China
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On Guerrilla Warfare
$24.99 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: Zedong, Mao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: December 17 2007
- ISBN10: 9563100131
- Language: English
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The B- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0809030756
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
$44.99 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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Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China
$12.00 Read moreSocial Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught betw… [more below]
- Author: Chuang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860070
- 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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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$22.99 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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Freedom in Exile – Reissue
$20.99 Add to cartSome believe him to be a living reincarnation of the Buddha; some despise him as a counterrevolutionary. He has charmed Hollywood celebrities and the heads of nations, while fearlessly defending his b
- Author: Lama, Dalai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0060987014
- Language: English
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The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China
$31.00 Add to cartIn this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi — disposition or circumstance, power or potential — as a touchst
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Jullien, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299957
- 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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Tibet Brief 20/20
$52.95 Add to cartIf you thought Tibet was water under the bridge, this book will make you think again.
Tibet Brief 20/20 is a wakeup call that establishes a link between China’s current expansionism and the internation
- Author: Van Walt Van Praag, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: November 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1977232817
- Language: English
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The Hong Kong Diaries
$55.00 Read moreThe diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handover
In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it n- Author: Patten, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0241560497
- Language: English
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Enchanting Embroidery Designs: Whimsical Animal and Plant Motifs to Stitch
$14.99 Add to cartEnchanting Embroidery Designs invites you to create your own world using bright thread colors and imaginative stitches.
Full of motifs that are both simple and playful, from zany crocodiles, and cuddl- Author: Morita, Miw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 4805316187
- Language: English
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
$24.99 Read moreThe Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, a stanchion in sinological and military history. It presents an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emp… [more below]
- Author: Sawyer, Ralph D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0465003044
- 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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Wisdom of the Ghost Valley: Gui Gu Zi
$16.95 Add to cartGui Gu Zi, or Wisdom of the Ghost Valley in modern English, is a compilation of Daoism philosophy and Persuasion Techniques, which were written about 2,400 years ago. Though the exact author is still … [more below]
- Author: Xu, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: February 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1977221610
- Language: English
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The Wars for Asia, 1911 1949
$46.73 Add to cartThe Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections an… [more below]
- Author: Paine, S. C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697476
- 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
$23.99 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
