Asia - China
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Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
$30.00 Read moreTaiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.
When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas we- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362091
- Language: English
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Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future
$30.00 Add to cartTaiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book.
When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas we- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250362091
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century
$19.00 Add to cartThrough a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to p… [more below]
- Author: Schell, Orville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0812976258
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
$38.00 Add to cartThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple paths,- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267088
- Language: English
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Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
$35.00 Add to cart“Astonishing…Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire” – The Telegraph
Control the sea, and you control everything…a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1399417738
- Language: English
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The Terra Cotta Army: China’s First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartThe Terra Cotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of Ch… [more below]
- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 030681840X
- Language: English
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Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
$32.95 Read moreA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year
The history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could h
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year- Author: Gewirtz, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674241843
- Language: English
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Imperial China
$50.00 Read moreExplore the long and rich history of China’s great dynasties.
From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China’s imperial history to life through its pivotal e- Series: DK Classic History
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0744020476
- Language: English
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Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
$32.95 Read moreThis is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligence operations. It profiles the leaders, top spies, and … [more below]
- Author: Mattis, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682478556
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$20.00 Add to cartThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
$35.00 Read moreChina’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time–from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 unti
- Author: Van de Ven, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983505
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
$20.00 Add to cartAs China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0345803027
- Language: English
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
$27.00 Add to cart“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”
–William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lea- Author: M?hlhahn, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248317
- Language: English
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
$30.00 Read more“A blow-by-blow account … An important corrective to the conventional view of China’s rise.”–Financial Times
From internationally renowned historian Frank Dikter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Pr- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1639730516
- Language: English
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China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord
$37.50 Read moreA compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present
Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respe- Author: Snow, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300166656
- Language: English
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The Terra Cotta Army: China’s First Emperor and the Birth of a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartThe Terra Cotta Army is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. Over seven thousand life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the mausoleum of the first emperor of Ch… [more below]
- Author: Man, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 030681840X
- Language: English
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Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century
$19.00 Add to cartThrough a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to p… [more below]
- Author: Schell, Orville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0812976258
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Read more“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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Great State: China and the World
$20.00 Add to cartNow in paperback
“A dizzying and exhilarating journey. . . . Understanding how China sees itself and how it justifies its actions is critical to understanding today’s world. Great State offers some com
- Author: Brook, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143445
- Language: English
