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Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West

By: T.R. Reid

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: March 2000

Seller ID: 243601

ISBN: 0679777601

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia." --San Francisco Chronicle

Anyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply knowledgeable reporter and now he brings this erudition and humor to the five years he spent in Japan--where he served as The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief. He provides unique insights into the country and its 2,500-year-old Confucian tradition, a powerful ethical system that has played an integral role in the continent's "postwar miracle."...
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Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West

By: T.R. Reid

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Vintage: March 2000

Seller ID: 305879

ISBN: 0679777601

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia." --San Francisco Chronicle

Thunder Out of China

By: Theodore H. White, Annalee Jacoby

Price: $7.95

Publisher: William Sloane: January 1946

Seller ID: 247945

ISBN: B0026PUVUQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

By: Thomas J. Christensen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: June 2016

Seller ID: 319792

ISBN: 0393352994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Many see China as a rival superpower to the United States and imagine the country's rise to be a threat to U.S. leadership in Asia and beyond. Thomas J. Christensen argues against this zero-sum vision. Instead, he describes a new paradigm in which the real challenge lies in dissuading China from regional aggression while encouraging the country to contribute to the global order. Drawing on decades of scholarship and experience as a senior diplomat, Christensen offers a compelling new assessment of U.S.-China relations that is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the glob...
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See You Again in Pyongyang: A Journey into Kim Jong Un's North Korea

By: Travis Jeppesen

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hachette Books: May 2018

Seller ID: 328057

ISBN: 0316509159

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim, revealing North Koreans' "entrepreneurial spirit, and hidden love of foreign media, as well as their dreams and fears" (Los Angeles Times).

In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen, the first American to complete a university program in North Kore...
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Lu Hsun and His Predecessors

By: V.I. Semanov,C.J. Alber

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Routledge: August 1980

Seller ID: 315704

ISBN: 0873321537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The tale of a Southern black who became a congressman during the Reconstruction period that followed the American Civil War. This edition also contains primary source documents from the Reconstruction.
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The Story of Civilization Part I: Our Oriental Heritage

By: Will Durant

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: January 1942

Seller ID: 292418

ISBN: B00CVFJULW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization: Part I)

By: Will Durant

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1954

Seller ID: 332031

ISBN: B0000DSW4P

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

American Encounters Japan

By: William Neumann

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper Colophon Books: January 1965

Seller ID: 315821

ISBN: B002NISWVQ

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper: May 2008

Seller ID: 315800

ISBN: 0060884592

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"--New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"--Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country.

No cloistered don, this tall, married Englishman was a freethinking intellectual, who practiced nudism and was devoted to a quirky brand of...
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Sources of Chinese Tradition (Introduction to Oriental Civilizations Series)

By: Wm. Theodore De Bary; Wing-Tsit Chan; Burton Watson (Compilers)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Columbia University: January 1966

Seller ID: 315629

ISBN: B00FRVJT7M

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

By: Wong, Jan

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Anchor: June 1997

Seller ID: 317760

ISBN: 0385482329

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China.

From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society

By: Xiaotong Fei

Price: $6.95

Publisher: University of California Press: August 1992

Seller ID: 334342

ISBN: 0520077962

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential features of both. Fei shows how these unique features reflect and are reflected in the moral and ethical characters of people in these societies. This profound, challenging book is both succinct...
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Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

By: Zhao Ziyang

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: May 2010

Seller ID: 314651

ISBN: 1439149399

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre--and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.
Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre. Zhao spent the last years of his life under house arrest. An occasional detail about his life would slip out, but scholars and citizens lamented that Zhao never had his final say.
But Zhao did produce a memoir, secret...
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