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When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques Publisher Comments Provocative...a fascinating account. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In this prodigiously researched and far-reaching book, Martin Jacques presents a groundbreaking look at how China's economic ascendancy will alter the balance of global power... (read more) Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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China in the World Market: Chinese Industry and International Sources of Reform in the Post-Mao Era (Cambridge Modern China Series) by Thomas Geoffr Moore Publisher Comments Thomas G. Moore examines the role of the outside world as a source of change in post-Mao China. Based on extensive documentary and interview material, the book adds the Chinese case to a long tradition of country-based studies by political economists... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China by Ian Johnson Publisher Comments Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on China for the Wall Street Journal, has found the small pockets of resistance that dot the vast landscape of Chinese society and may become the initial fissures that will someday bring down the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow Synopsis 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 Maos life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 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: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang by Ziyang Zhao Publisher Comments Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 by Diana Preston Publisher Comments Chinese peasants chafed against the foreign technologies and ideas that the imperialists introduced. Then a new movement-mystical, materialistic, and virulently anti-Christian-began to spread among them like wildfire. The foreigners laughed at the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments Based on 15 years of in-depth research, "1421" traces the voyages of an extraordinary fleet of Chinese ships, whose crews actually charted America 70 years before Columbus. Four 8-page color inserts. 37 maps & diagrams.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Mao : Unknown Story (06 Edition) by Jung Chang Publisher Comments Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him this is the most authoritative life of Mao... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T Chang Publisher Comments An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of Chinas Peasants by Guidi Chen Publisher Comments A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives. The Chinese economic miracle is happening despite, not because of, China's 900... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women #23: Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers by Ping Chun Hsiung Publisher Comments In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $74.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution by Sulamith Potter Publisher Comments This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution of 1949. The authors examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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China Wakes: The Struggle For the Soul of a Rising Power by Nicholas D Kristof Publisher Comments The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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