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China Under the Empress Dowager  
Bland and Backhouse take you inside the Forbidden City during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi. more >>
Tales of Old Hong Kong  
A rollicking journey into colonial Hong Kong, with pirates, plagues, pistols and poisons; adventure of all varieties. more >>
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Stateless in Shanghai  
This book recounts Willens' life and trials in a China collapsing under the weight of foreign invaders and civil war. more >>
Sapajou The Collected Works Ⅰ  
Sapajou was the greatest cartoonist of the China Coast's heyday in the first half of the 20th century. His brush documented the golden years of the Pearl of the Orient. more >>
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The Long Road Back to China  
Published here for the first time, The Long Road Back to China is a sympathetic first hand memoir of China's darkest hour by Old China's best-loved author, Carl Crow. more >>
The Tao of Business  
Discover the ancient wisdom of Chinese Tao and how it applies to modern business with this fresh, uncomplicated guide. more >>
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China Rhymes  
With bouncy, limerickesque rhythms, razor-sharp satirical wit and a healthy distaste for hypocrisy and pretension, Shamus A'Rabbitt's work today gives the reader a perfect whirlwind tour of the world of Old China. more >>
The Peace Correspondent  
A well-seasoned traveler with a taste for the exotic, Garry Marchant writes of more than thirty years of jaunts around Asia, tales that amuse and delight. more >>
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Shanghai Story Walks  
Step back into Old Shanghai with these scenic and history-laden walks and re-live the opulent lives of its elite. more >>
I Sailed With Chinese Pirates  
Lilius lives, eats, sleeps and sails with the pirates, witnessing their harrowing misdeeds and delivering a sensational, rollicking tale of adventure. more >>
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Tales of Old Peking  
Recreating a sense of old Peking through a pastiche of historical snippets– stories, quotations, cartoons, postcards and drawings. more >>
Bridge House Survivor  
Taking us inside the engine room of Imperial Japanese terror - Bridge House Prison, and the prisons in Shanghai and Beijing. more >>
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An Australian in China  
Dressed as a Chinese, Morrison set out "a quiet journey across China to Burma" by riverboat, sedan chair, mule, pony, and mostly on foot. more >>
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Shanghai - High Lights, Low Lights, Tael Lights  
A guidebook to the seamier side of Shanghai in the mid-1930s, when it was at its most outrageous. more >>
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Tales of Old Shanghai  
A delightful glimpse into the old Shanghai with a mish-mash of photos, newspaper clippings, cartoons and writings. more >>
Old Shanghai Clubs and Associations  
A landmark work of scholarship, uncovering an extraordinary amount of detail on the diverse foreign community of old Shanghai. more >>
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Houseboat Days in China  
The delightful series of musings on the meaning of life and nature of the Chinaman from the perspective of the absolute confidence of the Anglo-Saxon in the days before the Great War. more >>
400 Million Customers  
The distillation of the experiences of one of the most successful foreign businessmen ever to wash up on the China coast. more >>
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All About Shanghai and Environs - The 1934-35 Standard Guide Book  
A fascinating portrait of the old Shanghai in its roaring 1930s, enjoying every minute of the ride. more >>
Shanghai's Schemozzle  
A classic of old Shanghai, featuring a host of superb and rarely seen cartoons by Sapajou. more >>
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Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft  
From Tientsin to Hong Kong - and up and down the great rivers in between, the Vhinses sailing junk was an amazing vessel. more >>
Musings of A Chinese Gourmet  
A cultured and entertaining view of the gastronomic side of Chinese life from someone who also completely understood the West. more >>
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Beleaguered in Peking  
A look inside the besieged legations of Beijing, which was attacted by Boxer Rebellion in 1900. more >>
Two Years in the Forbidden City  
The book provides a unique and surprisingly intimate portrait of life and personality of Empress Dowager Cixi. more >>
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The Yangtze Valley And Beyond  
Isabella Bird's last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. more >>
The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby  
A wonderful book written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. more >>
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Across China on Foot  
Edwin Dingle recounts his travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild territory to Burma. more >>
Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom  
The story of Carl Crow's more than 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the early decades of the 20th century. more >>
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My Life in China and America  
The autobiography of Yung Wing, the first Chinese person ever to graduate from a major US college, who witnessed and played a key role in 19th century China. more >>
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