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Hong Kong

By: Jan Morris

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: December 1989

Seller ID: 194457

ISBN: 0679724869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

India Waits

By: Jan Myrdal

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press: January 1986

Seller ID: 226041

ISBN: 0941702073

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jan Myrdal, the son of Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, has become widely regarded as Sweden's most important writer and intellectual, with a national importance possible only in a country like Sweden. When he had a heart attack a few years ago, the largest daily newspaper, a sensational tabloid, Expressen, had its front page completely filled with a headline about it. On his 60th birthday cabinet ministers, labor leaders, religious leaders as well as writers and artists came to his door with gifts (he lives two hours from Stockholm).
In this country, he is known mainly for his writi...
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The Chinese

By: Jasper Becker

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Free Press: December 2000

Seller ID: 334302

ISBN: 0684844125

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

China's 1.25 billion people comprise nearly a quarter of the world's population. More people live in China than in North America, the European Union, and the former Soviet countries combined. But what do we really know about these millions of people? And what is the future of their frequently misunderstood, increasingly powerful country?

In "The Chinese," Jasper Becker, China's premier resident western correspondent, strips the country of its myths and captures the Chinese as they really live. For nearly two decades Becker has lived in China, and reported from areas where western journalis...
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Hiroshima

By: John Hersey

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Bantam: January 1966

Seller ID: 311564

ISBN: B004RZFRES

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Japanese militarism,: Its cause and cure,

By: John McGilvrey Maki

Price: $9.95

Publisher: A.A. Knopf: January 1945

Seller ID: 315822

ISBN: B0007DP40G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Party Leadership and Revolutionary Power in China (Contemporary China Institute Publications)

By: John Wilson Lewis

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: July 1970

Seller ID: 315783

ISBN: 0521096146

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Originally published in 1970, this volume consists of essays by twelve leading scholars from the United States and Britain, all of whom concentrated their studies on the problems of China. Their papers were originally written for a conference on the Chinese Communist Party, held at Ditchley Park, England, in July 1968. During the discussions, a number of themes emerged as the factors governing the evolution of the Party. These related to problems of leadership, power and the revolutionary struggle within the Party and their effect on Chinese society. The authors subsequently revised their pape...
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The Chan's Great Continent, China in Western Minds

By: Jonathan D. Spence

Price: $5.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 1998

Seller ID: 135321

ISBN: 0393027473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. Now Jonathan Spence, our foremost historian of Chinese politics and culture, tells us, in his elegant new book, how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Kublai in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-century writers of acknowledged genius -- Kafka, Borges, and Calvino -- Spence explores Western thought on China through a remarkable array of expression. Peopling Spence's account are Iberian adventurers, Jesuit missio...
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution

By: Jonathan D. Spence

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: October 1982

Seller ID: 188693

ISBN: 0140062793

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"A milestone in Western studies of China." (John K. Fairbank)

In this masterful, highly original approach to modern Chinese history, Jonathan D. Spence shows us the Chinese revolution through the eyes of its most articulate participants--the writers, historians, philosophers, and insurrectionists who shaped and were shaped by the turbulent events of the twentieth century. By skillfully combining literary materials with more conventional sources of political and social history, Spence provides an unparalleled look at China and her people and offers valuable insight into the continuin...
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

By: Jonathan D. Spence

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: June 1994

Seller ID: 301361

ISBN: 0140080988

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the renowned historian and author of The Death of Woman Wang, a vivid and gripping account of the 16th-century missionary's remarkable sojourn to Ming China

In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming dynasty China. To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life, Jonathan Spence relates his subject's experiences with several images that Ricci himself created--four images derived from the events in the Bible and others from a book on the art of memory that Ricci wrote i...
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The Chan's Great Continent, China in Western Minds

By: Jonathan D. Spence

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: September 1998

Seller ID: 332049

ISBN: 0393027473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

To change China;: Western advisers in China, 1620-1960,

By: Jonathan Spence

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Little, Brown: January 1969

Seller ID: 315788

ISBN: B0006BYRQG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Art, Myth, and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China

By: K. C. Chang

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: October 1983

Seller ID: 302136

ISBN: 0674048083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: October 1999

Seller ID: 296427

ISBN: 158243106X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland, was believed by some to be key to world dominion. Teeming with improbable drama and exaggerated tensions, the conflict featured soldiers, mystics, archeologists, and spies, among them some of history's most colorful characters.While the original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, the geopolitical struggles in Central Asia continue to the...
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The red mandarins;: Travels in Red China

By: Karl Eskelund

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Taplinger Pub. Co: January 1961

Seller ID: 250481

ISBN: B0007ENH68

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

India: A History. Revised and Updated

By: Keay, John

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Grove Press: April 2011

Seller ID: 348874

ISBN: 0802145582

Condition: Used - Good

Fully revised with forty thousand new words that take the reader up to present-day India, John Keay's India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in the region today. In charting the evolution of the rich tapestry of cultures, religions, and peoples that comprise the modern nations of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, Keay weaves together insights from a variety of scholarly fields to create a rich historical narrative. Wide-ranging and authori...
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Genghis Khan Conqueror of the World

By: Khan, Genghis

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Barnes Noble: January 1999

Seller ID: 341352

ISBN: 0760711925

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power

By: Kristof, Nicholas D., WuDunn, Sheryl

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: August 1995

Seller ID: 357969

ISBN: 0679763937

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Freedom at Midnight

By: Larry Collins,Dominique Lapierre

Price: $9.95

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers: January 1997

Seller ID: 311454

ISBN: 0006388515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. In this reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan.
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