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China: Empire and Civilization

By: Shaughnessy, Edward L.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May 2005

Seller ID: 332052

ISBN: 0195182871

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

To Western eyes, China is one of the most mysterious and intriguing of all civilizations. The legacy of its long dynastic rule, extending back more than 3,000 years, includes fascinating contributions to philosophy, religion, art, science, and mythology that continue to influence the modern world. China explores the ideas and achievements of this unique culture through a combination of authoritative, accessible scholarship and magnificent imagery.

Drawing on the most recent discoveries and theories, the book presents China's history, society, and beliefs from the legends of prehi...
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History of the Mongolian People's Republic (Harvard East Asian monographs)

By: Shirendeu, B.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University : distributed by Harvard University Press: January 1976

Seller ID: 315634

ISBN: 0674398629

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

China: Fragile Superpower

By: Shirk, Susan L.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 2008

Seller ID: 328101

ISBN: 0195373197

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Once a sleeping giant, China today is the world's fastest growing economy--the leading manufacturer of cell phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. But in China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L. Shirk opens up the black box of Chinese politics and finds that the real danger lies elsewhere--not in China's astonishing growth, but in the deep insecurity of its leaders. China's leaders face a troubling paradox: the more developed and prosperous the country becomes, the more insecure and threatened they feel. Shirk, a former Deputy Assistant Se...
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China's Emerging Technological Edge: Assessing the Role of High-End Talent

By: Simon, Denis Fred,Cao, Cong

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: April 2009

Seller ID: 315349

ISBN: 0521712335

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In less than thirty years, China has become a major force in the global economy. One feature of its rapid ascent has been an enormous expansion of the country's science and technology capabilities, leading to the emergence of a large and increasingly well-educated talent pool. Yet China finds itself engaged in an internal debate as to whether its full potential can be realised. At the heart of this debate lie a number of uncertainties surrounding the quality, quantity and effective utilisation of China's S&T workforce. Written by two leading experts in the field, this book is the first in fort...
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Bridge of the Brocade Sash, Travels and Observations in Japan

By: Sitwell, Sacheverell

Price: $9.95

Publisher: The World Publishing Company: 1959

Seller ID: 274476

ISBN: B0000CKGIO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

By: Snow, Edgar

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Grove Press: February 1994

Seller ID: 359332

ISBN: 0802150934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorized account of Mao s life, as well as a history of the famous Long March and the men and women who were responsible for the Chinese revolution. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ever written about the birth of the Communist movement in China. This edition includes extensive notes on military and political developments in China, further interviews with Mao Tse-tung, a chronology covering 125 year...
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Ageless Friends

By: Snow, Helen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Shaanxi Tourism Press: January 2007

Seller ID: 315784

ISBN: 7541819328

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ageless Friends

By: Snow, Helen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Shaanxi Tourism Press: January 2007

Seller ID: 315840

ISBN: 7541819328

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

My China Years

By: Snow, Helen Foster

Price: $6.95

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: October 1987

Seller ID: 315785

ISBN: 0688075258

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

My China Years

By: Snow, Helen Foster

Price: $6.95

Publisher: William Morrow & Co: October 1987

Seller ID: 315808

ISBN: 0688075258

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia

By: Spector, Ronald

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Random House: July 2007

Seller ID: 337182

ISBN: 0375509151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this sequel to Eagle Against the Sun, Spector examines how the end of World War II in the Pacific spawned brutal, new conflicts for power among the peoples of the former Japanese Empire in Asia.
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To change China;: Western advisers in China, 1620-1960,

By: Spence, Jonathan

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Little, Brown: January 1969

Seller ID: 315788

ISBN: B0006BYRQG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Death of Woman Wang

By: Spence, Jonathan

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc: January 2008

Seller ID: 342949

ISBN: 1847243428

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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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The Chan's Great Continent, China in Western Minds

By: Spence, Jonathan D.

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: Spence, Jonathan D.

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: Spence, Jonathan D.

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 Search for Modern China

By: Spence, Jonathan D.

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: January 1991

Seller ID: 366216

ISBN: 0393307808

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as a miracle of readability and scholarly authority, (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
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The Chan's Great Continent, China in Western Minds

By: Spence, Jonathan D.

Price: $7.95

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

Seller ID: 332049

ISBN: 0393027473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Kim Il Sung

By: Suh, Dae-Sook

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Columbia University Press: April 1995

Seller ID: 244777

ISBN: 0231065736

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung's death, the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States, and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong, Sung's son. Suh's book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history and politics of North Korea and what his death will mean for the future of the country and its relations with the rest of the world.
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The Japanese: A Major Exploration of Modern Japan

By: Tasker, Peter

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Dutton Adult: May 1988

Seller ID: 369042

ISBN: 0525246754

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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