Product Description: Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. The hugely enlarged third edition won the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2014...read more

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Product Description: This is the most comprehensive introduction in English to Sinelogical methods and traditional Chinese historical writing. The time span ranges from earliest times to 1911, with special emphasis on the years between the third century B...read more

Product Description: From zips to ships, from hi-fi to steel, from cameras to cars, from optics to motorbikes, hardly a day goes by without yet another European industry throwing in the sponge, unable to compete with Japan. What are the reasons? Are the Europeans lazy and ignorant of Japan, while the Japanese are industrious and well-informed about Europe? Or are the Japanese operating with unfair advantage? Wilkinson examines the rights and wrongs on both sides and concludes with a series of practical proposals for increasing understanding as well as improving relations between Europe and Japan...read more

Product Description: This well-documented study discusses the social and economic changes in Shandong province before the influence of the West was felt at the end of the nineteenth century. The authors show that by the sixteenth century, commercial and handicraft towns linked to national and local markets had already begun to emerge...read more

Product Description: The studies contained in this volume arose over the last thirty years. Originally the range of the materials I intended to include in my selection was very much wider. Publishing difficulties, however, have obliged me to curtail them to something less than half the planned content...read more