China
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Sex and World Peace
$24.95 Add to cartSex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of
- Author: Hudson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0231131836
- Language: English
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When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433 (Revised)
$23.99 Add to cartA hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s fi… [more below]
- Author: Levathes, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 1997
- ISBN10: 0195112075
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Gardens: People, Activities, Culture
$19.95 Read moreThere are many books published in English on Chinese gardens, but the majority are primarily picture books with little informative content. With a large number of illustrations of Chinese gardens, anc… [more below]
- Author: Alison, Hardie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1938368878
- Language: English
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Border Vista: Poems
$15.95 Read moreBorder Vista intimately narrates the experience of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America. In poems that consider migration as an ongoing process rather than a finite event, Anni L… [more below]
- Author: Liu, Anni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0892555459
- Language: English
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Gladys Aylward: A Life for China
$17.99 Add to cartWounded by a Japanese bullet as she led nearly a hundred refugee children to safety over the mountains of China, Gladys Aylward’s story has been immortalised through the film ‘The Inn of the Sixth Hap… [more below]
- Author: Purves, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1909281492
- Language: English
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Jannah Jewels Book 2: The Chase in China
$12.50 Add to cartIn the second book of the Jannah Jewels Series, the girls are caught and thrown aboard the ship of Zheng He, the famous Chinese Muslim Admiral. Caught in a lightning thunderstorm, they must sail in ra… [more below]
- Author: Nura, Umm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1
- Publish Date: January 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0986720836
- Language: English
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Ancient China: An Enthralling Overview of Chinese History, Starting from the Settlement at the Yellow River through the Xia, Shang, Z
$26.99 Add to cartIt has become a common theme in today’s world to talk about the incredible technological and economic development of modern China. However, there are very strong historical roots to the exponential gr
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651781
- Language: English
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Soong Dynasty
$21.99 Add to cartAn inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.
- Author: Seagrave, Sterling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 19 1986
- ISBN10: 60913185
- Language: English
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On Practice and Contradiction
$24.95 Add to cartThese early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time. Drawing on a dizzying array of references … [more below]
- Series: Revolutions
- Author: Mao Tse-Tung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675874
- Language: English
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City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
$18.00 Add to cartNow one of Kirkus Reviews‘ Best Books of the Year
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking–winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold D- Author: French, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250170591
- Language: English
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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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Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
$21.99 Add to cartA stunning biography of history’s most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun
For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate of the Roman Empire and the future of all Europe in- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0312539398
- Language: English
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The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
$20.99 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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Flight of the B?n Monks: War, Persecution, and the Salvation of Tibet’s Oldest Religion
$29.99 Add to cartAn inside account of the Chinese invasion of Tibet told through the voices of three persecuted monks
– 2024 International Book Award Nonfiction – Creative Category – Shares the true story of three mon- Author: Rice, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1644118580
- Language: English
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On Guerrilla Warfare
$9.99 Add to cartThe book is written in the context of China’s guerrilla war against Japanese occupiers; this conflict is mentioned often by Mao. In this book Mao discusses the differences between guerrilla and “ortho… [more below]
- Author: Tse-Tung, Mao
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 12 2007
- ISBN10: 956310014X
- 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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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thir… [more below]
- Author: Yi, Henry Pu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1602397325
- Language: English
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
$18.99 Add to cartNow in paperback one of the most stirring accounts of the lives of Chinese women since Wild Swans “full of heart-rending tales….shocking, simply told…a very powerful polemic” (The New York Times B… [more below]
- Author: Xinran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1451610947
- 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 Read more“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
