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  • af Yung Wing
    193,95 kr.

    This book, first published in 1909, is the autobiography of a man who witnessed and played a key role in 19th century China. Remarkably, the book was written in English - Yung Wing, born in 1828, was the first Chinese person ever to graduate from a major US college.

  • af Elsie McCormick
    183,95 kr.

    This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia - it is all reflected here through the eyes of the baby. Elsie McCormick, an American resident of Shanghai, nails the feel of the times with humour and insight.

  • af Carl Crow
    208,95 kr.

    Originally published in 1940, this is Carl Crow's entertaining autobiography, the story of his 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century. This is an account of how two cultures clashed, bickering over business deals and social norms as they tried to find a way to live with each other.

  • af Robert Coltman
    183,95 kr.

    In June 1900, Boxer rebels attacked the foreign community in China's capital, forcing all non-Chinese along with hundreds of Chinese Christians, to take refuge in the foreign Legation Quarter. In this first-hand account, American doctor Robert Coltman takes us inside the besieged legations.

  • af Cheng F.T.
    208,95 kr.

    This book, written in the early 1950s by a former Chinese ambassador to London, is a cultured and entertaining view of the gastronomic side of Chinese life. F.T. Cheng sets out to show Westerners that there was a lot more to Chinese food culture than chop suey.

  • af Isabella L. Bird
    242,95 kr.

    Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travellers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. lt many ways, Isabella created the model for travel writing today, and this one of her greatest works.

  • af Der Ling
    183,95 kr.

    For two years, Princess Der Ling was the favourite lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the imperial palace in Beijing. This book provides a unique and surprisingly intimate portrait of the Dragon Lady, who ruled China for 47 years, and brought the country to the brink of destruction.