History & Culture

'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMES Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed...

How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how...

An Illustrated Introduction to the History, People, Culture and Beyond Richly illustrated with photographs of historical heritage, this book chronicles “ major” events which led to the rise and fall...

Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to...

*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about...

When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers...

The essential writings of China’s first iconic modern intellectual, intent on reforming an entire nation, now published for the first time in Penguin Classics The power, anger, and fluency of...

Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic...

Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in ChinaAn accessible and highly-original introduction to Chinese architecture, philosophy and cultural history.For more than three thousand years, Chinese life from the city and...

Chinese Australian Voices South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth,...

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China. After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in...

The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs A devastating account of China’s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee Nury Turkel was...

A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and ScoundrelsTrue stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from the last days of imperial rule to the...

The Paradoxes of Chinese StruggleA major new contribution to the study of China's revolutions and counterrevolutions over the past century.Over recent decades China has experienced massive change and development. China...

An illustrated stitch guideGoldwork embroidery is a traditional Chinese embroidery technique that was originally used in the court or palaces and was exclusive to nobility in ancient times. Similar embroidery...

Leading graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we are. Reissued in four languages, Today meets Yesterday deploys vivid pictogram pairings to...

Yang Liu uses her wonderfully apt pictograms to display the discordances between American and European customs with wit and wisdom.In Europe meets USA she captures her own experiences of living...

A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendshipIn the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family had...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail. As a major political event and a crucial turning point...

An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's ChinaA unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the highest realms of power and money in...

Ai Weiwei — one of the world's most famous artists and activists — tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the...

Translated by Joshua L. Freeman A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows'Deserves to be...

'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life...

The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023A BBC...