The Empire of Min
Author: Edward H. Schafer
Publisher: Rutland, Vt. : Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute [by] C.E. Tuttle Company,$c1954.
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 168
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Author: Edward H. Schafer
Publisher: Rutland, Vt. : Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute [by] C.E. Tuttle Company,$c1954.
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hing Ming Hung
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780875869797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pascal Buresi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9004233334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines through the edition, translation, and study of Almohad provincial appointments the administrative, political, ideological, and religious organisation of the largest European-African Empire, renewing the study of power and authority in the medieval Islamic world.
Author: Anchee Min
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1408828995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Vivid and entertaining ... this is history as it plays upon the emotions. Empires crumble, hearts are broken' THE TIMES From the bestselling author of Red Azalea comes the much-anticipated sequel to Empress Orchid At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses. In this sequel to the bestselling Empress Orchid, Anchee Min brings to life one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves and her doomed empire.
Author: Raymond E. Feist
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2017-08-22
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 0525480242
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A sweeping drama unveiling a tale of love, hate and sacrifice against the panorama of an alien yet familiar society."--Publishers Weekly. "Uncommonly satisfying."--Locus
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of Mines
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 912
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anchee Min
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0618562036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China's last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seized power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When China is threatened by enemies, she alone seems capable of holding the country together. In this "absorbing companion piece to her novel Becoming Madame Mao" (New York Times), readers and reading groups will once again be transported by Min's lavish evocation of the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and by her brilliant portrait of a flawed yet utterly compelling woman who survived, and ultimately dominated, a male world.
Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 1454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Min Jin Lee
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-02-07
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 1455563919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB PRIZE Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*