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Colors of the Mountain (99 Edition)
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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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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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu
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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)
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
by Gavin Menzies
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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)
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
by Gavin Menzies
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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)
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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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Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition, and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China
by Yi Min Lin
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This book examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets.... ( read more)
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Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry
by Edward S. Steinfeld
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Forging Reform in China explains how and why measures to reform unprofitable state-owned enterprises have not succeeded and how meaningful reform could be achieved.... ( read more)
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China: The Balance Sheet What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower
by Center For Strategic
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China's emergence as a major international power is perhaps the most important development in world affairs of the 21st century. Now, this book provides an indispensable survey of that country, the world's largest--"a vast land with 1.4 billion people... ( read more)
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China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.: The Dynamics of a New Empire
by Willem Van Kemenade
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"A handbook for anyone trying to fathom China". -- Orville Schell, The New York Times Book Review On July 1, 1997, Great Britain officially returned Hong Kong to China after ninety-nine years of British rule. This event was the beginning of an... ( 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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Daily Life in China, on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276
by Jacques Gernet
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“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)
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Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics
by David L Shambaugh
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The dynamics of international relations in Asia are undergoing broad and fundamental changes that are reverberating around the world. Primary among the catalysts of change in the region is the rise of China as the engine of regional economic growth, as a... ( read more)
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao
by Li Zhi-Sui
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From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily — and increasingly intimate — contact with Mao and his inner circle. In The Private Life of Chairman Mao,... ( read more)
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Red Star Over China
by Edgar Snow
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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)
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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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The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
by Paul Chiasson
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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... ( read more)
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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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Streetlife China (Cambridge Modern China Series)
by Michael Dutton
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An extraordinary collection of ???snapshots??? of contemporary Chinese life in translation with commentary.... ( read more)
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Spiral Road: Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes of a Communist Party Leader
by Huang Shu-min
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The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in Southeast China describes in this book forty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants to... ( read more)
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