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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 In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice? Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey 1st Edition 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: $9.95 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: $6.95 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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China's Wings: War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight by Gregory Crouch Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Enduring Patagonia comes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $23.00 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: $7.50 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: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor Publisher Comments One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments Dean King is the author of the national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara. He has written for many publications, including Men's Journal, Esquire, Outside, New York Magazine, and The New York Times. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe Publisher Comments The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Third Revolution in the Chinese Countryside (Trade and Development) by Ross Garnaut Publisher Comments Recent economic and institutional changes in Chinese agriculture.... (read more) List Price $135.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Warlord Politics in China, 1916-1928 by Hsi-Sheng Chi Publisher Comments The first comprehensive analytical treatment of warlordism in twentieth-century China, this book approaches regional militarism as a generic phenomenon of Chinese politics in the most complex and chaotic era of recent Chinese history. After describing... (read more) Your price: $51.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady by Laura Tyson Li 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 $30.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Season of High Adventure by S Bernard Thomas Publisher Comments In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord Publisher Comments Urgent and timeless, Legacies brings us closer than we have ever been to penetrating the great conundrum of China m the twentieth century. It could only have been written by Bette Bao Lord -- born in China, raised in America, author of the bestselling... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival by Dean King Publisher Comments In October 1934, 30 brave Chinese women left their respective homes to join the Chinese Communist Army and march against the hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers who had surrounded them. Together with 86,000 Red Army soldiers-including future Chinese... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West by Helen Tse Publisher Comments Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 by Edward Bliss Publisher Comments "The words of David Livingstone express my feelings better than any words of my own. ‘God had an only son, and He was a missionary and a physician.’ A poor, poor imitation of Him I am, or hope to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Before Mao: The Untold Story of Li Lisan and the Creation of Communist China by Patrick Lescot Publisher Comments Combining an exceptional love story with a gripping tale of incarceration in Stalin's gulag and later in Mao Tse-tung's concentration camps, Patrick Lescot's Before Mao is a deeply moving, beautifully told saga of Li Lisan, Mao's predecessor at the head... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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