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Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen Publisher Comments Colors of the Mountain is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood full of spunk, mischief, and love, and a welcome introduction to an amazing young writer. <BR>Da Chen was born in 1962, in the Year of Great Starvation. Mao... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Wild Swans is a landmark book, with the intimacy of memoir and the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. When... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century The brilliance of the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow Publisher Comments 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 Mao's 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: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before — and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him — this is the most authoritative life of Mao... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daily Life in China, on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 by Jacques Gernet Publisher Comments “A fascinating picture of a lively and brilliant society. . . . Every major aspect of life during this period is treated with meticulous exactitude. . . . an unrivalled glimpse of Chinese society as it was seven hundred years ago.”—... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 How China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world According to even the most... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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The Blacks of Premodern China (Encounters with Asia) by Don J. Wyatt Publisher Comments Premodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as black. The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with their Southeast Asian neighbors, specifically the Malayans. But by the midimperial times of the seventh... (read more) Your price: $64.95 New - Hardcover
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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang by Ziyang Zhao Publisher Comments Zhao may be more dangerous in death than he was in life. -- Time How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give readers a front row seat to the secret... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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History of Imperial China #6: China's Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe Publisher Comments In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe Publisher Comments A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss. In the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up with little money but... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - 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 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: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie 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, Leslie T.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.00 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: $20.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mao Zedong: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) by Jonathan D Spence Publisher Comments The complex persona of Chairman Mao--remembered with hate, awe, and even reverence--calls for what the Boston Globe has termed "AJonathan? Spence's engaging blend of history, literature, and biography." Drawing from his expertise in Chinese... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Illustrated Record of Chinese Civilization by Wang Jian Synopsis Divided into eighteen sections that reflect the outstanding material and spiritual accomplishments of each time period in Chinese history, An Illustrated Record of Chinese Civilization begins with a background on Chinese ancestors in prehistoric society... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Chinese by Jasper Becker Publisher Comments China's 1.25 billion people comprise nearly a quarter of the world's population. More people live in China than in North America, the European Union, and the former Soviet countries combined. But what do we really know about these millions of people... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Building the Great Wall of China: An Isabel Soto History Adventure (Graphic Library: Graphic Expeditions) by Terry Collins Synopsis Full-color, high-impact illustrations - Table of contents, glossary, bibliography, index - Additional Information section - Plus... www.FactHound... (read more) Your price: $7.95 New - Trade Paper
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