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The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America by May Lee Chai Publisher Comments A family memoir set against the shifting tides of twentieth-century China, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: the Chai family matriarch, Ruth Mei-en Tsao Chai, dies unexpectedly and her grieving husband discovers that she had secretly... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History by Joanna Waley Cohen Publisher Comments An inviting history of China from the days of the ancient Silk Road to the present, this book describes a civilization more open and engaged with the rest of the world than we think. Whether in trade, religious belief, ideology, or technology, China has... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of China, Volume 1 (2ND 07 - Old Edition) by J.a.g. Roberts Publisher Comments This rich and absorbing history of China from earliest times to the present covers the country's complex political and economic structures and culture in a concise yet nuanced manner. For this new edition, Roberts has developed his analysis of recent... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia by Robert E Herzstein Publisher Comments This book shows how Henry Robinson Luce used his famous magazines to advance his interventionist agenda in Cold War China, Korea, Japan, and above all, Vietnam. This is the first balanced work on Luce and his influence, using hitherto undiscovered or... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Social Transformation in Modern China: The State and Local Elites in Henan, 1900-1937 (Cambridge Modern China) by Xin Zhang Publisher Comments Zhang sheds new light on the sources of China??'s modernization.... (read more) List Price $113.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Chan's Great Continent : China in Western Minds (98 Edition) by Jonathan D. Spence Publisher Comments China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Being Chinese: Voices from the Diaspora by Wei Djao Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index.... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges by Deirdre Chetham Publisher Comments Chetham's elegiac book about the towns along the banks of the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River was written on the very eve of their destruction. After great controversy, the Chinese government has begun construction of the world's largest... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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China: An A-Z (Armchair Traveller) by Kai Strittmatter Publisher Comments A unique and humorous study of life in... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything by Karl Gerth Publisher Comments In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond the Stone Arches: An American Missionary Doctor in China, 1892-1932 by Edward Bliss Publisher Comments "The words of David Livingstone express my feelings better than any words of my own. ‘God had an only son, and He was a missionary and a physician.’ A poor, poor imitation of Him I am, or hope to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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China: Its History and Culture (China: It's History & Culture) by W Scott Morton Publisher Comments “A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with great range and insight. This will set a new standard for short general histories of China.” Michael Gasster, professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University Newly updated and revised... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The spiral road :change in a Chinese village through the eyes of a Communist Party leader by Shu Min Huang Publisher Comments The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in southeast China describes in this book nearly fifty 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... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Records of the Five Dynasties by Richard Davis Synopsis < P> This is the first major Chinese historical work from the Song dynasty and its only English translation. Written by the intellectual Ouyang Xiu, the history is done in the "ancient" style preferred by forward-thinking literati. Ouyang Xiu... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Governing China by Kenneth Lieberthal Publisher Comments 2nd Edition.... (read more) List Price $38.10 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Imperial Capitals of China: A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire by Authur Cotterell Synopsis In this unique history and exploration of China through its imperial capital cities, Cotterell shows the rich array of characters, political and ideological tensions, and technological genius that has defined the imperial cities of China over two... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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China's Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change by Andrew C Mertha Book News Annotation Examining three case studies of hydropower politics in China--one in which opposition to a project succeeded, one in which it failed, and one with a more murky outcome--Mertha (political science, Washington U.) finds that the fragmented... (read more) List Price $65.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.) by Peter Hessler Staff Pick From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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