Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


“backhouse bland”

1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “backhouse bland”
Skip side bar filters

  • China Under the Empress Dowager

    de Backhouse Bland ...
    One of the most popular and controversial Chinese history books ever written, China under the Empress Dowager is also one of the best. Authors Bland and Backhouse take you inside the Forbidden City during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (1861-1908), a world of power-thirsty eunuchs, concubines and Mandarins, intrigue, bitter antagonism and ruthless reprisals. The book was unique for its time in ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

La gente que leyó esto también disfrutó

  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    de Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Midnight in Peking

    The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China

    de Paul French ...
    January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock is ticking down on all of it.In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreigners are jumpy. Japanese troops are poised to attack, and word has it the Chinese government is about to cut a deal with Tokyo, leaving Peking to its fate. Fear ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Empress Dowager Cixi

    de Jung Chang ...
    A New York Times Notable BookEmpress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Valley of Amazement

    de Amy Tan ...
    Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement is a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village.Spanning more than forty years and two continents, The Valley of Amazement resurrects pivotal episodes in history: from the collapse of China’s last ... Leer más

    Antes $13.99 USD Ahora $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Island of Seven Cities

    Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America

    de Paul Chiasson ...
    The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus.In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight generations of his Acadian family had lived. One of the oldest points of exploration and settlement in the Americas, with a written history dating ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Terra Cotta Army

    China's First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation

    de John Man ...
    "A virtuoso historical investigation" of the discovery and history of the sculptures of the first emperor of China's army ( Kirkus Reviews) .The Terra Cotta Army is an account of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China'and each figure was individually carved ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Central Asia in World History

    de Peter B. Golden ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power

    de Xuetong Yan ...
    Traducido por Edmund Ryden ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    From China's most influential foreign policy thinker, a vision for a "Beijing Consensus" for international relationsThe rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book, written by China's most influential foreign policy ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Empress Wu Zetian

    The Legendary Women of World History, #5

    de Laurel A. Rockefeller ...
    Series Libro 5 - The Legendary Women of World History
    The most hated woman in Chinese history!Travel back in time over one thousand years and meet the first and only female emperor of China. Born Wu Zhao and given the reign title "Zetian" just weeks before her death in 705 CE, Empress Wu was the unwanted daughter of Chancellor Wu Shihuo -- too bright, too educated, and too politically focused to make a good wife according to contemporary ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sketches of 19th Century Social Life in China During the Mid 19th Century

    de Justus Doolitte ...
    Written by a missionary during the mid nineteenth century this is a brief sketch of some social customs of Mid Nineteenth Century China. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Art of War / The Book of Lord Shang

    de Sun Tzu, Shang Yang, Tom Griffith ...
    Traducido por Yuan Shibing, J.J.L. Duyvendak ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Translated by Yuan Shibing and J.J.L.Duyvendak. With introductions by Robert Wilkinson.The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from the Period of the Warring States (403-221BC), they anticipate Machiavelli's The Prince by nearly 2000 years.The Art of War is the best known of a considerable body of Chinese works on the subject. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus