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Shanghai Story Walks
Step back into Old Shanghai with these scenic and history-laden walks and re-live the opulent lives of its elite. more >>

I Sailed With Chinese Pirates
Lilius lives, eats, sleeps and sails with the pirates, witnessing their harrowing misdeeds and delivering a sensational, rollicking tale of adventure. more >>

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Tales of Old Peking
Recreating a sense of old Peking through a pastiche of historical snippets– stories, quotations, cartoons, postcards and drawings. more >>

Bridge House Survivor
Taking us inside the engine room of Imperial Japanese terror - Bridge House Prison, and the prisons in Shanghai and Beijing. more >>

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An Australian in China
Dressed as a Chinese, Morrison set out "a quiet journey across China to Burma" by riverboat, sedan chair, mule, pony, and mostly on foot. more >>

Shanghai - High Lights, Low Lights, Tael Lights
A guidebook to the seamier side of Shanghai in the mid-1930s, when it was at its most outrageous. more >>

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Tales of Old Shanghai
A delightful glimpse into the old Shanghai with a mish-mash of photos, newspaper clippings, cartoons and writings. more >>

Old Shanghai Clubs and Associations
A landmark work of scholarship, uncovering an extraordinary amount of detail on the diverse foreign community of old Shanghai. more >>

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Houseboat Days in China
The delightful series of musings on the meaning of life and nature of the Chinaman from the perspective of the absolute confidence of the Anglo-Saxon in the days before the Great War. more >>

400 Million Customers
The distillation of the experiences of one of the most successful foreign businessmen ever to wash up on the China coast. more >>

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All About Shanghai and Environs - The 1934-35 Standard Guide Book
A fascinating portrait of the old Shanghai in its roaring 1930s, enjoying every minute of the ride. more >>

Shanghai's Schemozzle
A classic of old Shanghai, featuring a host of superb and rarely seen cartoons by Sapajou. more >>

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Chinese Junks and Other Native Craft
From Tientsin to Hong Kong - and up and down the great rivers in between, the Vhinses sailing junk was an amazing vessel. more >>

Musings of A Chinese Gourmet
A cultured and entertaining view of the gastronomic side of Chinese life from someone who also completely understood the West. more >>

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Beleaguered in Peking
A look inside the besieged legations of Beijing, which was attacted by Boxer Rebellion in 1900. more >>

Two Years in the Forbidden City
The book provides a unique and surprisingly intimate portrait of life and personality of Empress Dowager Cixi. more >>

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The Yangtze Valley And Beyond
Isabella Bird's last major book, a sympathetic look at inland China and beyond into Tibet at the end of the 19th century. more >>

The Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby
A wonderful book written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. more >>

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Across China on Foot
Edwin Dingle recounts his travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild territory to Burma. more >>

Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom
The story of Carl Crow's more than 25 years of adventures and success in Shanghai during the early decades of the 20th century. more >>

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My Life in China and America
The autobiography of Yung Wing, the first Chinese person ever to graduate from a major US college, who witnessed and played a key role in 19th century China. more >>

Gift Box Set
We have prepared a gift box set of four of our best books - Beleaguered in Beijing, The Yangtze Valley And Beyond, Musings of A Chinese Gourmet and 400 Million Customers. This is the perfect Christmas / New Year gift for someone you know who loves the world of old China.

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