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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 - VeryGood

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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Tiger Head, Snakes Tails

By: Jonathan Fenby

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK: January 2012

Seller ID: 360729

ISBN: 0857209566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

There have been a plethora of books on China in recent years. Authors have forecast the coming collapse of the People's Republic or looked to the day when it will rule the world. So why another book on the most heavily populated country on earth which has emerged in the last three decades to occupy a central position on the global stage? Because, despite the stream of publications, there is no single book which pulls together the whole of the China story linking its very disparate elements to present a coherent portrait that explains to the general reader what China is and why it matters so mu...
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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

Death of Woman Wang

By: Jonathan Spence

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc: January 2008

Seller ID: 342949

ISBN: 1847243428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In this book the award-winning historian Jonathan Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure time and place: provincial China in the late 17th century. The author not only evokes the China of the late Ming period, but also deepends our understanding of the China we know today.
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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 - VeryGood

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 - VeryGood

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

By: Kristof, Nicholas D., WuDunn, Sheryl

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: August 1995

Seller ID: 387627

ISBN: 0679763937

Binding: Trade Paperback

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

By: Kristof, Nicholas D., WuDunn, Sheryl

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: August 1995

Seller ID: 397209

ISBN: 0679763937

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Not a Shot Fired (working Title): The War on Terror in Afghanistan

By: Lamb Christina

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Willliam Collins: January 2015

Seller ID: 380410

ISBN: 0007256930

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The definitive book on Afghanistan, 'Not a Shot Fired' by award-winning journalist, Christina Lamb, is the gripping account of how the West's politicians forgot about this troubled region, the root of the War on Terror, when pursuing their goals in Iraq.
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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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Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands

By: Legerton, Colin,Rawson, Jacob

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Chicago Review Press: May 2009

Seller ID: 396562

ISBN: 1556528140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this eloquent and eye-opening adventure narrative, Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and bring a hitherto unexplored side of China to light. They journey over 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of the country to meet the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe.

In Invisible China, they engage in a heated discussion of human rights with Daur and Ewenki village cadres; ...
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Imperial Tombs of China

By: Lei Congyun

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Portland Art Museum: January 1753

Seller ID: 228622

ISBN: 1882516052

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Kosher Chinese

By: Levy, Michael

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: July 2011

Seller ID: 388930

ISBN: 0805091963

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux

In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.

While r...
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Political History of China, 1840-1928

By: Li. Chien-Nung

Price: $15.95

Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company: January 1956

Seller ID: 315820

ISBN: 0442047762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

My Country and My People

By: Lin Yutang

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Mei Ya Publications, Inc,: January 1968

Seller ID: 315753

ISBN: B000V0MMSM

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Qin Dynasty Terra-cotta Army of Dreams

By: Lin, Zhang

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Xi An Press: January 2005

Seller ID: 387178

ISBN: 780712184X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

I Saw Red China

By: Lisa Hobbs

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Avon Books: January 1967

Seller ID: 259850

ISBN: B0007E0G6C

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Sources of Japanese History- Volume Two

By: Lu David

Price: $6.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill: December 1974

Seller ID: 315669

ISBN: 0070389055

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949

By: Lucien Bianco

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Stanford University Press: June 1971

Seller ID: 255137

ISBN: 0804708274

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the dynamic social forces underlying the Chinese Communists' rise in three short decades from obscurity to power. The author seeks above all to relate the events of this tumultuous period to certain tentative generalizations about the nature and course of the revolution. He is concerned less with the May Fourth Movement as such, for example, than with the revolution's intellectual origins, less with th...
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Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949

By: Lucien Bianco

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Stanford University Press: June 1971

Seller ID: 315811

ISBN: 0804708274

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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