Now the Chinese New Year on these dates, the most important of the celebrations of this oriental culture. Our 2018 is the 4716 for them and will also be the Year of the Earth Dog. So to all of us who are Chinese typing dogs, happy new year! Today I walk around these 8 books on various topics about China. Astrology, crime fiction, history, the essential classic and more curiosities.

2018. The year of the Earth Dog - Monica and Bruno Koppel

Let's go with this first title, a guide based on Chinese astrology and metaphysics and Feng Shui. To give you a review of the start date of the lunar and solar years in the Chinese calendar, as well as the rituals of the festivities, the recommended foods, etc. Presents the forecasts of the year and each month. Apparently 2018 will be dominated by the Earth element and it will be a year full of important events and marked by the issue of security and the increase in social movements.

El arte de la guerra - Sun Tzu

El quintessential chinese classical title It is the most famous treatise on strategy in the world. Over time it has become a cult book in the business world. And it is that this little book proposes some Valid principles for both military and business or political strategy. As old as modern, it can help to reflect on any type of problem and to propose the appropriate strategies to solve them.

Brief history of China - Pedro Cemos

Edition revised and updated by close of this now almost classic also within the Historia Series collection of this publisher. A tour from Marco Polo to Mao Zedong, all the characters related to this country that seem to have an always mysterious and exotic halo that is sometimes thought so far away due to our ignorance. This book is intended to bring the most significant facts of that common human past that we can have with this distant culture.

The rose of China - Jaime Panqueva

Una China of the title which is rather the metaphor of an equivocation. The author rescues the story based on real facts which actually has to do with Japan: the arrival of the first Japanese delegation to New Spain and the story of a descendant of Indian royalty who became a legend.

We are in Puebla de los Angeles In XVII century. The Band of Five Beatitudes has been ambushed and only the prodigious hands of Catherine Saint John they can relieve the mortally wounded. The healer is led to the refuge of the bandits, where her lover awaits her Rolando Edmundo, a samurai forced to abandon the retinue to Rome that would offer the souls of Japan to the Pope.

Catarina will be a decisive piece in the final fight between the warrior and his enemy, the sinister Marquis. Of the Fleet. Years later, the inquisitor Gonzalo solis he is sent to search for evidence of the heresy of Catarina San Juan. But the researcher does not imagine that the discovery of objects, documents and weapons belonging to "China" will mean a revelation that he did not imagine possible.

Faxian's journey - Laureano Ramírez Bellerín

Ramírez Bellerín is a tenured professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​where he teaches various subjects related to China. This is the account of a pilgrim named Faxian to the Buddhist kingdoms of Central Asia and India in the XNUMXth century. He was not the first Chinese monk to undertake this journey, but he was to narrate it in writing or, at least, the first whose text - which is reproduced in Chinese in these pages - has survived to this day.

His feat was very popular at the time. And the reason for his trip was to visit the holy places of Buddhism. A fundamental work to know the sanctuaries, geography of the time and curiosities of the life of the monks, as well as teachings of the Buddha.

The Shanghai Dragon - Qiu Xiaolong

Xiaolong (Shanghai, 1953) obtained global success with the series of crime novels starring him Chief Inspector Chen Cao. In this novel we have the Shanghai Special Cases Squad flabbergasted because they have alienated Chen of the most delicate files. After verifying that they want to lead you to a trap, Chen decides to leave the city, but he will not stop attending a Beautiful young asking you for help. Chen meddles in a case full of difficulties, while investigating those who persecute him to the point of having put price on his life.

The jade eye - Diane Wei Liang

We continue with more crime novel and another series, that of Mei, the Beijing researcher created by Wei Liang. This was the first title that takes place in the Beijing of the present. The protagonist is Mei, a young and independent woman who has her own private detective agency. A customer will ask you to find a valuable jade of the dynasty He, and Mei will have to delve into that dark period in Chinese history. But her investigation uncovers a plot that is also related to her own family's past and history.

The Chinese box - Jesús Maeso de la Torre

Novela History a patriotic teacher of the genre as is Maeso de la Torre. We find great characters, a lot intrigue y twists, mystery, fluent storytelling, adventure y love.…

Tells us the story of Rodrigo Silva, who sees his father die hanged because of the loss of a galleon at the hands of English pirates. It is an injustice and false and Rodrigo vows revenge. But after training as cartographer in Seville, you will become a master in the art of sailing and charting nautical charts. This leads him to be part of one of the most ambitious plans of Felipe II: the conquest of China.

How to Live Aligned with secret emissary of the king will infiltrate the eastern kingdom for the possible Hispanic colony settlement in that territory. His knowledge will open many doors, but he will also risk his life and reach it. imperial court in the Forbidden City.