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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French Publisher Comments A riveting true-crime tale that presents the thrilling account of a murder in 1937 China that caused an international media sensationand#160;Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey by Ursula Bacon Publisher Comments By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French Publisher Comments A riveting true-crime tale that presents the thrilling account of a murder in 1937 China that caused an international media sensationand#160;Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Publisher Comments In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937 (Cambridge Modern China) by Xin Zhang Publisher Comments Zhang sheds new light on the sources of China??'s modernization.... (read more) List Price $117.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The good man of Nanking :the diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe Publisher Comments A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in on... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 by Edward Bliss Publisher Comments Advance Praise for Beyond the Stone Arches "Now the world can share the life of this great man. In its intimate detail, this is a fascinating story that serves as a valuable introduction to the people of a country so important to us today."-Walter... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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F: Hu Feng's Prison Years by Mei Zhi Publisher Comments 2013 English PEN Award winner Hu Feng, the ‘counterrevolutionary’ leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party’s prison system. But back in the Party’s early days, he was one of its... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula Publisher Comments With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost by Jonathan Fenby Publisher Comments With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive new biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of nationalist China?s Generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking by Ying Ying Chang Publisher Comments Iris Chang's best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-Ju by Chieh Ju Chen Publisher Comments This engrossing memoir tells the fascinating story of one of China's great leaders during the Nationalist revolution of the 1920s and of the woman who paid a staggering price so that he could attain his ambition. The tale begins in 1919 when the thirty... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp by Er Tai Gao Publisher Comments The memoir of Er Tai Gao, a chinese artist, art critic, and intellectual who spent twenty years in and out of china's gulag until his escape to freedom in hong kong in 1992 and his defection to america in 1993 In 1957, twenty-two-year-old art teacher Er... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind by Paula Kamen Publisher Comments A friend and confidante reveals the private Iris Chang the woman behind the international celebrity and bold personality and attempts to understand Chang's terrible psychological decline. Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave Publisher Comments An inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Madame Chiang Kai-shek (07 Edition) by Tyson Publisher Comments In a life that spanned the 20th century (1898-2003), Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was inextricably entwined with China's tempestuous evolution from the imperial Qing Dynasty to the end of colonialism in Hong Kong. In this first biography of one of history's... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula Publisher Comments With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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