Der in Ungnade gefallene Militärarzt Patrick Sumner (Jack O'Connell) heuert 1859 als Schiffsarzt ...

What kind of people would you meet if you decided to walk across the world's most populous countr...

“The Formosa Fraud”, known for most his life as George Psalmanazar, prepared his memoirs for publ...

Logan Jack, an Australian geologist with a keen eye for cultural detail, was stuck. He was in wes...

Daisy Kwok's life spanned old Shanghai and modern Shanghai, old China and "e;New"e; China...

More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud...

Foreign adventurers have been tramping around China for centuries, and this book presents some of...

The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West. This book provides a glimp...

San Fransisco is a crested jewel of the California Coast, a city which has been home to convicts ...

For two years, Princess Der Ling was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the Empress Dowager Cixi in ...

This book, first published in 1909, in the autobiography of a man who witnessed and played a key ...

A classic guidebook from Shanghai's roaring 1930s. Written with first-hand authority and an enthu...