Product Description: Prince Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940). The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did not have the Japanese prime or foreign ministers with them as they had only just been elected and had plenty to do back home. The delegation was instead led by Prince Saionji, the dashing 'kingmaker' of early 20th-century Japanese politics whose life spanned the arrival of Commodore Perry and his 'black ships', the Japanese civil war, the Meiji Restoration, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, the First World War, the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, and the rise of Japanese militarism...read more

Presents the story of Beijing, the capital of China and the site of the 2008 Olympics, from its earliest beginnings as a campsite for primitive hominids, through its fluctuating fortunes under a dozen dynasties. This book examines the city's most famous sites - its temples, altars, gates and precincts.

Product Description: Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo (1887-1985). Born in Shanghai and raised in the city's International Settlement, Koo became fluent in English during his postgraduate studies abroad - he got a PhD in Law from Columbia in 1912. He was recalled soon afterwards to become the English Secretary to the newly formed Republic of China, and became ambassador to the United States in 1915...read more

Product Description: The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there aer some suspicious omissions from Polo's text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China?

Product Description: Wu was the first and only woman in Chinese history to become a reigning empress. Jonathan Clements tells the dramatic and colourful story of the seventh-century daughter of a lumber merchant who used her looks, cunning and connections to rule one of the largest empires of the world...read more

The story of Ying Zheng: the man who unified China, built the Great Wall, and whose tomb is guarded by the famous Terracotta Army. This book exposes the intrigues and scandals of his family - his mother's plot to over throw him, a revolt led by his stepfather - explores the immigration crisis that threatened to destroy his kingdom, and others.

Covering more than eighty years of anime history and over three thousand titles, the authors show how the anime universe has influenced creative cultures far beyond its native Japanese shores.

Product Description: Here's an engrossing account of the great culture that first emerged in east Asia's Yellow River Valley tens of thousands of years ago. It's recorded history starts with the first among China's many imperial dynasties, the Shang, nearly 4,000 years ago. (Ages 10 and older)

Product Description: Teacher guide for Chinese Life

Product Description: En 2006 se cumplen treinta años de la muerte de Mao Zedong, el hijo de un humilde granjero que llegaría a convertirse en líder revolucionario. Esta biografía recoge información sobre su vida privada aportada por las memorias de quienes vivieron a su lado.

An accessible account of Viking warrior culture between the eighth and eleventh centuries considers mysteries about their identities and descendants, sharing biographical sketches of such figures as Erik Bloodaxe and Lief the Lucky while drawing on new research in the fields of ritual magic, genetic profiling, and climatology. Original.

It presents a balanced appraisal of these infamous sea kings, explaining both their swift expansion and its supposed halt. Supposed because, ultimately, the Vikings didn't disappear: they turned into us.

Explores the flaws in some of today's popular money strategies and offers advice and unconventional tips designed to help readers make the most of their investment dollar

This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice. From humble origins, Coxinga's father became the richest man in China and Admiral of the Emperor's navy during the Ming Dynasty.

An outcast from human society, mutant bounty hunter Johnny Alpha is forced to risk everything when his sister vanishes after being accused of a crime she did not commit. Original.

As a vicious serial killer stalks remote American highways, a man whose wife fell prey to the murderer and the only woman to survive one of his attacks join forces to hunt down the deranged killer. Original. (A New Line Cinema film, releasing December 2003, directed by Robert Harmon, starring James Caviezel & Rhona Mitra) (Horror)

Explores Chinese culture from ancient times to the present, providing information about food, fashion, law, art, and religion.

The 'Wall Street Journal' columnist offers step-by-step advice for rebuilding a devastated retirement portfolio, including information on how to deal with technology stocks and the advantages of market-tracking index funds.

Product Description: An illustrated collection of translations of classical and contemporary Japanese "haiku". This popular art form is the poetic expression of Zen Buddhism. Traditionally, a haiku poem is just 17 syllables long, which requires the poet, like the follower of Zen, to cut through surface appearances to the heart of an experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Illustrated with Japanese paintings, this evocative anthology of Japanese Zen haiku poetry includes the works of classical masters, including Sokan, Chiyo-Ni, Soseki, and Basho, along with poetry by modern-day writers, all organized according to the themes of Dawn, Daylight, Dusk, and Moonlight. (view table of contents)