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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Aching for Beauty by Ping Wang Publisher Comments The author explores the cultural history behind the Chinese custom of footbinding, why Chinese women over 1,000 years endured the practice, and why Chinese men found women's "golden lotuses" so arousing. Photos.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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China's First Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors by Frances Wood Publisher Comments Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant? Chinas First Emperor (258-210 BC) has been the subject of debate for over 2,000 years. He gave us the name by which China is known in the West and, by his unification or elimination of six states, he created... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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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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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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia by Robert E Herzstein Publisher Comments This book shows how Henry Robinson Luce used his famous magazines to advance his interventionist agenda in Cold War China, Korea, Japan, and above all, Vietnam. This is the first balanced work on Luce and his influence, using hitherto undiscovered or... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Hands of Beijing: Lives of Defiance in China's Democracy Movement by George Black Publisher Comments A riveting chronicle of Communist oppression and the struggle for democratic reform in China from 1976 to the present. Reveals some of the first details of the years following Tiananmen Square focusing on three leading figures in the democracy movement... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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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 $22.50 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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The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security by Andrew Nathan Publisher Comments Many see China and the United States on the path to confrontation. The Chinese leadership violates human rights norms. It maintains a harsh rule in Tibet, spars aggressively with Taiwan, and is clamping down on Hong Kong. A rising power with enormous... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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: $2.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution by Agnes Smedley Publisher Comments Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. Her biographers have collected 18 of her stories and reportage on Chinese women, all out of print and most unavailable even in public libraries. The stories, based on interviews with... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Colours of the Mountain by Da Chen Synopsis A modern memoir of growing up in rural China, this book offers the moving story of one man's escape from hunger, poverty and ignorance, and of his supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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