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Live at the Forbidden City: Musical Encounters in China and Taiwan
by Dennis Rea
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Live at the Forbidden City offers a singular look at the rapidly evolving Chinese popular music scene, as seen through the eyes of one of the first progressive Western musicians to perform extensively in both China and Taiwan. In the 1980s and 90s... (read more)

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China's Peasants
by Sulamith Hei Potter
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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)

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First Emperor : Selections From the Historical Records (07 Edition)
by Sima Qian
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"The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted." The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First... (read more)

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Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice of "Evil Cult"?
by Danny Schechter
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Cultural Writing. Politics. A revised edition of Schechter's investigation into the on-going tension between Falun Gong practitioners and the Chinese state. "Schechter lays bare the Chinese dictatorship's hysterical response to an innocent organization... (read more)

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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
by Xinran
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Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for... (read more)

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Colours of the Mountain
by Da Chen
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A modern memoir of growing up in rural China, this book offers the moving story of one man's escape from hunger, poverty and ignorance, and of his supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds.... (read more)

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My Name Is Number 4
by Ting Xing Ye
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A powerful and passionate memoir for young readers, Ting-xing Ye tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. When Ting-xing Ye was born her aunt declared, “Ah Si shi ge lao lu ming... (read more)

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To Act Is To Know
by Wang Gungwu
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The emergence of China as a global presence in the recent past has led to a growing interest in the country and how the Chinese have coped in the face of rapid change. It has also focused the thoughts of observers on the role that the country's past has... (read more)

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Preaching in the Russian Church: Or, Lectures and Sermons by a Priest of the Holy Orthodox Church
by Barbara Tuchman
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In the Realm of the Gods: Lands, Myths, and Legends of China
by Victoria Cass
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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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Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China
by Ian Johnson
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