Author: Damian Harper

Antique yet up-to-the-minute, familiar yet unrecognizable, outwardly urban but quintessentially rural, conservative yet path-breaking China is a land of mesmerizing and eye-opening contradictions. Damian Harper, Lonely P ...

Author: Piera Chen

Get Straight to the Heart of the city
Top Sights. The city s must-see sights plus expert advice to make your trip even better.
Local Life. Discover how to unlock the city with guides to areas that the locals real ...

Author: Jason Y. Ng

Hong Kong is a mixed bag of a city. It is where Mercedes outnumber taxi cabs, partygoers count down to Christmas every December 24, and larger-than-life billboards of fortune tellers and cram school tutors compete with b ...

Author: Jim Bainbridge

Author: Albert Wen, Blair Dunton & others Hank Leung

Each person experiences a city differently. In "Lost & Found: Hong Kong," readers discover one of the world's most exciting cities through the photographs of five unique residents as they get lost in the spirit of Hong K ...

Author: International Business Publications

Business intelligence information for successful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more. Updated annually

Author: USA IBP

Focusing on clothing and textile industry, this title offers strategic information, and also contacts for business and investment activity.

Author: George Zhibin Gu

Get the inside story from a Chinese journalist/consultant about China's business and politics. This revised volume gives an insider's analysis on what's behind China's surge and its implications to the world, covering ma ...

Author: Alden R. Carter

Extensively illustrated survey of China from the ancient past to the Olympic Year of 2008 with an emphasis on the modernization of China since the death of Mao in 1976. Ideal for student, first-time visitor to China, or ...

Author: Andrew Forbes

A guide to Shanghai that describes sites, both famous and little known, including the French Concession, the Bund, the Shanghai Museum, and old Shanghai; prefaced by an introduction to the history and culture. It contain ...

Author: Wang Ching LIU

Readers will be able to speak Mandarin Chinese right away by reading this book. It is a very good book for tourists, business travelers and students who are learning Mandarin Chinese.

Author: Reginald Fleming Johnston

Written in 1913, this book provides a historical perspective on Buddism in China as well as detailed descriptions of legends of the past, the temples in existence in the early 1900's, and a remarkable sense of insight in ...

Author: Martin Liu

Cool! Hong Kong is your guide to navigating the unique landscape of the city of Hong Kong.

Author: Marco Polo

This is by far the most complete and most authoritative translation of the work of Marco Polo (1254-1324). It is based on a manuscript found by Sir Percival David (1892-1964) in the Catedral de Toledo in Spain where it h ...

Author: George Zhibin Gu

Get the inside story from a Chinese journalist/consultant about China's business and politics. This revised volume gives an insider's analysis on what's behind China's surge and its implications to the world, covering ma ...

Author: Thomas Gaskell Allen Jr. & William Lewis Sachtleben

Between 1891 and 1893, two young men would travel over 15,000 miles by bicycle in what was then the "longest continuous land journey made around the world." In this book they describe their trip across Asia through areas ...

Author: Jean M. Life

Author: Don Croner

Travels in Northern Mongolia describes Don Croner's search deep into the heart of the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia for the source of the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga River System, the fifth longest river system in the world; ...

Author: Jane Wilson-Howarth

Set against the backdrop of one of the most colourful countries in the world, "A Glimpse of Eternal Snows" is an inspiring story of courage, love and a family's determination to give their child the best life possible. I ...

Author: Kai Strittmatter

It's time we got to know a little more about the Chinese. Did you know they don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads but in ...