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  • Japan's Dream Of World Empire - The Tanaka Memorial

    by Carl Crow ...
    Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for a quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking ad-man. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. 'Japan's Dream Of World Empire - The Tanaka Memorial' was first circulated in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom

    by Carl Crow ...
    Carl Crow arrived in China in 1911, made Shanghai his home and founded the country's first Western-style advertising agency. In Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom, originally published in 1940, Carl recalls his twenty-five years in China and the many lessons that he learnt. He was almost unique among foreign commentators in taking the time to understand and appreciate the Chinese and their ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • 400 Million Customers

    by Carl Crow ...
    Probably the best-selling book on doing in business in China ever - and undoubtedly the best ever written - Carl Crow's 400 Million Customers is amusing and informed. First published in 1937, 400 Million Customers is the distillation of the experiences of one of the most successful foreign businessmen ever to wash up on the China coast. Crow brilliantly explains the eternal truths about doing ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Long Road Back to China

    by Carl Crow ...
    In 1939 Carl Crow travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to the wartime Chinese capital of Chongqing. The road was China's perilous but vital 717-mile lifeline to the outside world. In Chongqing, Crow describes what was at that point the most heavily bombed city on Earth, observes the daily struggle of the Chinese people under Japanese bombardment, and interviews the most senior Chinese ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Japan's Dream of World Empire

    The Tanaka Memorial

    Edited by Carl Crow ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    Described as the Japanese Mein Kampf, this small pamphlet outlines the history of Japan which by the late 1920s was, according to the author, becoming a dream for world domination. Although this did not come to fruition, the book nonetheless represents a fascinating insight into the national psyche and political and military planning of the Japanese in the first half of the twentieth century. It ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Korea

    A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

    by Simon Winchester ...
    In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover the Republic of Korea - from its southern tip to the North Korean border - in order to set the record straight about this enigmatic and elusive land.Fascinating for its vivid presentation of historical and geographic detail, Korea is that rare travel memoir that actually defines a nation and its ... Read more

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  • My Several Worlds

    A Personal Record

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    The New York Times –bestselling memoir from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.Often regarded as one of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Pearl S. Buck's most significant works, My Several Worlds is the memoir of a major novelist and one of the key American chroniclers of China. Born to missionary parents in 1892, Buck spent much of the first portion of her life in China, ... Read more

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  • Letters From Burma

    by Aung San Suu Kyi ...
    Letters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiIn these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land.Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people who have supported the National League for Democracy, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Hong Kong

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful urban panorama of all. World-renowned travel writer Jan Morris offers the most insightful and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Soong Sisters

    by Emily Hahn ...
    "If the story of the Soong family were told as fiction, people would say it was fascinating but too improbable. . . . A dramatic human chronicle . . . engrossing." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the three extraordinary Soong sisters—Eling, Chingling and ... Read more

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  • Shanghai 1935

    by Ruth Day ...
    American socialite Ruth Day visited Shanghai for several weeks in 1935 and left one of the most sparkling descriptions of the city in this book, published in a limited edition the following year and only brought to the wider world in this new edition published more than 80 years later. Ruth was the step-daughter of a prominent American financial expert who held a senior post in the Chinese ... Read more

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  • Qi lái! - Arise!

    by Walter Freudmann ...
    "In my section of the front there are no casualties!""But it is said that this section is among the most heavily fought for?" said one of the friends."But this does not alter the facts," said Dr. Weng. Together with Dr. Weng we marched to the seat of some army corps where we were to be presented to the general of this unit. Of course we visited the corps hospital that was—as so often—situated in a ... Read more

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