Frances Wood

25 books

Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization by Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood

Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization

Victor H. Mair, Sanping Chen, Frances Wood

232 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present by Frances Wood

Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present

Frances Wood

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking: My Part in the Cultural Revolution by Frances Wood

Hand-Grenade Practice in Peking: My Part in the Cultural Revolution

Frances Wood

224 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir informative reflective slow-paced
Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China During the First World War by Frances Wood

Picnics Prohibited: Diplomacy in a Chaotic China During the First World War

Penguin Specials

Frances Wood

124 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia by Frances Wood

The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia

Frances Wood

270 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Classic Chinese Novel by Shi Nai'an

The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Classic Chinese Novel

Shi Nai'an

798 pages • first pub 1500 (editions)

fiction classics historical adventurous medium-paced
Aeneas Anderson in China: A Narrative Of The Ill-fated Macartney Embassy 1792-94 by Frances Wood

Aeneas Anderson in China: A Narrative Of The Ill-fated Macartney Embassy 1792-94

Frances Wood

356 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

informative reflective medium-paced
Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War by Christopher Arnander, Frances Wood

Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War

Christopher Arnander, Frances Wood

224 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

history informative medium-paced
Bringing Heaven to Earth: Chinese Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty by Elizabeth Herridge, Frances Wood

Bringing Heaven to Earth: Chinese Silver Jewellery and Ornament in the Late Qing Dynasty

Elizabeth Herridge, Frances Wood

200 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art design history
The British Museum Book of Flowers by Anne Scott-James, Ray Desmond, Frances Wood

The British Museum Book of Flowers

Anne Scott-James, Ray Desmond, Frances Wood

192 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

informative lighthearted medium-paced