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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R Platt Publisher Comments A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man by Jonathan Spence Publisher Comments A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history. Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China's Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $5.95 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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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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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1434 the Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed To Italy & Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose Publisher Comments A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China by Sterling Seagrave Publisher Comments The author of The Soong Dynasty gives us our most vivid and reliable biography yet of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, remembered through the exaggeration and falsehood of legend as the ruthless Manchu concubine who seduced and murdered her way to the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Manchus & Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928 by Edward J. M. Rhoads Publisher Comments China's 1911-12 Revolution, which overthrew a two-thousand-year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown - the... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $29.24 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fortunate Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization by Liel Leibovits and Matthew Miller Publisher Comments At the twilight of the nineteenth century, China sent a detachment of boys to America in order to learn the ways of the West, modernize the antiquated empire, and defend it from foreigners invading its shores. After spending a decade in New England's... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Blood and History in China: The Donglin Faction and Its Repression, 1620-1627 by John W Dardess Publisher Comments From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the "Donglin Faction" suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China's history. John Dardass employs a wide range of little-used primary sources... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Discoveries: Forbidden City (Discoveries) by Gilles B Eguin Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Readings in Han Chinese Thought by Mark Csikszentmihalyi Publisher Comments The first comprehensive English-language collection of the writings of this pivotal period in Chinese intellectual history, this volume provides translations of key works, arranged chronologically within topics, and accompanied by substantive headnotes... (read more) Your price: $13.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Historical Records of the Five Dynasties by Richard Davis Synopsis < P> This is the first major Chinese historical work from the Song dynasty and its only English translation. Written by the intellectual Ouyang Xiu, the history is done in the "ancient" style preferred by forward-thinking literati. Ouyang Xiu... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Treason by the Book by Jonathan D Spence From Powells.com Jonathan Spence is the world's most distinguished scholar of Chinese history. He has written numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Search for Modern China (1990), The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolutions 1895-1980 (... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - 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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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 Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis Publisher Comments After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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