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China Airborne by James Fallows Publisher Comments More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover 
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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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The Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir by Wenguang Huang Publisher Comments Three generations of a family living under one roof reflect the dramatic transformations of an entire society in this memoir of life in 20th century China When Wenguang Huang was nine years old, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It by Jonathan Watts Publisher Comments As a young child, Jonathan Watts believed if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would be shaken off its axis, annihilating mankind. Now, more than thirty years later, as a correspondent for The Guardian in Beijing, he has discovered it... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On China by Henry Kissinger Publisher Comments andquot;Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history.andquot; andmdash;Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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China in Ten Words by Hua Yu Publisher Comments From one of China’s most acclaimed writers, his first work of nonfiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang Publisher Comments An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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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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Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History) by Judith Shapiro Publisher Comments This book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years.... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution in China. Peter Hessler, whom the Wall Street Journal... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy by Vanessa Fong Publisher Comments “The first thing that makes Fongs book stand out from others is its timely presentation of the consequences of Chinas one-child policy, rather than being a discussion of the phenomenon in its early stage. Now that Chinese singletons are reaching... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage by Kay Bratt Publisher Comments “An eye-opening account of life in Chinas orphanages. Kay Bratt vividly details the conditions and realities faced by Chinese orphans in an easy-to-read manner that draws the reader in to the heart-wrenching moments she has experienced in her work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments In this poignant memoir the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah, provides a fascinating window into the history and cultural soul of China. Combining personal reflections, rich historical insights, and proverbs handed... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On China by Henry Kissinger Publisher Comments In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Chinese Lessons : Five Classmates and the Story of the New China (06 Edition) by John Pomfret Publisher Comments A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates As a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran Publisher Comments Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. She has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers&... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing by Da Chen Publisher Comments In this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir, Colors of the Mountain" (Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu Publisher Comments This lyrical evocation of girlhood in a remote Himalayan village where women truly rule is now in paperback. In the remote Himalayas, on the shores of Lake Lugu, there is a place the Chinese call "the Country of Daughters." This is the home of the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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