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SPRING 2019 CATALOGUE

Quality Books on China and Beyond

EARNSHAW BOOKS

Contents

New Releases 4

Recent Releases 10

In Stock 15

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4 New Releases

Chris Emmett

Hong Kong Police inside THe linesFrom culTural revoluTion To umbrella movemenT

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-21-4Category:HISTORY / Asia / Hong KongPrice:US$19.99/HK$160/RMB 160

Hong Kong: a Chinese city with British-based law, a unique place with a unique police force. In his latest book, Chris Emmett, best-selling author of “Hong Kong Policeman,” puts you on the streets, alongside the Hong Kong police officers who were there during the greatest crises of the past few decades.

In the 1960s, China’s Cultural Revolution came to Hong Kong and in one crazy summer, ten Hong Kong police officers lost their lives, five of them to a machinegun attack at the border village of Sha Tau Kok.

In the 1970s, police stood in the front line as tens of thousands of Vietnamese streamed into Hong Kong, some were fleeing oppression and some after a better life. But hiding among them were violent criminals.

In 2014, the police faced a social upheaval that even today divides the city - the Umbrella Movement.

Drug, refugees, illegal immigrants, violent gangs, gun-wielding robbers and umbrella-wielding students - Hong Kong Police: Inside the Lines tells stories never before told from a unique perspective.

“A candid and excellent sequel to Chris Emmett’s first book about policing a dynamic Asian city. Emmett really connects with how it felt to be a police officer dealing with historic events that shaped modern and ever-changing Hong Kong.”

— Ian Lacy-Smith, Chief Superintendent (Rtd), Hong Kong Police

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Daniel Reid

sHoTs From THe HiPsex, drugs and THe Tao

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-15-3Category:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Price:US$24.99/RMB 200

Shots From the Hip is the memoir of Daniel Reid, a world-renowned expert on consciousness, holistic medicine and living life to the full. It recounts a life lived footloose and free, unbound by convention and driven by a quest for new experiences on roads less traveled. From the sex, drugs and rock & roll scene of Late Sixties America to the opium dens, bars and bordellos of far-flung Asian outposts, the author recounts his outlandish escapades in a rollicking narrative told with flair and candor.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Shots From the Hip is also an in-depth commentary on life itself, and a deliberation on death drawn from the author’s own close encounters.

“An engrossing, unvarnished memoir by my favorite Dharma bum”

- Bill Porter, author of Road to Heaven

“Like toilet paper and the Bible, this is a paper product that belongs in every home.”

- Nick Tosches, author of Me and the Devil and The Last Opium Den

“For those who know Daniel Reid as the author of learned books on Chinese culture, Shots from the Hip may come as a surprise. This astonishing and gripping life story reveals a whole new side to the man in a frank account that embraces sex, drugs and a wild hippy youth spent in some of the world’s most exotic places.”

— Derek Davies, former editor-in-chief of Emphasis Publications in Hong Kong

6 New Releases

souTHern rain a novel oF sevenTeenTH cenTury cHina

Trade Paper: 978-988-8273-37-9Category:FICTION / HistoricalPrice:US$19.99/RMB 150

As China’s once-glorious Ming dynasty tears itself apart, a young man and woman struggle to stay together. Set before the backdrop of one of the great upheavals in Chinese history, Southern Rain is the story of a carpenter’s son who falls for a brilliant Buddhist nun just as she is set to become a powerful man’s concubine. Their adventures lead them north to Beijing and south to the Yangtze valley, as art, theater and poetry give way to foreign invasion, banditry and chaos. In a world of turmoil, their search for freedom and safety comes to mirror China’s own. Southern Rain is both an intimate portrait of a man and a woman and a sweeping historical epic, presenting China’s tumultuous seventeenth century on a human scale.

Harry Miller

“With the historian’s eye for significant detail, Harry Miller tells a compelling love story behind which, nearly overpowering his protagonists, is the cataclysm that was the seventeenth-century collapse of China’s last dynasty and the establishment of the Manchu Qing empire. Miller creates a rich tapestry of this long-past era, a period of great tragedy, and of hope. Readers are not likely soon to forget the heroine of this novel, nor her less capable husband; their strengths, and their vulnerability. ”

—Robert E. Hegel, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Chinese, Washington University, St. Louis

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Clare Kane

dragons in sHallow waTersa novel oF love and deaTH

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-27-6Category:FICTION / Historical Price:US$24.99/RMB 170

Peking, 1900. Amidst the violence and terror of the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion, a young China-born Englishwoman finds herself under siege alongside the city’s overseas population. Independent-minded and unaccustomed to European ways, Nina Ward embarks on an affair with married diplomat Oscar Fairchild, risking her future as death and despair draw ever closer. Journalist Alistair Scott records the controversy, trying to separate the reckless pair as the siege grows bloodier and the scandal grows louder. Based on real historical events, Dragons In Shallow Waters is a story of love, betrayal and secrets that reach across time and continents.

souTHern rain a novel oF sevenTeenTH cenTury cHina

8 New Releases

Jade liFe an englisHman’s love aFFair wiTH cHina’s naTional Treasure

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-18-4Category:ART / Asian / GeneralPrice:US$19.99/RMB 150

Jade is often thought of as something ancient and gathering dust in museums, but in China it is a vibrant part of modern life. More jade has been carved this century than in the rest of human history combined. For Chinese people, jade represents everything that is pure and noble, and Andrew Shaw gave up his life in England to embrace it, and became the only foreign master jade carver in China. Jade Life tells his story and also the story of jade itself - it’s past and it intertwines today with the lives more than a billion people. His description of the jade industry today provides insights into the hearts of Chinese people and also into how they have managed to turn a backwater state into a world superpower in less than three decades.

Andrew Shaw

“”With this groundbreaking book, Andrew Shaw honors the pure, noble spirit of jade in China today. Full of facts and information previously unknown in the West, it casts a new light on China and its people.”

— Charlotte Ward, co-author of “Jade”

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Illustrations by Sally Grace BunkerText by Richard M. K. Saunders and Chun-Chiu Pang

PorTraiTs oF Trees oF Hong Kong and souTHern cHina

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-03-0Category:SCIENCE / Life Sciences / BotanyPrice:US$59.99/HK$ 250

Hong Kong possesses an impressively diverse tree flora with 390 native species. This book celebrates the incredible diversity, beauty and biology of the territory’s tree species, highlighting over 100 important species that are individually illustrated in exquisitely detailed watercolour paintings by Sally Grace Bunker, an acclaimed botanical artist. The illustrations are accompanied by text that teases out a diversity of associated narratives for each species, ranging from the history of global exploration and scientific discoveries, the ecology and biology of each species, and the various ways in which they have been utilised and their cultural associations.

“A monumental achievement that follows in the tradition of the great floras of past centuries. Sally Bunker’s vibrant and accomplished illustrations perfectly complement the definitive text. This scholarly and beautiful work is a permanent addition to the canon of classical botanical works.”

— Richard Fortey, Fellow of the Royal Society, writer, broadcaster, and former senor scientist at the Natural History Museum

Jade liFe an englisHman’s love aFFair wiTH cHina’s naTional Treasure

10 Recent Releases

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-00-9

Category:HISTORY / Asia /

ChinaPrice:

US$18.99/HK$ 150/ RMB 150

Isabella Bird

The Golden Chersonese is a travel book written by Isabella Bird, the greatest travel writer of the 19th century, and maybe of all time. It recounts her travels in 1883 through southern China and into the interior of the Malay Peninsula- which in the age of Ancient Greece and Rome was known as the Golden Chersonese. It was ground-breaking reportage at the time because many of the places she visited were totally cut off from the outside world. Her descriptions of all aspects of life in old Malaya have a huge value because she saw herself before it changed, and her writing style is forever entertaining.

“Isabella Bird was a formidable human being and a great explorer and writer and this is one of her best books.”

—Gareth Powell, writer and publisher

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-09-2Category:HISTORY / AsiaPrice:US$20.00/HK$180/RMB 200

L. Newton Hayes

THe cHinese dragon

What is a dragon? Is it real? And what is so spe-cial about Chinese dragons? This book is the clas-sic explanation of the origins and temperament of Chinese dragons and their complex role in the history of China over thousands of years. L. New-ton Hayes, born in China and a great lover of Chi-nese culture, provides all the details of who they are, where they come from and what they repre-sent. This is a new edition, lovingly reproducing word for word and image by image, the original published in Shanghai in 1922.“The Chinese dragon is much different from its Welsh cousin, and Hayes neatly explains the special characteristics of this fabulous beast. This is a true dragon classic.”

- Gareth Powell, writer and publisher

THe golden cHersonese and The Way Thither

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Anne Hassett and Marianne Volonté

discover THe innaTe PoTenTial oF cHildren...And They Will Love You

Fingerprints and hands allow access to the complete picture: positive and critical character traits as well as potential and challenges. They are a tool which can-not be faked, altered or controlled, a tracking device which helps sharpen the children’s sense of respon-sibility and self-esteem. The knowledge of the infor-mation given in the fingerprints and hands is a must for all parents and other caregivers such as teachers, therapists, doctors. Discover the Innate Potential of Children provides a full guide.

A.L. Crouch

This book is a little gem from an era long past, and it has huge value both as a window into that era and for the qual-ity of the verses and accompanying illustrations. They il-lustrate in a unique way China and Shanghai in the late 1940s, and the mindset of the Americans who were here to help with the transition from Japanese occupation back towards normalcy. This collection of poems was written by A.L. Crouch, a lieutenant with the US Army stationed in Shanghai, and published by the US Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. The poems are poignant and insightful, and the drawings are effective in conveying the moment. Such portraits, both text and drawings, of ordinary people and things in old China have huge value in terms of transmit-ting a sense of the times. Here is the book, published first in 1946, given another run in the sun.

cHina sKeTcHbooK A Book of U.S. Army Verse from 1940s Shanghai

Trade Paper: 978-988-8273-41-6


ChinaPrice:

US$18.99/RMB 150

Trade Paper: 978-988-8422-82-1Category:PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child Price:US$24.99/RMB 200

12 Recent Releases

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-24-5

Category:FICTION / Historical

Price:US$19.99/HK$ 200

RMB 200/£19.99

Brian Shane McElney & Andrew Hoste Primrose

romans on THe silK road A novel spanning two continents and empires

In the year BC 35, it is recorded that 145 Roman soldiers settled in northwestern China. How did they get there? This novel creates a narrative start-ing thirty years before, following the fortunes and misfortunes of one of those soldiers, Marcus, as he fights with Julius Caesar in Gaul and with Marcus Licinius Crassus against the Parthians. Some of the Roman soldiers are taken prisoner by the Par-thians but escape and head eastwards. This story from more than 2,000 years ago spans continents and the ages and provides a base for one of the most fascinating mysteries of northwest China.

Edited by Graham Earnshaw

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 mem-oirs published, particularly in the golden era of the late nineteenth century. These accounts, abridged and explained, concentrate on the gripping details with a constant commentary on the significance of what is being recounted. They are a window into old China and also into the mentality of the adventurers. Lost China Travel Classics is a digestible and exciting way of meeting some of the greatest travelers of a bygone age.

“This is a wonderful collection of the essence of some of the best travel books ever published.”

— Gareth Powell, writer and publisher

Trade Paper: 978-988-8552-12-2Category:HISTORY / Asia / ChinaPrice:US$18.99/RMB 150

losT cHina Travel Classics from the Ages

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Graham Earnshaw

THe Formosa Fraud The story of George Psalmanazar, one of the greatest Charlatans In Literary History

More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud per-petrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born there. He made up an entire fantasy for the island with a fake history, a fake language and long list of outrageous claims that made his book, A Description of Formosa, a publishing sensation in London in 1704. Even the Bishop of London swallowed Psalmanazar’s story and invited him to teach his (fake) Formosan language at Oxford University. The Formosa fantasy world he created almost rivals Tolkein’s Middle Earth, with the crucial difference that many people believed it to be real. This is the story of one of the great frauds in literary history.

Trade Paper: 978-988-8422-82-1Category:HISTORY / Asia / ChinaPrice:US$24.99/RMB 200

Graeme Sheppard

The brutal murder of 19-year-old Pamela Werner in the city of Peking one night in January 1937 shocked the world, but the police never found or named the murderer. A best-selling book, Midnight in Peking, declared the murderer to be an American dentist, but English policeman Graeme Sheppard, 30 years with the British Police, decided that conclusion was flawed, and spent years investigating all aspects of the case and came up with an entirely different conclusion. So who did it? Who killed Pamela?

“In this brilliantly researched account, Graeme Sheppard looks again at the violent murder of Pamela Werner in Peking over 80 years ago. Digging in archives in the UK and the USA, Beijing and Rome, he corrects previous accounts and offers a mass of new evidence in an attempt to unravel the truth at last.”

— Frances Wood, author of No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843-1943

a deaTH in PeKing Who Really Killed Pamela Werner?

Trade Paper: 9 78-988-8422-94-4


ChinaPrice:

US$19.99/RMB 200

14 Recent Releases

Trade Paper: 978-988-8422-90-6

Category:BUSINESS &

ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior

Price:US$24.99/RMB 200

Edited by Tom Nunlist

cHina’s evolving consumers

The rise of China’s consumers is the opportunity of the century for many global brands. The past few years have seen an endless stream of books and articles on the fast growth of middle class wealth in China, most projecting booming sales in the coming decades. But these assessments usually fail to answer a deeper question about these consumers: Who are they? This book offers an answer to that question. In fact, eight answers.

Written by experienced marketing professionals and academics, China’s Evolving Consumers looks into the lives of eight different types of consumers who are shaping the culture and marketplace in China today.

Tess Johnston

Tess Johnston has spent her life seeking adventure and excitement and she had plenty of that in Germany before the Wall came down and in China for more than thirty years. But the pinnacle of her experiences was seven years in Vietnam, 1967-74, during the war, where she found even Saigon too tame and snared a job with one of the most famous (or infamous) American wartime leaders, John Paul Vann.

In her latest book, Tess recounts stories of her Vietnam years, including her eye-witness account of the Tet Offensive, and what it was like to be one the few American women there during those harrowing years.

Trade Paper: 978-988-8422-86-9Category:HISTORY / Asia / VietnamPrice:US$24.99/RMB 200

a war away An American Woman in Vietnam, 1967-1974

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i didn’T maKe a millionHow Jazz came to ChinaWhitey Smith

ISBN: 978-988-8422-32-6Category:HISTORY / Asia / ChinaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 150

blacK in cHinaAaron A. Vessup

ISBN: 978-988-8422-16-6Category:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYPrice:US$19.99/RMB 200

collecTing cHina The Memoirs of a Hong Kong Art AddictBrian McElney

ISBN: 978-988-8422-48-7Category:ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / GeneralPrice:US$24.99/RMB 200

THe green PHoenix Alice Poon

ISBN: 978-988-8422-56-2Category:FICTION / Historical Price:US$18.99/RMB 170

among THe TibeTans Isabella Bird

ISBN: 978-988-8422-52-4Category:HISTORY / Asia / TibetPrice:US$18.99/RMB 150

Finding THe way A Novel of Lao TzuWayne Ng

ISBN: 978-988-8422-78-4Category:FICTION / HistoricalPrice:US$18.99/RMB 150

THe rePublican ParTy and THe rise oF cHinaDavid Petriello


asia beTrayed John Bell Smithback

ISBN: 978-988-8422-60-9Category:HISTORY / AsiaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 200

THe science oF warChristopher MacDonald

ISBN: 978-988-8422-69-2Category:HISTORY / Asia / ChinaPrice:$24.99/RMB 200

memoirs oF * * * * THe memoirs oF THe “Formosa Fraud” George Psalmanazar

ISBN: 978-988-8422-28-9Category:HISTORY / Asia / FormosaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 200

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Hong Kong PolicemanChris Emmett

ISBN: 978-988-16090-3-8Category:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Law EnforcementPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

Tales oF old san FranciscoGraham Earnshaw

ISBN: 978-988-8273-25-6Category:BISAC HIS036140 / HISTORY / California HistoryPrice:US$19.99/RMB 150

sHangHai lawyerAnnotated, Illustrated and Embellished by Douglas Clark


JusTice by gunboaTDouglas Clark

ISBN: 978-988-8422-74-6Category:HISTORY / Asia / GeneralPrice:US$24.99/RMB 200

gunboaT JusTiceBritish and American Law Courts in China and Japan (1842-1943)—Three VolumesDouglas Clark

ISBN: Vol 1: 978-988-82730-8-9 Vol 2: 978-988-82730-9-6 Vol 3: 978-988-82731-9-5

Category: History / Asia / GeneralPrice: US$34.95 each 220 RMB/ Set for $99/615 RMB

mancHu decadenceAbridged And Unexpurgated Edited and introduced by Derek Sandhaus

ISBN: 978-988-19982-8-6Category:Autobiography/HistoryPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

news is my JobEdna Lee Booker


Tales oF old manila Lisa Angstadt

ISBN: 978-988-8422-08-1Category:HIS048000 HISTORY / Asia / Southeast AsiaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 150

inTruder in mao’s realm Richard Kirkby

ISBN: 978-988-8422-04-3Category:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HistoricalPrice:US$24.99/RMB 160

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ruTH’s record Ruth Hill Barr


Tales oF old ToKyoJohn D. Van Fleet

ISBN: 978-988-82734-5-4Category:HISTORY / Asia / JapanPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

Journal oF THe royal asiaTic socieTy cHina

ISBN: 978-988-1732-63-7 (2010) 978-988-8422-36-4 (2016) 978-988-8422-64-7 (2017)

Category:History / Asia / ChinaPrice:US$24.99/RMB 160

Tales oF old baTaviaKami Ehrich

ISBN: 978-988-82734-9-2Category:HISTORY / Asia / Southeast AsiaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

Tea on THe greaT wallPatricia Luce Chapman

ISBN: 978-988-82730-0-3Category:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HistoricalPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

wHile we’re Here Edited by Alec Ash & Tom Pellman

ISBN: 978-988-82737-6-8Category:LITERARY/ COLLECTIONS/ GeneralPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

under THunderous sKiesMiodrag Kojadinović

ISBN: 978-988-82730-2-7Category:FICTION / Short StoriesPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

sixTy-Four cHance PiecesWill Buckingham

ISBN: 978-988-82730-2-7Category:FICTION / GeneralPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

a million PeoPle, Hadley The Travel Classic by Edwin J. Dingle. With a New Foreword by Graham Earnshaw

ISBN: 978-988-82735-7-7Category:FICTION / HumorousPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

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ISBN: 978-988-17326-3-7Category:History/ChinaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

silHoueTTes oF PeKing D.de Martel & L.de Hoyer, translated by D.de Warzee, Illustrations by Sapajou. With a New Foreword by Adam WilliamsISBN: 978-988-19090-4-6Category:History/ChinaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

Kiss me, Hadley Nick Macfie

ISBN: 978-988-16164-8-7Category:FictionPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

HadleyNick Macfie

ISBN: 978-988-19090-9-1Category:FictionPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

400 million cusTomers By Carl Crow. With a New Foreword by Paul French


all abouT sHangHai The 1934-35 Standard Guide Book. With a New Foreword by Peter Hibbard


an ausTralian in cHina By George Morrison. With a New Foreword by Gareth Powell


beleaguered in PeKing By Robert Coltman. With a new foreword by Gareth Powell

HigH ligHTs, low ligHTs, Tael ligHTs Maurine Karns & Pat Patterson


Maurine Karns & Pat Patterson

By Maurine Karns & Pat Patterson

Tael Lights, first published in 1936, is a guidebook to the seamier side of Shanghai in the mid-1930s, when it was at its most outrageous. The authors, two pretty dissolute foreigners living life to the fullest and working at least partially in a Whangpoo whiskey haze, stress the nightlife, particularly the sex and sin side of the city. Political correctness hardly enters into it.

HIGH LIGHTS

Maurine Karns & Pat Patterson

“Absolutely the best guide to Shanghai in its most crazy and

golden period by a pair of revellers who didn’t give a damn.”

Graham Earnshaw

LOW LIGHTS

TAEL LIGHTS

Take a trip back to Old Shanghai with this outrageous 1936 guide to the Paris of the East

TAEL LIGHTS

red rocK The long, strange march of Chinese Rock & Roll. Jonathan Campbell


PainT by numbers China’s art factory from Mao to nowVan Den Heever


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THe unexPurgaTed diary oF a sHangHai baby Elsie McCormick. With a Foreword by Graham Earnshaw


Foreign devils in THe Flowery Kingdom Carl Crow


musings oF a cHinese gourmeT By F. T. Cheng. With a New Foreword by Graham Earnshaw


my liFe in cHina and america By Yung Wing. With a New Foreword by Graham Earnshaw


bridge House survivor Experiences of a civilian prisoner-of-war in Shanghai & Beijing 1942-1945. By Henry F. Pringle


i sailed wiTH cHinese PiraTes By Aleko E. Lilius. With a New Foreword by Paul French


I Sailed with Chinese Pirates

It is 1930 and piracy is rampant on the South China seas. Murderous bands of cutthroats roam the Pearl River Delta and coastal shipping routes, an ever-present menace to the trade of Hong Kong and beyond. Globetrotting journalist Aleko E. Lilius sets out to infiltrate these mysterious pirate gangs, and eats, sleeps and of course sails with them, delivering a sensational, rollicking tale of adventure.

Aleko E. Lilius

Adam Williamsauthor of

The Dragon’s Tail

“Yo ho ho and a bottle of maotai! Lilius’s forgotten classic reads as boldly and bloodily as a Chinese ‘Treasure Island’. What is perhaps most remarkable about this extraordinary piece of journalism is that the writer lived to tell the tale.”

With a New Foreword by Paul French

By Aleko E. LiliusPIRATES

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cHina rHymes Two classics of Old China Coast Poetry. Ballads of the East / China Coast Ballads. By Shamus A’Rabbitt. Illustrations by Sapajou.


cHinese JunKs and oTHer naTive craFT By Ivon A. Donnelly. With a new foreword by Gareth Powell


across cHina on FooT The Travel Classic by Edwin J. Dingle. With a New Foreword by Graham Earnshaw


cHina and THe cHinese Herbert Allen Giles


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Tales oF old bangKoK Treasures From The Fragrant Harbour. Derek Sandhaus

ISBN: 978-988-19984-2-2Category:History/AsiaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

Tales oF old singaPoreThe Glorious Past of Asia’s Greatest Emporium. Iain Manley

ISBN: 978-988-19984-0-8Category:History/AsiaPrice:US$19.99/RMB 120

THe long road bacK To cHinaThe Burma Road Wartime Diaries of Carl Crow. Edited by Paul French


THe Peace corresPondenT Asian travel stories from a restless writer. Garry Marchant


THe Tao oF business Using ancient Chinese philosophy to survive and prosper in times of crisis. Ansgar Gerstner


THe yangTze valley and beyondIsabella Bird. With a New Foreword by Graham Earnshaw


HouseboaT days in cHina J.O.P. Bland. With a New Foreword By Paul French


Tales oF old TianJin The epitome of Modern China’s story By Ffi Kao


Two years in THe Forbidden ciTy Princess Der Ling. With a New Foreword by Graham Earnshaw


THe unveiling oF lHasaEdmund Candler. With a New Foreword by David Leffman


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willow PaTTern walKabouTKirwan Ward and Paul Rigby. With a New Foreword by Graham Earnshaw

ISBN: 978-988-18667-1-4Category:History/ChinaPrice: US$49.99/RMB 300

sHangHai’s arT deco masTerSpencer Dodington & Charles Lagrange

ISBN: 978-988-16090-2-1Category:ARCHITECTURE / History / ModernPrice:US$49.95/RMB 300


a True Friend To cHinaThe Lost Writings of a Heroic NobodyCollected and Edited by Andrew Hicks

Peace aT THe caTHay By Peter Hibbard. With a New Foreword by Robert Bickers


old sHangHai clubs & associaTions Nenad Djordjevic


saPaJou The Collected Works Volume 1. Edited by Nenad Djordjevic, with a Foreword by Larry Feign, cartoonist


22 About Earnshaw Books

Earnshaw Books is a book publishing house founded in 2003 and based in Hong Kong, dedicated to publishing books on China and beyond that help to enrich the understanding of China’s history and culture. It was founded by Graham Earnshaw, a businessman, writer and musician with several decades of experience in the China world. He is well-known for his deep perspective on Chinese affairs, having first visited the China mainland in 1978. Over the years, he has been to every province and region of the country and has a deep respect for Chinese history, language and traditional

culture. He moved to Hong Kong in 1973, learned to speak Cantonese and to read Chinese and worked as a reporter on the South China Morning Post. In 1976, he joined Reuters News Agency and worked in the Hong Kong and London bureaus before being assigned in 1979 to Beijing. He served as Beijing Bureau chief for Reuters 1985-1987, Tokyo Chief Correspondent 1987-1989, and was the Reuters Asian Editor from 1990 to 1995, responsible for all reporting from Pakistan to New Zealand. He then set up his own company in Shanghai, SinoMedia Ltd.

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) and The Formosa Fraud (2017) about George Psalmanazar. His translation of the Jin Yong kung fu novel The Book and The Sword was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. His Chinese name, 晏格文, was chosen by Jin Yong (金庸). He set up China’s first rock band in the early 1980s, and was the first foreign journalist to ever witness a sky burial in Tibet.

He has recorded a number of albums of his own songs, including Leap of Faith (1996), The Red Album (2011), and The Tao of Music (2013).

He speaks in public regularly, in English and in Mandarin Chinese, on a variety of topics, including the Chinese economy and life in rural China. He has addressed MBA and other student classes at many of China’s top universities, including Tsinghua, Fudan and Nanjing. He speaks Mandarin and Cantonese fluently and his English iOS said to be acceptable. His personal website is www. earnshaw.com. Email: [email protected]

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