- Beijing Time
- Michael Dutton
- Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo
- Dong Dong Wu
- Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch, allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing—and China—work and live.
- Hardcover 2008
- Breaking Barriers
- Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
- Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that an elaborate and restrictive system of travel regulations in Tokugawa Japan prevented widespread travel, maintaining instead that a "culture of movement" developed in that era.
- Hardcover
- City Between Worlds
- Leo Ou-fan Lee
- Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Forbidden City
- Geremie R. Barmé
- The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) lying at the heart of Beijing formed the hub of the Celestial Empire for five centuries. Over the past century it has been celebrated and excoriated as a symbol of all that was magnificent and terrible in dynastic China’s legacy. In this book, Barmé provides a new and original history of the culture, politics, and architecture of the Forbidden City.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Great Wall Revisited
- William Lindesay
- A journey along the Great Wall in the past and present, this landmark volume offers an extraordinary portrait of perhaps the world’s most famous structure.
- Hardcover 2008
- Taj Mahal
- Giles Tillotson
- The meaning of the Taj Mahal, the perceptions and responses it prompts, ideas about the building and the history that shape them: these form the subject of Tillotson’s book. More than a richly illustrated history, this book is an eloquent meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world.
- Hardcover 2008