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Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship by Denise Chong Synopsis The hail of 30 paint-filled eggs, cracking and leaking across the towering portrait of Chairman Mao, caught the Tiananmen Square protestors off guard. There was condemnation and confusion. A clash of cheers and jeers accosted the three young men whose... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover 
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The History of China; With Portraits and Maps by Demetrius Charles Boulger Publisher Comments This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts... (read more) Your price: $37.00 Sale - Hardcover
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China: The Truth about It's Human Rights Record by Frank Ching Publisher Comments At a time when the worlds attention is focused on China, Asia-based journalist, Frank Ching, presents an intelligent and informed perspective on that countrys human rights situation. China is one of the great nations of the world, containing roughly... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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China: Empire of Living Symbols by Cecilia Lindqvist Publisher Comments The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of “dragon bone.” To his surprise, the bone, which had not yet been ground into powder, contained a number of carved... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 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 Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market by John Gittings Publisher Comments Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? In this highly readable account... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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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 $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chinese Village, Socialist State by Edward Friedman Publisher Comments This is a detailed portrait of social change in the North China plain, depicting how the world of the Chinese peasants evolved during an era of war and revolution and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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China by Christina Lionnet Publisher Comments * A fine addition to the contemporary photographic canon * An ideal gift for all lovers of Chinese... (read more) Your price: $29.95 Sale - Hardcover
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China, Portrait of a Country by Heung Shing Liu Publisher Comments The People's Republic seen by Chinese photographers. This book brings together a vast selection of images by Chinese photographers since 1949, giving readers a visual journey across the great People's Republic; edited by esteemed photojournalist Liu... (read more) List Price $59.99 Your price: $18.97 Sale - Hardcover
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China Underground by Zachary Mexico Synopsis At the beginning of the 21st century, it is hard to imagine a place more exciting than China. Westerners hear much about Chinas role as the next “global superpower,” but they know less about the young people who make up Chinas varied and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 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 $17.95 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China (Politics, History, and Culture) by Carolyn L Hsu Publisher Comments In the midst of China’s post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates the central role of ordinary people... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments In this poignant memoir the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah, provides a fascinating window into the history and cultural soul of China. Combining personal reflections, rich historical insights, and proverbs handed... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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China Watcher: Confessions of a Peking Tom (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book) by Richard Baum Publisher Comments This audacious and illuminating memoir reflects on 40 years of learning about the People's Republic of China through China watching--the process by which outsiders gather and decipher official and unofficial information to figure out what's really going... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America by Paul Chiasson Publisher Comments In 2003, Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he never explored on the island where he grew up. Cape Breton, one of the oldest points of exploration in the Americas, is littered with remnants of old settlements. The road he... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ancient China: Life, Myth and Art by Edward Shaughnessy Publisher Comments Long before the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, China was already a vast empire, protected from the nomads of the Asian steppes by its famous Great Wall, and with rich and distinctive traditions in the arts, technology, and philosophy. Drawing... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature, and Instit) by Norman Kutcher Publisher Comments To win the approval of China's native elites, Qing China's new Manchu leaders developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society by observing laborious and time-consuming mourning rituals, the touchstones of a well-ordered Confucian... (read more) List Price $127.25 Your price: $36.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to China by Susan Brownell Synopsis Why is hosting the Olympic Games so important to China? What is the significance of a quintessential symbol of Western civilization taking place in the heart of the Far East? Will the Olympics change China, or will China change the Olympics? Susan... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (Studies in Security and International Affairs) by Charles Horner Publisher Comments China's sense of today and its view of tomorrow are both rooted in the past--and we need to understand that connection, says China scholar Charles Horner. In Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Horner offers a new interpretation of how China's changed... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $22.95 Sale - Hardcover
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