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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
by Paul French
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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)

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Red Star Over China
Red Star Over China
by Edgar Snow
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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)

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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester
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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)

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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey
Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey
by Ursula Bacon
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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)

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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.)
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
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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)

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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
by Paul French
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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)

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The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang
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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)

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Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937 (Cambridge Modern China)
Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937 (Cambridge Modern China)
by Xin Zhang
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Zhang sheds new light on the sources of China??'s modernization.... (read more)

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The good man of Nanking :the diaries of John Rabe
The good man of Nanking :the diaries of John Rabe
by John Rabe
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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)

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Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932
Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932
by Edward Bliss
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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)

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F: Hu Feng's Prison Years
F: Hu Feng's Prison Years
by Mei Zhi
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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)

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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
by Hannah Pakula
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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)

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Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
by Jonathan Fenby
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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)

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The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking
The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking
by Ying Ying Chang
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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)

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Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-Ju
Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-Ju
by Chieh Ju Chen
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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)

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In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp
In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp
by Er Tai Gao
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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)

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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by Paula Kamen
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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)

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The Soong Dynasty
The Soong Dynasty
by Sterling Seagrave
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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)

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Madame Chiang Kai-shek (07 Edition)
Madame Chiang Kai-shek (07 Edition)
by Tyson
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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)

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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
by Hannah Pakula
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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)

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