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  • von Scott Forbes Crawford
    43,00 €

    Ripped away from all he had known, he fought for a new life. Now he must fight for his new family.In 53 B.C. Roman soldier Manius Titinius falls captive to a warband of Xiongnu, nomadic horsemen who rule the seas of grass between the Gobi Desert and Mountains of Heaven. His forced march to the east plunges him into a new world of wonder and peril. Manius has only his fighting spirit and faith in Fortuna, goddess of luck, to aid him in a faraway land: China.Manius rots in the Xiongnu slave camp. Until, with the help of a Chinese family, he escapes. In their frontier village he grapples with the language and learns a new way of life. Then his former captors track him down and attack. Will Fortuna stand with Manius through the siege? Will the proud Roman forge a Chinese destiny? Can he ever find his way home?From windswept valleys to bustling cultural crossroads ... from daring rescue missions to the daily struggle for survival on the borderlands ... Silk Road Centurion opens a gateway to an ancient realm of romance, discovery and adventure."Fortuna, be with me. May I come before you with bloodied hands."

  • von Tom Pellman
    47,00 €

  • von M. A. Aldrich
    42,00 €

  • von John C Caldwell
    36,00 €

  • von Peter Popham
    45,00 €

  • von Quincy Carroll
    38,00 €

  • von Allan J. Shackleton
    36,00 €

  • von Ry&tar& Hosoi
    36,00 €

  • von Joshua Samuel Brown
    24,00 €

  • von Adams J.D. Adams
    38,00 €

  • - The City at the End of the World
    von Popham Peter Popham
    24,00 - 34,00 €

  • - Stories of Taiwan's White Terror
    von Tehpen Tsai
    31,00 - 44,00 €

  • von Brown Joshua Samuel Brown
    36,00 €

  • von Diamond Heather Diamond
    37,00 €

  • von Heather Diamond
    18,00 €

    Blame it on Hawaii's rainbows, sparkling beaches, fruity cocktails, and sensuous breezes. For Heather Diamond, there for a summer course on China, a sea change began when romance bloomed with Fred, an ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong.One night under a full moon, Fred tells Heather the story of Chang'e, the moon goddess. He points out how the shadows form a rabbit pounding an elixir of immortality, but all Heather sees in the moon is a man's face.Returning to her teaching job in Texas, Heather wonders if the whirlwind affair was a moment of madness. She is, after all, forty-five years old, married, a mother and grandmother.Rabbit in the Moon follows Heather and Fred's relationship as well as Heather's challenges with multiple mid-life reinventions, such as moving to Hawaii, entering a Ph.D. program, and living in a dorm with students half her age.When Fred goes on sabbatical, Heather finds herself on the Hong Kong island of Cheung Chau with his large, boisterous family. For an independent, reserved American, adjusting to his extended family isn't easy. She wants to fit in, but is culture shocked by the lack of privacy, the language barrier, and the Chinese aesthetic of renao ("e;hot & noisy"e;).Life on Cheung Chau is overwhelming but also wondrous. Heather chronicles family celebrations, ancestor rituals, and a rich cycle of festivals like the Hungry Ghosts Festival, Chinese New Year, and the Bun Festival. Her descriptions of daily life and traditions are exquisite, seamlessly combining the insights of an ethnographer with the fascination of a curious newcomer who gradually transitions topart of the family.Ultimately, Heather's experiences abroad make her realize what she has overlooked with her own family back in the United States, and she sets about making amends.Moving between Hawaii, Hong Kong, and the continental US, Rabbit in the Moon is an honest, finely crafted meditation on intercultural marriage, the importance of family, and finding the courage to follow your dreams.

  • von Caldwell John C Caldwell
    26,00 €

  • - Portraits of Life in Rural Japan
    von Various authors
    27,00 - 39,00 €

  • von J W Henley
    25,00 - 38,00 €

  • - A Literary Guide
     
    23,00 €

  • von Sarah Coomber
    29,00 - 43,00 €

  • von John Grant Ross
    28,00 - 40,00 €

  • von C S Archer
    23,00 €

  • von Oobmab
    24,00 - 37,00 €

  • von John DeFrancis
    28,00 - 41,00 €

  • - Featuring the bumblingly brilliant escapades of expatriate Matthew Evans
    von Tom Carter
    20,00 €

    Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the farmsteads of Muscatine, Iowa, at age 21 to pursue his Chinese Dream. With all the makings of a classic folk tale, his curiosity became an epic five-year adventure that would find him homeless, stateless, posing as a professor, imprisoned, deported, and caught in the middle of the 2014 Hong Kong protests.

  • von Alvin Lu
    21,00 - 37,00 €

  • von George H Kerr
    45,00 €

    Formosa Betrayed is the authoritative account of the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945 and the 1947 228 Incident in which tens of thousands of Taiwanese people an entire generation of intellectuals and leaders were massacred by the new government. Kerr was there, knew Taiwan well, and paints a compelling picture of Taiwans tragic past.

  • von Marshall Moore
    25,00 €

  • von E A Cooper
    24,00 - 37,00 €

  • von Vern Sneider
    26,00 - 38,00 €

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