The year is 1624. In southwestern Taiwan the Dutch establish a trading settlement; in Nagasaki a ...

Spring in 1938 and the seemingly invincible Japanese war machine is moving up the Yangtze River v...

This book studies less-frequently visited aspects of the mid-20th century conflict between China ...

The Jing Affair is Taiwan's standout Cold War novel, a page-turning action thriller describing th...

Everybody wants to think they're the only foreigner living in China.Up to the Mountains and Down ...

You Don't Know China takes a wrecking ball to misconceptions old and new. Each of the twenty-two ...

Pinyin Riji Duanwen is a collection of short stories and essays in Mandarin Chinese by Zhang Liqi...

Green recruit PFC Timothy Cole is fresh off the boat in the GI paradise of Okinawa. Looking for a...

In Limpid Dream presents a group of seventeenth-century Chinese personal essays which explores ho...

This is nation-building made riveting, the largely unknown story of the years between the end of ...

A researcher disappears while exploring the deep caverns of mountainous Sichuan, where folklore s...

Destination Chungking is the fictionalized autobiography of best-selling writer Han Suyin. It tel...

Cheng-Ming, a Taiwanese American, rummages through the used-book stalls and market bins of Taipei...

John DeFrancis (1911-2009) was a legendary sinologist, linguist, and educator. His many works - t...

A mysterious windfall upends Lena Haze's almost-comfortable middle-class American life. Her husba...

A Taste of Freedom

'Has all the ingredients of the best memoirs: an exotic setting, quirky characters, and cultural ...

Formosa Betrayed is a detailed, impassioned account of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) misrule that rem...

Until the early twentieth century, Taiwan was one of the wildest places in Asia. Its coastline wa...

Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the f...

Rizal, a young man from the Navotas City Cemetery, spends his days and nights among the dead, dre...

Recently wed - and quickly divorced - twenty-four-year-old Sarah Coomber escapes the disappointme...

The most important English-language novel ever written about Taiwan.'Touching, tragic; a testim...

Can a New Age guru save his cult without losing his soul?Spinning Karma is the story of Rinpoche ...

How did an American end up in the Taiwanese army? Spring 1996, East Asia. Alarmed by Taiwan's rap...

This fascinating selection of Kyoto-specific literature takes readers through twelve centuries of...

Bu San Bu Si-'not three not four.' To the Taiwanese people, it's an idiom used to describe the pu...

'The essays in [Inaka] all provide a delightful portrait of the Japanese countryside.' -Asian Rev...

Taiwan in 100 Books is the distillation of hundreds of titles and decades of reading into a rivet...

Deep within the heart of China, far from the glamour of Shanghai and Beijing, lies the Chinese ev...

Tsingtao - idyillic beach resort in China, Little Germany upon the Yellow Sea, home port to the K...

Recently occupied by the Nationalist Chinese regime, Taiwan in early 1947 was a powder keg. Anger...

American-style democracy and capitalism come to the sleepy village of Tobiki in this uplifting co...

A gripping, vital account of one man's imprisonment by Taiwan's police state early in the Cold Wa...

Three photographs, discarded in the dust outside Qumul train station, Xinjiang, each carefully to...

Tokyo, 1985. The world's first megacity is at the height of its dynamism.Forty years ago, a frenz...

The incredible story of a fabled city, an indefatigable people, and their devotion to Tibetan civ...

'Brings you closer to the real spirit of Lhasa'-Dr. Lobsang Sangay, President, Tibetan Government...

Until the early twentieth century, Taiwan was one of the wildest places in Asia. Its coastline wa...

You Don't Know China takes a wrecking ball to misconceptions old and new. Each of the twenty-two ...

The year 1979 marked turning points in both contemporary Chinese history and Sino-American relati...

This short volume offers essential information and a basic framework for understanding twentieth-...

Formosa Betrayed is a detailed, impassioned account of Chinese Nationalist (KMT) misrule that rem...

This fascinating selection of Kyoto-specific literature takes readers through twelve centuries of...

American-style democracy and capitalism come to the sleepy village of Tobiki in this uplifting co...

John DeFrancis (1911-2009) was a legendary sinologist, linguist, and educator. His many works - t...

The year is 1624. In southwestern Taiwan the Dutch establish a trading settlement; in Nagasaki a ...

A researcher disappears while exploring the deep caverns of mountainous Sichuan, where folklore s...