Earnshaw Books imprint: 82 books
China and the Chinese
With a new foreword by Graham Earnshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Herbert Giles was one of the most prominent Sinologists of the late 19th century and early 20th century and China and the Chinese was in its era one of the best-selling and most authoritative books on the topic. Originally published in 1902, Giles’ commentary on all thing Chinese, based on six lectures...
Manchu Decadence
The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Abridged and Unexpurgated
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In 1898 a young Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China’s last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz’u Hsi. The man was Sir Edmund Backhouse, and his controversial memoirs, Décadence Mandchoue,...
Tales of Old San Francisco
The rich past of America's most magical city
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2018
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 first stop from Asia, San Fransisco managed to remain Wild long after the rest of the United States...
by Kirwan Ward, Graham Earnshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed and inscrutable. Emerging from the writings of Kirwan Ward and the drawings of Paul Rigby is a picture of China at a key moment in its history—still...
Formosa Fraud
The story of George Psalmanazar, one of the greatest Charlatans In Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
More than 300 years ago, the island of Taiwan was a topic of hot controversy in London, thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by a Frenchman claiming to have been born on the island. He made highly controversial claims about the life and the history of Taiwan, then called Formosa, and his book...
Tales of Old Shanghai
The Glorious Past of China's Greatest City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The old Shanghai was a rich and cosmopolitan mixture of East and West and this engaging book offers a glimpse into that world through an assortment of photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, stamps, and other collectibles. Evoking different eras, this record also contains vintage advertisements,...
Memoirs of * * * *
Commonly known by the Name of GEORGE PSALMANAZAR
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
“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 what his real name was. The Memoirs of “* * * *” - that is, the memoirs of George Psalmanzar...
China Under the Empress Dowager
The History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of the most popular and controversial Chinese history books ever written, this account explores the Forbidden City during the reign of Empress Dowager Cixi (18611908). Entertaining and enlightening, this record examines a world of power-thirsty eunuchs, concubines, and Mandarins. Filled with...
by Edwin John Dingle
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book, first published in 1911, is one of the most important and best written travel books from old China. Edwin Dingle recounts his adventures as he travels up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and then by foot southwest across some of China's most wild and woolly territory to Burma. Along the...
China’s Evolving Consumers
8 Intimate Portraits
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
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...
Sixty-Four Chance Pieces
A Book of Changes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual, and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the I Ching to work, using it...
by Chris Ruffle
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
When Yorkshireman Chris Ruffle decided to build a vineyard complete with a Scottish castle in the midst of the countryside in eastern China, he was expecting difficulties, but nothing on the scale he encountered. But build it he did, and the wine is now flowing. A Decent Bottle of Wine in China tells...
by Newton Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
What is a dragon? Is it real? And what is so special about Chinese dragons? This book is the classic explanation of the origins and temperament of Chinese dragons and their complex role in the history of China over thousands of years. L. Newton Hayes, born in China and a great lover of Chinese culture,...
Red Rock
The Long, Strange March of Chinese Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Rebellious, individualistic, and explosive, rock and roll seems incongruent with modern Chinese society. However, as the music has evolved from a Western import into something uniquely Chinese, it has been shaped by the nation’s unique system and its relationship with the outside world. As it tracks...