The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives (Cheek Timothy)(Paperback)

The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives (Cheek Timothy)(Paperback)

Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party, one each for one of its ten decades of its

Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985 - A Self-Portrait (Ladany Laszlo)(Paperback / softback)

This is essentially the story of the Chinese Communist Party in its own

Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 (Westad Odd Arne)(Paperback)

The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope--its battles were the largest

Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis (CI Jiwei)(Pevná vazba)

A respected Chinese political philosopher calls for the Communist Party to take the lead in moving China along the path to democracy before it is too late. With Xi Jinping potentially set as president for life, China's move toward political democracy may appear stalled. But Jiwei Ci argues that

Seven Years in Tibet (Harrer Heinrich)(Paperback)

The astonishing adventure classic about life in Tibet just before the Chinese Communist takeover is now repackaged for a new generation of readers. In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Heinrich Harrer recounts his adventures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter

Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy - Han to the 20th Century(Paperback / softback)

Communist Manifesto (Engels Friedrich)(Paperback / softback)

The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism

Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping (Faligot Roger)(Pevná vazba)

In 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western powers and the Japanese. The story of Chinese spies has been a global one from the start.Unearthing previously unseen papers and interviewing countless insiders,

Chinese Air Power in the 20th Century: Rise of the Red Dragon (Rupprecht Andreas)(Paperback)

Chinese Travelers to the Early Turkish Republic (Fidan Giray)(Paperback)

By the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century, China was in turmoil, facing an existential crisis. Chinese politicians and intellectuals were trying to find a way out of it and were looking for role models abroad. The late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic

Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party (Beckett Francis)(Paperback)

A history of the British left and its Communist

Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89: A Political and Social History (McDermott Kevin)(Paperback)

Few Europeans in the twentieth century have been subject to the repeated buffetings by foreign powers, ideologically driven transformations and internal upheaval of the Czechs and the Slovaks. The period of Communist rule was complex, and those who gleefully overthrew the regime in 1989 were the

The Communist Manifesto (Marx Karl)(Paperback)

The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848 by two young men in their twenties, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and its impact reverberated across the globe and through the next century. Foreshadowing globalization 150 years before it happened, the Manifesto brims with prescient

Surviving Chinese Communist Detention (Schaerer Steven)(Paperback)

One minute, you're a successful 27 year-old American entrepreneur, co-founding a business in Beijing, China. Years of your life have been dedicated to learning Mandarin, establishing a career and building a life for yourself in East Asia.Next, you're falsely and arbitrarily accused of 'illegal

Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century (James Mallory)(Paperback)

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done with a letter of introduction? And where would you have sat in a carriage? Covering all these nineteenth-century dilemmas and more, this

History+ for Edexcel a Level: Communist States in the Twentieth Century (Bunce Robin)(Paperback)

Enable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert narrative and extended reading, including bespoke essays from leading

Viking at School (Strong Jeremy)(Paperback / softback)

Sigurd, the Viking from the tenth century, is still stuck in the twentieth century. He lives with his friends the Ellis family in a seaside hotel and constantly causes chaos. When Tim and Zoe Ellis take him to school with them, a series of seriously funny disasters

The Communist Horizon (Dean Jodi)(Paperback)

In this new title in Verso's Pocket Communism series, Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In an age when the malfeasance of international banking has alerted exploited populations the world over to the unsustainability of an economic system predicated on

To Live (Hua Yu)(Paperback)

From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. This searing novel, originally banned in China but later named one of that nation's most influential books, portrays one man's transformation from

Kierkegaard's Writing, III, Part I: Either/Or (Kierkegaard Sren)(Paperback)

S ren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian

The Philosophy of the Mzĭ: The First Consequentialists (Fraser Chris)(Paperback)

Mohism was an ancient Chinese philosophical movement founded in the fifth century BCE by the charismatic artisan Mozi, or 'Master Mo.' Its practitioners advanced a consequentialist ethics, along with fascinating political, logical, and epistemological theories, that set the terms of philosophical

Chinese Martial Arts (Lorge Peter a.)(Paperback)

In the global world of the twenty-first century, martial arts are practiced for self-defense and sporting purposes only. However, for thousands of years, they were a central feature of military practice in China and essential for the smooth functioning of society. Individuals who were adept in

Kierkegaard's Writings IV, Part II: Either/Or (Kierkegaard Sren)(Paperback)

S ren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had published two earlier works on Hans Christian

A Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology (Price Rohan)(Paperback)

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya by forcing its colonial administration to invent Malay nationalism and pursue ameliorative social policy among the Chinese