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  • The Tâo And Its Characteristics
    Graham Earnshaw / James Legge
    The Taoist canon, the Daodejing, has been translated many times, but the version by the great translator James Legge is one of the best and also one of the least known. This edition includes the full text of Legge’s translation of the Lao-Tzu classic, along with the full Chinese text of the original. ...
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    22,57 €

  • All About Shanghai and Environs
    Graham Earnshaw
    'Whoopee! Let’s go places and do things!' So say the authors of All About Shanghai, the classic guidebook from the middle of the roaring 1930s. Written with first-hand authority and an enthusiasm that is truly infectious, the authors captured and bottled the madness, excitement, depravity and fast bucks of the greatest boomtown the world had ever seen. The book, originally inte...
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    21,87 €

  • The Formosa Fraud
    Graham Earnshaw
    More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born there. He made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that made his book, A Description of Formosa, a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop o...
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    27,79 €

  • Tales of Old Shanghai
    Graham Earnshaw
    The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West. This book provides a glimpse into that world with a mish-mash of photos, newspaper clippings, cartoons and writings to bring back to life those far-off days. ...
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    22,47 €

  • Tales of Old San Francisco
    Graham Earnshaw
    San Fransisco is a crested jewel of the California Coast, a city which has been home to convicts and charlatans, millionaires and movie stars. The last stop on the journey West across America, or the first stop from Asia, San Fransisco managed to remain Wild long after the rest of the United States was tamed. Tales of Old San Francisco bathes the reader in the rich mysteries of...
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    22,39 €

  • Lost China
    Graham Earnshaw
    Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of travel memoirs published, particularly in the golden era of the late nineteenth century. These accounts, abridged and explained, concentrate on the gripping details with a constant commentary on the significance of what is being recounted....
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    22,26 €

  • Shanghai Daisy
    Daisy Kwok / Graham Earnshaw / Tess Johnston
    Daisy Kwok’s life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and 'New' China in a way that no other did. This book presents stories written by her of her life, stories from the high-flying years of Old Shanghai, and the desperate drama of the political campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s. Through it all shines Daisy’s effervescent personality.   ...
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    21,48 €

  • The Genius of Chinese Characters
    Graham Earnshaw
    Chinese characters are magic capsules of history and culture, and this book celebrates the richness that attaches to each one. The Chinese written language is today the only language in the world which is basically non-phonetic, using pictograms to convey meaning. The history of the characters goes back over 3,000 years, and their impact extends over most of East Asia. The Geni...
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    29,19 €

  • Chinese Sudoku
    Graham Earnshaw
    Practice writing Chinese numbers while playing the world’s greatest mind game! The puzzles in this book are exactly the same as standard Sudoku, but all the symbols used are traditional Chinese characters in place of Arabic numerals. The answers are all given at the back of the book. One of the best ways to learn a language is to use it to do something else so that the language...
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    17,48 €