Asia - China
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God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
$24.95 Read moreWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of … [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315568
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
$21.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
Longlisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign Affairs An Economist Book of- Author: Lim, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0190227915
- Language: English
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Collected Writings of Chairman Mao: Volume 3 – On Policy, Practice and Contradiction
$19.95 Add to cartMao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country, he ruled the People’s Republic of China from its est… [more below]
- Author: Zedong, Mao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 20 2009
- ISBN10: 1934255246
- Language: English
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I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
$39.95 Add to cartLate one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo–China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08–and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 No
- Author: Link, Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0231206348
- Language: English
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The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records
$14.95 Add to cart“The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.”
The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that laste- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Qian, Sima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 0199574391
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
$46.99 Add to cartThis lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the prese… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199683751
- Language: English
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Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution
$39.95 Add to cartAccess the glossary of Tibetan terms.
Access the glossary of Chinese and English terms.
Access the Index. When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleash… [more below]- Author: Woeser, Tsering
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1612349692
- Language: English
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Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History
$35.00 Add to cartMao Zedong’s Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) – a compilation of the Chinese leader’s speeches and writings – is one of the most visible and ubiquitous symbols of twentieth-century radic… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Alexander C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 299
- Publish Date: March 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107665647
- Language: English
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Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
$30.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succ
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0307456706
- Language: English
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China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent que… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0190659084
- Language: English
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Shen, Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293364
- Language: English
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China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty
$24.99 Add to cartThe Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China… [more below]
- Author: Benn, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: October 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0195176650
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
$33.00 Add to cartYang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the h- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829704
- Language: English
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The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds
$23.99 Add to cartChina has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over sev… [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 039331989X
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
$24.95 Read more“The definitive, candid, and absorbing history of a political organization…A vital account, based on magnificent research, that shows the party as a colossal, relentless, and enduring machine.”–Jan
- Author: Saich, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293916
- Language: English
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Division to Unification in Imperial China: The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220-907)
$14.95 Add to cartThe second volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China’s transition from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty.
- Series: Understanding China Through Comics #2
- Author: Liu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1611720303
- Language: English
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in History
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unfor… [more below]- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0307472213
- Language: English
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Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Auschwitz
$10.00 Add to cart“Unit 731: The Forgotten Asian Holocaust by Derek Pua, is not for the faint of heart. It is, however, for anyone wanting to more clearly understand the extent of Imperial Japanese war crimes. This bri
- Author: Pua, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: January 10 2019
- ISBN10: 194776604X
- Language: English
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Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic, 1796-1912
$50.00 Add to cartThis insightful book, written by a large team of international scholars and specialists, sprang from a simple but original ambition: to provide the reader with an understanding–told through the lives
- Series: British Museum #16
- Author: Harrison-Hall, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 050048080X
- Language: English
