China Revolutionary 1911 to 1949
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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...
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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 Nagasaki...
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The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth
by Shuyun Sun Publisher Comments The Long March is Communist China’s founding myth, the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school. Seventy years after the historical march took place, Sun Shuyun set out to retrace the Marchers’ steps and unexpectedly discovered...
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Long March: True History of Comm... Myth (07 Edition)
by Shuyun Publisher Comments In 1934, the fledgling Chinese Communist Party and its 200,000 soldiers were forced off their bases by Chiang Kai-Shek and his Nationalist troops.They walked more than 8,000 miles over mountains, grasslands, and swamps, ending up in the remote, barren...
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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey
by Ursula Bacon
Publisher Comments Against the backdrop of looming world war and Hitler's "Final Solution," 11-year-old Ursula Bacon and her family made the terrifying 8,000-mile voyage to Shanghai with its promise of freedom. Instead they found overcrowded ghettos filled with desperately...
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Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by Paula Kamen Publisher Comments A friend and confidante reveals the private Iris Chang — the woman behind the international celebrity and bold personality — and attempts to understand Chang's terrible psychological decline. Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age...
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Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
by Hanchao Lu Publisher Comments How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again revolution-...
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Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China
by Ching Kwan Lee Publisher Comments Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress....
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The broken wave :the Chinese Communist peasant movement, 1922-1928
by Roy Hofheinz Publisher Comments This book is a sophisticated and deeply researched volume on Mao Tse-tung's early leadership and on the formative years of the Chinese Communist Peasant movement. It has been axiomatic in Asian studies that knowledge of the early years of Chinese...
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Rickshaw Beijing
by David Strand Synopsis 'A lucid and interesting analysis of Beijing society and politics in the generally confusing era of the 1920s...From Strand's careful account one realizes that the social and political life of Beijing even under warlordism was organized and integrated to...
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Red Star Over China (Large Format) (Rev 68 Edition)
by Edgar R. 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...
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Written on Water (05 Edition)
by Eileen Chang Synopsis Known as the Garbo of Chinese letters for her elegance and the aura of mystery that surrounded her, Eileen Chang is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Written on...
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The Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People-In Their Own Words
by Zhang Liang Publisher Comments On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly...
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The good man of Nanking :the diaries of John Rabe
by John Rabe Publisher Comments A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in on...
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Life and Death in Nanking
by Peggy Kordick Synopsis In China, the decade following 1937 was characterized by cataclysmic social, political, and economic upheavals. The capital city of Nanking, savaged by Japanese atrocities and destruction, was a dismal place and a virtual tinderbox of riots and...
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Tibetan Buddhists in the Making of Modern China
by Gray Tuttle Publisher Comments Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work, Gray Tuttle reveals the surprising role Buddhism and Buddhist leaders played in the...
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Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China (New York Review Books Classics)
by David Kidd Synopsis For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. & quot; I used to hope, & quot; he writes, & quot; that some bright young scholar on a...
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A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (Asian Voices)
by Sasha Su-Ling Welland Publisher Comments A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown...
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The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change,
by Morris L Bian Publisher Comments When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China takeshape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and developmentstrategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation...
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Crime Punishment & the Prison in Modern
by Frank Dikotter Synopsis An examination of the enormous changes in Chinese society in the first half of the 20th century through the lens of the Chinese prison system. It explores the profound effects of superimposing Western-derived models of repentance and rehabilitation on...
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