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Col. C.L. Chennault and Flying Tigers
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Historical account of the American Volunteer Group (AVG), better known as the “Flying Tigers”, and its maverick commander, Claire Chennault, helping China in the war against Japan. Includes a section on successful efforts in the 1990’s to locate wreckage of aircraft downed fifty years earlier....
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The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation
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On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years. The Japanese occupation was a turning point in the slow historical process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from four centuries of influence in....
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Fire and Water: The Art of Incendiary and Aquatic Warfare in China
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Based upon his extensive examination of Chinese military writings, Sawyer recounts the most important clashes and conflicts in which these dramatic tactics were employed over the centuries. "Fire and Water" captures the excitement and intrigue of battle, making it fascinating reading.
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Into Tibet: The CIA's First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
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Into Tibet is the incredible story of a 1949-1950 American undercover expedition led by America's first atomic agent, Douglas S. Mackiernan--a covert attempt to arm the Tibetans and to recognize Tibet's independence months before China invaded. Thomas Laird reveals how the clash between the....
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New Peace County: A Chinese Gazetteer of the Hong Kong Region
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The book looks at the 1819 edition of the gazetteer, the last revision of it to be made. The contents of its twenty-five chapters are analysed and discussed under the four main headings History, Geography, Economy and Government, and a translation section samples the rich material found there.....
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The Siege of the Peking Embassy, 1900
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How hundreds of diplomats and their families stranded inside the Legation buildings in Peking during the Boxer Uprising coped with the rigors of the siege - told through diplomatic papers and the gripping diary of the British ambassador in Peking, Sir Claude MacDonald.
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Six Strategies for War
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Discover the principles employed by Jiang Tai Gong, the brilliant military strategist who helped the king of the Western Zhou Dynasty overthrow the despotic Shang rule in ancient China. These principles were known 3,000 years ago and still remain relevant for today's rulers, administrators, and....
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Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe, the Brits and Chiang Kai-Shek
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This sympathetic but critical biography analyses the passions of Vinegar Joe Stillwell, WW2 general in the Indochina theatre, infuriated by Chiang Kai-Shek's dishonesty and chicanery, and looks at the possible outcome if Stilwell's views had prevailed.
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Sun Bins Art of War: The Worlds Greatest Military Treatise
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While many readers are doubtless familiar with the same Sun Zi (Sun Wen) and the masterpiece of military strategy, The Art of War, most are unfamiliar with Sun Bin, a descendant of Sun Zi, and author of his own military treatise which has only recently received popular attention.....
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The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China
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Rarely in its three thousand year existence has China not been beset by war, rebellion or raids from nomadic peoples beyond its borders. Guided by the crucial concept of ch'i (qi), or the "unorthodox", here is a comprehensive examination of ch'i in China's military writings, paradigmatic....
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The Tao of War: The Martial Tao Te Ching
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"Those who excel as warriors are not martial. Those who excel in combat do not get angry." The perfect companion to "The Art of War", this fascinating book provides lessons from ancient China on the dynamics of conflict as set forth by Tang Dyansty military commander Wang Chen's reading of the....
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The Thirty-Six Stratagems
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Wang Xuanming's pioneering work in illustrating the 36 Stratagems in comic form breathes life into these Chinese military strategies perfected through a few thousand years of battlefield tactics, political intrigue, ingenuity and human folly. The six sections of six stratagems each presents the....
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Total Victory: Sunzi's Art of Business
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Although Sunzi’s Art of War was written 2,500 years ago, its doctrines never go out-of-date. Here are 100 case studies in the popular comic series that put a modern twist to Sunzi and show how entrepreneurs and businesspeople can stay ahead in a fast-changing and competitive world.
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Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology
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In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which the large, early modern empire of the Qing (1636-1912) incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a distinctive style of emperorship.
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