China - Used Books
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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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Heng Liang
Publisher Comments An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan D Spence Publisher Comments Look no further for a comprehensive narrative of Chinese history from the fall of the Ming dynasty to the present. Beautifully written by a leading scholar in the field, the new edition of The Search for Modern China brings to life the characters and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Da Chen Publisher Comments In this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir, Colors of the Mountain" (Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ride away from the farm he was raised on to his new university life in Beijing. He soon faces a host of ghastly... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Orville Schell Publisher Comments Perhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as has China in the past twenty-five years. For China's leaders -- and for its 1.3 billion citizens -- the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anchee Min Publisher Comments Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s 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,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John King Fairbank Publisher Comments Understanding China's Revolution<P>Flying into China from Shanghai these days, one can see how close to nature the people live. The whole Yangtze delta, intricately dotted with lakes and crisscrossed by canals, is green cropland. Even its towns and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Chiasson Publisher Comments The Island of Seven Cities unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus. In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to climb a mountain he had never explored on Cape Breton Island, where eight... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 Nagasaki... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ted C Fishman Publisher Comments China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pei Kai Cheng Publisher Comments A documentary collection.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
Powells.com 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. Recommended by Josephine, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Tyson Li Publisher Comments Madame Chiang Kai-shek — a Booklist Editors' Choice for 2006 — is the first biography of one of the most controversial and fascinating women of the twentieth century. Raised in a powerful Chinese family, the beautiful... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $11.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan D Spence Publisher Comments A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments An account of the many aspects of village life in China.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nien Cheng Publisher Comments Here is the haunting, inspirational account of Nien Cheng's six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner during Communist China's Cultural Revolution. "A moving affirmation of the capacity for human endurance".--Los Angeles Times.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $13.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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