Asia - China
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The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Ja… [more below]
- Author: Kleiner, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0399564152
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
$20.00 Read moreThe second installment in ‘The People’s Trilogy’, the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dik?ter
‘For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this i- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1408886359
- Language: English
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China: A History
$24.99 Add to cartAn authoritative account of five thousand years of Chinese history
Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the co- Author: Keay, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0465025188
- Language: English
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The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao’s ascent. … [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0316196681
- Language: English
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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
$39.95 Add to cartThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilization still in place today: an extraordinarily chall
- Author: Rawson, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 029575236X
- Language: English
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A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People’s Republic
$16.99 Add to cartA comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China’s history through a modern lens.
For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a- Series: Brief History of Asia
- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0804850054
- Language: English
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Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
$20.00 Add to cartThe iconic history of the Chinese Communist leaders who forever changed the course of China
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away wi
- Author: Snow, Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 16 1994
- ISBN10: 0802150934
- Language: English
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The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976
$20.00 Add to cartThe concluding volume–following Mao’s Great Famine and The Tragedy of Liberation–in Frank Dik tter’s award-winning trilogy chronicling the Communist revolution in China.
After the economic disaster- Author: Dik?tter, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1632864231
- Language: English
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Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
$18.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being e- Author: Lim, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 059319182X
- Language: English
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Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
$34.99 Add to cartWinner, The Lionel Gelber Prize
For decades, China’s rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, s
Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award- Author: Shirk, Susan L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0190068515
- Language: English
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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
$18.00 Add to cart“In vivid detail… examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties.”–The Boston Globe
“Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China’s past, it also re- Author: Kaufman, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0735224439
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$29.95 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1324051957
- Language: English
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The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
$30.00 Read moreThe thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express-style adventure, set in China’s republican era.
In May 19- Author: Zimmerman, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1541701704
- Language: English
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Deadly Quiet City: True Stories from Wuhan
$32.65 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by The Economist and Kirkus Reviews
From one of China’s most celebrated–and silenced–literary authors, riveting portraits of eight Wuhan residents at the dawn- Author: Xuecun, Murong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977923
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartAs we enter the “Asian century,” China demands our attention for being an economic powerhouse, a beacon of rapid modernization, and an assertive geopolitical player. To understand the nation behind th… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Jaivin, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1615198202
- Language: English
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On China
$22.00 Add to cart“Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.“ –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of fore- Author: Kissinger, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121316
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
$35.00 Read moreA timely, well-researched, and “illuminating” (The New York Times Book Review) new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world me… [more below]
- Author: England, Vaudine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1982184515
- Language: English
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Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
$18.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century a- Author: Tsu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0735214735
- Language: English
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Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA
$32.00 Add to cartThe gripping true story of an indigenous people running the world’s mightiest narco-state–and America’s struggle to thwart them.
In Asia’s narcotics-producing heartland, the Wa reign supreme. The- Author: Winn, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 154170195X
- Language: English
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
$21.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling account of one of history’s most brutal–and forgotten–massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China’s capital city on the eve of World War II, “piecing together th
- Author: Chang, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465068367
- Language: English
