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*Now a Netflix animated movie featuring Stephanie Hsu, Bowen Yang, and BD Wong among the all-Asian voice cast*Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now publish... Read More about Monkey King: Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A collectible hardcover edition of one of the all-time great fantasy novels—which Neil Gaiman has said “is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people”—in an acclaimed one-volume translation, and featuring an illustrated foreword by the author of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel that is the ba... Read More about Monkey King: Journey to the West (Penguin Vitae)

Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the country’s transition from dynastic empire to republic. This insightful book, written by a large team of international scholars and specialists, sprang from a simpl... Read More about Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic, 1796-1912 (British Museum #16)

The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intri... Read More about The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

The first genre-spanning study of how Chinese cultural creativity flourished during the long final century of the Qing empireCultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience in a time of warfare, land shortages, famine, and uprisings. Innovation can be seen in... Read More about China's Hidden Century: 1796-1912

*Now a Netflix animated movie featuring Stephanie Hsu, Bowen Yang, and BD Wong among the all-Asian voice cast*Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--n... Read More about Monkey King: Journey to the West (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)