In his eagerly awaited first cookbook, award-winning chef Charles Phan from San Francisco's Slanted Door restaurant introduces traditional Vietna...
At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its...
An “intriguing and invaluable” biography of Alexander the Great by the novelist whose fiction redefined Ancient Greece (The New York Times). Accl...
Narcissism -- a very positive and inflated view of the self -- is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from y...
Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the sto...
Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed prot...
“A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable histori...
Politics are being transformed by religion, namely in China—within the next thirty years, one-third of this potential superpower could be Christi...
This second edition of Dru Gladney's critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well ...
Journalist Nick Holdstock provides an on-the-ground account of the recent rise of terrorism in Xinjiang and the government’s response to the atta...
The Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese phil...
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