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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Iron & Silk (Vintage Departures) by Mark Salzman Publisher Comments Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Falling Leaves Return To Their Roots: the True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments A story of greed, hatred and jealousy centred around a young girl growing up during the Communist revolution in China. Blamed for her mother's death, and ignored by both her father and her stepmother, she has written a story with the emotional force of a... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Understanding China [3rd Edition]: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture by John Bryan Starr Publisher Comments After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in Chinas present and future. In the new edition, Starr seamlessly weaves in additional material... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Red Azalea (06 Edition) by Anchee Min Publisher Comments Red Azalea is Anchee Mins celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Maos 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, write, or... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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River Town : Two Years on the Yangtze (01 Edition) 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 $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution and Its Past: Indentities and Change in Modern Chinese History by R Keith Schoppa Publisher Comments Appropriate as a main text for courses in modern Chinese history, politics, society, and culture; also suitable as a supplementary text for courses in East Asian civilization, world history, and world civilization. Unlike other texts on modern... (read more) List Price $58.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living in China by Daisann Mclane Publisher Comments Unique homes in the People's Republic Dating back more than six thousand years, China is the world's oldest civilization and most populous nation. With its remarkable history, rich culture, and diversity of ethnic groups, China is an endlessly... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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China in 2020 China in 2020 China in 2020 China in 2020: A New Type of Superpower a New Type of Superpower a New Type of Superpower a New Type of Supe by Angang Hu Publisher Comments After three decades of unprecedented economic growth, China is now the world's largest exporter and third-largest economy. It has also become the world's largest carbon emitter and second-largest consumer of energy. Extrapolating from these seismic... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Publisher Comments In 1924, at the age of 15, the author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom she was seldom to see during the ten years of their "marriage". Her daughter, born in 1931, experienced the horrors of Japanese occupation in Manchuria... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shanghai Diary 2ND Edition a Young Girls Journey by Ursula Bacon Publisher Comments By the late 1930s, Europe sat on the brink of a world war. As the holocaust approached, many Jewish families in Germany fled to one of the only open port available to them: Shanghai. Once called "the armpit of the world," Shanghai ultimately served as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Modern China: Very Short Introduction (08 Edition) by Rana Mitter Publisher Comments China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese "economic miracle." It is a country of contradictions and transitions: a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mao: The Unknown Story 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: $9.95 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... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (P.S.) by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $58.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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