China Peoples Republic 1949 to Present
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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...
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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...
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China Road: A Journey Into the Future of a Rising Power
by Rob Gifford Publisher Comments Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The...
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Socialism Is Great!: A Worker's Memoir of the New China
by Lijia Zhang Publisher Comments A spirited memoir by a former Chinese factory worker who grew up in Nanjing, participated in the Tiananmen Square protest, and ended up an international journalist. Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North...
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Empire of Lies: The Truth about China in the Twenty-First Century
by Guy Sorman Synopsis Before the totalitarian reign of Mao Zedong and his immediate successors, never in human history had an entire nation been under such intense surveillance. The Chinese not only had to speak alike; they had to think alike. Traveling to China regularly...
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Planet Shanghai
by John Krich Synopsis Shanghai the legendary Pearl of the East, architectural powerhouse, and home to the World Expo 2010 continues to fascinate people from around the globe. Photographer Justin Guariglia, whose work has appeared in National Geographic and Smithsonian...
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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
by Ted C Fishman Publisher Comments China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic...
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River Town : Two Years on the Yangtze (06 Edition)
by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country...
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The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds
by David Lampton Publisher Comments Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive...
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What Does China Think?
by Mark Leonard Publisher Comments We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai need to be redrawn every two weeks. We know that China has brought 300 million people from agricultural backwardness into modernity in just...
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The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History
by Paul Clark Publisher Comments A groundbreaking study of cultural life during a turbulent and formative decade in contemporary China, this book seeks to explode several myths about the Cultural Revolution (officially 1966-1976). Through national and local examination of the full range...
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Red-Color News Soldier
by Zhensheng Li Publisher Comments The Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) remains one of the most catastrophic and complicated political movements of the twentieth century. Almost no visual documentation of the period exists that which does is biased because of government control...
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China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society
by Daniel A Bell Publisher Comments What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In...
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The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up
by Yiwu Liao Publisher Comments The Corpse Walker is a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also...
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Son of the Revolution (83 Edition)
by Liang Heng
Publisher Comments An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution....
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Falun Gong and the Future of China
by David Ownby Publisher Comments On April 25, 1999, ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners gathered outside Zhongnanhai, the guarded compound where China's highest leaders live and work, in a day-long peaceful protest of police brutality. China's leaders responded with a campaign of...
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Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China
by Zhengguo. Trans. By Susan Wilf Kang Publisher Comments A revealing memoir of human resilience in the face of nightmarish power. With clear vision this intimate memoir draws us into the intersections of everyday life and Communist power from the first days of "Liberation" in 1949 through the Tiananmen Square...
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China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future--And the Challenge for America
by James Kynge Publisher Comments Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world. Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as...
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Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture
by John Bryan Starr Publisher Comments In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future. The death of...
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Daughter of China: A True Story of Love and Betrayal
by Meihong Xu Synopsis The critically acclaimed memoir of a forbidden love affair in communist China " An important work." – San Francisco Chronicle " Riveting." – Kirkus Reviews " This memoir is a must-read." – San Jose Mercury...
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