Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West,
...Author
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained.
Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go...
Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he decided to go...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rose's remarkable account follows the journey of Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, who was deployed by the British East India Company to steal China's tea secrets in 1848. This thrilling narrative combines history, geography, and old-fashioned adventure.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this penetrating narrative account, Hessler investigates China's lurch into modernity as he survives the advent of the nation's uniquely terrifying car culture, probes the transformation of village life, and explores China's frantic industrialization.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"In her hardcover debut, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman describes a very different kind of back-packing trip to China in which she and her college friend set out to conquer the world only to be conquered by it"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"How to Ride a Train to Ulaanbaatar and Other Essays is a coming-of-age story of a woman who leaves home to work in Shanghai following the death of her mother. In a collection of ten travel essays, she writes about living in another culture to learn another language and the experiences that shaped her view on what it means to be her own person, a daughter, a friend, a lover and a citizen of the world." -- Page [4] of cover.
16) Travel to China
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Some of the earliest human achievements took place in China thousands of years ago. Having the largest population of any country, modern-day China is an economic powerhouse. Learn about China with facts, maps, and more!"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In New York, Peter Sis receives a letter from his father. "The Red Box is now yours," it says. The brief note worries him and pulls him back to Prague, where the contents of the red box explain the mystery of his father's long absence during the 1950s. Czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain; Vladimir Sis, a documentary filmmaker of considerable talent, was drafted into the army and sent to China to teach filmmaking. He left his wife, daughter,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Filled with galleries, museums, and gleaming skyscrapers, Shanghai is a modern metropolis and the world's largest city proper, the home to twenty-four million inhabitants and host to eight million visitors a year. "China's crown jewel" (Vogue), Shanghai is an up-and-coming food destination, filled with restaurants that specialize in international cuisines, fusion dishes, and chefs on the verge of the next big thing. It is also home to some of the...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request