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Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East – centred on India but radiating as far as Egyp...

In December 2008 some 350 Chinese intellectuals published a manifesto calling for reform of the Chinese constitution and an end to one-party rule. ...

The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book...

This classic work, first published in 1971, explores the transition in painting styles from the late Sung period to the art of Yuan dynasty literat...