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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 $42.50 Your price: $6.97 Sale - Hardcover
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen,... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments In October 1934, 30 brave Chinese women left their respective homes to join the Chinese Communist Army and march against the hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers who had surrounded them. Together with 86,000 Red Army soldiers-including future Chinese... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 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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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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Beautiful Xiangxi by Congwen Shen Publisher Comments Discover Hunan, a beautiful and remote corner of China brought to life through the writings of one of China's premier writers. Travel throughout western Hunan Province, the birthplace and source of inspiration for noted Chinese scholar and author Shen... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $8.95 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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Son of the Revolution by Heng Liang Publisher Comments An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him this is the most authoritative life of Mao... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City by Lillian M Li Publisher Comments Few world cities have a record as long, as fascinating, or as well-documented as Beijing's. A capital almost continuously for more than a thousand years, the city has been Khubilai Khan's Mongol headquarters, home to emperors of the Ming and Qing... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.07 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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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, Chinas Great Leap examines the Peoples Republic of China as its government and 1.3 billion people prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Chinese Mind: Understanding Traditional Chinese Beliefs and Their Influence on Contemporary Culture by Boye Lafayette De Mente Publisher Comments A fascinating examination of contemporary Chinese culture, The Chinese Mind offers an informative, accessible look at the values, attitudes and behavior patterns of modern China—and their roots in the history of this ancient nation. This... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927 (Chinese Worlds) by Alexander Pantsov Publisher Comments The primary sources used in this book include: archival material on the Comintern, the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsevik), and the CCP, reflecting the theories and political practice of Leninism, Trotskyism and Stalinism, and of the Russian and Chinese... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Falun Gong and the Future of China by David Ownby Publisher Comments On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality. China's leaders responded with a campaign of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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River Town Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments Travel writing describing two years spent by Peter Hessler in China. Well-reviewed in the broadsheets, it was also the winner of the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. "Written with great clarity and affection" "The Times".... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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China in a Mirror by Sabrina Michaud Publisher Comments Using the mirror as their motif, seasoned photographers Roland and Sabrina Michaud pair traditional Chinese artworks, some of which date back eight centuries, with their own photographs of China taken over a period of nearly twenty years. The pairings... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Brief History of the Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne Publisher Comments Lively and readable introduction to a vast area of world history. B/w illus and maps.... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China by Diane Wei Liang Publisher Comments Diane Wei liang, creator of the mei Wang literary mystery series, brings us a tale as spellbinding as any she could invent: her own love story, intertwined with the dramatic history of modern china, including the international trauma of tiananmen square.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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