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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - 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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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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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Staff Pick Including previously unreleased details of Mao's relationship with Stalin, this astonishing look at the father of Communist China is engrossing as well as horrifying — truly an eye-opener.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom by Jennifer Zeng Publisher Comments Because Zeng followed a spiritual practice called Falun Gong, her life in China was shattered. Sentenced to re-education, she was beaten, tortured with electric prods, starved, deprived of sleep, and forced to knit for days at a time, her hands bleeding,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Hardcover
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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order by Martin Jacques Publisher Comments “Provocative . . . a fascinating account.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this prodigiously researched book, Martin Jacques presents a groundbreaking look at how China’s continued economic ascendency will alter the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (Studies in Security and International Affairs) by Charles Horner Publisher Comments China's sense of today and its view of tomorrow are both rooted in the past--and we need to understand that connection, says China scholar Charles Horner. In Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Horner offers a new interpretation of how China's changed... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $22.95 Sale - Hardcover
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As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything by Karl Gerth Publisher Comments In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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