China
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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 Add to cart“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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The Last Emperor Revisited
$50.00 Read moreA behind-the-scenes look into the filming of The Last Emperor through the photographs of Basil Pao.
The Last Emperor Revisited is a true behind-the-scenes look at the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s l- Author: Pao, Basil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9888805762
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
$27.95 Add to cartJun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brou
- Author: Li, Zhuqing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0393541770
- Language: English
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Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
$18.99 Read moreMeet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon.
Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shan- Author: Blumberg-Kason, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888450314
- Language: English
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Mao: The Real Story
$24.00 Add to cartThis “comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed” (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he created a totalitarian government even more destructive … [more below]
- Author: Pantsov, Alexander V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1451654480
- Language: English
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Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi
$28.95 Add to cartThere are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.
Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Ping, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353922
- 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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The Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another
$19.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars
In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time throug
- Author: Hanes, W. Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1402201494
- 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
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
$24.99 Add to cartComrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively, and has brought it to a higher … [more below]
- Author: Tse-Tung, Mao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1638231869
- Language: English
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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
$28.00 Add to cartA new picture of China’s rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.
The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A
- Author: Akhtar, Ali Humayun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1503627470
- Language: English
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La Historia de China: Una Fascinante GuÃa de la Historia China, con Eventos Como el Primer Emperador de China, las Conquistas Mongoles de Ge
$17.97 Add to cartSi quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de China, entonces continúe leyendo…
La historia de China es compleja, posiblemente más compleja que la de otras naciones. Los grupos étnicos que conform
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1637160399
- Language: Spanish
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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang
$18.99 Add to cartPremier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China’s government behind the Tiananmen massacre–and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziy… [more below]
- Author: Zhao Ziyang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 1439149399
- Language: English
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Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
$7.99 Add to cartThird Sister in the Tao family, Ailin has watched her two older sisters go through the painful process of having their feet bound. In China in 1911, all the women of good families follow this ancient
- Author: Namioka, Lensey
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14, 2000
- ISBN10: 0440415993
- Language: English
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Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City
$18.99 Add to cartThe “gripping and meticulously researched” (The Times, London) true story of the determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China’s Forbidden City in the years leading up to World… [more below]
- Author: Brookes, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1982149310
- Language: English
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China’s Great Road: Lessons for Marxist Theory and Socialist Practices
$35.00 Add to cartThe accumulated achievements of China since its revolution of 1949 are so great that they have now not only changed the world but must lead every socialist and progressive person to think about their
- Author: Ross, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1899155112
- Language: English
