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1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships, whose crews actually charted America 70 years before Columbus. Four 8-page color inserts. 37 maps & diagrams.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots: the True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments A story of greed, hatred and jealousy centred around a young girl growing up during the Communist revolution in China. Blamed for her mother's death, and ignored by both her father and her stepmother, she has written a story with the emotional force of a... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments In 1924, at the age of 15, the author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom she was seldom to see during the ten years of their "marriage". Her daughter, born in 1931, experienced the horrors of Japanese occupation in Manchuria... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow Synopsis The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Maos life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's Commentary by Robert Joe Cutter Synopsis The core of this book is a meticulous and richly annotated translation of a text providing important insights into the worlds of palace women and court politics at the close of the third century.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $6.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Studies on China #20: Chinese Historical Microdemography by Stevan Harrell Publisher Comments Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Troublemaker :one man's crusade against China's cruelty by Harry Wu Publisher Comments In 1995, Chinese-born American citizen Harry Wu touched off an international incident when he was arrested in China for spying. As rumors swirled that Hillary Clinton's long-planned trip to Beijing depended on Wu's release, the world wondered: Who was... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.80 Used - Trade Paper
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The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth by Joe Studwell Publisher Comments In The China Dream, acclaimed business journalist Joe Studwell takes to task the predictions that China will become an economic juggernaut on the world stage in the twenty-first century -- and instead foresees an economic crisis. He argues that since the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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China's Future by Ted Galen Carpenter Publisher Comments This book examines the status of our current relationship with the People's Republic of China and its prospect for the future.... (read more) List Price $10.75 Your price: $2.80 Used - Trade Paper
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China's Foreign Relations in the Nineteen Eighties by Harry Harding Synopsis What role will China play in world affairs during the 1980s, now that it has normalized relations with the United States and opened wider its economic doors? In this thoughtful and important book, six respected scholars analyze the major factors that... (read more) List Price $33.75 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The China Circle: Economics and Technology in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong by Barry Naughton Publisher Comments This book is the first comprehensive study of the underlying economic dynamics that make the China Circle - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan and Hong Kong - not only possible, but hugely successful. Yun-wing Sung, Barry Naughton, and Kong Yam... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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 of women in twentieth-century China, it... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985 (Cornelia & Michael Bessie Books) by John King Fairbank Publisher Comments Understanding China's Revolution<P>Flying into China from Shanghai these days, one can see how close to nature the people live. The whole Yangtze delta, intricately dotted with lakes and crisscrossed by canals, is green cropland. Even its towns and... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard (American Lives) by Fan Shen Publisher Comments In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into Chinas Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his compatriots had tortured and murdered a doctor... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng Publisher Comments Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. "A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance".--Los Angeles Times.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China to 1850: A Short History by Charles O Hucker Publisher Comments “Charles Hucker has written a balanced, precise, and concise overview of China’s evolution until about 1850.”—Asian Forum “A concise overview of Imperial China—a good place to begin . . . recommended.”—... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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China Rising: Nationalism and Interdependence by David Goodman Publisher Comments China's dramatic economic growth since the 1970s has seemed inexorable. The resulting rise in international profile has provoked a lively argument regarding the fundamental economic and strategic challenges to the rest of the world that China now... (read more) List Price $76.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China's New Rulers: The Secret Files by Andrew J Nathan Publisher Comments At the Chinese Communist Party's 16th Congress in November 2002, a group of new leaders took over the world's most populous country. Their accession as the "Fourth Generation" of rulers of the People's Republic--following the generations of Mao... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chen Village Under Mao & Deng, Expanded & Updated Edition by Anita Chan Publisher Comments The first two editions of Chen Village presented an enthralling account of a Chinese village in the throes of Maoist revolution followed by dramatic changes in village life and local politics during the Deng Xiaoping period. Now, more than a decade and a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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