China
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States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China
$24.00 Add to cartState structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. Social revolu… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Skocpol, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 421
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569842
- Language: English
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Freedom in Exile – Reissue
$20.99 Add to cartSome believe him to be a living reincarnation of the Buddha; some despise him as a counterrevolutionary. He has charmed Hollywood celebrities and the heads of nations, while fearlessly defending his b
- Author: Lama, Dalai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0060987014
- Language: English
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The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China
$32.00 Add to cartIn this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi — disposition or circumstance, power or potential — as a touchst
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Jullien, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299957
- Language: English
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Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
$30.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succ
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0307456706
- Language: English
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Tibet Brief 20/20
$52.95 Add to cartIf you thought Tibet was water under the bridge, this book will make you think again.
Tibet Brief 20/20 is a wakeup call that establishes a link between China’s current expansionism and the internation
- Author: Van Walt Van Praag, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: November 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1977232817
- Language: English
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Enchanting Embroidery Designs: Whimsical Animal and Plant Motifs to Stitch
$14.99 Add to cartEnchanting Embroidery Designs invites you to create your own world using bright thread colors and imaginative stitches.
Full of motifs that are both simple and playful, from zany crocodiles, and cuddl- Author: Morita, Miw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 4805316187
- Language: English
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
$24.99 Add to cartThe Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, a stanchion in sinological and military history. It presents an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emp… [more below]
- Author: Sawyer, Ralph D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0465003044
- Language: English
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China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent que… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0190659084
- Language: English
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Wisdom of the Ghost Valley: Gui Gu Zi
$16.95 Add to cartGui Gu Zi, or Wisdom of the Ghost Valley in modern English, is a compilation of Daoism philosophy and Persuasion Techniques, which were written about 2,400 years ago. Though the exact author is still … [more below]
- Author: Xu, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: February 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1977221610
- Language: English
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The Wars for Asia, 1911 1949
$49.58 Add to cartThe Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War as separate events misrepresents their overlapping connections an… [more below]
- Author: Paine, S. C. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697476
- Language: English
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Shen, Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293364
- Language: English
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China’s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty
$24.99 Add to cartThe Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China… [more below]
- Author: Benn, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: October 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0195176650
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
$33.00 Add to cartYang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the h- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829704
- Language: English
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The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds
$23.99 Add to cartChina 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 sev… [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 039331989X
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
$24.95 Read more“The definitive, candid, and absorbing history of a political organization…A vital account, based on magnificent research, that shows the party as a colossal, relentless, and enduring machine.”–Jan
- Author: Saich, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293916
- Language: English
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The Last Emperor Revisited
$50.00 Read moreA behind-the-scenes look into the filming of The Last Emperor through the photographs of Basil Pao.
The Last Emperor Revisited is a true behind-the-scenes look at the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s l- Author: Pao, Basil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9888805762
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
$27.95 Add to cartJun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brou
- Author: Li, Zhuqing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0393541770
- Language: English
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Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
$18.99 Read moreMeet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon.
Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shan- Author: Blumberg-Kason, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888450314
- Language: English
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Mao: The Real Story
$24.00 Add to cartThis “comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed” (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he created a totalitarian government even more destructive … [more below]
- Author: Pantsov, Alexander V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1451654480
- Language: English
