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The City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China by Jasper Becker Publisher Comments When the world descends on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, it will find the results of a helter skelter rush for modernization and wealth. In the course of a thousand years, temples and shrines, palaces, and gardens had filled the walls of old Peking. Its... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Hardcover 
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China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran Publisher Comments China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the acclaimed author of The Good Women of China and Sky Burial, traveled across China in 2005... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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What Life Was Like in the Land of the Dragon: Imperial China, A.D. 960-1368 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P Pan Publisher Comments From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom by Jennifer Zeng Publisher Comments Because Zeng followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Sentenced to re-education, she was beaten, tortured with electric prods, starved, deprived of sleep, and forced to knit for days at a time, her hands bleeding,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Mao Zedong: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Jonathan Spence Publisher Comments The complex persona of Chairman Mao--remembered with hate, awe, and even reverence--calls for what the Boston Globe has termed "AJonathan? Spence's engaging blend of history, literature, and biography." Drawing from his expertise in Chinese... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.97 Sale - Hardcover
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China's Great Leap by Minley Worden Publisher Comments With contributions from some of the most well respected and experienced Chinese writers, journalists, and organizers, China’s Great Leap examines the People’s Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Planet Shanghai by Justin Guariglia Synopsis Shanghaithe legendary Pearl of the East, architectural powerhouse, and home to the World Expo 2010continues to fascinate people from around the globe. Photographer Justin Guariglia, whose work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler and Smithsonian... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It by Jonathan Watts Publisher Comments As a young child, Jonathan Watts believed if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would be shaken off its axis, annihilating mankind. Now, more than thirty years later, as a correspondent for The Guardian in Beijing, he has discovered it... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine by Jasper Becker Publisher Comments In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage brought on not by flood, drought, or infestation, but by the insanely irresponsible dictates... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Discoveries: Forbidden City (Discoveries) by Gilles Beguin Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Holding China Together: Diversity and National Integration in the Post-Deng Era by Dali L. Yang Publisher Comments Despite repeated predictions of collapse and disintegration, China has managed to sustain national unity and gain international stature since the 1989 Tiananmen crisis. Examining the sources and dynamics of the resilience, this volume's contributors... (read more) List Price $110.50 Your price: $8.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D Spence Publisher Comments Look no further for a comprehensive narrative of Chinese history from the fall of the Ming dynasty to the present. Beautifully written by a leading scholar in the field, the new edition of The Search for Modern China brings to life the characters and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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China by Yann Layma Publisher Comments No Western photographer is as intimately acquainted with China as Yann Layma, who spent nearly half of his twenty-year career working there. Laymas reportage of this vast country is extraordinarily complete: he portrays city and country, traditional... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China. Jasper Becker by Jasper Becker Publisher Comments When the world descends on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, it will find the results of a helter skelter rush for modernization and wealth. In the course of a thousand years, temples and shrines, palaces, and gardens had filled the walls of old Peking. Its... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present by Jonathan Fenby Publisher Comments No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was viewed as doomed to extinction. Its imperial rulers, heading an anachronistic regime, were brought low by enormous... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques Publisher Comments “Provocative . . . a fascinating account.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this prodigiously researched book, Martin Jacques presents a groundbreaking look at how China’s continued economic ascendency will alter the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing by Da Chen Publisher Comments In this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir, Colors of the Mountain" (Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula Publisher Comments With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Comrade Lost and Found: A Beijing Story by Jan Wong Publisher Comments Praise for A Comrade Lost and Found "Essential and compulsively readable. Wong asks the Cultural Revolution's underlying human question--how could so many betray others, and live with it now?--and answers it with a great... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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