Graham Earnshaw is a writer and publisher who has long lived in the China world. He has written and published a number of books, including On Your Own in China (1984), Tales of Old Shanghai (2008) and an account of his continuing walk across China, The Great Walk of China (2010). His translation of the Jin Yong kung fu novel The Book and The Sword was published by Oxford University Press in 2004.
18 Ebooks door Graham Earnshaw
George Psalmanazar: Memoirs of * * * *
‘The Formosa Fraud’, known for most his life as George Psalmanazar, prepared his memoirs for publication after his death in 1764, but even then he did not directly admit the fraud, and never revealed …
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Graham Earnshaw: Lost China
Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of the best of the stories from the dozens of travel memoirs published, particularly in the golden era o …
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Logan Jack: The Back Blocks of China
Logan Jack, an Australian geologist with a keen eye for cultural detail, was stuck. He was in western China in 1900 and the Boxer Rebellion was ripping the country apart, with foreigners like himself …
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Daisy Kwok & Graham Earnshaw: Shanghai Daisy
Daisy Kwok’s life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and ‘New’ China in a way that no other did. This book presents stories written by her of her life, stories from the high-flying y …
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Graham Earnshaw: Tales of Old Shanghai
The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West. This book provides a glimpse into that world with a mish-mash of photos, newspaper clippings, cartoons and writings to bring bac …
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Graham Earnshaw: Tales of Old San Francisco
San Fransisco is a crested jewel of the California Coast, a city which has been home to convicts and charlatans, millionaires and movie stars. The last stop on the journey West across America, or the …
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Graham Earnshaw: The Formosa Fraud
More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born there. He made up an entire fantasy for the isl …
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F. T. Cheng: Musings of a Chinese Gourmet
This book, written by a former Chinese ambassador to London, is a cultured and entertaining view of the gastronomic side of Chinese life. It was written in the early 1950s by F.T. Cheng to show Weste …
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Yung Wing: My Life in China and America
Yung Wing was unique, born in 1828 before the Opium Wars, he was the first Chinese person to graduate from a major US college in 1854. He tried and failed to join the Union army to fight the Confeder …
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Graham Earnshaw: All About Shanghai and Environs
‘Whoopee! Let’s go places and do things!’ So say the authors of All About Shanghai, the classic guidebook from the middle of the roaring 1930s. Written with first-hand authority and an enthusiasm tha …
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Elsie McCormick: Unexpurgated Diary of a Shanghai Baby
This wonderful book is written as the diary of a one-year-old baby in an American expat household in Shanghai in the early 1920s. The world of old Shanghai, the life of expats in Asia – it is all ref …
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James Legge & Graham Earnshaw: The Tâo And Its Characteristics
The Taoist canon, the Daodejing, has been translated many times, but the version by the great translator James Legge is one of the best and also one of the least known. This edition includes the full …
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Frank Kingdon-Ward: On the Road to Tibet
Frank Kingdon-Ward was a dedicated explorer of western China and Central Asia as well as being a master botanist, and this book documents his first trip in 1909 and 1910, a year-long adventure throug …
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Isabella Bird: Among the Tibetans
Isabella Bird was the greatest travel writer of the late nineteenth century and she undertook her journey into western Tibet in the early summer of 1889, when she was already in her late fifties …
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Bird Isabella L. Bird: The Yangtze Valley and Beyond
Isabella Bird was greatest travel writer of the late 19th century and this is her master work – an account of a journey in 1897 from Shanghai, up the Yangtze River, through the Gorges, overland to Ch …
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Herbert Giles: China and the Chinese
Written by one of the top sinologists of the late 19th century, this book was in its era one of the best-selling and most authoritative books on the topic. Published in 1902. …
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Graham Earnshaw: Lyrics to Amuse Volume 1
Graham Earnshaw is a publisher and media businessman who has spent most of his career in the China world. But throughout, he has been writing songs, while also recording them and playing them live to …
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