China Imperial to 1911
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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...
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Imperial Masquerade: The Legend of Princess Der Ling
by Grant Hayter-Menzies Publisher Comments Imperial Masquerade is the first biography of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing cross-cultural personalities. Daughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classics, a baptized...
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers andldquo;death by a thousand cutsandrdquo;...
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Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
by Jonathan D. Spence Publisher Comments A renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history. Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of China's Ming dynasty. When he was born into a wealthy family in 1597, the Ming dynasty had been in place for...
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Qing Colonial Enterprise (01 Edition)
by Hostetler Publisher Comments In Qing Colonial Enterprise, Laura Hostetler shows how Qing China (1636-1911) used cartography and ethnography to pursue its expansionist imperial ambitions. She argues that far from being on the periphery of developments in the early modern period, Qing...
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The Dynasties of China
by Bamber Gascoigne Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-214) and index....
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Origins of the Boxer Uprising
by Joseph Esherick Synopsis In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers...
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Gavin Menzies
Publisher Comments Chapter One The Emperor's Grand Plan On 2 february 1421, China dwarfed every nation on earth. On that Chinese New Year's Day, kings and envoys from the length and breadth of Asia, Arabia, Africa and the Indian Ocean assembled amid the splendours of...
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Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's Commentary
by Robert Joe Cutter Synopsis The core of this book is a meticulous and richly annotated translation of a text providing important insights into the worlds of palace women and court politics at the close of the third century....
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Ts'ao Yin & the K'Ang-Hsi Emperor: Bondservant & Master
by Jonathan D Spence Synopsis In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bond-servant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendant wrote Dream of the Red...
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1587, a Year of No Significance : the Ming Dynasty in Decline (81 Edition)
by Ray Huang Synopsis This is a superb book, one that answers many questions about a Chinese, past and present....
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Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T Ien-Kung K AI-Wu
by Ying Hsing Sung Publisher Comments This 1637 classic on the history of traditional Chinese technology, profusely illustrated with 152 original woodcuts, covers agriculture, textiles, mining, metallurgy, chemical engineering, boat-building weapons manufacture, and more. Rich in scientific...
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Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Ga
by Peter Ward Fay Publisher Comments This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered...
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Discoveries: Forbidden City (Discoveries)
by Gilles Beguin Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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Historical Records of the Five Dynasties
by Richard Davis Synopsis Written by Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), an intellectual giant of the Song dynasty, "Historical Records of the Five Dynasties" offers a compelling interpretation of the Five Dynasties period (907-979). In overhauling the existing official history, Ouyang Xiu...
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Treason by the Book
by Jonathan D Spence From Powells.com Jonathan Spence is the world's most distinguished scholar of Chinese history. He has written numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Search for Modern China (1990), The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolutions 1895-1980 (...
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China to 1850: A Short History
by Charles O Hucker Publisher Comments “Charles Hucker has written a balanced, precise, and concise overview of China’s evolution until about 1850.”—Asian Forum “A concise overview of Imperial China—a good place to begin . . . recommended.”—...
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The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
by Susan Mann Synopsis The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through...
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Island of Seven Cities (06 Edition)
by Chiasson Publisher Comments The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus. In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight...
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The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sima Qian Publisher Comments "The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted." The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First...
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