The Most Basic Chinese - All You Need to Know to Get By by James McGlasson
‘The Most Basic Chinese’ teaches all the Mandarin you need to survive, enabling you to learn everything you need simply and effortlessly.To begin, let’s get one thing straight – it is extremely easy to learn all the Basic Chinese you will need if you are travelling to or intending to live in China.This booklet gives you all of that language and is presented in a simple way. It can be...
The 100 Chinese Words You MUST Know (Quinn Cash's Better Chinese Now) by
This book was written to introduce new learners of Chinese to the most essential 100 words in Chinese. Each page contains an essential word, along with its pronunciation, definition, method of use, and example sentences and phrases.Knowing these 100 words will give you enough knowledge of the Chinese vocabulary to carry on basic conversations in Chinese.These words are not given in any particular...
The Travels of Marco Polo - Complete [Illustrated] by Henry Yule $1.99
Chronicling the 13th-century world from Venice, Marco Polo's birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China.
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip (P.S.) by Harper Perennial $15.99
One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution in China. Peter Hessler, whom the Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a...
China (Eyewitness Travel Guides) by DK Travel $30.00
DK Eyewitness Travel's full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as a planning tool,...
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Harper Perennial $13.95
In the heart of China's Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country, Fuling is shifting gears and heading down a new path, one of change and vitality, tension and reform, disruption and growth.Its position at the crossroads came into sharp focus when Peter...
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China by Harper Perennial $15.99
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...
Lethal Circuit (A Michael Chase Spy Thriller #1) by Fantastic Press $3.99
A Chinese satellite is on a crash course with Earth.
A shadowy organization seeks to dominate the globe.
And an American backpacker is at the center of it all...In the tradition of Barry Eisler's John Rain, Lee Child's Jack Reacher, and Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, a spy is born.Michael Chase flew to Hong Kong to find his missing father. Four hours later, he's running for his...
Lonely Planet China (Country Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet $31.99
“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 Planet WriterOur PromiseYou can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept...
China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power by Random House Trade Paperbacks $17.00
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal...