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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
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Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield... ( read more)
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
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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)
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
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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... ( read more)
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The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang
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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... ( read more)
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Red Azalea (06 Edition)
by Anchee Min
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Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read,... ( read more)
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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
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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... ( read more)
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Life and Death in Shanghai
by Nien Cheng
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Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. "A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance".--Los Angeles Times.... ( read more)
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Personal Voices: Chinese Women of the 1980's
by Emily Honig
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Dramatic and far-reaching changes have occurred in the lives of Chinese women in the years since the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four During the decade of the Cultural Revolution, attention to personal life was regarded as 'bourgeois'; in... ( read more)
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Colors of the Mountain
by Da Chen
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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)
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Treason by the Book
by Jonathan Spence
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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 (... ( read more)
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The Intellectual Foundations of China (Studies in World Civilization)
by Frederick W Mote
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This brief paperback introduction to the basic ideas that underlie traditional Chinese culture focuses on the "Golden Age" (600 B.C.-150 B.C.) of Chinese philosophy.... ( read more)
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China : Its History and Culture (4TH 05 Edition)
by W. Scott Morton
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""A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with great range and insight. This will set a new standard for short general histories of China.""
"--Michael Gasster, professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University"
Newly updated and revised... ( read more)
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler
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A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China... ( read more)
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Mao's China and After : a History of the People's Republic (3RD 99 Edition)
by Maurice Meisner
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In this much-anticipated revision, Maurice Meisner again provides piercing insight and comprehensive coverage of China's fascinating and turbulent modern history. In addition to new information provided throughout this classic study, the new Part Six... ( read more)
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The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
by John Rabe
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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)
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.)
by Gavin Menzies
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On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen,... ( read more)
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Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China (Chronical Series)
by Ann Paludan
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Spanning more than two thousand years, from the first emperor, buried with his terra-cotta army in the third century B.C., to the last emperor, enthroned in the Forbidden City as a boy of four in 1911, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors presents the... ( read more)
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Studies on China #20: Chinese Historical Microdemography
by Stevan Harrell
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Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine... ( read more)
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1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
by Ray Huang
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This is a superb book, one that answers many questions about a Chinese, past and present.... ( read more)
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China Wakes: The Struggle For the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D Kristof
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"When China wakes, it will shake the world", Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the... ( read more)
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