Category: Asia

Born in Hungary, trained in Chinese studies in Germany, Etienne Balazs was, until his sudden and premature death in 1963, a professor at the Sorbonne and an intellectual leader among European specialists on China. In this book, a selection of Dr. Balazs' essays are presented for the first time in English. Arthur F. Wright, professor of history at Yale, and John K. Fairbank, professor of history at Harvard, have written a joint Preface and Mr. Wright has written an Introduction. Scholars and interested laymen will find a rich feast here in essays ranging over two thousand years of China's socia...
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Sources of Chinese Tradition (Introduction to Oriental Civilizations Series)

By: Bary

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Columbia University: January 1966

Seller ID: 315629

ISBN: B00FRVJT7M

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Chinese

By: Becker, Jasper

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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The Crescent and the Rising Sun

By: Benda, Harry J.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: W. Van Hoeve Ltd. - The Hague And Bandung: January 1958

Seller ID: 315655

ISBN: B001TJMWCU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

By: Benedict, Ruth

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: January 2006

Seller ID: 327849

ISBN: 0618619593

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork opens an intriguing window on Japan. Benedict's World War II-era study paints an illuminating contrast between the culture of Japan and that of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our cultures differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.
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Japan's Imperial Conspiracy 2 VOLUMES

By: BERGAMINI, DAVID

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, NY William Morrow & Co: January 1971

Seller ID: 332955

ISBN: B000HNNGPQ

Binding: Hardcover

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Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949

By: Bianco, Lucien

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: Bianco, Lucien

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Stanford University Press: June 1971

Seller ID: 315811

ISBN: 0804708274

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Chinese Looking Glass

By: Bloodworth, Dennis

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: April 1980

Seller ID: 140398

ISBN: 0374514933

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Chinese Looking Glass

By: Bloodworth, Dennis

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux: January 1967

Seller ID: 355822

ISBN: 0374122415

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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

By: Chang, K. C.

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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Political History of China, 1840-1928

By: Chien-Nung, Li.

Price: $15.95

Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company: January 1956

Seller ID: 315820

ISBN: 0442047762

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power

By: Christensen, Thomas J.

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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HEART OF THE DRAGON

By: Clayre, Alasdair

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin: May 1985

Seller ID: 337626

ISBN: 039535336X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Freedom at Midnight

By: Collins, Larry,Lapierre, Dominique

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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