Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around [...]

The Patina Products Chinese Symbols Fire Pit will quickly become the place to be during any of your outdoor barbeques, cocktail parties, or family gatherings, large and small. The fire pit is decorated with ancient Chinese symbols and is the perfect compliment for any East Asian or Zen garden themed outdoor living area.

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Phytotherapy or herbal medicine is the most important therapy within Chinese medicine and is being used increasingly in the West. “A Materia Medica for Chinese Medicine: Plants, Minerals and Animal Products” describes 400 of the most important plants, minerals and animal substances used as treatments by Chinese medical practitioners.

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Chinese traditional tea set is also called Gong Fu Tea Set. It is used to sever very strong tea. In Chao Zhao, Guang Dong province and some areas of Fu Jian province, people use this kind of tea set to server very strong tea.This tea set with Dragon Image Embedded is typical Chinese traditional tea [...]

Traditional Chinese tea set with 4 cups, tea pot and a serving tray. Made of durable porcelain, dishwasher and microwave safe. The tea pot holds about 28oz of water which is roughly 3 and a half measuring cups. The tea cups hold just over 4oz each, which is roughly half a measuring cup. When serving [...]

In its centenary year of 1862 the Maling factory was producing 90 per cent of the jam jars used in England and Scotland. Thousands more were exported and they became synonymous with Rington’s tea and Keillers marmalade, other uniquely British companies. With the aid of over 50 illustrations, this book traces the development of Maling [...]

China’s transformation in the last few decades has been perhaps the most remarkable — and most controversial — development in modern history. Barely a century removed from the struggling and out-dated Qing Empire, China has managed to reinvent itself on an unprecedented scale: from Empire, to Communist state, to hybrid capitalist superpower. Yet the full [...]

After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in China’s present and future. In the new edition, Starr seamlessly weaves in additional material on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government’s ongoing efforts to curb the [...]

The Taiping Rebellion 1851-66. Packed with specially commissioned artwork, maps and diagrams, the Men-at-Arms series is an unrivalled illustrated reference on the history, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the world’s military forces, past and present.

The Taiping movement began as the Pai Shang-ti Hui (the Society of God-Worshippers), founded in Kwangsi province in [...]

Wuwei city is situated in northwest central province. In ancient times, Wuwei was known as Liangzhou and is the eastern terminus of the Hexi Corridor. The first settlement in the region was approx. 3000 years BC. The place was an important town on the silk road and a number of archaeological finds made in [...]

‘Like Walter Benjamin in his ‘Arcades project’, Wasserstrom uses elegant, shrewdly chosen vignettes to illuminate the paradox of urban modernity as simultaneous rupture and nostalgia. If he deflates some of Shanghai’s current, boosterish hyperbole, it is only because he is so attentive to the many faces of its past.’ – Mike Davis, author of City [...]

Shanghai today is a thriving, bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again become the shining example of China’s commercial and cosmopolitan culture? While history continues to unfold, eminent China scholar Marie-Claire Bergère takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to the [...]

Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China. During the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the province emerged as an important element in the management of the expanding Chinese empire, with governors — those in charge of these increasingly influential administrative units — playing key roles. R. Kent Guy’s comprehensive study of this [...]

Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen’s Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.

Cohen critiques the work of leading postwar scholars and is especially adamant about [...]

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of the People’s Republic of China.

Delving deep into the world of [...]

The essays in this collection cover topics relating to the history of marathon running in Asia, such as the stories behind the cities that have hosted the marathon, what role gender difference plays in marathon sport performance, and the experience of organizing the race in Hong Kong.

Concluding sections advise runners on the proper way to [...]

This first-ever humorous travel guide on China both dishes the dirt on the myriad travel mishaps that may befall any unsuspecting tourist and explains how to avoid them! Possible danger zones debunked include airports, hotels, hospitals, taxis, and bathrooms. Readers will learn essential skills like how to haggle, exchange currencies, cross the street, decipher menus, [...]

Beijing City of Emperors. Visit Beijing the seat of 24 Emperors and experience the highlights of Chinese culture, history and foods. Try the night Food markets and experience the full ceremony of Peking Duck. Walk the Great Wall of China and visit the site of the 2008 Olympic Games. Experience culture, food and history that [...]

China Silk Road Adventures. Travelling by train across the Silk Road from Beijing to Kashgar has become an established tourist route. It offers adventure, history and an opportunity to meet some of the many cultures that you’ll find along the Silk Road. This is the story of a couples quest to meet these people, of [...]

The Pope having, about the year 1844, been pleased to establish an Apostolic Vicariat of Mongolia, it was considered expedient, with a view to further operations, to ascertain the nature and extent of the diocese thus created, and MM. Gabet and Huc, two Lazarists attached to the petty mission of Si-Wang, were accordingly deputed to [...]