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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Staff Pick From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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China: A History by John Keay Publisher Comments Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the countrys unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - 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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Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History by John E Wills Publisher Comments "It is a great achievement to make the historical figures so accessible, with vivid details that seem to have escaped the attention of earlier historians. In scope, method, and quality, .. . This book is unique."--Kwang-Ching Liu, University of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China: A History by John Keay Publisher Comments Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. With the worlds longest tradition of history-writing, its extraordinary past ought to be common knowledge. China, by the eminent historian John Keay,... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Shanghai and the Edges of Empires by Meng Yue Publisher Comments Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from Chinas heartland to its shore. During... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 by Jonathan D Spence Publisher Comments In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants—the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionsists who shaped... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Change China: Western Advisers in China by Jonathan D Spence Publisher Comments "To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China: A Photographic Journey Through the Middle Kingdom by Guang Guo Synopsis This attractive little volume is the perfect stocking stuffer for any Sinophile: its 238 breathtaking color photographs take us on a visual journey through the greatest splendors of Chinas varied geography and the chief monuments of its 5,000-year-old... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $13.95 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 Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History by Joanna Waley Cohen Publisher Comments An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged with the rest of the world than we think. Whether in trade, religious belief, ideology, or technology, China has... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of China, Volume 1 (2ND 07 - Old Edition) by J.a.g. Roberts Publisher Comments This rich and absorbing history of China from earliest times to the present covers the country's complex political and economic structures and culture in a concise yet nuanced manner. For this new edition, Roberts has developed his analysis of recent... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds: A Tale of Espionage, the Silk Road, and the Rise of Modern China by Eric Enno Tamm Synopsis On July 6, 1906, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim boarded the midnight train from St. Petersburg, charged by Czar Nicholas II to secretly collect intelligence on the Qing Dynastys sweeping reforms that were radically transforming China. The last czarist agent in... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $20.10 New - Hardcover
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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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Chan's Great Continent : China in Western Minds (98 Edition) by Jonathan D. Spence Publisher Comments China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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China: Its History and Culture (China: It's History & Culture) by W Scott Morton Publisher Comments “A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with great range and insight. This will set a new standard for short general histories of China.” Michael Gasster, professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University Newly updated and revised... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage During China's Revolution and Reform by Ying Ruocheng Synopsis Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Beginning with his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, Ying Ruocheng's narrative takes us through unexpectedly amusing adventures during... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Governing China by Kenneth Lieberthal Publisher Comments 2nd Edition.... (read more) List Price $38.10 Your price: $16.50 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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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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