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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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth by Shuyun Sun 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... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Daily Life in China, on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276 by Jacques Gernet Publisher Comments “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) List Price $27.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong Publisher Comments Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer -- and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University -- her education included... (read more) Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Li Zhi-Sui Publisher Comments 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) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments An account of the many aspects of village life in China.... (read more) List Price $29.65 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Colors of the Mountain by Da Chen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China by Rosemary Mahoney Publisher Comments One year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between Harvard and Hangzhou University. At Hangzhou she was able to overcome her students' usual rigidity and achieve a rare and intimate glimpse of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cries for Democracy: Writings and Speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement by Han Minzhu Publisher Comments "Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement--flyers, "big-character... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China (Cambridge Illustrated History) by Patricia Buck Ebrey Publisher Comments More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our modern world for the continuity of its history and culture. In this sumptuously illustrated single-volume history, noted historian Patricia Ebrey traces the origins... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia by David C Kang Publisher Comments Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Staff Pick Including previously unreleased details of Mao's relationship with Stalin, this astonishing look at the father of Communist China is engrossing as well as horrifying — truly an eye-opener.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Melanie Kroupa Books) by Moying Li Publisher Comments Most people cannot remember when their childhood ended. I, on the other hand, have a crystal-clear memory of that moment. It happened at night in the summer of 1966, when my elementary school headmaster hanged himself. In 1966 Moying, a student at a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sounds of the River: A Memoir by Da Chen Publisher Comments Teenager Da Chen gathers soil from the riverbank near his village before he leaves to attend university in Beijing. Those grains bear witness to his past and contain the now silent sounds of the river. Later, spilled onto the dry earth of the North, they... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Studies on China #20: Chinese Historical Microdemography by Stevan Harrell Publisher Comments 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) List Price $68.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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