inner-city Sydney, ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World by Linda Jaivin
19.99 AUD
Category: Magazines & Journals | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture ...Show more
The Empress Lover by Linda Jaivin
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Stories are the only thing that defy death. Stories are truth. I hereby give you mine...' Peking, 1944: Sir Edmund Backhouse is a man of many parts. A polyglot scholar. An effete homosexual. A genius of perversity, a forger, arms salesman, occasional spy and fantasist. Also, if he is to be believed, th ...Show more
The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
24.99 AUD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: History
A pacy history of China that can be read in an afternoon, but will transform your perspective for a lifetime. From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years. Chinese hi ...Show more
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