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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)
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
Category: History
For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon.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 authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People?s Republic and the legitimacy of ...Show more
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
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 For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon.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
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)
Category: Biography
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
Sky Burial by Xinran Xinran; Julia Lovell (Translator); Esther Tyldesley (Translator); Jessica Hische (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Drop Caps Ser.
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated lette ...Show more
The Opium War - Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
Category: History
"On the outside, [the foreigners] seem intractable, but inside they are cowardly... Although there have been a few ups-and-downs, the situation as a whole is under control."In October 1839, a few months after Chinese Imperial Commissioner, Lin Zexu, dispatched these confident words to his emperor, a Cab ...Show more
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
Category: Non-Fiction
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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