Cultural Region/Chinese
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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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The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan
$16.95 Read moreLiu Zongyuan’s remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye.
The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan p
- Author: Zongyuan, Liu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 164605217X
- Language: English
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Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
$19.95 Add to cartWINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year
True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations
- Author: Chao, Isabel Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1954854056
- 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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Lonely Planet Pocket Taipei
$13.99 Read moreLonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet’s PocketTaipeiis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries a
- Series: Pocket Guide
- Author: Gardner, Dinah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1786578123
- 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 Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings
$24.00 Add to cartInternationally recognized as a major publishing event, The Courage to Stand Alone is a collection of prison writings from the world’s most famous political prisoner. Wei Jingsheng, who has spent near… [more below]
- Author: Jingsheng, Wei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140275355
- Language: English
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Shadow of the Silk Road
$18.99 Add to cartTo travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, d
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061231770
- 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 Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad
$32.00 Add to cartThe completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the co
- Series: Asian America
- Author: Chang, Gordon H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1503609243
- Language: English
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The Dog Years of Reeducation: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Chinese Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school and high school graduates, called the zhiqing or Educated Youth, were sent up to the mountains and down to the countryside to receive reed… [more below]
- Author: Zheng, Jianqing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1956440399
- Language: English
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Grown-Up Child: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartCHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stalled, forcing the family into a transient lifestyle as
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0998673013
- Language: English
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Tuttle Pocket Chinese Dictionary: English-Chinese Chinese-English (Fully Romanized)
$9.99 Add to cartThis handy Chinese dictionary allows you to look up words quickly and easily–and be understood while speaking.
The Tuttle Pocket Chinese Dictionary is a pocket-sized dictionary designed for travelers- Author: Dong, Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0804848459
- Language: English
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Personal Story of the Only White Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
$19.95 Read more“What decided me to go to Lhasa was, above all, the absurd prohibition which closes Thibet.” One of the great adventure classics, published in 1927, and considered one of the best adventure books of t… [more below]
- Author: David-Neel, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851109
- 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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The Analects of Confucius
$19.95 Add to cartCompiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes embodying the basic values of the
- Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
- Author: Watson, Burton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0231141653
- Language: English
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The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques to Release Your Body’s Own Medicine *Movement *Massage *Meditation *Breathing
$16.99 Add to cartRelease your natural powers for healing, endurance, and longevity
With this revolutionary guide, you will learn four simple and remarkably effective techniques to release your natural powers for healin
- Author: Jahnke, Roger O. M. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0062514776
- Language: English
